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Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls is a Win for Queer Tween Representation

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Celebrate Black History Month with 25+ Toronto Events, Art Exhibits and Films

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Toronto Grade 8 Student Selected as New York Times Finalist

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Enter to win tickets to a special screening of Pamela, A Love Story with Pamela Anderson

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Ann-Marie MacDonald’s ‘Fall On Your Knees’ is Just as Powerful on Stage

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Chilling true-crime doc follows Canadian woman’s search to find her missing father in Mexico

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2023: The Year I Will Finally Be Kind to Myself

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CONTEST: Win tickets to the TSO’s performance of Romeo & Juliet

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Motherhood and Race Examined in Charlene Carr’s Page-Turning Novel ‘Hold My Girl’

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Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls is a heartfelt que

Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls is a heartfelt queer coming-of-age comedy that will speak to your inner tween — and your inner nerd. ✨🌈💥

Erin is a confident, comics-obsessed 13-year-old, navigating crushes and friendships as the only out kid in her class.

It’s the film that director Julianna Notten wishes she had seen growing up. Films like this, with authentic representation, can have a tremendous impact for the young queer people watching.

“When queer women tell their own stories on screen, everyone stands to benefit.” 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

🔗 See the link in our bio for more on this wholesome love story.

@erinkissinggirls #queerfilm #lgbtqfilm #indiefilm #queer #juliannanotten #canadianfilm

🎬Alison Duke and Ngardy Conteh George are the c

🎬Alison Duke and Ngardy Conteh George are the creative heavyweights behind Toronto’s women-led Black-owned production house @oyamediagroup. Veterans in the field, they’ve been at the helm of several groundbreaking projects, including the Canadian Screen Award-winning documentary ‘Mr. Jane and Finch’ and ‘Being Black in Toronto’, with several big titles primed for release in 2023.
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Wanting to pay it forward, Duke and George founded the non-profit @oyablackarts (OBAC) to empower Black creatives with the skills, support and resources necessary to succeed within Canada’s film and entertainment industry. OBAC addresses systemic inequalities through mentorship, networking, industry training and by providing safe spaces for experimentation.
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“After 20+ years focused on social issues documentaries, we are now taking the issues and themes that we’ve discovered, and applying them to a variety of original scripted and unscripted content with global reach.” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️
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Their contributions to Canadian film and TV are immeasurable. We connected with Duke and George to ask them about their work to support emerging Black creatives, and where the focus needs to be today. 🔗 Link in bio to read full piece.
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#womeninfilm #documentary #Blackfutures #blackfilmmakers #toronto #equity #canadianfilm #BlackArts

Fill your month with enriching events, art exhibit

Fill your month with enriching events, art exhibits, film screenings and more! Black history and Black futures should be celebrated 355 days a year, but February always presents many opportunities to connect, learn, and go deeper. Click link in bio and start making some plans. Here are some of the orgs and venues hosting cool events in the coming days and weeks…
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@harbourfrontcentre
@agotoronto
@factorytheatre
@comedybarto
@tohistorymuseums
@artscapeto
@tpl.foundation
@worth_gallery
@blackartndialog
@lakeshorearts
@artsetobicoke
@toronto_archives
@torontoblackfilmfest
@hotdocs_
@onf_nfb
@tvodocs
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And so many more! 🔗 in bio to read full list of exciting programming. 📷: Black Women in Leadership Exhibit, on display at @toronto_archives.
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory365 #blackfutures #toronto

📚Charlene Carr’s Hold My Girl is a gripping n

📚Charlene Carr’s Hold My Girl is a gripping novel about motherhood and race that was inspired by her own complex journey with infertility and in vitro fertilization.
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“I’m a mixed-race Black woman, and when my daughter was born via in vitro fertilization she emerged visibly white, with almost no features that matched my own,” shares Carr, who received countless remarks about how her baby looked like her husband, but never like her. “I started to wonder if there could have been a switch at the fertility clinic. My biggest fear was not that we may not share DNA, but that if we didn’t, there may be some other woman out there who would one day stake a claim on her.”
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By the time her baby was one, those fears alleviated, especially when Carr’s daughter began to grow hair just like her and develop similar features, but it was that initial questioning that became the premise of Hold My Girl. Doubt and uncertainty are major themes in the book. “There’s been no other time in history when mothers have had so much information at their fingertips—from books, to blogs, to podcasts, to social media ‘Mom groups’, and the endless stream of posts displaying how to ‘Mom’ and the best ways to ‘Mom’ and that imply other people are ‘Momming’ seemingly better than you. It’s a lot. Everywhere we turn, some professional or layperson seems to be talking about the best way to parent, and there’s value in that, of course, but it also creates a lot of pressure, a lot of guilt, and I think, too often, the sense that we’re failing in some way as mothers.”
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🔗 Tap link in bio to read our full interview with Charlene + an excerpt.
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#motherhood #infertility #ivf #ivfcommunity #ivfwarrior #canlit #halifax #author #reading #bookstagram

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