1.
Series:
Fired Up about Consent
Paperback
Sarah Ratchford
9781771133524
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Mar 01, 2021
According to the World Health Organization, one in three women will be sexually or physically assaulted in her lifetime. These rates are very similar for non-binary people and other feminized people, too. This is rape culture, and young adults are living through it here and now. Fired Up about Consent is a practical, survivor-informed primer for young people who want to learn how to build joyful, mutually satisfying sex lives and relationships. In these pages, author Sarah Ratchford defines rape and sexual assault, busts the myths behind too...
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2.
Series:
Bent out of Shape
Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work
Paperback
Karen Messing
9781771135412
$24.95
Apr 05, 2021
Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental health invariably comes in second place: underestimated, underrepresented, understudied, underpaid. Should workplaces treat all bodies the same? With confidence, empathy, and humour, Messing navigates the minefield that is naming sex and biology on the job, refusing to play in...
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3.
Series:
Primo Levi
Paperback
Matteo Mastragostino
9781771135221
$21.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 22, 2021
“It’s a pretty long story,” Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, “so I’ll try to make it simple.” Translated from the original Italian, this hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi’s own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life st...
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4.
Series:
The Case for Basic Income
Freedom, Security, Justice
Paperback
Jamie Swift
9781771135474
$24.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 03, 2021
Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation—an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income. Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the market economy and social programs fail? Jamie Swift and Elaine Power scrutinize the politics and...
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5.
Series:
Everything on (the) Line
20 Years of Social Movement Stories from rabble.ca
Paperback
Sophia Reuss
9781771135443
$25.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 18, 2021
On a chilly April day in 2001, some 75,000 protesters flooded the streets of Quebec City to denounce corporate globalization and a neoliberal trade deal. From that wellspring of activist anger, energy, and hope came the founding of rabble.ca: an alternative news source and community space that reported on Canadian politics from the ground, catching the attention of journalists and activists across the country. Since then, Canada has seen the rise of Harper Conservatism and its replacement by a Liberal government; a decline in union power; th...
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6.
Series:
Plantation Memories
Episodes of Everyday Racism
Paperback
Grada Kilomba
9781771135504
$23.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 01, 2021
Plantation Memories is a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. From the question “Where do you come from?” to Hair Politics to the N-word, the book is a strong, eloquent, and elaborate piece that deconstructs the normality of everyday racism and exposes the violence of being placed as the Other. Released at the Berlin International Literature Festival in 2008, soon the book became internationally acclaimed and part of numerous academic curricula. Known for her subversive practice of...
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7.
Series:
The Fire and the Ashes
Rekindling Democratic Socialism
Paperback
Andrew Jackson
9781771135382
$23.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 31, 2021
In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen historical analysis with a political manifesto for today. As one of the few trade union economists in Canada, Jackson brings a unique insider perspective and decades of experience to bear on his critical reflections on the history and changing fortunes of the NDP, the failures of neoliberalism, and the waning and recent renewal of the democratic socialist ...
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8.
Series:
Who Is Kim Ondaatje?
The Inventive Life of a Canadian Artist
Paperback
Lola Tostevin
9781771338295
$34.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 26, 2022
This book is a biography of artist, film maker, and photographer, Kim Ondaatje, née Betty Jane Kimbark. Born into a wealthy family, Kim's story is a reverse of the rags to riches narrative. She married two highly successful writers, Douglas Jones and Michael Ondaatje, had six children, and managed to carve a career as a respected artist whose works are in all major galleries/museums in Canada. Kim Ondaatje's life is fascinating on many fronts. She is undoubtedly talented, and has contributed significantly to the Canadian art scene. One of her p...
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9.
Series: Inanna Young Feminist Series
The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb
Paperback
Candas Dorsey
9781771338677
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 21
Dec 10, 2021
It's not easy "choosing not to choose," especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007.Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn't make a big deal about it. Then Corey's dad dies suddenly. Now Corey's disapproving mother wants Corey to "pick a side". Corey's old enough to say no to medical intervention-but not old enough to avoid being held in a youth psych ward when their mom makes an issue of Corey's refusal to conform to the gender binary.In the psych ward, Corey makes friends with Kim, a teen girl diagnosed as anorexic-or is sh...
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10.
