Toronto Women's Bookstore
http://www.womensbookstore.com
416-922-8744

1. May Lui, Events Coordinator, is leaving the bookstore
2. Win a free ticket to see Laura Davis in Toronto Sat May 28
3. Book Launch: Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online by Rhiannon Bury, Thursday June 9

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
4. Booklaunch: Auto-Ethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices May 17
5. Inside Out Film Festival May 19 to 29

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TWB ANNOUNNCEMENTS

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I’ve been writing most of the e-newsletters for the past few years, and it’s different to be writing this piece from my own voice, but I wanted to let everyone know about my plans to leave the store and to officially say goodbye via the e-newsletter.

I’ve worked at TWB full-time since 1997 and it’s an amazing, feminist, progressive, anti-racist, kick-ass workplace. After almost eight years, it’s time for me to move on. I’m going to be published soon, in two anthologies in the fall, and I have more writing projects on the go. Of course I’ll be keeping in touch with the store. Hey, I’ll have to sign up to the e-newsletter now!

The new Events Coordinator is the sublimely wonderful janet romero, and she and I will be training together throughout the month of May, until my last day on Thursday June 2. She will take on the events@womensbookstore.com email address, and she will take on all events and community tasks.

TWB is a wonderful store and community space and I’ll miss working here very much. I look forward to attending events in the future, as an audience member (although I’m sure I’ll still help to stack the chairs at the end of the night!) and to continue to support TWB in ways that I can. The staff team here is the most amazing group of people I have ever worked with, and the store is in excellent hands to continue the work that we’ve all done for so long.

Thanks to all of you for your dedication and commitment to the store. It’s been a lot of fun writing the newsletter and doing all the wide myriad of tasks that I’ve done in my time here.

May

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May Lui has not only been our events coordinator at the store - she has been a guiding force behind the Women’s Bookstore’s revitalization and growth for the past 8 years! From relief staff, to customer service rep, to sidelines and returns coordinator, to office manager and financial coordinator, to co-manager then staff manager, and most recently as events coordinator for the past 3 years, May has pretty much done it all at the Women’s Bookstore. I have worked with her closely throughout these years, and have always been touched by her deep commitment to social justice, anti-racist politics,

absolute love of books, zany humour, and her dedication to the bookstore. She will be sorely missed by myself and the rest of the staff team. We wish her well in her future pursuits. Anjula Gogia, Store Manager

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2.

Win one of FOUR FREE tickets to see Laura Davis in Toronto.
Laura Davis: A Woman with the Courage to Heal
Saturday, May 28
7pm
OISE Auditorium
252 Bloor St. W (west of Bedford, at St. George subway)
Tickets $8 to $15 sliding scale. General Admission.
Call 416.922.8744 to reserve tickets, or go online at www.womensbookstore.com and click on the link near the Laura Davis box.

Wheelchair accessible, FREE childcare provided, ASL interpretation provided.

To win one of FOUR free tickets, be the 6th, 12th, 18th or 24th correct response to this query: Name an event in June 2005 that TWB is hosting. Winners will be contacted by email. One entry per email address. One entry per person. Contest closes Wed May 18 at noon.

TWB gratefully acknowledges our Co-presenter George Brown College Assaulted Women and Children’s Counsellor/Advocate Program and our Community Co-sponsors: Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (OISE/UT), December 6th Fund, Sistering. Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Women’s Support Network of York Region and YWCA Toronto.

Sponsoring publisher: Harper Collins Canada

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3.

The Toronto Women’s Bookstore presents a book launch:

Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online (Peter Lang)
by Rhiannon Bury
Thursday, June 9th, 6pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord Street (southwest corner of Harbord and Spadina)
Free! All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

Light refreshments will be served

This latest volume in Peter Lang's Digital Formations series, edited by renowned Internet scholar Steve Jones, focuses on the rapidly expanding terrain of online media fan culture. Issues of identity, community and space are central to this in-depth study of two female internet communities whose members are fans of the popular television series The X-Files and Due South.

The book examines the critical role of gender, class, sexuality, and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, in producing fiction based on television characters and in creating and maintaining an online community.

Rhiannon Bury received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) in 2000. She is currently Assistant Professor and Acting Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Waterloo.

For more information please contact Anjula Gogia at 416-922-8744 or anjula@womensbookstore.com

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

4.

Broadview Press presents:
Auto-Ethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices
Edited by Anne Meneley and Donna J. Young.
Tuesday, May 17th
5 - 7 pm
The Marlowe Restaurant
585 College Street, Toronto
(between Euclid and Manning Streets)

In this engagingly written set of essays, anthropologists turn the ethnographic gaze inward to view their own rituals and customs. The result is an honest, insightful, and often humourous look at the challenges facing contemporary academic scholarship.

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5.

15th Annual Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival May 19 to 29
Toronto Women’s Bookstore and Inside Out present:
The Journey (Sancharam)
Directed by Ligy J. Pullappally
Sunday May 22 @ 4:45pm
Cumberland 2
159 Cumberland Ave.

Kiran is a shy, reserved young girl who moves to rural Kerala with her family. That same day she meets her mischievous neighbour, Delilah. Despite their polar-opposite personalities, the two are magically drawn together into an intimate friendship.

For information and to purchase tickets call 416-967-1528 or visit
www.insideout.ca

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May 7th, 2005

Toronto Women's Bookstore

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The Toronto Women’s Bookstore proudly announces book signing with
James, a 10-year-old African Canadian Author!

Saturday, May 14th, from 3-4pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord Street (southwest corner of Harbord and Spadina, 2 blocks South of the Spadina Subway Station)

Free! All are welcome to attend, especially children!

James will be signing copies of his new book " Superheroes Don't Have Dads".

James is a young African Canadian boy who was being raised by a single mom in an inner city neighborhood. James was having difficulty in school and becoming very sad and frustrated about his life. James used reading and writing as a way of expressing his disappointment and sadness over not having a Dad. He also decided that he was going to make the right choices in order to feel good about it himself. James also regularly visits inner city schools and libraries throughout Canada promoting Literacy and encouraging children to read and write.

You can also see James on Breakfast Television on May 11th between 7:00am and 9:00am. James has won a National Award from Youth in Motion for innovation, leadership and achievement. Please visit www.educatewithvision.com and www.Top20under20.ca for more details.

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