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Sowing Seeds from My Ancestors, Planting Seeds for My Descendants

Sowing Seeds from My Ancestors, Planting Seeds for My Descendants

Interview with Sean Saifa Wall

From: The Care We Dream Of

The author inverviews Sean Saifa Wall, a Black queer intersex activist, visual artist, and rising scholar. Saifa is committed to racial equity and a radical vision of bodily autonomy for intersex … 14 $1.40 Add
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An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington Avenue

An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington Avenue

From: Any Other Way

Diana Meridith recalls the experience of livng in a lesbian collective house in downtown Toronto in the 1980s. 3 $0.30 Add
Special Topics in Being a Human

Special Topics in Being a Human

A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring For People, Including Myself

S. Bear Bergman’s illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his … ; 272 View
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Spring: The Greening Season

Spring: The Greening Season

From: The Big Book of Nature Activities

Spring usually begins as a tug-of-war with winter. Just when we think warmer weather is here to stay, we are hit with another blast of cold and snow. However, the change of season is always … ; 62 $6.20 Add
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State of Apprehended Insurrection
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State of Apprehended Insurrection

From: Eyes Have Seen

In this chapter, Anderson examines his experience of Montreal’s October Crisis of 1970, when Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act following FLQ kidnappings, and the … 12 $1.20 Add
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Steps to Gentrification

Steps to Gentrification

From: Any Other Way

Allison Bergess recounts the story of The Steps, which were constructed in 1984 and became a victim of gentrification twenty years later. 3 $0.30 Add
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Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric Strategy

Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric Strategy

From: 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, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Summer: The Cresendo

Summer: The Cresendo

From: The Big Book of Nature Activities

The preparations of spring bear fruit in summer. Eggs become fledged birds, flowers become ripe berries and tadpoles transform into small frogs and toads. Summer is a treat for all of our senses. … ; 62 $6.20 Add
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Sunbirds
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Sunbirds

From: Razing Palestine

This chapter is Amy Blanding’s pro-Palestinian song ‘Sunbirds.’ 2 $0.20 Add
Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This is the first work … 423 View
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Surviving Together

Surviving Together

From: The Care We Dream Of

In a queered way of conceptualizing family, reproduction, and parenting,the author describes the make up of her family. She draws on imagry such as a mason jar and a dream, family as a technology … 26 $2.60 Add
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

From: Eyes Have Seen

In this chapter, Anderson recounts his experience settling into a cramped Montreal apartment and exploring Little Burgundy, the Black neighbourhood known as the “Harlem of the North.” 14 $1.40 Add
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Tabloid Journalism and the Rise of a Gay Press in Toronto

Tabloid Journalism and the Rise of a Gay Press in Toronto

From: Any Other Way

Donald McLeod describes how the first queer representation in the city’s press occurred in the tabloids. 3 $0.30 Add
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Take Me Away to Another World

Take Me Away to Another World

From: Any Other Way

Rebecka Sheffield recalls the role that Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche played in her life and an encounter she had with Heche after moving to Toronto from Saskatoon. 2 $0.20 Add
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Talking Forbidden Love:

Talking Forbidden Love:

An Interview with Lynne Fernie

From: In a Queer Country

Lynne Fernie, co-director with Aerlynn Weisman of the documentary, Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives emphasizes in the interview that the film was intended as a multiple … 25 $0.50 Add