Myrtle Henry Sodhi is an               artist-scholar
who applies her Integrated Afro-Feminist Framework to support policy and cultural change.

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Myrtle Henry Sodhi is

integrative

artist-scholar who applies her Integrated Afro-Feminist Framework to support policy and cultural change.

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Clark Center for the Arts

The Gales Gallery,  York University

An exhibition by Myrtle Henry Sodhi, inspired by The Creating Space Project, showcasing story-threads that link the pandemic experiences of women and gender diverse people to broader national and historical narratives. The exhibit was located in the Gales Gallery at York University.

A family saga stretching from the Caribbean to Canada where womanhood and mothering demands what the body wants to forget.

We've Been Here Before begins with the childhood stories of Lise-Rose, who struggles with speech and coming of age in a community anchored on both West African spirituality and the Catholic Church. Lise-Rose must choose either to follow the ancestral ways of her father, who is spiritually bound to the sea, or her mother, who has rooted herself in Catholicism. In the end her options are limited through events that connect her to the shape-shifter of the village.

This stirring intergenerational saga is woven together with folklore and memory and is based loosely on stories from the author's own family storytelling traditions.

Published by Dundurn Press

Coming
May 2026