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

1. 10% Venture this Friday May 27
2. Laura Davis, Saturday May 28
3. Book Launch for Breastfeeding Café, Sunday June 5
4. Book Launch: Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online by Rhiannon Bury, Thursday June 9
5. Evening Reception for Caught in the Act, Thursday June 16
6. Join us for Scream @TWB, Thursday June 30
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10% Venture Day this Friday, May 27 at the Toronto Women's Bookstore
Come and shop with us this Friday and 10% of the day's sales will go to Women Won't Forget. The goals of WOMEN WON'T FORGET is to raise awareness of violence against women and support efforts to end the violence.

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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.

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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Toronto Book Launch for The Breastfeeding Café: Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing (UBC Press)
By Barbara L. Behrmann

SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2005
2pm to 4pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St .
Free, all are welcome, child friendly, wheelchair accessible

Barbara L. Behrmann will talk about her new book The Breastfeeding Café:
Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing. Her story-based presentation explores the joys, frustrations, challenges, humor, poignancy and pain that characterize the nursing experience in a contemporary bottle-feeding society.

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Book Launch for: 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

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.

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TWB and YYZ Books Present an Evening Reception for Caught in the Act: an Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women
edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2005
6pm to 8pm
6:30 performance by artist Shannon Cochrane

Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St .
Free, all are welcome, wheelchair accessible.

Caught in the Act focuses on the 70s and 80s, a time when women made a big and noisy impact, and provides readers with insight into the profound effects that feminism and women's work have had on the current alternative scene. Full of sass and insight, this essential collection is part survey, part critical discourse, and part reference book, containing five overview essays, thirty-four profiles on individual artists, and an extensive bibliography.

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Come join us for…
Scream at TWB, with Scream in High Park Alumni
THURSDAY, JUNE 30
$5 requested donation
7pm - 9pm

featuring:
d'bi young
Mariko Tamaki
Jaymz Bee
Saghi Ghahraman