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    Susan is a journalist, author, playwright and former senior entertainment editor at NOW. A graduate of Harvard, where she co-founded the university’s first women’s collective, Susan is a feminist activist and musician – she started Toronto’s first all-women rock band in 1978 – with a focus on violence against women. She has written two books on the subject, Pornography And The Sex Crisis and Power Surge: Sex, Violence And Pornography (both Second Story Press). Her play, the groundbreaking comedy A Fertile Imagination about two lesbians trying to have a baby, has been produced seven times across the country and she has edited Outspoken, a collection of scenes and monologues from Canadian lesbian plays (Playwrights Canada Press). She writes about film and politics and is currently NOW’s contributing books editor.

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    GAZA (Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell, Canada). 90 minutes. Rating: NNNN Gaza focuses for almost all of the film on Palestinians living their daily lives on...
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  • Hot Docs review: Born In Evin

    BORN IN EVIN (Maryam Zaree, Germany/Austria). 98 minutes. Rating: NNN Frankfurt-based Zaree’s search for the truth about her birth inside an Iranian prison doesn’t bear...
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  • Five decades in, Robert Christgau is still a rock critic

    Robert Christgau hasn’t had enough of rock ’n’ roll. Over 50 years, the esteemed critic – one-time Rolling Stone writer, music editor at the Village...
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  • Guarded Girls is a moving exploration of women in a maximum security prison

    GUARDED GIRLS by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman (Green Light Arts/Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). Runs to May 5. $29-$55. tarragontheatre.com. See listing. Rating: NNNNFour female characters and a bunch...
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  • Doyali Islam wins TIFAs poetry competition Battle Of The Bards

    Youd never know by the poetry itself that the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) chooses its Battle Of The Bards contestants by lottery. The...
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  • Medieval book by a writer dubbed the first feminist lands at U of T

    A female advisor to kings on military strategy, a believer in the prospect of peace, even at the height of a brutal civil war, a...
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  • A Blow In The Face has everything you need for a great show except a script

    A BLOW IN THE FACE by Lisa Ryder (Bald Ego/Nightwood). At the Theatre Centre (1115 Queen West). Runs to April 14. $35, stu/srs $25. nightwoodtheatre.net....
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  • Review: Gloria Bell, even with Julianne Moore, is an unnecessary remake

    GLORIA BELL (Sebastián Lelio). 102 minutes. Opens Friday (March 15). See listing. Rating: NNN I don’t actually have a perpetual hate-on for remakes. They can...
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  • Colson Whitehead is coming to Toronto to celebrate “classy trash”

    COLSON WHITEHEAD as part of TIFF’s BOOKS ON FILM on Monday (March 4) at TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West). 7 pm. $25-$35. tiff.net/books. Who...
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  • Play about the Oslo Accords is packed with intriguing ideas

    OSLO by J.T. Rogers (Studio 180). At CAA Theatre (651 Yonge). Runs to March 3. $25-$99. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. See listing. Rating: NNNNIll say this for...
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  • Review: In The Misandrists, Bruce LaBruce takes aim at feminism and misses

    THE MISANDRISTS (Bruce LaBruce). 91 minutes. Opens Friday (February 1) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West). See listing. Rating: NPoor Bruce LaBruce. The...
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  • Has #MeToo really made a difference?

    The #MeToo movement surged in the fall of 2017. But it hasn’t exactly change everything. Judge it the way you’d judge Gillette’s recent ad criticizing...
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  • Review: Cat Person author’s debut book is full of nastiness

    YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS: CAT PERSON AND OTHER STORIES by Kristen Roupenian (Scout/Simon & Schuster), 225 pages. $32 cloth. Rating: NNNN Based on her...
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  • Canadian poet Al Purdy inspires songs by Jason Collett, Sarah Harmer and more

    THE AL PURDY SONGBOOK (Borealis) Rating: NNNN Brian D. Johnson has some kind of intuition. He had a feeling that the 2015 benefit for poet...
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  • Michael Healey scores again with 1979, his take on Joe Clark’s political failures

    1979 by Michael Healey (The 1979 Group). At the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). Runs to January 27. $20-$70. canadianstage.com, 416-368-3110. See listing. Rating: NNNPolitics...
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