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Towards a Network of Graphic Care: The Comics, Comments, and Communities of Instagram
Abstract: This article examines the intersection of comics, mental illness, and social media and explores how platform users are using the mental health-focused webcomics of Instagram to form networks of self- and collective care. The author outlines the trajectory of Canadian mental illness-related comics, discusses the function of social media-based support systems, and highlights how comics may be used as legitimate mental health resources in both present and post-Covid contexts. By examining the anxiety-focused Instagram comics of Montreal illustrator Sandra Dumais, the article emphasizes that the affordances of mental health webcomics are not limited to their representation of often-inexplicable mental illness symptoms. Rather, the author argues that mental health comics, specifically those posted to social networking sites like Instagram, provide platform users with a space for sharing their stories, offering support, and creating grassroots communities based in mutual experience. 

Towards a Popular Theatre in English Canada
Abstract: ONE OF THE FEATURES OF THE Quebec theatre that seems to the outsider to be a sign of its healthy ...

Town of Hope
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Tracing the Travesty: Constructing the Female Subject in Susan Swan’s The Biggest Modern Woman of the World
Abstract: IOR ,OR THE FEMINIST WRITER, aspects of postmodernism, includ- ing the dissolution of the subject, the formulation of identity as ...

Traduire l’autre, presque le même
Abstract: TRADUIRE L’AUTRE, PRESQUE LE MÊME Réflexionsd’unauteuraproposd’une traduction Michel van Schendel AL.UTRE: que puis-je dire d’une traduction quand elle est adéquate ...

Tragic Tourism and North American Jewish Identity: Investigating a Radzanow Street, a Mlawa Apple and an Unbuilt Museum
Abstract: Travel in Soviet Europe was tourism at its most predictable: the stone-faced government guide; strict restrictions on where one could ...

Transatlantic Extractivism in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return
Abstract: Drawing on theorizations of extraction and extractivism that emphasize the racialized violence of these processes, this article aims to attend to the “insurgent ecocriticism” of Black ecologies and Black geographies in an analysis of Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return. Brand speaks of a “rift,” the break with the past that the Door created, which permits the extractivist present. Opening the door to the buying and selling not of human labour but of human lives opened the way to the market valuation of every other thing. These dynamics are deeply relevant to Canadian ecocriticism not only because chattel slavery was constitutive of the British colonialism that produced (and produces) the environments of Canada, but also because this history of racialized plunder continues to serve White imperialist projects of contemporary Canadian extractivism at home and abroad.

Transatlantic Figures in The Imperialist Public Sentiment, Private Appetite
Abstract: It would have been idle to inquire into the antecedents, or even the circumstances, of old Mother Beggarlegs. . . ...

Transforming the Insult
Abstract: In 1991my husband returned to Canada from Iraq where he had been a UN Military Observer. He’d been sent to ...

Transgressive Sexualities in the Reconstruction of Japanese Canadian Communities
Abstract: In what literary critics have come to call the field of Asian American writing,1 Joy Kogawa’s Obasan has earned a ...