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A few Canadian, lesbian writers to look out for:
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Playwright, novelist, actor
MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees,
which was also named to Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. She received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit,
the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award for her play,
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).
She also appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others.
Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case.
MacDonald's partner is playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer. [wikip.]
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Makeda Silvera
Novelist, short story writer
She is a Caribbean Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Silvera emigrated to Canada at the age of 12 with her family, and currently lives in Toronto.
She published two volumes of short stories in the 1990s before releasing her first novel, "The Revenge of Maria" in 1998,
followed by The Heart Does Not Bend, in 2002. An out lesbian, she is the co-founder and managing editor of Sister Vision Press,
and has edited a number of anthologies, including Piece of My Heart, the first North American anthology of literature
by lesbians of colour. [wikip.]
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Irshad Manji
Activist, author
She is an openly lesbian Canadian feminist, author, journalist, activist and professor of leadership.
Manji is Director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University.
The Moral Courage Project aims to teach young leaders to speak truth to power in their own communities.
She is a well-known critic of radical Islam and orthodox interpretations of the Qur'an.
She is founder and president of Project Ijtihad, an international charitable organization working
to "build the world’s most inclusive network of reform-minded Muslims and non-Muslim allies."
Manji's book, The Trouble with Islam Today, has been published in more than 30 languages. [wikip.]
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Poet, social activist
She is a Toronto-based poet, writer, educator and social activist.
Her writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color,
abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.
A central concern of her work is the interconnection of systems of colonialism, abuse and violence.
Consensual Genocide (2006) was her first published collection of poetry.
As a spoken word artist she has performed widely in the United States, Canada and Sri Lanka.
She teaches writing to LGBT youth at Supporting Our Youth Toronto (SOY), and is an organizer
of the Asian Arts Freedom School, a writing, performance and activist education program
for Asian/Pacific Islander youth.
In April 2007, Piepzna-Samarasinha and Maria Cristina Rangel, aka Cherry Galette,
launched Mangos With Chili, a "floating cabaret" annual tour of queer and transgender
people of color writers, dancers and performance artists. [wikip.]
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To one and all....
I trust & hope everyone had a safe and sound holiday season.
~M
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Eden Robinson
She is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Born in Kitamaat, British Columbia, she is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations.
Robinson's critically acclaimed first book, Traplines (1995), was a collection of long short stories.
She received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her second book, Monkey Beach (2000), a novel.
Her latest novel, Blood Sports, was published in 2006.
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