This show was one of a series of benefits for ACT for Disarmament and took place after a demonstration to protest the 1991 Gulf War.
Nicole Tanguay is a Two-Spirit poet, playwright, musician and advocate for Indigenous rights. Their work has appeared in the anthologies The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1993), Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women, ed. Carol Camper (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994) and Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, eds. John Lorinc, Jane Farrow, Stephanie Chambers et al. (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2017).
A studio recording of "By Any Means Necessary" appears on the unreleased Mourning Sickness CD Nihil Obstat and is included here. The full album is available on the band's Soundcloud page.
This show was one of a series of benefits for ACT for Disarmament and took place after a demonstration to protest the 1991 Gulf War.
"Cells" is a poem by the Seneca writer Mary Bennett, which appeared in Sinister Wisdom: A Gathering of Spirit 22/23, ed. Beth Brant (Iowa City: Iowa City Women's Press, 1983). It was later reprinted in the anthology A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women, eds. Michelle Cliff and Adrienne Rich (Ithica NY: Firebrand Books, 1988).
Mourning Sickness was invited to do a musical interpretation of the piece for the Queeradio special feature "Cells and My Girlfriend," which was produced by labour and prisoners' justice activist Gay Bell and broadcast on CKLN in 1990. The handbill for the program is included here.