M Renae Dubois
Art, Poetry and Philosophy
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Who is M Renae Dubois?
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Welcome. I'm M Renae Dubois, a poet, philosopher, and lifelong architect of an examined life. My work sits at the intersection of sex work poetry, embodied philosophy, and the kind of hard-won clarity that only comes from having your assumptions about existence stripped back to the bone. An acquired head injury in my teens gave me an early, uninvited education in contingency, and I've been thinking rigorously and writing honestly about what it means to be a conscious self navigating an indifferent universe ever since. I'm rational, resourceful, and resilient. Not as platitudes, but as lived practice across thirty years of independent creative work. I believe life is worth the full examination, and I share mine with curiosity, precision, and, to borrow from my favourite mythological troublemaker — the cheeky grin of someone who already knows the boulder is coming back down, and finds that genuinely funny.
Coming Soon
What is a Wreck: A Reckoning?
This book is written for the woman who always questioned if she was enough. A continuation in M Renae Dubois’ personal philosophical and personal journey after a head injury, Renae writes within this context and beyond it, telling her own story of working in the adult industry and dealing with addiction and bad relationships. This work faces the question of interior world vs exterior perception, and as the title indicates, it is a personal reckoning. Very relatable, in its own way.
What is An Encounter, Poetry, Existentialism?
A poetic endeavour of discovery, discussion, and occasional disagreement with the proponents and parties in the areas of existentialism, absurdism, and phenomenology. A fresh perspective by a formerly unknowing practitioner, and author of Curses of Verses: A Composite.
What is Crosshairs?
Crosschairs trains its gaze outward — at women navigating desire and danger, at bodies as sites of labour and resistance, at the guardrails society insists are real. Moving between the lyrical, the satirical, and the defiant, this is a bridge collection in the truest sense: between the self and the world, between what is survived and what is refused.
What is the book Curses of Verses?
It is composite collection of M Renae Dubois' first three biographical verse-novels which documented the first thirty-five years of her adult life after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) at 16. The head injury radically altered her personality and direction. What followed was seemingly logical at the time: sex work, addiction, love, of course. But then there were the psychiatric wards, and more, Renae keeps a quick mind and a quiet wit, despite her unrelenting selfexamination, and she has documented it all through unabashed poetry. This work is philosophy in verse, through the Crucible, not the Conservatorium.
A Quitting Joy
The wheeze that was forming
The death in my breath
I sucked in the fumes and
Felt them like mesh
With iron depleted and
Nothing to eat
I stumbled and panicked when I
Walked down the street
So to now have a glimpse of what
Others have felt
The breathing with ease
The fear it now melts
I'm loving the feeling of
Taking it in
My mind is expanding
The drug, oxygen
