CanLit Dumpster Fire Reading List

CanLit Dumpster Fire - a reading list

This list is not complete. It is a living document, and new resources can be added as they come. Its purpose is to compile the important work that is responding to issues and discussions in "CanLit".

If you have a new resource, essay or link to add, let me know. I don’t plan on revising this regularly, so please be patient.

Please share and use! Thank and cite the folks who did the heavy lifting in writing these essays.

(To update the list, please contact Carrianne Leung at [email protected])

Multiple Fires

http://open-book.ca/Columnists/CanLit-is-a-Raging-Dumpster-Fire

Alicia Elliott

http://carte-blanche.org/canlit-time-no-contact-rule/

Gwen Benaway

http://humberliteraryreview.com/jen-sookfong-lee-essay-open-letters-and-closed-doors//

Jen Sookfong Lee

http://gutsmagazine.ca/sometimes-women-have-to-make-hard-choices-to-be-writers/

Kai Cheng Thom

http://cwila.com/celebrating-diversity-by-dismantling-canlit/

Amanda Leduc

https://hookandeye.ca/2017/11/16/guest-post-another-dumpster-fire-an-opinionated-review-of-arrival-the-story-of-canlit-by-nick-mount/

Julie Rak

Appropriation Prize Fire

http://winnipegreview.com/2017/05/facing-the-legacy-of-erasure-and-cultural-appropriation-in-canadian-literature/

Gwen Benaway

https://www.tiahouse.ca/notes-indiginegativity-addendum-joshua-whitehead/

Joshua Whitehead

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-cultural-appropriation-debate-is-over-its-time-for-action/article35072670/

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

http://www.chatelaine.com/living/indigenous-representation-literature/

Helen Knott

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-cultural-appropriation-debate-isn-t-about-free-speech-it-s-about-context-1.4117142

Alicia Elliott

https://quillandquire.com/omni/whitney-french-examining-the-root-of-cultural-appropriation/

Whitney French

https://www.buzzfeed.com/scaachikoul/so-hows-that-whole-diversity-in-media-thing-going?utm_term=.nd3a17oVx#.lnQYr4o8b

Scaachi Khoul

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wnd97z/what-colour-is-your-beadwork-joseph-boyden

Ryan McMahon

http://aptnnews.ca/2016/12/23/author-joseph-boydens-shape-shifting-indigenous-identity/

Jorge Barrera

https://jezebel.com/what-can-we-learn-from-canadas-appropriation-prize-lite-1795175192

On Appropriation Prize

http://www.macleans.ca/society/on-diversity-canadian-media-is-throwing-stones-in-a-glass-house/

Murad Hummadi

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jesse-wente-appropriation-prize-1.4115293

Jesse Wente

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/05/13/cultural-appropriation-prize-fund-was-the-unkindest-cut-of-all-paradkar.html

Shree Paradkar

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/joshua-ostroff/cultural-appropriation_b_16562760.html

Josh Ostroff

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pg7q8m/a-bunch-of-white-canadian-editors-really-love-cultural-appropriation

Sarah Hagi

https://quillandquire.com/omni/qa-doyali-islam-write-magazines-new-editor/

An interview with Quill and Quire with Doyali Islam.

UBC Accountable and CanLit Accountable Fires

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-after-galloway-we-must-value-a-womans-pain-above-a-mans-reputation/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

Alicia Elliot

https://www.pyriscence.ca/home/2018/1/21/open-letter-to-the-globe-and-mail-re-ubc-accountable

Julie Rak

https://dorothyellenpalmer.com/2017/01/12/surrogates-sycophants-soldier-antsand-sheep-debunking-the-steven-galloway-innocence-project/#comments

Dorothy Palmer

https://www.change.org/p/ubc-accountable-open-counter-letter-about-the-steven-galloway-case-at-ubc

Counter letter to UBCAccountable

https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/counterletter/context-for-the-galloway-case?authuser=0

A list of resources and collected twitter threads by Julie Rak

https://thewalrus.ca/canlit-has-a-sexual-harassment-problem/

Zoe Whittall

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/concordia-says-allegations-of-sexual-harassment-serious/article37549425/

https://canlitaccountablenewvoice.wordpress.com/

The Power in Words By Celyn Harding-Jones

http://www.flare.com/news/margaret-atwood-feminism/

Stacy Lee Kong

https://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/shared-values/margaret-atwoods-failure-of-imagination

Chantal Braganza

http://www.ccwwp.ca/a-statement-against-the-culture-of-male-privilege-and-abuse-of-power-in-canadian-creative-writing-programs/

Concordia Fire

https://www.thehairpin.com/2014/10/stories-like-passwords/

Emma Healey

https://andthenamansaidit.wordpress.com/

Julie McIsaac

https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2018/01/12/the-interest-is-in-sex-not-writing-says-one-concordia-creative-writing-grad.html

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/two-concordia-teachers-removed-from-classes-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation-1.3757433

Sexual assault/harrassment in CanLit

http://tiahouse.ca/nikki-reimer-hold-fucking-communities-accountable/

Nikki Reimer

http://humberliteraryreview.com/jen-sookfong-lee-essay-open-letters-and-closed-doors

Jen Sookfong Lee

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artists-deal-with-abuse-in-our-work-so-why-do-we-struggle-to-confront-it-in-our-communities-1.4252989

Alicia Elliot

http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-metoo-movement-failing-in-canada

Sabrina Maddeaux

https://nowtoronto.com/news/the-ghomeshi-effect/

Jacob Scheier

http://www.hookandeye.ca/2015/01/feminism-and-emotional-labour-redux.html

Erin Wunker on Love, Anonymous project

UBCA

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nataliezinawalschots/this-isnt-the-witch-hunt-youre-looking-for?utm_term=.if56qZVXZ#.rkZPw8qL8

Natalie Walschots

https://bookriot.com/2016/11/22/when-due-process-is-a-demand-for-silence-ubcaccountable-and-the-scandal-rocking-canadian-literature/

Brenna Clarke Gray

https://www.ubyssey.ca/culture/we-all-fall-down/

Julia Burnham

Concordia

https://thehairpin.com/stories-like-passwords-bf04e46c3fb6#.ysjcw3pfy

Emma Healey

http://towncrier.puritan-magazine.com/ephemera/concordia/

Kailey Havelock

https://andthenamansaidit.wordpress.com/

Julie McIsaac

https://medium.com/@heather.cromarty/part-ii-8de328c6491f

Heather Cromarty

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/prominent-montreal-writers-investigated-in-concordia-sexual-misconduct-allegations-inquiry-1.4552716

CBC

Coach House

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2018/01/16/coach-house-books-puts-poetry-on-hiatus.html

Toronto Star

https://www.buzzfeed.com/scaachikoul/a-canadian-poet-who-appeared-on-a-shitty-media-men-list-is?utm_term=.ouN01NQML#.qybMoWqKE

Scaachi Koul

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2018/03/14/ex-coach-house-poetry-editor-sees-vendetta-in-accusations.html

Toronto Star

Toronto spoken word community

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/03/01/poet-sues-peers-for-more-than-300000-for-libel-and-defamation.html

Toronto Star

http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2015/08/26/donations-wanted-for-ottawa-poets-named-in-defamation-suit.html

Metro News

http://www.jacqbrass.com/i-support-ruthanne-edward-and-rusty-priske/

Jacq Brass

Canadian law on defamation and sexual assault/harrassment

https://quillandquire.com/omni/qa-lawyer-lisa-jean-helps-on-canlit-metoo-and-defamation-laws/

Lisa Jean

https://cippic.ca/en/defamation-and-slapps

On defamation law and possible defenses

https://www.cbabc.org/For-the-Public/Dial-A-Law/Scripts/Your-Rights/240

Canadian Bar Assoc on defamation and libel law

https://www.writersunion.ca/legal-assistance-writers

The Writers Union of Canada

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/why-the-soulpepper-four-skipped-the-cops-and-went-after-albert-schultz-in-civil-court

Edward Prutschi on civil versus criminal harrassment cases

http://ottawalitigation.com/defamation-on-the-internet/

Owen Bourns on online defamation law

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/rare-sex-assault-ruling-will-discourage-victims-from-speaking-out-advocates-say-1.1391413

CBC

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jane-doe-wins-case-against-police-force-1.163867

CBC

Sexual assault/harrassment in academia and creative writing programs

http://carte-blanche.org/on-covered-mouths/

Lauren Turner

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Creative-Writing-Programs/242767?key=Vsp5df7WwhGNPuakdKhVXvAMiL1ngqG0o-nOo3wDLPHUyiPjHJseCeOxrHh63cZ6V2hUU1ZNdXhobmNMdEtobWx4WTUwUEZZMDJnRS1OTUstdTVsYUtnVjNHaw

Nell Gluckman on sexual harrassment in creative writing programs

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S9KShDLvU7C-KkgEevYTHXr3F6InTenrBsS9yk-8C5M/edit#gid=1530077352

Various contributors

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/predatory-men-academic-creative-writing#disqus_thread

John Warner

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/01/17/analysis/professors-power-and-predators-why-student-teacher-relationships-should-be

National Observer

https://www.buzzfeed.com/karthikshankar/why-i-published-a-list-of-sexual-predators-in-academia?bffbdialogue&utm_term=.bfPNY2Wov#.wipw4vgQJ

Karthik Shankar on students publishing list of abusers in India

http://www.chronicle.com/article/AbusersEnablers-in/241648

K.A. Amienne