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Afterword

From: Disfigured

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The afterword reflects on portrayals of disability and wheelchair use in recent media. 9 $0.90 Add
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Beauty as Liberation, as Splendid Crip Future

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include crip-centric reclaiming of beauty, desire and eroticism, decolonizing beauty, and beauty as liberation. 12 $1.20 Add
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Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation

“When I was twenty-five, thirty, there was more salmon and I was fishing every other day. Now I’m lucky to go once a week.”

From: How We Go Home

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Blaine Wilson, of Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island, is a hunter and fisherperson, one of the few remaining who know how to live off the land. He describes his childhood and family at … 12 $1.20 Add
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Chapter 10

Nail Biting

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Though not as dangerous as other addictions, Wood notes that nail biting was his longest-standing vice. An impulse to hurt himself came with it. Being in the hospital to support Nora during … 8 $0.80 Add
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Having a Gay Old Time in Paris:

John Glassco's Not-50-Queer Adventures

From: In a Queer Country

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It is a common concern in literary studies of homosexuality to ascertain the sexuality of the author, but Glassco’s autobiographical Memoirs of Montparnasse presents a special case. Much … 18 $0.18 Add
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How to Take Criticism (and How to Tell What’s Criticism and What’s Just a Pointless Insult)

From: Special Topics in Being a Human

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Language Impoverishment

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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As a result of decades of the attenuation of the erotic, the literary sexual and intimate language became impoverished and supplied clichéd “pseudo-scientific” or “pulp … 29 $3.19 Add
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Radical Compassion

From: Cure for Hate

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This chapter continues to detail the changes in the views of the author, including the impact of Vipassana meditation and the radical compassion of a new counselor, mentor and friend. He … 20 $2.00 Add
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Terms and Conditions

From: Gang Life

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The story of Ivan is told in Chapter Ten. He is forty-one years of age, and he came to Canada as a young boy when his family — mother, stepfather, and younger brother — fled a civil … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Dictionary of Homophobia: L

Publisher's note, Preface to the Original Edition, Editor's Preface To the English-Language Edition, Introduction, The Anti-Anthology, Table of Entries, Contributors

From: The Dictionary of Homophobia

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Latin America (Luiz Mott); Law. See European Law; Leduc, Violette (Anne-Claire Rebreyend); Lesbophobia (Raymonde Gérard); Literature (Louis-Georges Tin); Lobby (Caroline Fourest) 38 $1.14 Add
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The Literary Archive and the Telling of Modernist Lives: Retrieving Anne Marriott

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

The centrality of archives to the process of literary biography is undeniable. Archives must be plumbed and it is only when every relevant archive with respect to a subject has been mined that … 19 $1.71 Add
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Town Squares and Spiritual Hearts

From: Any Other Way

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Shawn Micallef describes how Barbara Hall Park has, at times, served as the town square for Toronto’s queer community. 6 $0.60 Add
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When the News Trucks Go Away

From: The Trauma Beat

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In this chapter, Cherry discusses the fatal Humboldt Broncos car crash that occurred in 2018. She includes excerpts of her interview with Laurie, whose son was among the passengers that did not … 8 $0.80 Add
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"Mrs. Filly" 1942

From: The Quebec Anthology

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"Madame Pouliche," here translated by David Homel as "Mrs. Filly," first appeared in La Fin du voyage, and in 1962 it was included in Gerard Bessette’s Anthologie Albert … 13 $0.78 Add
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0.10 Rehersal

From: You Only Live Twice

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Mike shares a memory about learning to ride a bike with his little brother and crashing, after which they discuss death. Chase shares a memory of his mother teaching him about menstruation when … ; 4 $0.40 Add