1.
Series:
Bloom Where You Are Planted
50 Conversations with Inspiring British Columbians
Hardcover
Beka Shane Denter
9781772034295
$39.95
PHOTOGRAPHY
Oct 04, 2022
A celebration of fifty talented, creative, passionate people (forty-nine women and one nonbinary person) working in the fields of visual art, dance, photography, music, design, comedy, storytelling, food, fashion, beauty, wellness, and advocacy.Bloom Where You Are Planted is a collection of interviews and photography that honours a group of innovative, hard-working, diverse people, whose creative and business ventures inspire, support, and infuse others’ lives with purpose and positivity. These are people who are passionate about work, communit...
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Series:
Trail Mix
920 km on the Camino de Santiago
Paperback
Jules Torti
9781771604802
$25.00
TRAVEL
Sep 27, 2021
A rollicking travel memoir that invites the curious, the initiated, and even the skeptics to tag along on the ever-changing landscape of “The Way”’ For many, walking the Camino is a decision predictably triggered by death, divorce, or a career crisis. It’s not Everest and it ain’t no walk in the park, but the Camino ‘family’ continues to inexplicably grow. In 2018 alone, 327,342 pilgrims were received at the pilgrim office in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Pilgrims worldwide are attracted to the gilded mystery and hope of the Camino. Like the...
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Series:
Radiant Voices
21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks
Paperback
Carla Bergman
9781927366844
$22.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 08, 2019
A collection of essays inspired by EMMA Talks, a speakers’ series committed to amplifying the voices of thinkers, activists, scholars, artists, and community builders who are also women-identified, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks.From Idle No More to Black Lives Matter to the Me Too movements and more, one thing is certain: There is a burgeoning collective desire to hear non-dominant voices in subtle, curious, generative ways.The Vancouver-based EMMA Talks speakers’ series amplifies the voices of women-identified, trans, and gender-noncon...
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Series:
This One Looks Like a Boy
My Gender Journey to Life as a Man
Hardcover
Lorimer Shenher
9781771644488
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 31, 2019
Inspiring and honest, this unique memoir of gender transition and coming-of-age proves it’s never too late to find your true identity.Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl’s body.In this candid and thoughtful memoir, Shenher shares the story of his gender journey, from childhood gender dysphoria to teenage sexual experimentation to early-adult denial of his identity—and finally the acceptance that he is trans, culminating in gender reassignment surgery ...
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Series:
GAYBCs
A Queer Alphabet
Hardcover
Rae Congdon
9781771643948
$21.95
HUMOR
Sep 18, 2018
A cheeky, progressive adult alphabet book that celebrates and illuminates LGBTQ terminology.What would happen if someone picked up a classic ABC book, crossed out the words, and replaced them with LGBTQ terms?The result would be GAYBCs ?a playful, subversive alphabet book that aims to spread awareness and demystify queer terminology for everyone. Instead of apple, ball, and chick, this book?s ABCs are ally, bisexual, and cisgender. A ladybug gains a matching girlfriend to become lesbian, kiss becomes kink, and tie gets a gender-bending twist...
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Series:
A Family by Any Other Name
Exploring Queer Relationships
Paperback
Bruce Gillespie
9781771510547
$19.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Apr 08, 2014
At no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. A Family by Any Other Name recognizes and celebrates this advance by exploring what "family" means to people today. The anthology includes a wide range of perspectives on queer relationships and families—there are stories on coming out, same-sex marriage, adopting, having biological kids, polyamorous relationships, families without kids, divorce, and dealing with the death of a spouse, as well as essays by ...
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7.
Series:
Queering the Way
The Loud & Queer Anthology
Paperback
Darrin Hagen
9781897142585
$19.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Sep 06, 2011
Edmonton’s Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debuted more than three hundred pieces of stunning performance and art from both established and emerging talent alike. From the Loud & Queer Cabaret archives, here are some of the most memorable pieces, from monologues to cabarets to one-act plays. Diversity of the LGBTQ experience is at the heart of this powerful collection. Voices ring out with stories and perspectives that will make you laugh, cry, and glo...
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8.
Series:
The Edmonton Queen
The Final Voyage
Paperback
Darrin Hagen
9781897142202
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 02, 2007
A Drag Dynasty is about to be divined from the high life decade of decadence. It is destined, pre-ordained — and perfectly coiffed. Darrin Hagen, under the mentorship of his drag mother, Lulu LaRude, rose to the height of glamour as Gloria Hole, performer extraordinaire at the legendary Flashback nightclub. Beneath the layers of nightlife, stage lights and make-up lay the complex relationships of a chosen family. Both hilarious and moving, The Edmonton Queen: The Final Voyage once again invites readers to the exclusive party that was, and shoul...
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Series:
Tornado Magnet
A Salute to Trailer Court Women
Paperback
Darrin Hagen
9781897142196
$14.95
DRAMA
Apr 02, 2007
From pink flamingos to plaid furniture, the ins and outs of life on wheels are illuminated by Dotty Parsons, Supermom. In her battle to fight mobile home-ophobia, no souvenir cushion is left unturned: rituals, diet, furnishings, collections, family, and the most mysterious: The Trailer Court Man. In Tornado Magnet, a mac-and-cheese tribute to the mighty mothers of mobile home country, playwright and performer Darrin Hagen debunks the myths of trailer court life.