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Solid, Glutinous, and Toothsome
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Solid, Glutinous, and Toothsome

The Wrapper

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

André Alexis reflects on the Trinidadian dumplings of the island of his birth, ideas of belonging and not belonging in the identity of first generation immigrants, food cultures and taboos, … 5 $0.50 Add
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Some Historical Shit

Some Historical Shit

From: No Place To Go

This chapter covers sewers, the history of human waste management and public infrastructure design and highlights issues of gender, physical and racial accessibility. 20 $2.00 Add
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Someday My Prince Will Come

Someday My Prince Will Come

Disney and the World Without Shadows

From: Disfigured

Chapter 4 focuses on Disney’s interpretation of fairy tales, discussing topics including ‘Disneyfication’ of well-known fairy tales,  elements of disability in Disney … 26 $2.60 Add
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Something Below Humanity

Something Below Humanity

The Beautiful and the Beastly

From: Disfigured

Chapter 6 examines the archetype of beauty and the beast, exploring topics such as physical beauty, pity, humanity, isolation and childhood, beauty as good a sign of one’s characteristics, … 27 $2.70 Add
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Song of the South and Uncle Remus's Return

Song of the South and Uncle Remus’s Return

From: Uncle

This chapter explores Song of the South, a 1944 Disney movie that featured Uncle Remus. 12 $1.20 Add
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An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington Avenue

An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington Avenue

From: Any Other Way

Diana Meridith recalls the experience of livng in a lesbian collective house in downtown Toronto in the 1980s. 3 $0.30 Add
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Spineless Admiration

Spineless Admiration

On Anti-Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

The author details how nostalgia is regarded with suspicion from academic to widespread cultural use. Advocates of dismissing the past, and their perpective of the world as just and meritocratic … 19 $1.90 Add
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Sports and Spaces
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Sports and Spaces

From: Messy Cities

Perry King writes about the public spaces utilized for sports in urban cities such as the multi-purpose sports courts housed beneath highways in Navi, Mumbai. 6 $0.60 Add
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Stall Tactics

Stall Tactics

From: No Place To Go

In this chapter, the author looks at public toilet accessibility from the perspectives of those with physical disabilities. 17 $1.70 Add
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Steps to Gentrification

Steps to Gentrification

From: Any Other Way

Allison Bergess recounts the story of The Steps, which were constructed in 1984 and became a victim of gentrification twenty years later. 3 $0.30 Add
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Storytelling is Part of the Story

Storytelling is Part of the Story

From: The Ward

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Strange Brew

Strange Brew

The Underground Economy of 'Blind Pigs'

From: The Ward

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Suggested Reading

Suggested Reading

From: Closer

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