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Tag Archives: May Lui
WIELDING THE FORCE: THE SCIENCE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Wielding the Force: The Science of Social Justice By Zainab Amadahy Reviewed by May Lui This is a remarkable book that aims to widen the reader’s understanding of paradigms such as thinking in binaries, valuing the material over the relational, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Survival of the fittest", "Wielding the Force: The Science of Social Justice", Activist stress, Haundenosaunee teachings, Indigenous healing, Indigenous Spirituality, Iroquois teachings, Left brain understanding, May Lui, nocebo effect, placebo effect, Right Brain understanding, Science and Social Justice, The Science of Social Justice, Three Sisters teaching, Zainab Amadahy
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INTERVIEW WITH PAUL SEESEQUASIS
Paul Seesequasis is a writer and a journalist. He was the founding editor of the award-winning Aboriginal Voicesmagazine, and the recipient of a MacLean-Hunter journalist award. His short stories and feature writings have been published in Canadian and international publications. Tobacco … Continue reading
TOBACCO WARS
Tobacco Wars By Paul Seesequasis Reviewed by May Lui Tobacco Wars by Paul Seesequasis is a smart, fun, bawdy, sometimes gross, and thoroughly anti-colonial novella. In the opening scene, readers are greeted with a somewhat shocking image of Bear Woman … Continue reading
REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF DECEMBER 6TH: INTERVIEW WITH TORONTO RAPE CRISIS CENTRE/MULTICULTURAL WOMEN AGAINST RAPE COUNSELOR MICHELLE BASHA
Michelle Basha a native of Trinidad & Tobago who migrated to Canada at the age of 8. Basha faced racism head on at an early age along with repeated acts of sexual assault, up until the age of 14. Basha … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Coffee Poet, December 6th, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Interview with Michelle Basha, Marc Lepine - The Montreal Massacre, May Lui, Michelle Basha, Montreal Massacre 1989, Remembering The Forgotten Women of December 6th, SLUTWALK, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre Multicultural Women Against Rape
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REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF DECEMBER 6TH: ABORIGINAL, OF COLOUR, QUEER, TRANS, DISABLED, SEX WORKER: VIDEO ROUNDTABLE + REVIEW OF “COLOR OF VIOLENCE”
Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology Edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence Reviewed by May Lui I remember hearing about Color of Violence for a number of months/years before it was published, and anxiously waiting for it at … Continue reading
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Tagged "Color of Violence" by INCITE!, École Polytechnique Massacre 1989, Black Coffee Poet, December 6th Vigil, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aTh2o1nJYk, Marc Lepine - The Montreal Massacre, May Lui, Montreal Massacre 1989, Remembering Aboriginal Women on Decemeber 6th, Remembering Disabled Women on December 6th, Remembering Immigreant Women on December 6th, Remembering Queer Women on December 6th, Remembering Sex Workers on December 6th, Remembering The Forgotten Women of December 6th, Remembering The Forgotten Women of December 6th video roundtable, Remembering Trans Women on Decemeber 6th, Remembering Women of Colour on December 6th
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INTERVIEW WITH LAOTIAN POET SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian poet, author of the ReLit-winning Small Arguments and Found, also a short film by Paramita Nath screened at film festivals worldwide including Dok Leipzig and Toronto International Film Festival. Souvnkham has been published in many literary magazines … Continue reading
FOUND
Found by Souvankham Thammavongsa Reviewed by May Lui Found is Souvankham Thammavongsa’s second published book of poetry, her first is Small Arguments. The poems are pieces, fragments and notes, inspired by a scrapbook kept by Thammavongsa’s father in 1978, the … Continue reading
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Tagged "A Portrait Of" by Souvankham Thammavongsa, "Found" by Souvankham Thammavongsa, "Found" reviewed by May Lui, "Laos" by Souvankham Thammavongsa, "My Father's Handwriting" by Souvankham Thammavongsa, "My Mother" by Souvankham Thammavongsa, "Small Arguments" by Souvankham Thammavongsa, "What I Can't Read" by Souvankham Thammavongsa, Black Coffee Poet, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, May Lui, maysie.ca, Souvankham Thammavongsa
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BROCKTON WRITERS SERIES TURNS 2: INTERVIEW WITH FARZANA DOCTOR
Farzana Doctor’s first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and was nominated for Masala!Mehndi!Masti! People’s Choice Award. In June 2011, Doctor published her second novel Six Metres of Pavement to national acclaim and she received the Dayne Ogilvie Grant for emerging … Continue reading
INTERVIEW WITH KURDISH WRITER AVA HOMA
Ava Homa is author of Echoes from the Other Land which was just nominated for the the world’s largest short story award: 2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Ava is a Kurdish-Canadian, writer-in-exile, with two Masters’ degrees one in English and Creative Writing, … Continue reading
ECHOES FROM THE OTHER LAND (STORIES) BY AVA HOMA
Echoes from the Other Land (Stories) By Ava Homa Review by May Lui Reading the stories in Echoes from the Other Land, I found myself absorbing and learning perspectives and realities that are both similar and very different from the … Continue reading
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