Social Sciences

Just Gone: True Stories of Persecution for Love and Life

Across Canada, the number of police-reported hate crimes that target queer and trans people has steadily increased every year since 2016. But in many countries around the world, things are far more grim. In the ... Read More »

August 21, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences

★ Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law

By Mandi Gray

Seven years after #MeToo rocked global consciousness and Time named Silence Breakers their Person of the Year, sexual violence survivors face a bleak landscape of rising femicide rates, online misogyny, and an increasingly unbelieving culture ... Read More »

March 6, 2024 | Filed under: Media, Politics & Current Affairs, Reference, Reviews, Social Sciences

Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-than-Human Relations

By Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley

Smokie – “a big, strong, fast black Labrador retriever” – came into now-retired university professor Rod Michalko’s life in 1992. Michalko, legally blind since childhood, experienced a dramatic change in his vision later in life, ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences

★ Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Womxn in North America

By Sheima Benembarek

In Moroccan Canadian journalist Sheima Benembarek’s Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Womxn in North America something precious is presented to readers. More complex, textured, and irreverent than a simple representation of marginalized voices, ... Read More »

June 28, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences

★ Ordinary Notes

By Christina Sharpe

To read Christina Sharpe’s latest book, Ordinary Notes, is to enter into a kind of willed seduction. Sharpe’s delicate facility with language, tone, and rhythm, and her ability to articulate the achingly inarticulable, are, ... Read More »

June 14, 2023 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews, Social Sciences

★ Storylines: How Words Shape Our World

By J. Edward Chamberlin

The nature and power of storytelling has been a topic of critical conversation for more than 2,000 years, though the subject was likely active long before Aristotle’s Poetics. Over the course of two millennia, this ... Read More »

May 10, 2023 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews, Social Sciences

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene

By Alessandra Naccarato

Alessandra Naccarato grew up worrying about climate change. As a child in the 1990s, she was consumed by thoughts about endangered species, holes in the ozone layer, and how she might survive what she calls ... Read More »

December 7, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment, Social Sciences

★ Rehearsals for Living

By Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

A balm for despair, Rehearsals for Living is an epistolary dialogue between Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that takes stock of our collapsing society and imagines what we might build from the wreckage. Over ... Read More »

May 31, 2022 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Social Sciences

Return: Why We Go Back  to Where We Come From

By Kamal Al-Solaylee

While immigration is fuelled by practical concerns, return migration is usually driven by a deep, impalpable desire for the homeland. Kamal Al-Solaylee – bestselling author, journalist, and new director of the UBC School of Journalism, ... Read More »

November 23, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences

On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance

By Carlyn Zwarenstein

In the final chapter of On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance, journalist Carlyn Zwarenstein quotes Antonin Artaud: “We know the soul’s dosages, its sensibilities, its marrows, its thoughts. Leave us in peace. ... Read More »

November 15, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences

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