Siolence

Siolence is a word coined by Penn Kemp to encapsulate the blending that so often occurs between violence and the silence enabling it. For more than a decade, a group of feminist writers in the League of Canadian Poets, self-dubbed the Feminist Caucus, have been meeting to wrestle with issues of language and gender, to share revelations and convictions and poems, and to reaffirm their place in the community of people who spend much of their lives working to end the violence of language and the silencing of voices that corrupt our society. Siolence is an anthology of the best position papers, manifestos, rants, essays, and poems written on women, violence, and silence during one of the most interesting eras in the history of feminism.