Before it was a federal statutory holiday, it was known as Orange Shirt Day, “an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day intended to raise awareness of the individual, family and community inter-generational impacts of residential schools, and to promote the concept of ‘Every Child Matters’”. (Government statement.) Valuing and learning the stories of
From November 1, 2023 through November 30, 2023 I’ll be reading Margaret Atwood, and you’re invited to join: yes, the 6th MARM is on the books. On the 18th, Margaret Atwood celebrates her 84th birthday and quietly I’ll be celebrating, by reading her work (maybe there will be cake).
Amid the cacophony of resolutions and reflections, I’ve begun reading in January before I’ve shared my thoughts on past and future reading years of 2022 and 2023. But The Australian Legend’s Week of Australian Women Writers, which highlights science-fiction writers beginning here, has inspired me to share my
On the day that I got my visitor’s card at the library here, I borrowed Marie-Louise Gay’s Mustafa (2018): a children’s story (Gay illustrates, writes, and translates) about a boy who searches for himself, in the space between his old country and his new country. Certains soirs, Mustafa rêve
This is the fifth year that I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood in November, in the month of her birthday (November 18) and in every other one of those years I’ve borrowed books from the library that I did not manage to read. This year, I selected only two books
