Clementine Morrigan

I Want this But I Feel Like I'm Going to Die

Love Without Emergency

Trauma Magic is a love letter to our bodies and minds. It is a hero's journey disguised as a collection of essays. It begins with the enchanted landscape of Southern Ontario, the wild dancing of fairies teaching us boundaries and ecological ethics. It traces the call of magic through the queer desires of the Holy Virgin Mary, the movements of animals in the forest at night, and the practice of witchcraft in everyday life. Trauma Magic carries the generative tension of expansive desire and unbearable pain, taking the reader on a downward journey to the underworld of addiction and psychiatric incarceration, only to return to the surface in an explosive reclaiming of agency and power. "Clementine Morrigan's work joins a chorus of other disabled writers who are calling us to consider what non-normative bodies and minds have to celebrate - Morrigan asks us in "Trauma as Possibility" to pick apart violence and its effects: to value the traumatized experience while we continue to resist and oppose the violence which originates it." - Tara McGowan-Ross, author of Scorpion Season and Girth. "Trauma Magic is a crip & queer text enfolding compassion, justice, and vulnerability. While recognizing the violent and painful effects of trauma Morrigan simultaneously shares the beyond of trauma. The reader finds possibility when trauma is conceptualized as "a natural and ingenious response to circumstances which terrify and overwhelm." Tactics of dissociation, hypervigilance and avoidance are re-perceived through an imaginative feminist lens and at a distance from normative conceptions. Not symptoms - resistance." - Nancy Davis Halifax, author of Hook.

Trauma Magic

Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. THE SIZE OF A BIRD is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a relentless drive for life. Seeking pleasure, these poems navigate dangerous terrain, staying with ambivalence and probing its depths. Queer femininity seeks heterosexual masculinity with varying results. First dates and one-night- stands, alleyways and coffee shops, forest floors and skateparks, these poems reveal a world pulsating with want and rife with pain. Holding both the reality of violence and the persistence of desire, these poems shine light on the pleasures and terrors of navigating sexuality from a space of femininity.

The Size of a Bird

Clementine is a queer punk with a crazy hard past. A sober alcoholic and survivor living with complex ptsd, she is not content to settle for survival. She wants it all: a big, fucked up beautiful life, full of love, sex, and pleasure. Fucking Magic follows Clementine in her adventures as she falls apart and puts herself back together. It grapples with the frustrations of dating while crazy and revels in the hot gay sex of hard-earned survivor sexuality. Fucking Magic has it all: heartbreak, loss, and expansive, stubborn hope. A collection of twelve issues of the popular perzine of the same name, Fucking Magic lays bare the life of a polyamorous bisexual, hopeless romantic, and tenacious dreamer. This is writing for anyone who has suffered and still wants to feel everything.

Fucking Magic

What does it take to recover from trauma? Opening with a piece that juxtaposes the pleasures of masturbation with the terrors of a courtroom during a rape trial, You Can't Own the Fucking Stars is both a celebration of healing and a fearless testament to resilience in the face of suffering. In their customary engaging and accessible style, Clementine Morrigan offers a series of reflexive vignettes, poems and meditations, written over a period of five years, on their experiences recovering from trauma and addiction. You Can't Own the Fucking Stars marks the first time that all of these pieces, most originally published in now out of print zines, appear together. This is a book about sex, desire, queerness, bisexuality, pleasure, gender, addiction, sobriety, transformation, and healing from a lifetime of violence. Affirming both the hard work and the joy of recovery, You Can't Own the Fucking Stars celebrates the magic and power of trauma survivors.

Collected Writings on Trauma, Addiction, Recovery, and Transformation

You Can't Own the Fucking Stars

Fucking Crazy

"out of the broken pieces i will make something more beautiful than you could have imagined or willed. out of the shattered fragments that you smashed out of the whole, i will build myself an idol, to praise the Crone. out of my bodies, the one that you loved and the one that you broke, i will make one creature, a living girl with all her parts and then some. i will create myself in Her image, with both Wings and Horns, with both Breasts and Bird Feet. i will not be the milk you drink, i will wander the desert, barren and dried up, for more than a thousand years. and like a mother bitch exhausted from her nursing pups, i will be utterly relieved to be free of your suckling. i am an oasis, a spring, an endless well, but no you may not drink from my waters anymore." --from "devour" Rupture is an exploration of sexuality, violence, recovery and reclamation of self. Through images, poetry, and prose Cle- mentine Morrigan examines the processes of destruction and creation which are fundamental to healing.

Rupture

Sober Queers Do Exist

Fuck the Police Means We Don't Act like Cops to Each Other #2

Fuck the Police Means We Don't Act Like Cops to Each Other

Fucking Girls

Sexting is a collection of poems about crushing love in the age of hookup culture. It's about casual sex and catching feelings. It's about bdsm, bisexual longing, jealousy, and the unparalleled joy of being really well fucked. These are love poems for sluts, hopeless romantics, and survivors.

Sexting

Fucking Magic #6

Fucking Magic #8

Fucking Magic #9

Fucking Magic #12

"These papers explore, in various ways, the themes of trauma, magic, and a living, more than human, universe. They are the result of my grappling with being a crazy person and a witch working in the academy, a space which can be hostile to knowledges rooted in experiences of madness and magic."--introduction

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