LGBTQIA Nonfiction

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I Was Miss General Idea

From: Any Other Way

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Derek McCormack describes how he adopted the identity of Miss General Idea, a character created by the Toronto art collective, and made her real. 2 $0.20 Add
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Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric Strategy

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include storytelling as a form of activism, silencing of the disabled and ill, empowering and using one’s own voice, historical lineages of oppression, mapping community, … 15 $1.50 Add
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0.5 No Man’s Land

From: You Only Live Twice

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Mike reflects on a moment of early sexual attraction to men, while Chase shares an early reflection that while he might actually relate more to men than women. ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Artmaking as Evidence

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include multidisciplinary artmaking, strategies of resilience, building disabled queer art-activism, crip time, Disability Justice and Transformative Justice, eugenics, and … 18 $1.80 Add
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Can You See the Difference?:

Queerying the Nation, Ethnicity, Festival, and Culture in Winnipeg

From: In a Queer Country

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Pauline Greenhill’s contributor’s biography reflects her subject position, unusual in this volume—what her essay describes as "token female heterosexual anthropological … 24 $0.48 Add
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the seven sacred ways of healing

From: The Care We Dream Of

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The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony. 5 $0.50 Add
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Uptown/Downtown: Diary of a Hong Kong Dyke in Nineties Toronto

From: Any Other Way

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Karen Chan recounts the eventful week leading up to her twenty third birthday in August, 1998. 3 $0.30 Add
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0.6 Father

From: You Only Live Twice

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Chase reflects on spending time with his father as a kid, at his warehouse at work and at golf tournaments, while Mike shares about his mostly quietly removed father and reflects on Chase’s … ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Education Bringing Us Home

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include education, communal awakening, reclaiming one’s own autonomy and history, education as a way towards justice and freedom, oppressive frameworks, creative workshops … 12 $1.20 Add
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How Jackie Shane Helped ‘Satisfy My Soul’

From: Any Other Way

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Elaine Gaber-Katz recalls the electrifying experience of seeing Jackie Shane perform. 2 $0.20 Add
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The Bisexuality Wars:

The Perils of Identity as Marginality

From: In a Queer Country

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Zoe Newman’s ‘The Bisexuality Wars: The Perils of Identity as Marginality" looks at differing views of sexual orientation, in particular the role of self-identified bisexuals in … 21 $0.42 Add
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0.7 Akin

From: You Only Live Twice

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Chase considers the value of their writing project, and on his experience of gender transition supported by his mother, while Mike offers reflections of Chase’s stories. ; 4 $0.40 Add
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Crip Kinship and Cyber Love

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include kinship networks, online community, online romance, “crip emotional intelligence,” microcultures, and digital crip kinship during Covid-19. 15 $1.50 Add
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Hanna and Saied’s Story

From: Any Other Way

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Kamal Al-Solaylee tells the story of Hanna and Saied, two Syrian refugees who discovered community and acceptance in Toronto’s LGBTQ community after arriving in the city in 2016. 3 $0.30 Add
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Imagining an Intercultural Nation:

A Moment in Canadian Queer Cinema

From: In a Queer Country

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James Allan’s "Imagining an Intercultural Nation: A Moment in Canadian Queer Cinema" explores three films of recent years which feature gay topics, Kanada by Mike Holboom, Love … 27 $0.54 Add
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0.8 Fear

From: You Only Live Twice

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Mike discusses his fear of telling friends about having HIV, a friend’s reaction and the role of filmmaking in processing fear. Chase reflects on a childhood moment of being mistaken for a … ; 5 $0.50 Add