Poetry as a feminist healing ritual
10 Apr 2025 | 18:00 UTC
In this live stream, I’ll be reading poems that explore the ways we can heal and reclaim our bodies after experiencing patriarchal violence. Poetry has a way of speaking to the soul and can be a powerful tool for restoring what has been taken. I’ll talk about how poems can help us reframe our experiences and give us space to find strength and healing. Join me for some raw, honest conversations and poems that can help us reclaim agency, honor our bodies, and push back against the violence that shapes us.
Kate MacAlister is a poet, medic and feminist activist. Kate is the founder of the multilingual community arts and literature project Stimmen der Rebellion/Dengê Berxwedane/Voices of Rebellion. She has studied Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School under the tutelage of Carol Ann Duffy and is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Nottingham working on a collection focusing on the female body as antipatriarchal resistance. She has been published with two full-length collections of feminist poetry, available at Querencia Press and Sunday Mornings at the River Press.