Tag: Bibliothèque
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Solidarity with UBC students and survivors of sexual abuse and violence
The Canadian literature community has been rocked by an open letter, signed by many prominent writers, claiming the University of British Columbia has failed to give “due process” to a writing professor dismissed for breach of trust in relation to allegations of abuse by students. Critics of the letter say it is biased and erases the experience of the students. READ MORE
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Award Winning Métis Author Inaugural Writer in Residence
On March 7, 2015, a small crowd gathered to celebrate the appointment of Award winning Metis author Cherie Dimaline as the 1st Aboriginal Writer in Residence at a Toronto Public Library—the North York Central Library. READ MORE
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Mid-Week Round Up: February March 18
Check out what’s making been making our headlines this week. READ MORE
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Mid-Week Round Up: February 18
Check out what’s making been making our headlines this week READ MORE
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Book Review: Lila Abu-Lughod’s Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Do Muslim Women Need Saving is peppered with stories like those of Zaynab that reveal the complexities of women’s lives across the “Muslim world.” Through these stories Abu-Lughod is able to peel away at the assumptions and stereotypes that many of us in the West are offered up about Muslim women. READ MORE
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Dear Teenage Kate
Most of those things people around you are trying to make you feel ashamed of are actually you fighting for the things you need. READ MORE
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Dear 17-year-old Clara Bee
It’s hard for me to write this, because I’m afraid I’ll upset you. Literally everyone in your life right now is afraid of upsetting you. READ MORE
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Dear Teenage Aimee
The bad news is that the world is much meaner than you imagine it to be, but the good news is that it’s also much bigger. READ MORE
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Dear Teenage Meg
The cave you found yourself in? That wasn’t your fault and it wasn’t yours to fix. It was yours to experience. And in its own way, it has been one of your life’s greatest gifts and wisest teachers. READ MORE
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Dear teen Zehra
Dear teen Zehra: I can’t imagine being in your shoes again, and I definitely don’t ever want to have to make the choices you will have to, again. READ MORE
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Dear Teenage Maranda
Dear Teenage Maranda: I’d like to sit down and listen to you; I think that’s what I’ve been doing the last few years. READ MORE
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Letters Lived Contributor: Cristy C. Road
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American illustrator, writer, and member of The Homewreckers, a queer-core punk rock band that aims to simultaneously demystify the punk scene and smash patriarchy. READ MORE
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Dear Teen Me
Dear Teen Me: I know you might not recognize the name, but this is a letter from future you — me. There are some things I want you to know; things I really wish I knew at your age. READ MORE
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Letters Lived Contributor: Selma James
Selma James is an anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist campaigner and author. Known for her pioneering work on women’s rights, James coined the term “unwaged” to describe most of the caring work that women do. James first put pen to paper in 1952 with her essay A Woman’s Place, describing the frustrations of women’s lives as housewives. READ MORE
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Letter to my teenage self
First things first, let’s talk about your style choices. This little phase will be thankfully short-lived, but I still need to make clear that fluorescent orange is a colour you wear when you’re hiking in the woods so that a hunter doesn’t mistake you for wild game. It is not fashionable! READ MORE
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Letters Lived Contributor: Nina Power
Nina Power teaches philosophy at London’s Roehampton University and Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. Power writes articles on European Philosophy, atomism, pedagogy, art, and politics for several magazines including The Guardian, New Statesman (like fellow contributor Juliet Jacques), New Humanist, Cabinet, Radical Philosophy, and The Philosopher’s Magazine, where she is also reviews editor. READ MORE
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A Letter to Myself
Dear Christine, or is it Chris or Chrissy? I don’t know what you go by these days. I know if I were to say “Christina,” you would get mad and turn all silent before sternly saying, “I hate being called that, don’t ever call me that!” READ MORE
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Letters Lived Contributor: Shea Howell
Shea Howell is a Detroit activist, organizer, author, and professor of Communication at Oakland University who has been committed to grassroots, community-driven development for more than four decades. READ MORE
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To my teen self: on walls and anger
All you see now are the walls. The tired din of forced high school attendance, of cliques and peer judgement. The limitations and the lack of choice. READ MORE
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Letters Lived Contributor: Elisha Lim
Elisha Lim is an artist and activist whose artwork and campaigning efforts demand radical changes in race and gender representation. They succeeded in getting Canada’s Gay and Lesbian Newspaper, Xtra!, to adopt gender neutral pronouns and directed Montreal’s first Racialized Pride Week in 2012, for which they curated the main exhibit 2-Qtpoc at the Articule Gallery. READ MORE