International Women’s Day at TMR
March 8th is International Women’s Day! Here’s a reading list, picked by the editorial team at The Miramichi Reader, to help you celebrate and get you thinking. đź’
feminism
Women Who Woke Up the Law by Karin Wells
Women Who Woke Up the Law by Karin Wells provides an important historical overview of ten legal cases that advanced women’s rights in Canada.
Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision by Anne Koval
To gaze upon Mary Pratt’s work is to come face-to-face with another world, one that is brighter, more keenly observant, and more knowing, for embedded in the fractal structures of her oft chosen subjects: glass, aluminum, and plastic wrap, are reflections of time and space.
Girls, Interrupted by Lisa Whittington-Hill
Until I read these essays, I hadn’t taken note of the ways that men and women are treated and portrayed differently in the media.
Autokrator by Emily A. Weedon
While unfortunately we already know what it looks like when those who aren’t men are denied rights, and what it looks like when hard-won rights are being eroded, Autokrator takes the chilling thought experiment in a more extreme direction: what if women had no rights at all?
LĂ©a by Ariela Freedman
Based on the life of famed activist LĂ©a Roback, this novel brings to life a heroine emboldened by political struggles that resonate to this day.
burninghouse by Deborah Stiles
burninghouse peels away the veneer of the speaker’s existence to reveal the hypocritical inconsistencies that lie beneath, including weaning children, decorum in elevators, and homelessness.
No Girls Allowed by Natalie Corbett Sampson
No Girls Allowed, by Natalie Corbett Sampson, follows ten-year-old Tina Marie Forbes and her family as they fight for her right to play hockey. The Forbes family moves from Toronto to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and are excited to get settled in the town. Early on, Tina reflects, “all you need to do to make friends is play sports. Join a team and there’s a bunch of them ready to meet . . . That’s been true wherever we’ve lived.” Sport is an essential part of who Tina is, and forms the basis from which she builds community.
The Inward Journey by Kate Evans
“Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth Draw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth Spin me down the long ages: let them sing the song.” – Ian Anderson Sylvia Drodge of St. John’s NL (the former Sylvia Bolfe-Carter of Ireland) has been temporarily relegated to …
Bear War-den by Vivian Demuth
Inanna Publications always has something different to read, so I often look to them for a book that is a change of pace from the norm. While browsing their website, I noticed Bear War-den (2015) by Vivian Demuth. In the brief description on the Inanna site it stated:Â “Told in an experimental style that mixes realism …
