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The First Bedouin Feminist

The First Bedouin Feminist

From: Hope Is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences where her community work in Laqiya was reduced by a journalist to the label "The First Bedouin Feminist." 7 $0.70 Add
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The First Rule of Pussy Palace

The First Rule of Pussy Palace

From: Any Other Way

Fiona MacCool recalls her experiences at Toronto’s female bathhouse parties. 3 $0.30 Add
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The Gang Mother

The Gang Mother

From: Gang Life

Monica, a forty-fiveyear- old lesbian gang mother. Now clean after too many years of injecting morphine and cocaine, she takes in young gang members and cares for them. She was terrorized by a … 19 $1.90 Add
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"The Goldfish" 1970

"The Goldfish" 1970

From: The Quebec Anthology

"Le poisson rouge" ("The Goldfish," as Sheila Fischman has translated the tide), first appeared in the anthology Nouvelles du Québec, edited by Katherine Brearley and … 16 $0.96 Add
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"The Good Old Days" 1981

"The Good Old Days" 1981

From: The Quebec Anthology

Though perhaps less overtly political than many of Major’s other works, "The Good Old Days" is definitely a story about disillusionment— a theme that runs through all of … 14 $0.84 Add
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The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling

From: Disfigured

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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The haiku club

The haiku club

From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence

Discusses the Haiku Club at Angler ; 7 $0.70 Add
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The Hidden Cameras and Their Gay Church Folk

The Hidden Cameras and Their Gay Church Folk

From: Any Other Way

A discussion of the Toronto indie scene, centred around Torontopia, a movement that peaked in the early 2000’s. 3 $0.30 Add
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The Homosexual Next Door (1964)

The Homosexual Next Door (1964)

From: Any Other Way

An excerpt from the Macleans article The Homosexual Next Door. 2 $0.20 Add
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The Hunger To Be Seen: The Mountain and the Valley's Modernist New Eyes

The Hunger To Be Seen: The Mountain and the Valley’s Modernist New Eyes

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

This essay,[…], seeks to restore temporal being and representation as the real issues of The Mountain and the Valley. 26 $2.34 Add
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The Invisible Visibles and CelebrAsian

The Invisible Visibles and CelebrAsian

From: Any Other Way

Vince Ha and Mezrt Daulet discuss the struggle faced by those who are queer and Asian to gain visibility and spaces to call their own. ; 2 $0.20 Add
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"The Italian Teacher" 1927

"The Italian Teacher" 1927

From: The Quebec Anthology

"Le professeur d’italien," translated as "The Italian Teacher" by Matt Cohen, first appeared in Bernard’s only collection of short stories, La Dame blanche (The … 12 $0.72 Add
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“The jig was up”
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“The jig was up”

From: The Coutts Diaries

In this chapter, Graham examines Pierre Trudeau’s final months as Liberal Leader in Opposition, from mid-1979 through his November 21, 1979 resignation (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, … 16 $1.60 Add
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"The Legend of Rose Latulipe" 1837

"The Legend of Rose Latulipe" 1837

From: The Quebec Anthology

The novel is a work of fantasy and folklore, a blend of the surreal and the macabre that relates the story of Charles Amand, a native of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli who becomes obsessed by the desire to … 7 $0.42 Add
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The Literary Archive and the Telling of Modernist Lives: Retrieving Anne Marriott

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