Series: Inanna Signature Feminist Publications
Bloodroot
Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss
Paperback
Betsy Warland
9781771338370
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 28, 2021
In Bloodroot, Betsy Warland traces how a mother and daughter's shared gender can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother's final year,Warland quietly discovered how to disentangle a crucial, concealed story that had rendered their relationship disconnected and fraught. Warland weaves a common ground that moves beyond duty and despair, providing both questions and guideposts for readers, particularly those faced with ageing and ill parents and their loss.The 2000 edition of Bloodroot broke new ground in memoir form and uncharte...
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11.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
29 leads to love
Paperback
Salimah Valiani
9781771338752
$18.95
POETRY
Jun 24, 2021
In a world barely beginning to recognize itself as dazzlingly multihued, the erupting ecocide is teaching that while no accounting of complexity is complete, change is true and the sky, singular.We are of parts fundamentally interconnected and overlapping.If we choose it, this overlapping can become a continuum. A continuum of movement combined with still-ness, individuality reaching for the whole, loss and surrender, abandon and opening.And of falling: an ever-falling, toward the intensive care that is love.
12.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Bird Shadows
Paperback
Jennie Morrow
9781771338011
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 10, 2021
Bird Shadows is a playful tale of eccentricities, misconceptions, and misogyny. While working on a personal spiritual project, an irreverent artist encourages her religious sister to rethink the marriage that seems to be killing her soul.The people in the quaint little Bay of Fundy fishing village of Brood Bay will not soon forget the events of 1995. It was an outrage! A good Christian family was torn apart by the wicked influence of a mentally unbalanced, morally challenged artist. Pastor Wallace was appalled by the improper, if not downright ...
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13.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett
Paperback
Suzanne Hillier
9781771338639
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 03, 2021
It's 1942, and the Nazi Juggernaut continues to crush Europe, while on the island of Newfoundland the loss of a generation awaits. Two girls who are best friends heading into their last year of high school visit a local park?and their lives are changed forever. The beautiful, talented Angela faces loss and then a darkness, a darkness so shameful that she cannot share it with anyone, not even her best friend. Dorothy faces the prospect of becoming the island's first "lady lawyer," one who offers hope for women seeking salvation from the chauvini...
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14.
Series: Inanna Memoir Series
The Becoming
A Memoir
Paperback
Nicole Luongo
9781771338134
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 20, 2021
The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approache...
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15.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Daria
Paperback
Irene Marques
9781771338417
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 24, 2021
When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is pulled into different worlds, travelling to various timeframes and locations in an unending awe-inspiring Matryoshka play, where one story leads to another and another and another. The novel explores the stories of multiple characters?the Indo-Portuguese-Canadian sexual predator; the idealist and resili...
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16.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Memory's Shadow
Paperback
Gail Benick
9781771337816
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 03, 2021
In the tumultuous 1970s while women, African Americans, and the gay and lesbian communities march for equality, three sisters wrestle with the legacy of their family's Holocaust past. Memory's Shadow is a compelling story of sisterly conflict and loyalty, the broader politics of sisterhood, and the power of the human spirit to rise when faced with the unimaginable recurrence of tragedy.
17.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Pigeon Soup & Other Stories
Paperback
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli
9781771337939
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 15, 2021
Finalist, 2022 International Book Award for Fiction ? Short Story; Finalist, 2021 American Book Fest Best Book Award for Fiction ? Short Story.The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit physically, emotionally, or metaphorically, with twists that sometimes provide a flicker-or even a bright beam-of hope.
18.
Series: Inanna Memoir Series
Lawrencia's Last Parang
A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada
Paperback
Anita Jack-Davies
9781771338097
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 20, 2023
Lawrencia?s Last Parang: A Memoir on Loss and Belonging as Black in Canada is a snapshot of the author's life immediately after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between the present and the past, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and h...
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19.
Series: Inanna Memoir Series
Horses in the Sand
A Memoir
Paperback
Lorrie Potvin
9781771338493
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 31, 2022
A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman?s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from "normal" and how "coming out" became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. Potvin?s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult re...
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20.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Min Hayati
Paperback
Rayya Liebich
9781771338714
$18.95
POETRY
Jun 03, 2021
This collection travels through a daughter's childhood memories in Montreal, her mother's homeland of Lebanon, and the dark realities of grief across borders. Min Hayati uncovers the well of sorrow and the depth of love discovered only through loss. Poetry pays homage to the author's maternal lineage, her mixed ethnicity, and the ways in which "mother" transcends all aspects of life.Min Hayati advocates for a radical change in our approach to grief and the (still) taboo subjects of death, dying, and grief. Poems speak in particular to motherles...
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