Safe Harbor: Christa Couture
Episode 42
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, non-fiction writer and broadcaster.
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also mixed Cree and Scandanavian-settler, queer, disabled, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records in 2020. As a writer and storyteller, she has been published in Room, Shameless, and Augur magazines, and on cbc.ca. In 2018, her article and photos on disability and pregnancy went viral. She is the weekday afternoon host on 106.5 ELMNT FM in Toronto, Canada, and her debut memoir How to Lose Everything is out now with Doulgas & McIntyre.
In this episode, we talk about finding a messy-middle of acceptance, a childhood living with bone cancer, life as a queer amputee, GRIEF AS AN ACCESS NEED and much more.