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Got AIDS Yet?

Got AIDS Yet?

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this essay, the author recounts seeing bathroom graffiti reading "Got AIDS Yet?" at age 8 or 9, and feeling frozen in terror. He grew up with a deep fear of sex that was only … 6 $0.60 Add
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Great White Hope

Great White Hope

The Myth of North

From: National Dreams

There have been writers, politicians, intellectuals who believed that it was its northernness which made Canada distinct. The "cult of the North" gained coherent expression for the … 46 $1.84 Add
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Growing Up Radical

Growing Up Radical

From: Fighting For Space

This chapter introduces Ann Livingston. A single mother on welfare, Livingston moved to the Downtown Eastside with her three boys in 1993, and was moved to act by the sight of people shooting up … 20 $0.40 Add
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Guns and Feathers

Guns and Feathers

From: The Imaginary Indian

Non-Natives have a long history of romanticizing Indians, discovering in their character and culture many fi ne qualities we think are lacking in our own. From the Noble Savage of years ago to … 28 $2.80 Add
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Guns and Feathers

Guns and Feathers

From: The Imaginary Indian

Non-Natives have a long history of romanticizing Indians, discovering in their character and culture many fi ne qualities we think are lacking in our own. From the Noble Savage of years ago to … 28 $2.80 Add
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Half-Breed Blues

Half-Breed Blues

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

This chapter explores the lingering effect of a date-rape on the author’s romantic and sexual life. 18 $1.80 Add
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Having a Gay Old Time in Paris:

Having a Gay Old Time in Paris:

John Glassco's Not-50-Queer Adventures

From: In a Queer Country

It is a common concern in literary studies of homosexuality to ascertain the sexuality of the author, but Glassco’s autobiographical Memoirs of Montparnasse presents a special case. Much … 18 $0.18 Add
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History in the Present

History in the Present

From: Victims of Benevolence

In the decades after the establishment of the Mission school Native parents repeatedly protested the care being provided to their children at the school. Yet government officials and missionaries … 31 $0.93 Add
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HIV Criminalization in Canada

HIV Criminalization in Canada

How the Richest Middle Class in the World Decided to Call the Police on HIV-Positive People in Order to Cover Up Their Racism, Guilt, and Anxiety about Sexuality and Their Supremacy-Based Investment in Punishment

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

This chapter expands the foundations of Conflict and Abuse through the surprising example of Canadian HIV criminalization, showing how the “moderate” presentation of a neoliberal … 28 $0.56 Add
Holden After & Before
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Holden After & Before

Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief in the same … 356 View
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Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS

Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

This essay describes the author’s experiences as a homeless "baby dyke," and how terror surrounding AIDS effected her at a young age. She later received the kind of sex eduation … 7 $0.70 Add
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Hosanna!

Hosanna!

Michel Tremblay's Queering of National Identity

From: In a Queer Country

Elaine Pigeon’s "Hosanna! Michel Tremblay’s Queering of National Identity" treats the literary but also considers theatrical elements of Tremblay’s play. One central … 28 $0.56 Add
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Hotel of Last Resort

Hotel of Last Resort

From: Fighting For Space

In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … 34 $1.02 Add
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How I Got to "They"

How I Got to "They"

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Coyote describes their journey from adopting "he" pronouns to choosing the singular "they." 6 $0.60 Add
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How to Apologize (Properly, Not Like a Republican Congressman)

How to Apologize (Properly, Not Like a Republican Congressman)

From: Special Topics in Being a Human

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