This novel takes place in the seven days after Pen O'Grady's lover, Cara Wall, has been killed in a car accident. Kathleen O’Brien, ‘Contemporary Caoineadh: Talking Straight Through the Dead’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 32.

The book is about the author’s experience and therefore doesn’t address other double-minorities, but it definitely sets the stage to consider how the unseen and unheard struggles from other groups (e. Constance Bracewell, "The Naming of the Screw: Incommensurate Sexual Paradigms in Emma Donoghue’s Hood’, paper delivered at ACIS South Conference (2007). Speaking from experience, being the sole black woman in a cohort, or in an entire program, can be difficult. Forests have clearings that offer respite and space to breathe, space to think before you’re back amongst the thick of it but stronger, taller.The ubiquitous hood, she shows, is an artifact of human relationships with power, the state, and one another.

As a student he won a competition to create a short film for MOMI and Channel 4, and once his career producing animated commercials was under way, he became an illustrator as well. That path may then look very different to how it looked when our footsteps were lighter and shadows smaller, or when more walked with us, but it is our path. The Book Bank provides free books and literacy support to children living in high-needs neighbourhoods across Toronto. The book was the recipient of the 1997 Stonewall Book Award [1] and is heavily influenced by James Joyce's Ulysses.This book's real pleasures lie in its intimate insights, its accurate characters and its sharp, rich observations. Grayson’s story is extremely inspiring and I loved reading about how she overcame all of the obstacles she faced as a Black woman in an Ivy League mechanical engineering PhD program. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Having a voice means facing retaliation or dismissal, while staying silent becomes a heavy burden all on its own. Grayson’s story is one of a champion and the takeaway is that she wants all Black women to be winners too.

From a frog paddling in puddles to a duck diving under the water, babies will delight in exploring this watery world at bathtime.If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf. You see someone who is on a path, a journey, a moment when they walk on, approached by, and flanked by wolves. As a book nerd, I sometimes find myself with a normal blanket wrapped around myself and twisting it around my neck as a handsfree cape and this was an all in one hooded blanket cape!