Bones of Belonging
Kirsten Lyon
, Marilyn Stanley
, Crystal Inwood
, Cindy Bodini
, Elisha Lazarski
, Barry Kazimer
, Jude Castillo
, Jill Handrigan
, Sarah Schwartz
, Noelle Walsh
, Catherine Booker
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Frances Boyle
, Hilary Squires
, Linda Leitch
, Joshua Lewis
, Laurie Burns
, Chris Carvalho
, Trish Bowering
, Andrea Gillespie
, Shannon Kormos
, Benita Hartwell
, Janice Cournoyer
, Pat Johnston
, Deb Philippon
, Huguette Lemieux
, Rhona Brinkman
, Sonia Adams
, Margaret McKay
, Carl Scott
, Paula Adam
, Robert Hykawy
, Karen Nordrum
, Becky Bridger
, Randi Ann Doll
, Morgan Jefferies
, Heather O'Connor
, Paula Ritchie
, Maria Mclean
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Ken Gilmour
, Kate Rutter
, Kim Cappellina
, Margaret Palmer
, Laya Soleymanzadeh
, Melissa Poremba
, Kim Fenton
, Natasa Ilic
, Sara Conway
, jane luce
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Thelma Ball
, Dani Kat
, P. Thompson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Irene Anderson
, Agnes Marshall
, Joy Brown
, Janet Meisner
, Dorothy Wong
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Manisha Dave
, Sharon Urdahl
, Andrea Pole
, Beth Dekoker
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Madison Hendricks
, Sandra Perry
, Heather Taves
, Val Ross
, Kristiana Clemens
, Elaine Baptie
, Hoda Montazeri
, Shawna Moodie
, Debra Fisher
, Patricia Johnson
, Laney Gomes
, Grace Novack
, Dorothy Wong
, Melissa Narine-Singh
, Lynn Andrews
, Catherine Westerberg
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Karen Kendrick
, Ellen Clarke
, Jessica Murray
, Jane Graham
, Rachel Edmonds
, diana kirkwood
, Donald Forsythe
, Pam Keetch
, Karen Reid
, Nora Gould
, Lynn Bechtel
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Sharp, funny, and poignant stories of what it’s like to be a Brown woman working for change in a white world.
I take a deep breath, check my lipstick one last time on my phone camera, and turn on my mic. It’s about ten steps, two metres, and one lifetime to the front of the room. “Hello,” I repeat. “My name is Annahid — pronounced Ah-nah-heed — and shit’s about to get real!”
In a series of deft interlocking stories, Annahid Dashtgard shares her experiences searching for, and teaching about, belonging in our deeply divided world. A critically acclaimed, racialized immigrant writer and recognized inclusion leader, Dashtgard writes with wisdom, honesty, and a wry humour as she considers what it means to belong — to a country, in a marriage, in our own skin — and what it means when belonging is absent. Like the bones of the human body, these stories knit together a remarkable vision of what wholeness looks like as a racial outsider in a culture still dominated by whiteness.
