carmen puts all her cards on the table, lays bare her soul and i need time after each brief sojourn to cry and to absorb the highs and lows she so eloquently and somehow within that eloquence, very bluntly rolls out to you. I especially enjoyed reading about her work with indigenous youth in BC and her compassionate and insightful treatment of sexual victimization.

Although I do not always agree with her politics, I admire her courage and vulnerability, and envy her ability to bring such overwhelming emotion and disquieting memories to the page. She has written or co-written eighteen plays and she had a lead role in Quinceanera, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. She has written or co-written twenty plays, including The Refugee Hotel , which was nominated for a 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play.Her early life in Chile, as the daughter of a revolutionary, brought with it an acute, fearful knowledge of murder, torture, and the virulent power of the secret police. I'll be looking for your performance pieces after reading this as you have a lot to say to the world. Aguirre’s first memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, describes her participation in Chile’s radical left resistance to Pinochet. Carmen Aguirre’s latest book is a courageous recounting of a traumatic childhood in Chile and Canada.

Today she again lives in Canada, where she is a celebrated playwright and actress - she was in Quinceanera , a Sundance winner.C. Performers’ Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award, and the 2002 New Play Centre Award for Best New Play, for The Refugee Hotel. At their meeting, Oughton denied memory of having raped Aguirre, saying that all of his victims were white.

It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. The same thing applies for her revolutionary fervor, which she is unable to explain, not even in terms of purpose. Six months ago, a business consulting client of mine comes in for his regularly scheduled appointment and says, “I almost married a Mexican hooker!

There was no physical evidence brought against him, because the investigative team had not been informed of the rape kit . For those who've suffered trauma at the hands of someone else, daydreams of retribution can be a salve. However Something Fierce focuses on her life in South America, while this one focuses on her life in Canada.

The article relies upon Judith Butler’s definition of vulnerability (20), which is excluded from official texts. Initially I wanted more of this book to be about her adventures in the Southern Hemisphere but realized there was a totally different story to be told. The other phone uses another app that is used for paid live video mutual masturbation as an alternative source of revenue.

A stunning follow-up to Carmen Aguirre's bestselling and Canada Reads-winning first book, Something Fierce . I thought it was craftfully written, circling around one event, backwards and forwards through the author’s life. The first thing that stroke me was how much of the author's childhood memories have been coached by her parents or family. Fierce, funny, and enlightening, Aguirre interweaves her account of overcoming the attack that shook her world with a host of stories of life and love.