Our Heroine
Our Heroine tells the story of her body- the policing and abuses of it, the way she shares it, and the way it heals. These poems are an ode to resiliency and a prayer to the power of our voices.
Our Heroine is an Exploding Knot production.
Our Heroine: The Legend was filmed in collaboration with Uptown Works in January 2018, co-directed by Sagan Chen.
“Emilyn Kowaleski and Sagan Chen, in collaboration with Uptown Works, showed the poem-film Our Heroine, a mythic re-writing of the all-too-familiar story of femme silence. Text unfurled across faces radiant with multi-hued light. Mouths opened to spill secrets of creation and destruction. Luminous orbs replaced tongues as they spoke their truths. Here was a powerful vision: legend-makers for a new world. ”
Our Heroine is being adapted into a series of short films and designed into an illustrated chapbook. Interested in supporting that process? Reach out!
