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      By Vermette, Katherena, 1977-
       2016., Adult, House of Anansi Press Inc. Call No: IND Fic Ver c. 2    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim police, family, and friends tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg's North End is exposed.A powerful intergenerational family saga, The Break showcases Vermette's abundant writing talent and positions her as an exciting new voice in Canadian literature.
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      By Morgan, Cara-Lyn
       2023., Invisible Publishing Call No: NEW IND 811.6 M847b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Beginning with a revelation of familial sexual abuse, Building a Nest from the Bones of My People charts the impact of this revelation on the speaker. From the pain of estrangement to navigating first-time motherhood in the midst of a family crisis, Morgan explores the complexities of generational and secondary abuse, intertwined as they are with the impacts of colonization.
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      By Springora, Vanessa  Lehrer, Natasha
       2021., HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Bio S769c   Edition: First HarperCollins edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childhood with a famous, much older writer into a stunning and forceful indictment of the literary world that allowed sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.
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      By Rebick, Judy
       2018., General, Anansi Call No: Bio R289h    Availability:1 of 1     At Your LibraryView an interview with Judy Rebick from CBC Radio's The Current website. Summary Note: Renowned Canadian feminist Judy Rebick tells the story of the eleven personalities she developed in order to help her cope with, and survive, childhood sexual abuse. Rebick chronicles her struggle with depression in the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion. It was in the 1990s, when she took on her biggest challenge as a public figure by becoming president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, that her memories began to surface and became too persistent to ignore. Rebick reveals her moment of discovery: meeting the eleven personalities; uncovering her repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse; and then communicating with each personality in therapy and on the page in a journal - all of this while she is leading high-profile national struggles against a Conservative government. With courage and honesty, Rebick lays bare the public and private battles that have shaped her life. Judy Rebick is now a frequent commentator on CBC Radio and Television. She lives in Toronto.
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      By Rose, Karen, 1964-
       2009., Grand Central Pub. Call No: MYS Fic Ros   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Five teenage girls have been murdered. Another girl was abducted but survived. Only she can reveal the disturbing secrets of the kidnapping ring that sells teenage girls on the black market. But the ruthless criminals will do whatever it takes to maintain her silence.
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      By Doherty, Susan, 1957-
       2024., Adult, Random House of Canada Call No: NEW QWF Fic Doh    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Monday Rent Boy begins in Somerset, England, in the mid-1980s, with the winning and heart-warming story of two 13-year-old friends and fellow altar boys, Arthur Barnes and Ernie Castlefrank. Endearing outcasts, they try not to speak of the secret tie that binds them: both boys are routinely preyed on by The Zipper, their nickname for Father Ziperto, the local Catholic priest. Still, they find adventure and release in the mischief they get up to together, as each also tries to survive in other ways.
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      By Mensales, Josée, 1978-
       2019., Éditions Hannenorak Call No: IND 306.74097 M548m    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: En 2010, le Service de police de la Ville de Montréal mettait en branle le projet Les Survivantes pour la prévention de l’exploitation sexuelle. Depuis quelque temps, ce programme a été adapté à la réalité des femmes autochtones dans le but de fournir les outils nécessaires aux policiers-ères, aux intervenants-es ainsi qu’aux victimes et leurs proches. L’idée de recueillir les histoires de vie proposées par ces femmes devenait une suite logique à la quête des instigatrices du projet, les policières Josée Mensales et Diane Veillette. Joindre leurs voix à celles des Premières Nations et des Inuits n’effacera jamais toute la souffrance vécue, mais elles espèrent qu’elles serviront à briser les tabous, à repousser les frontières de l’indifférence. Une meilleure compréhension des divers enjeux en cause, notamment grâce à des témoignages de personnes œuvrant dans des organismes clés, et une refonte du système en place contribueront certainement à abolir les préjugés et à mieux protéger les femmes autochtones sur et hors communauté. Pour mieux répondre aux besoins de toutes les communautés autochtones du Québec et afin de toucher au plus grand nombre d’intervenants-es et de victimes, les témoignages sont rédigés en français et en anglais.
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      By Roberts, Celine, 1948-
       2008., Ebury Publishing Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it. Illegitimate and unwanted, Celine was forced by her foster mother into prostitution. Her bones were broken, her nose was crushed and she ate candle wax to stay alive. Celine was finally rescued and sent to an industrial school, where she picked up the pieces of her shattered life. She also began the search for her parents. But what she found gave her battered survival instincts the hardest knock of all ... Full of the most heartbreaking tragedy but ultimately survival and hope, No One Wants You is the remarkably honest and compelling memoir of a woman triumphing over her brutal past.
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      By Gay, Roxane
       2018., HarperCollins Call No: 364.15 G285n   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are "routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied" for speaking out. Highlighting the stories of well-known actors, writers, and experts, as well as new voices being published for the first time, Not That Bad covers a wide range of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation and street harassment. Often deeply personal and always unflinchingly honest, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough."--Page 2 of cover.
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      By Crawford, Lacy
       2020., Adult, Little, Brown and company Call No: Bio C899n   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When the elite St. Paul's School came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered decades before, when she was fifteen. Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note. With her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that corroborated her memories. Here were depictions of the naive, hardworking girl she'd been, a chorister and debater, the daughter of a priest; of the two senior athletes who assaulted her and were allowed to graduate with awards; and of the faculty, doctors, and priests who had known about Crawford's assault and gone to great lengths to bury it. Now a wife, mother, and writer living on the other side of the country, Crawford learned that police had uncovered astonishing proof of an institutional silencing years before, and that unnamed powers were still trying to block her case. The slander, innuendo, and lack of adult concern that Crawford had experienced as a student hadn't been the imagined effects of trauma, after all: these were the actions of a school that prized its reputation above anything, even a child. This revelation launched Crawford on an extraordinary inquiry into the ways gender, privilege, and power shaped her experience as a girl at the gates of America's elite. Her investigation looks beyond the sprawling playing fields and soaring chapel towers of crucibles of power like St. Paul's, whose reckoning is still to come. And it runs deep into the channels of shame and guilt, witness and silencing, that dictate who can speak and who is heard in American society. An insightful, mature, beautifully written memoir, Notes on a Silencing is an arresting coming-of-age story that wrestles with an essential question for our time: what telling of a survivor's story will finally force a remedy?
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      By Burke, Tarana
       2021., Flatiron Books Call No: NEW BLK Bio B959u   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. One side was the bright, intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black literature and power, and the other was the bad, shame ridden girl who thought of herself as a vile rule breaker, not of a victim. She tucked one away, hidden behind a wall of pain and anger, which seemed to work...until it didn't. Tarana fought to reunite her fractured soul, through organizing, pursuing justice, and finding community. In her debut memoir she shares her extensive work supporting and empowering Black and brown girls, and the devastating realization that to truly help these girls she needed to help that scared, ashamed child still in her soul. She needed to stop running and confront what had happened to her, for Heaven and Diamond and the countless other young Black women for whom she cared. They gave her the courage to embrace her power. A power which in turn she shared with the entire world. Through these young Black and brown women, Tarana found that we can only offer empathy to others if we first offer it to ourselves. Unbound is the story of an inimitable woman's inner strength and perseverance, all in pursuit of bringing healing to her community and the world around her, but it is also a story of possibility, of empathy, of power, and of the leader we all have inside ourselves. In sharing her path toward healing and saying "me too," Tarana reaches out a hand to help us all on our own journeys.