Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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 NEW! Alfabet/Alphabeta memoir of a first language |
alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer’s transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate … | 160 | View | ||
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From  All for FreeFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Open spaces in the city | Jim Bennet | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From  All I Want for ChristmasFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Talks about performing in a Christmas Concert and the embarassing event that occurred at one | Tom Douglas | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
 Almost Feral |
On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. … | Gemma Hickey | 264 | 2019 | View |
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From  NEW! Alone |
The chapter reflects on Margie’s imaginative world as a teenager, Jennifer’s departure from the north to go to school in British Columbia, their fathers transfer to the Department of … | Margaret Macpherson | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Amending and Enforcing the LawFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Campaign to enact legislation against housing discrimination, and the early years of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. | Alan Borovoy | 21 | 2014 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Among All These Tundras: A Visual EssayDecolonial Practices: Section 2 From: Qummut Qukiria! |
This visual essay explores the resurgence of Indigenous art and practice across the circumpolar north and its peoples, the chapter hightings multiple artists and forms of art across the tundra. | Amy Prouty; Charissa von Harringa | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Amor MundiLove of the World From: On Love and Tyranny |
This chapter probes Arendt’s love of the world, a process of understanding and reconciliation. | Ann Heberlein | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From  An Afternoon of Aramaic |
Carol Knepper recounts the story of Jason. The story discusses dyslexia, the school system and disability, helplessness, hiding his condition, living with dyslexia, and finding motivation to … | Carol Knepper | 5 | 2009 | $0.50 Add |
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From  An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations |
Common cause projects can at the same time tackle the global and local activist divide, bringing members of national and international groups together with local, grounded activists. | Heather Menzies | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! An Excerpt from Coyote CityTRAILBLAZERS AND CHANGEMAKERS From: Indigenous Toronto |
An excerpt from Coyote City by Daniel David Moses. COYOTE CITY was produced at the Native Canadian Centre of Torontofrom 17 May to 5 June 1988 by Native Earth Performing Art, Inc. | Daniel David Moses | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! An Excerpt from Two IndiansTRAILBLAZERS AND CHANGEMAKERS From: Indigenous Toronto |
An excerpt from Two Indians by Falen Johnson. Synopsis: Win lives on the rez and Roe lives in the city. After years apart, the two cousins meet in a Toronto alley to recreate a ceremony from … | Falen Johnson | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  ‘Friend of the Court’: Legal Resistance at Old City HallFrom: Any Other Way |
Tom Hooper recounts how the Right to Privacy Committee provided legal representation and advocacy for hundreds of men charged in the aftermath of the 1981 bathouse raids. | Tom Hooper | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From An Historical Frame for Current Activism |
If we want to come home to the Earth, reviving our sense of connection to it, we must first come home to ourselves, healing our relationship with ourselves, and those around us. | Heather Menzies | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From  An inadequate spoonful of wineFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add | |
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From  An Invitation to AttendFrom: A Sense of Themselves |
Carol E. Harris | 18 | 1998 | $1.80 Add |
