Carelanding: Canadian Literature and Medicine REVIEWED, yay

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One publishes an academic book hoping for it to find purchase in the world, but it can be very hard to tell. Carelanding: Canadian Literature and Medicine (Routledge, 2023) had no reviews, until now! My favourite thing about the review is that it TOTALLY gets me. I laughed out loud near the end and said, JUST SAY I’M AUTISTIC! Like, a review that says I’m autistic without saying I’m autistic. I’m so grateful. Guilty as charged! Thank you Talia and Dougal, I cannot IMAGINE how much work went into this roundup. I hope you escaped the curse and never have to do it again 🙂 https://academic.oup.com/ywes/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ywes/maaf111/8484061?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“13 books to make you feel hopeful as the new year gets underway”

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Feat accomplished. I am, finally, SOMETHING TO BE READ FOR THE PURPOSES OF INSTILLING HOPE! I knew that all these years, if I kept just shoegazing during my mope rock (aka writing about suicidality, psychosis, carceral care, ableism, stigma, sundry adverse events of childhood, medical neglect, and oh! deer deer deer deer deer) I would finally be seen! (HAD to be the effect of the smile, so rare! And only elicited because my eldest, taking the picture, is very fun and safe).

They came!

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They came! Re: “How to lose the audience”, I think I just did this today on a conference call (keeping it real). My thanks to the mighty ‘manse, to Mary and Brian, & to the magazines (Malahat, Fiddlehead) and editors (Iain, Rowan) that gave me a chance to lose more audiences