Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language
Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language
Marilyn Stanley
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Nora Gould
, cassandra schiemann
, Melissa Kohlman
, Holly Elisabeth
, Jude Castillo
, Cathi McLean
, Kirsten Lyon
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Deb Philippon
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sebastian Schulman
, Linda Leitch
, Joanne Santolupo
, Natasa Ilic
, Barry Kazimer
, Jennifer Beauchemin
, Sandra Perry
, Andrea Pole
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Vanessa S
, Andrea Gillespie
, Heather Norris
, Meradith Anderson
, Patricia Johnson
, LJ Law
, P. Thompson
, Joshua Lewis
, Jerry Doucet
, Anita Thompson
, Linda Ham
, Joe Mitchell
, tom stormonth
, Laurie Burns
, Catherine Westerberg
, Jennifer Chambers
, Cindy Bodini
, Lesley Cameron
, Diane McPherson
, Elaine Baptie
, Fatin Ay
, Tina May
, Anne Range
, Kim Cappellina
, Kim Reynolds
, Sandy Krausnick
, Liz Moreau
, Sara Conway
, Richard Scarsbrook
, Jessica Carter
, Liz Bugg
, Janet Hepburn
, jane luce
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Peggy Walt
, Catherine Kelly-Brown
, C. Ray
, Elysia Glover
, Judy Richardson
, Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Heather O'Connor
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Patricia McKeown
, Pearl Pirie
, Shonna Froebel
, Lynn Hallson
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Christopher Evans
, Karen Charleson
, Sarah Beaudin
, Alanna King
, Charles Leblanc
, Debbie Rodgers
, Jesse Kancir
, Prabh Toor
, Randi Ann Doll
, Marie E. LeBlanc
, Sharlene Ketelaar
, Catherine Jackson
, Benita Hartwell
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Natalie Mudri
, Lynn Bechtel
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Lise Gaston
, Kathleen Flaherty
, Robert Hykawy
, Chris Lantz
, Denise Duvall
, Joann Horgan
, Kevin Smith
, Kate Kostandoff
, Jessica Murray
, Melissa Poremba
, Deanna Radford
, Margaret Anglin
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Caira Clark
, Jay Rawding
, Julie Kaniak
, Gwynn Scheltema
, maria blanco
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In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral language along with the loss of community and highlight the empowerment that comes with reclamation. Others celebrate the joys of learning a new language and the power of connection. All underscore how language can offer both transformation and collective healing.
