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MEG REMY, originally from Illinois, has been established as one of the most acclaimed songwriters and performers to emerge from Toronto's underground music scene where she currently lives. The creative force behind the musical entity U.S. Girls, her discography includes three Polaris Prize shortlisted albums, all of which also received Juno nominations for Best Alternative Album. Meg has a reputation for politically astute commentary and theatrical performance and was named the best live act of 2018 by Paste Magazine. During this time Remy has maintained a visual arts practice, exhibiting collage work and directing several music videos and other video art works.
""Begin By Telling explores the horrors and absurdity of being a ""girl"" in the mediated warscape of America. With sharp emotional intelligence, Remy reveals a cultural systemic rot that begins with family and fractals out into school, life, the media, the government, and history. Both hallucinogenic and lucid, this work is a radical interrogation of trauma, and a literary salve for the feminist psyche."" -- Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave and Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions and Criticisms ""Powerful and distinctive, Begin by Telling ripped through me with the velocity and weight of a freight train; it's roar drowning out the world around me. A beautiful and brutal work, that forces the reader forward, but is crafted to leave space to catch your breath."" -- Tegan Quin from Tegan and Sara ""To recover and grow from trauma is a slow and long process. But Remy shows that there can be a path forward. One can listen to the knowledge of the body... And one can share such stories, with themselves and with otherscan begin, simply, ""by telling."" Lily Nilipour, Stanford Daily
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell...
Two women's journeys from war-torn...
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