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Building the Unity Mosque

Building the Unity Mosque

From: Any Other Way

El-Farouk Khaki recounts the process of establishing a mosque in Toronto. 3 $0.30 Add
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Buller Men and Batty Bwoys:

Buller Men and Batty Bwoys:

Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities

From: In a Queer Country

In this essay, Wesley Crichlow considers the various dynamics of closeting for black gay men from two cities and from a number of ethnicities. It is an example of contemporary developments in … 21 $0.42 Add
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Butter Buns

From: The Whole Animal

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Can You See the Difference?:

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 … 24 $0.48 Add
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Canadian Human Rights Commission

Canadian Human Rights Commission

From: Cure for Hate

In this chapter, the white supremacist activities of the author garner attention from the Canadian Human Rights Commission, leading to jail time just as his son was born. He continues to … 15 $1.50 Add
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Canadian Liberty Net

Canadian Liberty Net

From: Cure for Hate

This chapter begins with a glimpse of a personal change of heart when the author’s daughter is born, but then moves on to detail how he started the Canadian Liberty Net, a tool to spread … 13 $1.30 Add
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Canadian Modernism, P.K. Page's "Arras," and the Idea of the Emotions

Canadian Modernism, P.K. Page’s "Arras," and the Idea of the Emotions

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

Oppositional pairs—the imagist partnering of subject and object, and a more psychologically oriented one of emotion and reason—are both central to the poem. Through them, … 23 $2.07 Add
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Capitalist Agriculture, the Food Price Crisis & Peasant Resistance

Capitalist Agriculture, the Food Price Crisis & Peasant Resistance

From: Food Sovereignty

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This Space Is Taken

This Space Is Taken

From: Any Other Way

Stephanie Nolan describes how a casual football game among friends in the park and how it shaped her identiy. 2 $0.20 Add
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Chalking It Up to Experience

Chalking It Up to Experience

From: Any Other Way

Andrew Zeally relates his experiences in Toronto’s gay bathhouses over the years. 4 $0.40 Add
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Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms

Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms

From: In a Queer Country

In "Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms," Gary Kinsman takes issue with the very idea of the conference, that there could be a specific relationship between gays and lesbians … 31 $0.93 Add
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I Shook Up the World

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

In the first chapter of the Cocaine segment of the memoir, Wood talks about his experience relapsing onto cocaine at a Montreal strip club. Wood talks about his past dreams, his first gig at Yuk … 15 $1.50 Add
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Chapter 1: We Won't Feel the Cold
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Chapter 1: We Won’t Feel the Cold

From: Pizza Before We Die

In this chapter, Kanafani presents a first-person account of survival in a Gaza refugee camp during the winter of 2024, experiencing extreme hunger, bitter cold, and death. 12 $1.20 Add
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Nail Biting

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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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Chapter 10: The Last Ride
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Chapter 10: The Last Ride

From: Pizza Before We Die

In this chapter, Kanafani captures the daily reality of civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip through intimate, personal encounters. 12 $1.20 Add
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Chapter 11

Cigarettes

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood notes that some of his "lowest moments of addiction" were related to cigarettes, certain he wouldn’t be able to escape them. He describes the withdrawal as more constant than … 17 $1.70 Add