Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Prologue
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Prologue

From: Rooms

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Protecting the Pines
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Protecting the Pines

From: When the Pine Needles Fall

In Chapter Two Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel explain the significance of the Pines and various modes of resistance used to protect it. ; ; ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Public Narrative-Your Story Is Your Power
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Public Narrative-Your Story Is Your Power

Part 4. Getting Your Story Out

From: Women Winning Office

In Public Narrative-Your Story Is Your Power Nash explores the ways women can use their own stories and experiences to frame their own public narrative and find support through relatability. The … 5 $0.50 Add
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Public personae: living in the public eye

Public personae: living in the public eye

PART 2: LEADING WITH NERVE

From: Nerve

This chapter discusses being a female leader in the public eye. The authors talk about their experience with building a public persona, communicating, and dealing with public scrutiny. ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Public Speaking and Speech Writing
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Public Speaking and Speech Writing

Part 4. Getting Your Story Out

From: Women Winning Office

In Public Speaking and Speech Writing Nash explores the challenges and benefits of public speaking and speech writing. In the chapter Nash discusses her own experiences with public speaking, and … 9 $0.90 Add
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Put Me in the Living Room and Cover Me with Flowers

Put Me in the Living Room and Cover Me with Flowers

Queering Death

From: The Care We Dream Of

In this account of her mother’s death, the author elaborated on the do-it-yourself attitude she brought to queering her grief, and also the the healing relationship she developed with death … 20 $2.00 Add
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quarantaine/quarantine
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quarantaine/quarantine

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

This chapter concerns the sounds of Flemish, also called Belgian-Dutch. 4 $0.40 Add
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Piss in a Bag

Piss in a Bag

From: Any Other Way

Gerald Hannon describes a homophobic prank he witnessed as a closeted young man in Toronto in the 1960s 1 $0.10 Add
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Queens and Kings for a Year — Grade 12, 1953–54 63

Queens and Kings for a Year — Grade 12, 1953–54 63

From: A Halifax Boyhood

Looks at Armdale High, the construction and being a part of a very small grade 12 class here 1953-54 ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Queer and Cripple in the 6ix

Queer and Cripple in the 6ix

From: Any Other Way

Andrew Gurza decribes how queer spaces are often inaccessible to those with limited mobility. 2 $0.20 Add
Qummut Qukiria!
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Qummut Qukiria!

Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as … 448 View
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raadsel/riddle
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raadsel/riddle

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

This chapter concerns Punjabi, the author’s father’s mother tongue. 6 $0.60 Add
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Race

Race

From: Curry

This chapter explores Ruthnum’s connection to Mauritius, Mauritius food, and the country’s history. There is a discussion of South Asian personalities in popular culture and the … 27 $2.70 Add
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Radio

Radio

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Radio 7 $0.70 Add
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Radio, 1942–49 52

Radio, 1942–49 52

From: A Halifax Boyhood

Looks at the principle form of entertainment/popular culture, Radio 1942-49 ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Ragging the Puck
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Ragging the Puck

From: On Account of Darkness

This chapter explores whiteness/racism in Hockey and tells the story of George Chin and his brothers. The story of Boomer Harding– called Chatham-Kent’s own Jackie Robinson many … 12 $1.20 Add