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In Review: The Week of January 22nd
This week we continued the discussion around ableism with a fierce essay from author and disability activist Dorothy Ellen Palmer and got silly with a book about culture and creativity.
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~ Author JonArno Lawson shares about the decades-long research for his book But It’s So Silly (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers), an exploration of how ideas of play are shaped by culture, in Under the Cover.~ Winner of the 3-Day Novel contest Mark Wagstaff (Attack of the Lonely Hearts, Anvil Press) offers survival tips for writing a novel in three days and more in Writer’s Block.~ Author Dorothy Ellen Palmer talks ableism in CanLit: “Too often, even those allies with intersectional critiques of sexism, transphobia, anti-Indigeneity, and racism, still see ableism and the discrimination of inaccessibility as less urgent and less important.”~ For Family Literacy Day we rounded up a Top 10 list of books to read aloud with kids.
For International Holocaust Remembrance Day we’re reading Claire Sicherman’s Imprint: A Memoir of Trauma in the Third Generation from Caitlin Press. Exploring intergenerational trauma – the transmission of historical oppression through the physical body and mental health – the book is a combination of history and personal revelation.