Who is Clementine Morrigan?
I am a writer, zinester, and literary punk based in Montreal, Canada. I have been making zines since the year 2000 and have probably made more than 100,000 hand stapled zines over the course of my career. My best selling zine, Love Without Emergency, has sold more than 11,000 copies, and I have many other zines besides that. I write essays, literary nonfiction, and philosophy, and am known for my unflinching approach to deep and difficult topics, as well as my accessible, down to earth use of language. I am known for my work on many topics including surviving incest and other forms of trauma, trauma informed polyamory, bisexual women’s sexuality, opposing cancel culture on the left, and finding compassionate, non-punitive approaches to ending the cycle of violence. I have a podcast with my partner Jay Lesoleil called Fucking Cancelled where we develop our thinking on how to build a robust, effective left that doesn’t eat itself alive, and where we’ve had the pleasure of interviewing many important thinkers and writers. I have published six books over the course of my career, Rupture, The Size of a Bird, You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars, Trauma Magic, Fucking Magic, and Sexting. I sometimes teach workshops on various topics. This substack is a huge archive of my writing, a place where I am regularly and consistently producing new writing, and one of the main ways I support myself as an independent, underground writer. Thank you for being here. As well as the archive, make sure you explore my bibliography, my body of work, and the list of interviews I’ve done which you can find below.
I am looking for a literary agent and publishers who are excited about unconventional, underground writing. If this is you, or you have any leads, please get in touch.
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Interviews with Clementine Morrigan
For the People Podcast: The Secret to a Better World
Curiocity: Controversy & the Art of Unfiltered Expression with Clementine Morrigan
The Re/al/ign: With Clementine Morrigan and Jay LeSoleil
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil, F*cking Cancelled with Clementine Morrigan
Plebity: Class Solidarity Not Cancel Culture with Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil
Life On Track with Clementine Morrigan: Gunners, Swifties & Fucking Cancel Culture
Transforming Trauma: The Complex Relational Dynamics of Cancel Culture with Clementine Morrigan
Bose Geesten Podcast: Being cancelled with Clementine Morrigan
Blocked and Reported: How The Left Can Fight Cancel Culture (With Clementine Morrigan)
Leaving the Nexus: The Left After Cancel Culture w/ Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil
Glitterpill Podcast: Cancel Culture Syllabus
Self Worst: Clementine Morrigan is Cancelled
Tangle: Cancel culture, social justice and white guilt
This Plus That: Trauma + Cancel Culture with Clementine Morrigan
The Love You Give: Clementine Morrigan on Cancel Culture
Conversations with Kenzie: Disorganized Attachment with Clementine Morrigan
The Rewilding Podcast Episode 19: Exploring "Cancel Culture" w/ Clementine Morrigan
They Talk Sex': The Consent and Queer Sex Episode
Rune Soup: Talking Cancellation with Clementine and Jay of Fucking Cancelled
Sober Curious: Sobriety + Solidarity with Clementine Morrigan and Jay
Holistic Trauma Healing: Trauma-Informed Polyamory with Clementine Morrigan
Out of the Woods: Cancel culture and identitarianism with Clementine Morrigan
Waking Up From Cancel Culture With Clementine Morrigan and Jay from Fucking Cancelled
The Nekkid Podcast: Trauma, Polyamory, Anarchy, OH MY!
Bespoken Bones: The relationship between the body, the nervous system work and the ancestor work
