For Your Enjoyment | Shauna Singh Baldwin

Sept 2022: Shauna’s essay Casteless Me was published by the South Asian Studies Institute.
July 2022: Shauna gave a presentation to the Sisters of St Francis: “Who are the Sikhs?” Her talk was livestreamed and available here.
March 2022: Shauna spoke at a symposium Beyond the Nation: Partition in the Diaspora Context. Watch her presentation De-Othering the Other. Her remarks were edited in the video, but you can read full text: 2022-03 Shauna Singh Baldwin Presentation – Symposium on Partition in the Diaspora Context.
June 2021: Shauna interviews Sujata Massey, author of The Bombay Prince (and other novels). A Boswell Books event.
May 2021: A Decolonized Translation of the Anand Karaj (Sikh wedding ceremony) by Shauna Singh Baldwin.
July 2020: University of Calgary education podcast. Shauna Singh Baldwin discusses her writing process. Associate Professor Astrid Kendrick has been using Shauna’s poem The Night She Left Lahore and an essay What I’ve Learned from Writing in her classes for a few years. She produced this interview to discuss both.
Astrid also produced Shauna’s recording of The Night She Left Lahore. It aired on Aug 15, 2020, the anniversary of Indian Independence and Partition.

July 2020: Zanani / Zamana / Zameen – Feminist thinking, society, and place. Zanani (za-na-ni): the feminine Zamana (za-ma-na): time, age, period Zameen (za-meen): place, ground, land. Produced by the Indian Summer Festival and made available on YouTube. Filmmaker Baljit Sangra, visual artist Sandeep Johal and Shauna had an in-depth discussion moderated by Suvi Bains, curator of the Surrey Art Gallery in Vancouver. Sandeep Johal has created visual art inspired by The Selector of Souls, but this was Sandeep and Shauna’s first meeting — virtual or otherwise. In the tradition of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, each artist introduced a South Asian woman they would like to “bring to the table.” Shauna chose Noor Inayat Khan, protagonist of my novel The Tiger Claw. Then the artists talked about society and place in South Asian culture, and how these affect their imagination of the feminine. A virtual Q&A followed.
June 2020: What the Body Remembers will be published in a 20th Anniversary edition this year. Oindrila Mukherjee revisited the novel with this review and interview in Scroll.in
May 2020: Webinar and discussion with Shauna hosted by Karim City College, India.
July 2018: The Power of Stories – speech at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University.
April 2018: Shauna discussing Love and Loss. Radio interview on Just Talking with Ben Merens
Shauna sings The Star-Spangled Banner in Punjabi at the 6-mile Walk/Run to commemorate the six victims of the shooting at Oak Creek by a white supremacist. (Aug 5, 2017)
Nov 2016: Shauna’s Keynote Address Making Positive Change at Chandigarh Literature Festival Literati.
July 2016: Shauna’s Presentation:Your Sikh Neighbors (ppsx). Unitarian Universalist Church, Brookfield, WI. Audio.
March, 2016: Shauna’s Presentation Interfaith women’s panel on wearing headcoverings, following Skylight Theatre Production of the gospel musical CROWNS.
Eulogy for David J. Baldwin. Jan 2, 2016
Vancouver Arts Review: Analysing Cuture with Shauna Singh Baldwin (10/2015)
One Life is not Enough. Keynote address for 2015 Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature. Given Oct 25, 2015 at Surrey City Hall, BC, Canada. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
Shauna’s translation of The Star-Spangled Banner to Punjabi. Oct, 2015.
Shauna sings The Star Spangled Banner in Punjabi at the 6-mile Walk/Run to commemorate the 6 victims of the shooting at Oak Creek by a white supremacist. (Aug 5, 2017)
Mind Dancing with Language. Speech given for the Plenary Session, SACPAN Conference, Department of South Asian Studies. University of British Columbia Asian Centre Auditorium, March 6, 2015. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions..
No Place Like Home: Speech given at Mount Royal University, Calgary. Nov 2014. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions..
The Girl with the Ribboned Pigtails. WRITE Magazine, Nov 2014.
Bridge People. Essay on Belonging for CBC Books.ca. Republished on SikhChic.com 2014. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
A Visit to my Temple. Radio Essay by Shauna, followed by interview. Aired on WPR 8/5/2014.
Speech given at Milwaukee Public Library Literary Luncheon 5/8/2014
Why Names Matter, by Shauna Singh Baldwin. Women’s Words, an anthology pp 170-174 June 2013 Edited by Shirley A. Serviss and Janice Williamson. Presented at University of the Fraser Valley, BC on March 3, 2015. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
Letter from Milwaukee: Fear of the Feminine. THINK magazine Jan 2013. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
Don’t Blame the Technology – National Post Afterword Oct 2012. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
For Whom Do You Write? — By Shauna. National Post Afterword Oct 2012. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
Reframing Our Epics – National Post Afterword – Oct 2012. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
In That Strange Between-ness. National Post. Oct 2012.
The Power of One — TV Ontario – Sept 2012. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
Why American Sikhs will Survive Original title — My Obscure Religion. CNN.com Aug 2012
A Shooting at my Gurdwara – Sikh Chic.com August 2012
Against the Group: Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literary Festival WRITE Magazine 2012.
On the Seams between Scenes. CBC Books 2012.
Eulogy: for co-author Dr. Marilyn M. Levine, June 2010
Presentation: Banff Literary Translation Centre. Panel: Beyond Words. 2008.
“I believe Men have the Power to be Feminine”(CBC Radio broadcast May 2007)
What I’ve learned from Writing Keynote Address, given at the 21st Great Lakes Writers Workshop, Milwaukee WI USA. June 2006.
Info-Hunting for Fiction (2006) (unpublished in print form)
Writers in a Time of Terrorism: Speech given at the AGM of The Writers’ Union of Canada, May 2005. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions
READ Essay by Shauna re The Tiger Claw. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions
Self in the City. Milwaukee Mag, Oct 2004.
With Contempt or Love? Speech given at Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 24 May 2003. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
Creative Tension. The Writer Magazine. July 2001. Now included in Reluctant Rebellions.
Speech at BookExpo 1999 in Toronto. re the writing of What the Body Remembers, as published in BoldType
The South Asian Woman’s List of Good Resolutions, written with Bisakha (Pia) Sen 1996.

Poems

Reviews

20 Books I loved in 2014. With Mini reviews.
Bagels and Turtles: Review of The God Problem: How a Godless Universe Creates. Howard Bloom
Making a Difference: Memoirs from the Women’s Movement. Edited by Ritu Menon (2011)
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh (National Post, Canada, June 2005)
Humbert Humbert Eat Your Heart Out (Film Review: Bride and Prejudice) 3/2004
Shauna interviews Samina Ali, author of Madras on Rainy Days on Sawnet.org
Nehru: The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor (BlueEar Book section 2003)
The Trouble with Islam by Irshad Manji (on Sawnet.org)
The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad (on Sawnet.org)
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t be Wrong (Midwest Book Review Sept 2003).
A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi
Gift of a Daughter (International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) March 2003)
A Question of Pronouns – Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (BlueEar.com 2004)
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers (Midwest Book Review 2003)