My name is Susan Clarahan; I was raised by a river in the Rocky Mountains of Treaty 7 Territory. Clarahan is an Irish name, my maternal side is Hungarian. Most of what I know comes from a mountain valley in Canmore, Alberta, the homeland of the Stoney Nakoda, Blackfoot, Tsuut’ina, and Kootenai Nations. I am thankful for the stories that have been shared with me and the protocols of respect, as well as most certainly a dialectical, reciprocal, intersubjective relationship with the natural world. My teachers include Beric Manywounds, Peter Morin, Ayumi Goto, Veronica Wachter, Robin Tieu, Joel Staples, Jean Roberts, and Greg Debicki. I approach this work as offering, with a reverence for everything that has come before, and to consider the effects downstream — I know I am a small stream in the big river of ideas and stories.
My areas of interest include dark matter, the void, the cosmos, community ritual and collective effervescence, and queer and feminist theory.
