National Network for Equitable Library Service

A collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world.

A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community's development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, charts, and illustrations.

As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world.

In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing.

Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another.

Lesser argues that if women's voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have valued stories of caretaking and compassion over vengeance and violence.

On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away.

Resettlement – the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state – is considered a tool of refugee protection.

We think of Métis as having Prairie roots. Quebec doesn’t recognize a historical Métis community, and the Métis National Council contests the existence of any Métis east of Ontario.

Après avoir cofondé la première revue homosexuelle canadienne, la poète Elsa Gidlow, 21 ans, décide de quitter Montréal en 1920, déçue par le manque de possibilités amoureuses que lui offre alors l

A grey tsunami is sweeping the land, wreaking social and financial havoc in its wake. Sound familiar?

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec.

Who isthe juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire?

How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom?

The end of the Second World War saw a “crisis of white masculinity” brought on by social change.