48. Christa Couture
Today's convo is with my guest Christa Couture. We discuss her book, How To Lose Everything and how grief gave meaning to her gifts, shaped and redefined her role in her community, the importance of naming grief and attending to it, what grounds her today. We also discuss advocacy and how being disabled empowered her to advocate for herself and her daughter.
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), disabled, queer, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records. As a writer and storyteller, she has been published in Room, Shameless, and Augur magazines, and on cbc.ca. In 2018, her CBC article and photos on disability and pregnancy went viral. Couture lived for many years in Vancouver, BC, but now calls Toronto, Ontario, home. Her debut memoir "How to Lose Everything" is out now with Douglas & McIntyre, and her short animated film "How to Lose Everything: a Field Guide" recently won Best Animated Short Film at both the Imagine This Women's Film Festival and the American Indian Film Festival.