English & Literature Studies

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Family as a Site of Contestation:

Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer?

From: In a Queer Country

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Michelle K. Owen’s essay looks at what recently has become the most prominent aspect of this struggle for recognition. Owen ‘s response is informed and polemical; a scholarship that … 22 $0.44 Add
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How to Avoid Getting Your Upset All Over Other People When You Feel Out of Control

From: Special Topics in Being a Human

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I Was Miss General Idea

From: Any Other Way

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Derek McCormack describes how he adopted the identity of Miss General Idea, a character created by the Toronto art collective, and made her real. 2 $0.20 Add
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PART TWO

From: Working for the Common Good

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Robert Ornelas, New York City, Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

“A part of the soul sickness for me was being ashamed. . . . What we were being taught about Indians was so minimal and so negative.”

From: How We Go Home

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Robert Ornelas, who lives in New York City, and is of the Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, is a retired substance abuse counselor. He shares how he understood and felt about being native as … 17 $1.70 Add
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Spring: The Greening Season

From: The Big Book of Nature Activities

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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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Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric Strategy

From: Crip Kinship

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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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The Centre and the Periphery

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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This chapter will focus on two main themes: the creation and development of a popular literature in the periphery (with the help of translation), and the possible relations between the popular … 62 $6.82 Add
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The Little Dumb Foundling

Hans Christian Andersen's Ugly Little Duckings

From: Disfigured

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Chapter 5 focuses on the work of Hans Christian Andersen, exploring topics including “The Little Mermaid”, Andersen’s own disability, Andersen’s book "The … 26 $2.60 Add
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What a Rush it was

From: Gang Life

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The story of Janie, aged twenty-five, and George, eight years older, is in Chapter Five. Both Aboriginal, they were married until George killed a rival a couple of years ago. He also tried to … 18 $1.80 Add
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White Pride Worldwide

From: Cure for Hate

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In this chapter, the author describes his continued development into a white supremacist via connecting with other skinheads and white supremacists internationally, across Canada and into the … 9 $0.90 Add
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"Hay Fever" 1917

From: The Quebec Anthology

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"La fièvre des foins," translated by Wayne Grady as "Hay Fever," was first published in 1917, and is taken here from Clapin’s Contes et nouvelles, a collection of … 20 $1.20 Add
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0.5 No Man’s Land

From: You Only Live Twice

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Mike reflects on a moment of early sexual attraction to men, while Chase shares an early reflection that while he might actually relate more to men than women. ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Artmaking as Evidence

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include multidisciplinary artmaking, strategies of resilience, building disabled queer art-activism, crip time, Disability Justice and Transformative Justice, eugenics, and … 18 $1.80 Add