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jess fontaine's Auto/biography blog

Tag: memoir

Life Narrative and Changing and Healing Communities

This past fall I took the class History of Human Rights here at UBC.  As we studied the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the legacy of residential schools within Canada, the goverment rejected a UN human rights call for a review of violence against Aboriginal women (CTV News article).  I found this reaction […]

What Stories are Told and Heard

I work in a bookstore.  Having already enrolled in this course, I began to notice the amount of biographies and memoirs that went through my till this holiday season.  There were a lot; the two most popular were I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban by […]

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