LGBTQIA Nonfiction
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From I Was Miss General IdeaFrom: Any Other Way |
Derek McCormack describes how he adopted the identity of Miss General Idea, a character created by the Toronto art collective, and made her real. | Derek McCormack | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
From Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric StrategyFrom: Crip Kinship |
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, … | Shayda Kafai | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From 0.5 No Man’s LandFrom: You Only Live Twice |
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. | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 3 | 2016 | $0.30 Add |
From Artmaking as EvidenceFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include multidisciplinary artmaking, strategies of resilience, building disabled queer art-activism, crip time, Disability Justice and Transformative Justice, eugenics, and … | Shayda Kafai | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
From Can You See the Difference?:Queerying the Nation, Ethnicity, Festival, and Culture in Winnipeg From: In a Queer Country |
Pauline Greenhill’s contributor’s biography reflects her subject position, unusual in this volume—what her essay describes as "token female heterosexual anthropological … | Pauline Greenhil | 24 | 2001 | $0.48 Add |
From the seven sacred ways of healingFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
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. | jaye simpson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
From Uptown/Downtown: Diary of a Hong Kong Dyke in Nineties TorontoFrom: Any Other Way |
Karen Chan recounts the eventful week leading up to her twenty third birthday in August, 1998. | Karen B.K. Chan | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
From 0.6 FatherFrom: You Only Live Twice |
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 … | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 3 | 2016 | $0.30 Add |
From Education Bringing Us HomeFrom: Crip Kinship |
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 … | Shayda Kafai | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From How Jackie Shane Helped ‘Satisfy My Soul’From: Any Other Way |
Elaine Gaber-Katz recalls the electrifying experience of seeing Jackie Shane perform. | Elaine Gaber-Katz | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
From The Bisexuality Wars:The Perils of Identity as Marginality From: In a Queer Country |
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 … | Zoë Newman | 21 | 2001 | $0.42 Add |
From 0.7 AkinFrom: You Only Live Twice |
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. | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 4 | 2016 | $0.40 Add |
From Crip Kinship and Cyber LoveFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include kinship networks, online community, online romance, “crip emotional intelligence,” microcultures, and digital crip kinship during Covid-19. | Shayda Kafai | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From Hanna and Saied’s StoryFrom: Any Other Way |
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. | Kamal Al-Solaylee | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
From Imagining an Intercultural Nation:A Moment in Canadian Queer Cinema From: In a Queer Country |
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 … | James Allan | 27 | 2001 | $0.54 Add |
From 0.8 FearFrom: You Only Live Twice |
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 … | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 5 | 2016 | $0.50 Add |