English & Literature Studies

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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
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Afterword

From: Finding Our Niche

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The Afterword of Finding Our Niche considers lessons and experiences from the Covid-19 pandemic on the themes in the book, and identifies this book as a theory of how change happens. 4 $0.40 Add
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Chapter 9

Caffeine

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Next is Wood’s journey with coffee, or more importantly, caffeine. Being "coffee-sick" was an ongoing cycle, and with news of his ulcers, Wood tries to sever ties with caffeine. … 27 $2.70 Add
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Crip Sex as Transformative Pleasure Universe

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include crip sex and sexuality, sexual liberation, historical sterilization of disabled and racialized populations, pleasure activism, and desirability. 19 $1.90 Add
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Disengagement

From: Cure for Hate

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The author describes his slow disenchantment and disengagement with the white supremacist communities as his partnership broke up and he became a single parent. He examines how his shift in … 16 $1.60 Add
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Dorothy Livesay, the "Housewife," and the Radio in 1951: Modernist Embodiments of Audience

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

When radio programming began in the early 1920s, radio’s disembodied voice suggested to the public a live announcer’s or entertainer’s spatial proximity yet simultaneously drew … 24 $2.16 Add
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First Sabra Pornographic Novel: Dahn Ben-Amotz’s Screwing Isn’t Everything

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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In view of the ban (normative more than legislative) on erotica in the canonic Sabra culture, this chapter will describe the attempt to build an erotic repertoire, lingual and literary, in the margins. 18 $1.98 Add
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From Civil War to Gangs

From: Gang Life

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Jafar, a Sudanese refugee and father of two, recounts a harrowing story in Chapter Nine. When he was four years old, his family fled a civil war that had taken the lives of many relatives. He … 17 $1.70 Add
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How to Be Reasonably Graceful When a Relationship Has Ended, Even If You Feel Wretched

From: Special Topics in Being a Human

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Kiss and Tell (2013): Church Street Mural Project

From: Any Other Way

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Artist Natalie Wood describes the process that went into creating her mural "Kiss and Tell" 1 $0.10 Add
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Marian Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo

“Indigenous peoples’ reason for being is to be the caretakers of the air, the water, the land, and each other.”

From: How We Go Home

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Marian Naranjo, of Santa Clara Pueblo, is the founder of Honor Our Pueblo Existence. She shares about the challenges the Pueblo people have had in working to steward their land in the face of … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Lesbian National Park Rangers

From: In a Queer Country

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Whether the discussion is of a queer nation or a queer country, citizenship must be a concern, but to follow the usual assumptions about the gay community, so must spectacle and display. bj … 20 $0.40 Add
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The Great Unravelling

From: Disfigured

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Chapter 9 explores the future of how disability will be in the present and near future, discussing topics like fairy tales and the ideology of able bodiedness, the political, social, economic … 17 $1.70 Add
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"Foreign Souls" 1934

From: The Quebec Anthology

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From 1930 until her death in 1964, Marie le Franc also contributed stories and essays to many international journals, including Mercure de France, Liaison, and Garnets victoriens. Most of her … 17 $1.02 Add
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0.9 Love Letters

From: You Only Live Twice

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Mike shares about the first person he fell in love with and his letters with her, while Chase responds remembering a film of their shared favourite filmmaker about love letters, and sorting … ; 3 $0.30 Add