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Medgine Mathurin

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Medgine Mathurin is a Haitian-born multilingual poet and patient advocate living in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). She chairs the patient family advisory committee of the Health Quality Council of Alberta and is the author of a multilingual poetry collection entitled Waiting in the Land of the Living/ Attendre dans le monde des vivants.

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    When I was at my lowest, the people I relied on offered little more than thoughts and prayers

    Immunocompromised and still recovering from a car crash, Medgine Mathurin found herself navigating the chaotic journey of chemo during the height of the pandemic. As her pillars of support crumbled, Mathurin was forced to reshape how she defined community.
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    Medgine Mathurin

    I realized that I couldn't write a fully French poem until I dealt with this closet of mine that I haven't opened for a very long time.
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