Creative Non-Fiction

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Blank

Essays & Interviews

Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. … 349 View

Double Melancholy

Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man

According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own … 141 View

I Hope We Choose Love

A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of … 156 View

My Conversations with Canadians

On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. … 170 View

Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

Essays on Everyday Life

Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept “feminist killjoy”), Wunker brings … 217 View
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Acknowledgments

From: Double Melancholy

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Introduction

From: I Hope We Choose Love

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With Love, from the End of the World 3 $0.30 Add
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Jammin’ Still

From: Blank

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Meeting the public

From: My Conversations with Canadians

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The author discusses her relationship to the Canadian "public" throughout her career and in context of her identity. 14 $1.40 Add
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Preface

Letter to My Daughter

From: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

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The author presents a note addressed to her infant daughter. 2 $0.20 Add
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Echoes in a Stranger Land

From: Blank

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Introduction

Some Notes for You, Reading

From: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

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The author introduces her work and the context that led her to writing a book about feminism as an academic, reading, and blogger. 38 $3.80 Add
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Part One: Let Us Live

From: I Hope We Choose Love

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Righteous Callings: Being Good Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith — you are allowed to leave — We Need to Confront a Culture of Enabling in Queer Community … 38 $3.80 Add
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Prelude to a Fugue

From: Double Melancholy

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In the introduction, the author describes his goals for the book: as a performance of decolonization, and a description of his understanding and relationship with art. 8 $0.80 Add
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Who are we separately and together?

From: My Conversations with Canadians

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The author discusses the persavive historical and cultural information that permeates Canadian identity with regards to the violence of colonialism and its legacy 16 $1.60 Add
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Chapter 1

Notes on Rape Culture

From: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

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The author discusses rape culture, how it has impacted her life, and how it impacts society 62 $6.20 Add