Samra Habib | We Have Always Been Here | ‘A queer Muslim searches for the language to express her truest self, making peace with her sexuality, her family, and Islam. Growing up in Pakistan,
Nila Gupta | Issue is ‘Ism | This book first appeared in the 1983 Issue 16 of Fireweed, a Canadian feminist quarterly. In these pages women of colour speak about their lives for t
Tamai Kobayashi; Mona Oikawa | All Names Spoken | Two emerging Japanese Canadian lesbian writers sensitively articulate their separate lives and different paths.
For the Love of Learning | Queer Monologues | Produced by For the Love of Learning, an arts-based non-profit organization working with youth in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Queer Monologues: Stories
Susie Taylor | Even Weirder Than Before | Daisy’s job is to be as unobtrusive as possible. But when her father suddenly leaves and her mother breaks down, Daisy’s old life disappears, and she
Jane Rule | Desert Of The Heart | Possibly Jane Rule’s best known novel, The Desert of the Heart is the story of a free spirited woman falling for a repressed older woman. Evelyn Hall
Addison Paisley | Broken Rules | Abby Grant’s perfectly scripted life is governed by a set of rules that keeps her working, playing, and perpetually unattached. By never sleeping with
Dionne Brand | Bread Out of Stone | Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of
Lois Fine | Freda And Jem’s Best of the Week | Jem is a self-described butch dyke from Montreal who always imagined spending her life in bars and having flings. When she meets Freda, her preconceiv
