White Riot

By Henry Tsang
Categories: Photography, History, Visual Arts, BIPOC, Asian Literature

WINNER, Dr. Edgar Wickberg Book Prize for the Best Book on Chinese Canadian History (Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC); FINALIST, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize (BC and Yukon Book Prizes) ...

The Lost Century

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature

Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism, love, and loyalty during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong in World War II.

On the ...

Together We Drum, Our Hearts Beat as One

Text by Willie Poll
Illustrated by Chief Lady Bird
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

In this beautifully illustrated book, a determined young Anishnaabe girl in search of adventure goes on a transformative journey into a forest on her traditional territory. She is joined by a chorus of ...

Magodiz

By Gabe Calderon
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

Magodiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country.

Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away ...

The Future Is Disabled

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+ Literature, Disability Literature, Social Issues, BIPOC, Asian Literature

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And ...

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By Celia Haig-Brown, Randy Fred, and Garry Gottfriedson
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, British Columbia, Canada, History

In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia, Canada. Ground-penetrating ...

Bedtime in Nunatsiavut

By Raeann Brown
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

A sweet, beautiful book for children depicting the transformative dreams envisioned by a young Inuk girl, with the help of her loving mother.

In Bedtime in Nunatsiavut, a little girl named Nya yearns ...

Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By Chelsea Vowel
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Fiction, Women's Literature

Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization.

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to ...

Dandelion

By Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction

Longlisted for Canada Reads

Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs.

When Lily was eleven ...

Beast at Every Threshold

By Natalie Wee
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

A formidable collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of "otherness" through folklore and myth.

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural ...