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Author Archives: Evelyn C. White

Evelyn C. White is a journalist and author whose books include Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1985,) The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves (Seal Press, 1990,) and the biography Alice Walker: A Life (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.)
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Shattering silences: Zoë Comeau, Black Barbie, and stitching together queer stories amid the silence of Halifax Pride

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White

Dismayed by the machinations of Halifax Pride and the pink mania surrounding the Barbie movie, I attended a July performance of F*cking Trans Women*, a solo show by Zoë Comeau at The Bus Stop Theatre. In the production, Comeau, 28, shared reflections from her life as a transgender woman who, as a youngster, discovered a […]