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Writing

Her first publication Where the Rivers Join: A Personal Account of Healing from Ritual Abuse, was published under the pseudonym Becklane to protect her identity as her life was still endangered.[1] [Education & Writing Style]

Her writing covers a variety of genres: poetry, memoir, and mixed-genre historical fiction. She is widely anthologized, appearing in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood[2], Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction[3] , My Home as I Remember[4] , and An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English[5]. [Education & Writing Style]

After she was diagnosed with cancer, the Indigenous Studies Literary Studies Association hosted a roundtable on her works: "Decolonial Solidarities and the Work of Sharron Proulx-Turner" which brought together writers to reflect on her influence as an activist, editor, and mentor.[6] After her death in 2016, the themes in her writing were the focus on a symposium held in her honour[7]. Her final publication was released posthumously by Kegedonce Press.

Proulx-Turner acted as a mentor to writers in the Canadian literature community. particularly for emerging Indigenous writers[8], and advocated on behalf of the field of Indigenous literature and its writers[9]. She created opportunities for Two-Spirit and gender non-conforming people in ceremony and in writing communities[10].

Themes

Her writing weaves together historical and contemporary stories of Two-Spirit women[11] Her memoir challenges the ideal of a whole, true, female self when healing from childhood experiences of abuse and instead produces discomfort through fragmentation, dialogue, and juxtaposition[12].

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A symposium on her work was focused around mixedness and mixing, Métis storytelling, and autobiographical and biotextual aspects of her writing[13].

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