Join Dene artist and bioethicist, Lisa Boivin for an author’s talk. She will offer an Indigenous (Dene) perspective of death and healing in her children's books I will see you again and We Dream Medicine Dreams. Lisa will also share some cultural teachings that enabled her to heal from the loss of her brother and father.

Lisa Boivin is a member of the Deninu Kue First Nation in Northwest Territories, Canada. She is an artist, author, bioethicist and a Doctoral Candidate at University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine. She uses digital images as a pedagogical tool to confront colonial barriers Indigenous patients navigate in the healthcare system and offers Indigenous teachings to resolve them. Lisa strives to humanize clinical medicine as she situates her arts-based practice in the Indigenous continuum of passing knowledge through images.

Here's an interesting podcast on the Indigenous Voices Awards. Lisa is a finalist this year in the category of graphic novels, comics, and illustrated books.

https://shows.acast.com/getting-lit-with-linda-the-canadian-literature-podcast/episodes/indigenous-voices-awards-where-your-heart-is-leading-you?fbclid=IwAR3SfPtIYX2mp3vpDsfXCrgKtzJkjNG0bsU32AP0umHB5bsvtixGERc3rpc