The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded

By Gord Hill
Foreword by Pamela Palmater
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas.

When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as ...

Travesia

By Michelle Gerster
Illustrated by Fiona Dunnett
Categories: BIPOC, Latin American Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border.

This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, ...

How to Fail as a Popstar

By Vivek Shraya
Foreword by Brendan Healy
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, ...

Iron Goddess of Mercy

By Larissa Lai
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them ...

nedi nezu (Good Medicine)

By Tenille K. Campbell
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature

A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country.

nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as ...

Butter Honey Pig Bread

By Francesca Ekwuyasi
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST

Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; finalist, Amazon First Novel Award; finalist, Lambda Literary Award

An intergenerational ...

Love after the End

Edited by Joshua Whitehead
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

Lambda Literary Award finalist

A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed.

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases ...

God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Text by Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Juliana Neufeld
Foreword by Cherie Dimaline
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult

A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity.

In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first ...

Burning Sugar

By Cicely Belle Blain
Categories: Women's Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature
Series: VS. Books

The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation.

In this incendiary debut collection, activist ...

Render

By Sachiko Murakami
Categories: Poetry, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Governor General's Literary Award finalist

Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience.

Render (v. tr. ): to submit, as for consideration; ...