Valid

Valid

3

Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Jude Castillo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sebastian Schulman
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Marilyn Stanley
, Chris Carvalho
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Leeann Minogue
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, cassandra schiemann
, Deb Philippon
, Barry Kazimer
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Mary Therrien
, Ariane Béland
, Agnes Marshall
, Melissa Poremba
, Vanessa Seto
, Natasa Ilic
, Andrea Gillespie
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Chantal Comeau
, Alliah Belza
, Joshua Lewis
, Noelle Walsh
, Lucian Childs
, Elaine Baptie
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Haley Spencer
, Andrea Pole
, Tyra Antle
, Remi Gunn
, Hilary Squires
, Joe Mitchell
, Christy Verveer
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Shawna Moodie
, Andrew Taylor
, Rose Ghaedi
, Val Ross
, Deana Bueley
, Trish Bowering
, Laurie Burns
, Filomena Falocco
, Kim Cappellina
, Jessica Gilbert
, Melinda Poth
, Rosa Cross
, Jessica Murray
, Rodney Cross
, Heather Belliveau
, Colby Clair Stolson
, Marla Schecter Howard
, C. Ray
, Nancy Reid
, diana kirkwood
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Rachel Edmonds
, Karen Nordrum
, Prabh Toor
, Kathleen Hutchison
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Paula Ritchie
, Randi Ann Doll
, Karen Kendrick
, Marin Beck
, Maureen Brownlee
, Charles Leblanc
, Lisa Mallia
, Mary Danieli
, Christine Lion
, Laura Peters
, Janice Cournoyer
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Amanda Schempp
, Benita Hartwell
, Claudie Léveillé
, Rebecca Ballarin
, Susan Baues
, Margaret Lindo
, Claire Gear
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Alice Meems
, CAROLINA FAMILIA
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Anne Baldo
, Hoda Montazeri
, Janet Miller
, Wayne Ng
, Leila Grobel
, Hannah Main
, Laura Patterson
, Drew McEwan
, Amie Gaudet
, Heather O'Connor
, Carl Scott
, Janette Galan
, Debbie Youngman
, Jesse Kancir
, Alissa Bender
, Lynn Andrews
, Genea Teskey
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Deanna Radford
, Alison Scarrow
, Lynn Bechtel
, Donald Forsythe
, Robert Hykawy
, Rachel Lutz
, Ken Gilmour
, Pamela Bruce
, Sara Conway
, Beth Dekoker
, poucHIe Teske
, Catherine Young
, Catherine Desaulniers

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editor@49thShelf.com

06/11/2023

03/12/2023

Yes

cassandra schiemann
, Maureen Brownlee
, Jessica Murray

Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, Valid is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.