Monthly Archives: November 2012

My Top Ten Favourite Authors: All Women, Mostly Queer, Some Canadian

Posted on November 30, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Feeling inspired by a recent post on Autostraddle about favourite authors and the influences they’ve had in your life, I decided to do a top ten list of my own.  (Speaking of Autostraddle, the latest Lez Libery Lit column mentioned … Continue reading →

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A Collection at Once Moving, Inventive, and Funny: A Review of Gay Dwarves of America by Anne Fleming

Posted on November 29, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Have I mentioned lately that I love Anne Fleming’s writing? (I would say I love her, but we’ve never met and are facebook friends, and that feels a bit awkward).  Reading her recently released short story collection Gay Dwarves of … Continue reading →

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A Review of Lee Maracle’s Ravensong: Queering Decolonization, Decolonizing Queerness

Posted on November 25, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Salish- Métis author Lee Maracle’s 1993 novel Ravensong doesn’t centre around queerness or lesbian sexuality or two-spirit identity in the way that you might expect in a book reviewed here.  It’s a beautiful and powerful novel about settler and Indigenous … Continue reading →

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Geographies of People and Places: A Review of Leah Horlick’s Poetry Collection Riot Lung

Posted on November 23, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Although I often introduce writers in this blog by telling readers where they come from, it seems particularly apt to do so with mixed race queer feminist poet Leah Horlick: she hails from Saskatoon, but is currently based in Vancouver.  … Continue reading →

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An Earnest but Flawed YA Novel: Beth Goobie’s Unfortunately Titled Hello, Groin

Posted on November 19, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

I’m not sure how to preface this review of Saskatoon-based Beth Goobie’s young adult novel Hello, Groin except to admit it: I have mixed feelings.  On the one hand, Hello, Groin is as earnest a teen novel as you’ll ever find.  … Continue reading →

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