Silence and Seizure

“Christine Stewart-Nuñez’s story is an essential one that fills a gap in family disability narratives in Canadian literature. In Silence and Seizure, Stewart-Nuñez incorporates the ideas of key disability scholars and seamlessly draws insights from her own lived experience to highlight our common humanity and the ways we are interconnected. She resists problematic ‘good/bad’ dichotomous thinking about disability, and introduces readers to novel ways of perceiving the disability caregiving experience. Stewart-Nuñez leans into the liminal spaces of the in-between with her son Holden, she loves him unconditionally, and finds personal resolve in the process. Approached with academic vigour, these pages are filled with a fierce intellect embossed with tenderness. This book is a manual of hope for caregivers who remain focused on ‘the Plan’ of life, while simultaneously providing an illuminating look through the window of the caregiver experience for the wider world. Fresh, original, and necessary, Silence and Seizure is poetic, gorgeously rendered, and deeply moving. A must-read.” - Adelle Purdham, author of I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself

Christine Stewart-Nuñez lives in Winnipeg and is the author of Chrysopoeia: Essays of Language, Love, and Place (2022) and The Poet & The Architect (2021). She is a professor at the University of Manitoba in Women’s & Gender Studies and Disability Studies.

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