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TWB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mark your calendars for these wonderful upcoming January 2005 Events!!
All the staff at TWB wish everyone a fun, safe and happy winter season.

1. Susan Willis @ TWB January 18, 2005
2. Tickets to Dionne Brand’s Booklaunch January 26, 2005 are on sale now!
3. Global Lockdown Booklaunch January 28, 2005

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
4. Helen Epstein Lecture, January 7, 2005
5. Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage

1. The Toronto Women's Bookstore, the Centre for Media and Culture in Education (OISE/UT), and Cinema Studies (University of Toronto) proudly present:
Quien es mas macho? The Abu Ghraib Photos
A Presentation by Susan Willis

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 @ 6pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord Street (at Spadina)
Free event, wheelchair accessible

The photos taken at the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, conflate and render visible two of America's grubby secrets: lynching and pornography. In talking about Abu Ghraib, Susan Willis considers the history of the Klu Klux Klan and its relationship to current US foreign policy. Willis inquires into the ideology of masculinity and demonstrates the prevalence of pornography in unexpected mainstream places. The talk will present history through the lens of culture and undermine ideology with irony.

Susan Willis teaches courses in American literature, critical theory and popular culture at Duke University. She is the author of Specifying: Black Women Writing The American Experience (Wisconsin 1987), A Primer For Daily Life (Routledge 1990); and the co-author of Inside The Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (Duke, 1995). Her latest book, Portents of the Real: A Primer for Post 9/11, is expected to be released by Verso shortly. Willis’ work aims at revealing the contradictions of capitalism in everyday life and discovering utopian content in culture.

2. Are you wondering what gift you can get for your friend, the woman who has everything? How about a pair of tickets to the launch of Dionne Brand’s latest book, with a gift certificate for the book, “What We All Long For”, to be released in January 2005? What a great idea!

Dionne Brand will be launching her latest novel, “What We All Long For’, a tribute to the city of Toronto, and an examination of the friendship between 4 urban young people. Also featured is the interlocking story of a Vietnamese man who was separated as a young child from his parents on their journey to Canada.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Doors open at 8pm, performances and reading at 8:30pm
Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West Tickets $5 to $10 sliding scale
Order tickets online at www.womensbookstore.com, over the phone (416.922.8744), or drop by the store (73 Harbord St).

3. Toronto Women's Bookstore & Routledge invites you to celebrate the launch of:
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Edited by Julia Sudbury
Friday, January 28th 2005 @ 6pm
3rd floor, Faculty of Social Work
246 Bloor St West at Bedford.
Free admission.
Suggested donation $5 to $20
All proceeds go to the Prisoner Justice Action Committee.
Wheelchair accessibe, all are welcome to attend. Light refreshments served

4. Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, presents a lecture with:
Helen Epstein "JEWISH WOMEN’S MEMOIR"
January 7, 2005 at CREES Munk Center, University of Toronto
Room 108 12pm-2pm

Helen Epstein is the author of five books of literary non-fiction including the classic Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History. Born in Prague in 1947, Epstein grew up in New York City and graduated from Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1970 and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1971. She became a journalist during the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Her account of the invasion started her career as a journalist. She is a frequent guest lecturer on memoir, trauma, and family history. co-sponsored by the Toronto Women's Bookstore For more information, please visit www.utoronto.ca/mcis http://www.utoronto.ca/mcis

5. Following the Supreme Court decision, opponents of equal marriage for gays and lesbians have been inundating MPs with phone calls and e-mails. Please take action so that theirs are not the only voices that are heard. Please visit http://www.equal-marriage.ca and see how easy it is to make a difference in this crucial human rights battle.