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“diane driedger”

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  • Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader

    A Disabled Women's Reader

    Edited by Diane Driedger ...
    Living the Edges: A Disabled Woman’s Reader, the lives of women with disabilities have not changed much. Still Living the Edges provides a timely follow-up that traces the ways disabled women are still on the edges, whether that be on the cutting edge, being pushed to the edges of society, or challenging the edges—the barriers in their way. This collection brings together the diverse voices of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Red With Living

    Poems and Art

    by Diane Driedger ...
    In this compelling collection of poems and art, the colour of living is red with excitement, pain, sunsets, blood, and tropical flowers. Along the way, the poet paints herself into the works of Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Maud Lewis. Diane Driedger confronts the body in two different contexts: through her participation in the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival and through her ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Living the Edges

    A Disabled Women's Reader

    Edited by Diane Driedger ...
    This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility. They bring to light the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

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  • Careen

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  • Songs For Relinquishing the Earth

    by Jan Zwicky ...
    Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky’s experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario. ... Read more

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  • Tell Them It Was Mozart

    by Angeline Schellenberg ...
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  • The Price of Silence

    A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

    by Liza Long ...
    Liza Long,the author of “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother"—as seen in the HBO® documentary A Dangerous Son—speaks out about mental illness.Like most of the nation, Liza Long spent December 14, 2012, mourning the victims of the Newtown shooting. As the mother of a child with a mental illness, however, she also wondered: “What if my son does that someday?”The emotional response she posted on her blog went ... Read more

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  • Sex and Disability

    Edited by Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow ...
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  • The Book of Sensations

    by Sheri-D Wilson ...
    Series Book 1 - Brave & Brilliant
    The Book of Sensations by Sheri-D Wilson embodies an intricate ecosystem of language and feeling. These poems reach their roots down into the depths of what it means to be—to connect to one another, and to connect to the earth.With fine-tuned vocabulary, far-reaching observation, and the dream-vision of the surrealist eye, Sheri-D delves into the personal and the universal, the everyday and the ... Read more

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