Stories That Carry Us: Wanda John-Kehewin and Ying Wang on Trauma, Art, and the Weight We Inherit
In this episode of ReThreading Madness, Bernadine Fox speaks with two artists whose work refuses to look away. Wanda John-Kehewin is a Cree poet, author, and storyteller from Kahwin Cree Nation who came to Vancouver pregnant, running from intergenerational trauma, and stayed. She talks about writing through depression, colonization, and the grief that passes through the matrilineal line, including her children's book Mia Wears Orange, born from her daughter's terror that residential school was coming for her.
Ying Wang is a self-taught filmmaker whose debut feature Sisters, made with her younger sister as both subject and performer, follows a young woman's severe eating disorder after immigrating to North America. Ying talks about rejecting the false hope she saw in other films about eating disorders and choosing fiction over documentary to get to something darker and truer.
Together these conversations circle a shared question: what does the body carry that the mind hasn't named yet, and what does it take to make art from the inside of that?
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