Fall 2020

herizons FALL 2020 | VOLUME 34 NO. 3

news

COMMUNITY UNITES IN AFTERMATH

OF N.S. KILLINGS……………………………… 6

by Penni Mitchell

FIRST WOMAN OF COLOUR TO HEAD

HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM ………………….. 7

FERTILE GROUND FOR BLACK FARMING…. 8

by Doreen Nicoll

features

WHY WE NEED A RESILIENCE REBELLION . 14

Survivor memoirs have well-deserved spaces

on bestseller lists and feminists’ bookshelves.

Much of the appeal lies in their depictions

of resilience—the way women survive and

sometimes thrive in the aftermath. Julie Lalonde’s

memoir, Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death

and Life of Julie S. Lalonde, challenges this notion.

by Renée Bondy

OUT FROM THE MARGINS …………………..18

Muslim authors of young adult fiction are

creating stories about coming of age in Canada

for girls navigating both traditional and North

American expectations. Whether the heroine is

a burkini-wearing student, a superhero, or a Jane

Austen-esque young teacher, they are affirming the

voices and choices of a new generation.

by Niranjana Iyer

THE LITERARY ALCHEMIST…………………. 22

Souvankham Thammavongsa’s sharp insights

on the struggles of refugees are revealed in her

short story collection How to Pronounce Knife.

Through characters who “do the grunt work

of the world,” she reveals their experiences of

fleeing, arriving and assimilating, and their

dreams of tree-lined neighbourhoods.

by Irene D’Souza

arts & ideas

MUSIC ………………………………………….. 27

Pantayo by Pantayo; Glory! Glory! Apathy Took the

Helm! by Vile Creature

Reviews by Alison Lang

BOOKS ………………………………………… 28

The Desirable Sister by Taslim Burkowicz; The Henna

Artist by Alka Joshi; Recipe for a Perfect Wife by

Karma Brown; Such a Lonely, Lovely Road by Kagiso

Lesego Molope; Crocuses Hatch from Snow by Jaime

Burnet; This Lovely City by Louise Hare; From Where

I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger

Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould; Amma’s Daughters

by Meenal Shrivastava; Inside Broadside: A Decade of

Feminist Journalism edited by Philinda Masters with

the Broadside Collective; The Abortion Caravan:

When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for

the Right to Choose by Karin Wells.

BIG FAT LIES …………………………………  36

How women are speaking their truth and promoting

fat acceptance.

by Kris Rothstein

FILM …………………………………………….. 38

Sisters Rising, Directed by Willow O’Feral and

Brad Heck; Antigone, Directed by Sophie

Deraspe; The Assistant, Directed by Kitty

Green; Jezebel, Directed by Numa Perrier

Reviews by Maureen Medved

Columns

POLICE ENFORCE COLONIAL VALUES ….. 5

by Lianne Leddy

LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK ... .13

by Judy Rebick

CHALLENGING ANTI-BLACK RACISM ….. 26

by Ayesha Mian Akram

POLICE HINDER RAPE JUSTICE ………….. 40

by Kate Sloan