Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Working Girls From: No One to Tell View Collection: Systemic Racism and Discrimination in Canadian Policing and Courts Breakwater Books	In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo discusses the RCMPs response to prostitution, and how it reflected deeper systemic sexism in the organization. The chapter also covers …	Janet Merlo	11	2013	$1.10 Add
From Working Long From: No One to Tell View Breakwater Books	In Working Long, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo describes her work schedule and a typical work day, as well as more instances of sexism as they occur throughout her example work day.	Janet Merlo	11	2013	$1.10 Add
From Working Short From: No One to Tell View Breakwater Books	In Working Short, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo discusses staffing shortage patterns, as well as evidence of any sexual harassment she was experiencing at work. The chapter also discusses how …	Janet Merlo	16	2013	$1.60 Add
From Works Cited From: You Only Live Twice View Coach House Books	Works Cited	Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom	2	2016	$0.20 Add
From World Upside Down From: The Wheel of Things View Formac Publishing		Mollie Gillen	11	2015	$1.10 Add
From I want Her So Much I Feel Sick: An Interview with Rough Trade’s Carole Pope From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	Jane Farrow interview’s musician Carol Pope. They discuss the impact that Pope’s music had on Toronto’s queer community.	Jane Farrow; John Lorinc	4	2017	$0.40 Add
From Writing Apace and Returning to Social Action From: No Place For A Woman View Breakwater Books	The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life.	Antony Berger	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From NEW! xenofobie/xenophobia From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	On Dutch words with no English equivalent, and the impossibilty of some translation.	Sadiqa de Meijer	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Yamnuska From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Follows conversations and experiences between Singh and his sister in the wake of their mother’s death.	Jaspreet Singh	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From Ball Culture From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	Stories and photos from Toronto’s ballroom subculture, which traces its roots to Harlem in the 1980’s.	Kurt Mungal	3	2017	$0.30 Add
From NEW! yoghurt/yogurt From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	On raising a child, and linguistic duality.	Sadiqa de Meijer	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From You Make ’Em, I Amuse ’Em From: The M Word View Goose Lane Editions	Patricia Storms provides an illustrated comic on how she relates to motherhood.	Patricia Storms	2	2014	$0.20 Add
You Only Live Twice Sex, Death and Transition	YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to …		153		View
From Young Hannah From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	This chapter describes Hannah Arendt’s birth of a middle-class Jewish family, her parents’ interest in society and politics, and the early loss of her father to syphilis. It also …	Ann Heberlein	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From Young Writer From: The Wheel of Things View Formac Publishing		Mollie Gillen	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From You’re a Celebrity Now From: Man at the Airport View twp	In this chapter, Al Kontar writes about his growing fame, and his interactions with people whose interest in him was motivated by selfish reasons.	Hassan Al Kontar	11	2021	$1.10 Add