Performing Female Blackness

By Naila Keleta-Mae
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Performing Arts

Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

This book examines what private and public performances ...

The New Race

By William H.H. Johnson
Afterword by Jade Ferguson
Subjects: Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Archival Studies
Series: Early Canadian Literature

William H. H. Johnson’s The Life of Wm. H. H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black North American tradition published by a British Columbian. ...

Cruel but Not Unusual

Edited by Ramona Alaggia & Cathy Vine
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Social Science, Gender Studies, Law, Child Advocacy, Child Abuse

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports ...

Devotion

Edited by Jarrett Earnest
Subjects: Art, Social Science, Gender Studies

Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, contains essays and interviews, reproductions of notes, diagrams, works of art, and rare ephemera representing an archive ...

A Sentimental Education

By Hannah McGregor
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Film & Media, Literary Criticism

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret ...

Dead Woman Pickney

By Yvonne Shorter Brown
Foreword by Sonja Boon
Subjects: Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Family & Relationships
Series: Life Writing

Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal ...

Make the World New

By Lillian Allen
Edited by Ronald Cummings
Subjects: Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Subjects: Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous ...

Prison Life Writing

By Simon Rolston
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, ...

The Queer Evangelist

By Cheri DiNovo
Foreword by Kathleen Wynne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Biography & Autobiography

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage registered in Canada ...