Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Alice Walsh’s Analyzing Sylvia Plath: An Academic Mystery
Walsh is a Nova Scotia-based writer, and Analyzing Sylvia Plath is her third novel. I much preferred the first two, and I’m writing about Death on Darby’s Island and Last Lullaby in my book project. Both are set in Newfoundland and Labrador, and they’re wonderfully atmospheric with strong plotting and a distinctive sense of place.…
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Trans Women, Television and Film, and Real-Life Violence
On Tuesday afternoon a small town in northeastern British Columbia was the site of a horrific mass shooting. Several young people and two adults are dead. There are no words to express how tragic and senseless these events are, and the focus must be on the victims and survivors. But this can’t be permitted to…
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Feminist Revenge Fantasies, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence
And today, because I’m grappling with this in two other forms of writing, a brief foray into intimate partner violence and proposed Canadian legislation about coercive control. My former Member of Parliament, Laurel Collins, twice brought forward legislation in the House of Commons to address a gap in the law related to “a pattern of…
