Lauren Gabrielle Fournier explores a London ICA exhibition on the decriminalization of sex work. Curated by Yves Sanglante and Elio Sea, with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement, 13 international artists “whose work speaks to the multiplicity of contemporary sex work experience” bolster this judicial conversation, which Fournier connects to Canada’s current laws.

Through the work of the queer, Crip, Berlin-based, Canadian artist Lauryn Youden– whose most recent exhibition Visionary of Knives brings together a substantial set of materials that she uses to treat her ails– Lauren Fournier engages a long-standing, evolving conversation about healing, intercultural sharing, and inevitably, (mis)appropriation.

Lauren Fournier reviews Anne Boyer’s book: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (2019), published by Penguin.

Lauren Fournier reviews the book Females: A Concern (2019) by Andrea Long Chu, published by Verso.

Lauren Fournier reviews Esmeé Weijun Wang’s non-fiction book The Collected Schizophrenias (2019) published by Graywolf Press.