Poetry as Medicine: I Am a Body of Land

I Am a Body of Land, is the first recording in a 3-part series by poet Shannon Webb-Campbell that was created to address racial and sexual biases in healthcare.

As a queer Mi'kmaq-settler poet, writer, and editor, I believe all arts are medicine. This project addresses healthcare provider biases via arts-based learning by giving three literary readings from my publications: Lunar Tides (Book*hug 2022), I Am a Body of Land (Book*hug 2019), and Still No Word (Breakwater 2015), as well as my forthcoming collection Re: Wild Her (Book*hug 2025). Along with these audio recordings, there are resources with questions that will guide learners through potential biased issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, classism, colonialism, and homophobia.

Go to Shannon Webb-Campbell's H.E.A.L. Healthcare page to access the resources prior to listening.

The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.

For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca