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10 reasons why books are important. Apologia pro vita mia de un bibliotecario: argumentos racionales en defensa de la continua existencia del codex impreso.

"This zine is my attempt to make sense of how it is I came to be the amazing and improbable type of person I am today (a trans gal) and to give credit to those who influenced the way I have come to understand myself." Includes pices about Dani Bunten Berry, The Chevalier d'Eon, The Joyas, Markisha Greanley, Sandy Stone, Gwen Araujo, and Kate Bornstein.

Includes a short history of access to abortion in Nova Scotia, a map of hospitals that provide abortion services, services offered by private clinics, and barriers to accessing abortion.

This book was inspired by the saying "the best thing since sliced bread". I was curious if its history supported this bold claim. It very much did.

"This poem is dedicated to the women who have gone missing from history and from their own lives."
"I began writing this poem is 2011 and I suspect I have not yet finished. It has been revised several times, most importantly to include the addition of the back half of the poem, where a handful of women and girls in Canada who died by suicide or murder are named. There are so many more whose names and stories we do not know."

A story about the fall of the Roman Empire. "The Witch’s Child urges us to celebrate the return of Spring. It is about the importance of May Day and what we have to gain by rooting ourselves in the rhythm of the seasons. After a long Winter of darkness and stillness, we’ve been feeling the resurgence of growth and we rise up too, to remember the importance of re-emerging after the cold, inward months." (from https://knowingtheland.com/2012/04/09/in-celebration-of-may-day-the-witchs-child/)

"In the stream of Halifax Harbour lies George's Island. With its lone lighthouse, lonelier looking house and thin grass, this tuft of earth— a glacial drumlin, in fact—we call George's Island has captured the imagination of many. Maybe you've stood on the waterfront thinking, "I'd love to just paddle over there." Artists John Matthews and Dennis Hale did just that last summer. Actually, August 7 marks the one-year anniversary of the founding of the Utopian Territory of Sub-Scotia. The explorers Matthews and Hale rowed over to the island on a raft made partly from reclaimed wood from a public art project by sculptor Warren Humeniuk." (from The Coast) "This pamphlet is provided as an aid for making a self-guided walking tour of the utopia and offers an insight into the original Sub-Scotia psychogeographic victory tour." Made during a Roberts Street residency.