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1. Mamma Mia! Good Italian Girls Talk Back! Wednesday August 25 at 7pm
2. “Expresion Y Colour” Video Night Benefit Friday, August 27 at 6pm
3. Staff Picks, August new books and zines 4. Second Tongues/Segundas Lenguas, Friday Sept 10

Toronto Women’s Bookstore Presents:
An evening with the women of Mamma Mia!
Good Italian Girls Talk Back! (ECW Press)
Collected by Maria Coletta McLean

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord St (west of Spadina, south of Bloor)
Free admission
Light Refreshments provided
Wheelchair accessible
All are welcome to attend

Join contributors Maria Coletta McLean, Luciana Ricciutelli, Anna Nobile, Rosanna Battigelli, Maria Montini, Francesca Schembri, Ivana Barbieri and others reading from selections from the book.

This collection brings together 18 Italian-Canadian women who share their stories. Intimate, inspiring, brave, and confessional, these tales reveal women old enough to reminisce yet young enough to revolutionize. Balancing between the Old Country and the new, a respect for tradition and the need to break with it, this collection is a rare and surprising blend of humour and candor.

2. TWB and Gatuna Productions presents
“Expression Y Colour” a video night benefit to support the production of the film “Mexican Refugee” (to be released December 2004)
We will be screening the following films:
“First Latino American Dyke March” Director Alex Flores (Toronto)
“Celia and Rosita” Director Gisella Mello (Brazil)

Friday August 27 at 6pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord St.
Tickets are on sale.
Please call Jorge Pineda 416-834-2355 or Alex Flores 416-532-6694.
Sliding scale $6 to $10 Co-sponsored by Alucine Toronto Latin Film and Video Festival

August 2004 new arrivals

Staff Picks: The following 4 books are 20% off during August:

Small Island, by Andrea Levy. Review Fiction, $24.95 Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize, Small Island follows the stories of a household of Jamaican immigrants to England in 1948. Levy delicately explores themes of empire, prejudice, war and love with generosity and strength.

Birth of a Nation, by Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin. Crown Publishers, $37.00 This satirical graphic novel takes on a biting critique of the botched U.S. election of 2000. The authors lay into a host of social and cultural issues, spinning their take on everything from Black Nationalism to corporate sponsored campaigning.

Life Mask, by Emma Donoghue. Virago Press, $35.00 A gripping historical novel based on the true story of a scandalous love triangle between three celebrities: an artist, an actress and an aristocrat in late eighteenth-century London.

“Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood, by Bonita Lawrence. UBC Press, $34.95 Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. Drawing on numerous interviews, Lawrence reveals the ways in which mixed-blood urban Natives understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that often fails to recognize them.

August 2004 new books:

Justice for All? The Claims of Human Rights, special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Ian Balfour and Eduardo Cadava. Duke University Press, $28.00 This special issue of the ever-popular South Atlantic Quarterly includes essays by Jacques Derrida, Wendy Brown and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, among others. Justice for All? offers a critical look at diverse discourses in contemporary human rights issues.

Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement, edited by Josie Sandercock, et al. Verso Books, $33.00 This collection of accounts drawn from the web-logs and diaries of ISM volunteers, news articles, press releases, and writings reveal the true horror of life under occupation and describes the first signs of a new wave of international solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation.

T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers, edited by Karen Richardson and Steven Green. Trafford Publishing, $24.95 Birthed at the popular open-mic series La Parole, T-Dot Griots is an intimate journey through previously undocumented Canadian experiences, reporting from Toronto’s black communities in fiction, poetry, articles, plays and songs. The book features contributions by over forty writers of African descent, either raised or residing in Toronto including Trey Anthony, Afua Cooper, Motion and Kwame Stephens.

Everyday Activism: A Handbook for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People and their Allies, edited by Michael R. Stevenson and Jeanine C. Cogan. Routledge, $29.95 Comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable, Everyday Activism provides the strategies, hard data, and legal arguments central to the fight for equality in lgb life. Coming from an American-based perspective, this book covers everything from domestic partnership benefits and parenting to civil rights legislation and hate crimes.

Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance, by Helen LaKelly Hunt. Atria Books, $19.00 An illuminating look at the connections between spiritual conviction and social action. Faith and Feminism focuses on the lives of five spiritual women in history: St. Teresa of Avila, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Emily Dickinson, and Dorothy Day.

Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Skeptical Muslim, by Ziauddin Sardar. Granta Books, $42.95 This timely book is a frank and passionate memoir of a devout and questioning Muslim in the tumultuous decades of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Desperately Seeking Paradise is a refreshing change from the often simplistic and distorted perspectives of Islam portrayed in Western media.

SuicideGirls, edited by Missy Suicide. Feral House, $27.95 A collection of SuicideGirls pin-ups, some taken by Missy and others shot by the SuicideGirls themselves. This beautifully designed collection includes a short history of the DIY history of the infamous SuicideGirls website.

P-Town Summer, by Lisa Stocker. Kensington Publishing, $20.00 Lisa Stocker’s debut novel is an outrageous, entertaining ride through P-town with a pack of seductive and sassy dykes.

Pinned Down by Pronouns, edited by Toni Amato and Mary Davies. Conviction Books, $17.95 Identifying as a book by and for queers and gender queers, this groundbreaking anthology includes stories, interviews, art and poetry that explores and explodes sex and gender.

Memory in the Flesh, by Ahlam Mosteghanemi. The American University in Cairo Press, $20.95. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, Memory in the Flesh travels four decades of Algerian history and its struggle for independence. Mosteghanemi looks at the fate of revolutionary ideals in a post-revolutionary society through her beautifully woven narrative based in Algerian oral history.

Deafening, by Frances Itani. Harper Perennial Canada, $19.95 Elegantly written and profoundly moving, Frances Itani’s acclaimed debut novel is a tale of virtuosity and power, set on the eve of the Great War and spanning two continents. Deafening follows the life and loves of a young deaf woman in small-town Ontario and her struggle with the liberties and limits of language. Now in paperback!

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, by Karen X. Tulchinsky. Polestar, $21.95 Tulchinsky’s first historical novel offers an intimate look at Toronto’s Christie Pits riots of 1933. As usual, she offers humour, sorrow, folly and bravery in the richness of everyday life. Now in paperback!

New zines:

Mamaphiles, $6.00 The mother of all ‘zines, this is a huge collection of writings by mothers about birth! Over 30 contributors, all who make their own ‘zines about mothering including Bee Lavender/Hip Mama, Rhonda Baker (Zuzu and the Baby Catcher), Ayun Holliday (East Village Inky), Noemi Martinez (Hermana, Resist!), Rosa Maria (Placenta), Ariel Gore, and many more!

What the ladies have to say, $3.00 This ‘zine contains extensive interviews with women activists in Palestine, Indonesia and the Phillipines. Includes discussions with Amal Jadou from the Palestinian Prisoner Society; Jean Enriquez from the East Asian Coalition Against Trafficking in Women; Rhona Montebon from the Manila Women Supporting Women Centre, and others.

Assholes, Politicians, Economists & Cops: a billion reasons to oppose globalization, $5.50 This zine focuses on what APEC really stands for. Offering an examination of the way that APEC affects developing countries and people, it includes political cartoons, descriptions of human rights abuses, patriarchy, white supremacy, the unaccountability of politicians and law enforcement, military tribunals, media control, doctors and pharmaceuticals. Anti-copyrighted 2002.

Let It Be Known!, $3.00 Issue #2 is devoted to experiences of straight and queer women activists. Offering a diversity of voices and formats, Let It Be Known is an inspirational read. Issue #3 focuses on the experiences of institutionalized women activists and offers a forum for them to share their experiences and what they've learned. The zine includes inspiring and honest stories showing the diversity and creativity of women activists in the U.S. and Canada.

greenzine #13, $3.00 Cristy Road's zine was started as a true fanzine devoted to Green Day but has now evolved into literary prose devoted to East Bay punk rock and her love of it. She does amazing artwork that is able to capture as much as her words. Stories of love, DIY community, travel, and adventure.

no such zine #13: monkey master chao’s favorite folk tales, $2.00 X uses this issue to explore the history of her present town in Winchester, MA as well as her history as a Chinese immigrant. She looks at her family's attitudes of Winchester vs. China and her family's relation to Chinatown in Winchster. A fascinating perspective on small town life for a 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrant family, #13 also tells the story of Vincent Chin, a Chinese draftsman killed by a white mob for being incorrectly identified as Japanese during the auto recession.

4. TWB and Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace Present:
Second Tongues/Segundas lenguas
Friday, September 10, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. at TWB
73 Harbord Street (at Spadina)
$5 suggested donation
Curated & Hosted by Sandra Alland and Constanza Durán Music: Ana Raquel Ramírez & Oriana Barbato Poetry/spoken word: nah-ee-lah, Amaluna, Lengua Latina, Teresa Montanino and Louise Bak