LGBTQIA

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Any Other Way

How Toronto Got Queer

 Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how … ; ; ; 369 View

Care Work

Dreaming of Disability Justice

 In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and long-time disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the … 266 View

Conflict Is Not Abuse

Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

 From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between … 304 View
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Decolonize Drag

 Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as … 220 View

Double Pregnant

Two Lesbians Make a Family

 Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner’s light-hearted, poignant and informative true story about starting a family with her wife Viviën. Because Viviën is a woman of colour … 192 View

Get That Freak

Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools

 Bullying in schools has garnered significant attention recently, but despite this, little has been said about the occurrence of homophobic and transphobic bullying in Canadian high schools. Get … ; 126 View
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Len & Cub

A Queer History

 Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly … ; 192 View
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Rooms

Women, Writing, Woolf

 From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind … 176 View

The Care We Dream Of

Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

 What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honoured and valued queer and trans people’s lives, … 352 View
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Vancouver Vice

Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

 The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the … 256 View

You Only Live Twice

Sex, Death and Transition

 YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to … ; 153 View
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A Reparative Manifesto

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

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 A brief introduction about events in recent history and nature of Abuse. The author talks about Normative Conflict and Resistance, and how reasonable stances of difference can be misrepresented … 22 $0.44 Add
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Chapters 1-20

From: Double Pregnant

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Foreword

From: Any Other Way

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 In the foreword, Kristyn Wong-Tam recounds her arrival in Toronto from Hong Kong and describes the diversity of the city’s queer community, which is often overshadowed by the predominantly … 2 $0.20 Add
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Foreword

From: You Only Live Twice

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 Chase Joynt explains the reasons for the book, how he met the co-author, and the form and structure of the book. 2 $0.20 Add