Pocket Full of Questions. Patricia. Virginia.
Through their powerful zine series Patricia and Virginia invite us to connect and question our assumptions, biases, and lived experiences by engaging with art, images and words shared. The 3 mini-zines are designed as a Pocketful of Questions; which are also small enough to fit right into your pocket. A reminder to keep them at hand and carry the questions into our daily encounters.
Thank you Patricia and Virginia for creating space for these important questions and needed reflections.
Image Credit: Patricia Ki. Virginia Jahyu.
Patricia & Virginia. The Collaboration.
A collaboration of conversations, poetry and collages between Virginia Jahyu and Patricia Ki about questions that practitioners/students working in the care professions might ask ourselves —
What if instead of a toolbox full of therapeutic modalities created by assumed experts, we also carry a pocket full of questions when we meet people who are looking for support?
What if we ask ourselves questions in order to step back, take time, re-evaluate what we said and what we did?
What if we step into a relational space not with things that make us believe we know what to do, but with questions to figure out what to do together with the person/people we are in relationship?
What if the questions themselves are tools, or can help us form tools, to name our assumptions, biases, implicit standards from which we measure people based on our own experiences – to name the patterns of harm and violence we are potentially replicating?
We invite you to question with us.
Connect. Follow. Learn More.
This series of zines are created from our positions as racialized practitioners in the creative arts therapies. It comes from a process of putting together words and images that are meaningful to us, in conversations, poetry and collages. It is rooted in our experiences of accessing therapy or mental health support. The felt-sense of harm in these relationships. Experiences of feeling dismissed, silenced, feeling small, not given space to explore how racism impacted our feelings/thinking/being, but instead being told that we were thinking and doing wrong.
• Virginia Jahyu https://artstherapy.ca/
• Patricia Ki https://mappingcare.art/
This collaboration took place in Tkaronto, traditional territory of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat, subject to Treaty 13 between the Mississaugas of the Credit and the Crown. We are settlers on this land, grateful for the unearned privileges and gifts from this land that support our livelihood and wellbeing, and committed to living into our responsibility in dismantling colonial and racist violence.
mage Credit: Patricia Ki. Virginia Jahyu.
A Series of Zines. Resources Shared.
Resource Links Provided at MappingCare.Art
• Template for Creating your own Zine
• Jumping off points [a.k.a. intake]
• Flow [a.k.a. sessions]
• Ask ourselves [a.k.a. reflections]
• Limited full-colour print copies available – $15 for the series incl. shipping. 100% of proceeds go to a Toronto-based harm reduction organization