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black feminist “They said I could be a feminist / as long as I don’t talk about this black girl body." By Jillian Christmas |
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Curiosities “when they were taught being Indian wasn’t a crime / as long as you try hard / to make your body disappear.” By Gwen Benaway |
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Curb(side Delivery for) Your Literary Cravings:We're keeping a running list of independent bookstores delivering to homes across Canada. Here are this week's highlights: Cafe Books (Calgary, Banff, Canmore, Cochrane and Exshaw, AB) Pulp Fiction Books (Vancouver, BC) Whodunit Bookstore (Winnipeg, MB) A Different Booklist (Toronto, ON) For more bookstores offering free or discounted delivery, visit our website. | ||
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Shouldn’t I Feel Pretty? “Somewhere in the sweat and ache and muscle I carved a new shape for myself.” By Ivan Coyote |
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Postcolonial Bodies Mastery of the self—wide shoulders, slender waist, peach-sized biceps—translated into control of the world. By David L. Chapman |
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Stay Home & Stay SharpPoets, novelists and academics are crossing the distance with an assortment of online readings and talks. Stay home, stay informed and stay connected with this week's virtual events: "This Has Nothing To Do With You" A Gathering of Indigenous Storytellers The Founding of Yishu Journal from Art Connects Have we missed an event? Let us know on Facebook, Twitter with #StaySharpStayHome or via email at geist@geist.com. | ||
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THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
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Dear Geist, If you were an emerging YA romance writer whose first draft was almost finished, but the world was suddenly plunged into a raging pandemic and some high-profile YA authors were rejigging their current storylines, particularly the ones involving intimate touching, would you go back in and revise the romantic details? —Eeny Meeny, in Cyberspace | |