Gloria Alamrew
Gloria Alamrew is a writer based in Edmonton. A passionate advocate for the intersectionality of Blackness, she takes up the mantle of writing as righting. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Avenue Edmonton, FLARE, and CBC.
Latest from Gloria Alamrew
Edmonton's Black Arts Matter is an unapologetic celebration of Blackness where you may not expect it
"The festival is a reminder that Black people exist and have existed everywhere, even in the northernmost metropolitan city in the world."
Point of View
Writing our own history: In celebration of Black writers and the endurance of our stories
"This is what art does: it creates permanence. You can quell revolutions and people, physical artifacts of time, but you can't destroy ideas."
Gloria Alamrew
"When I think of my life, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude. Gratitude to the country that took my parents in and allowed them to build new dreams; and to my parents, who used what remained of their hopes from before to lay down a foundation that I could build my own life on. "
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