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Monarchs and Milkweed
Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Mimico CentennialToronto Master Gardeners discuss the importance of milkweed to monarch butterflies. Discover the best milkweed varieties for your garden, how to start milkweed plants from seed, how best to plan your garden to attract monarc...
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Out from the Shadows: Women and their work in 19th c. Toronto
Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Don MillsAuthor Elizabeth Gillian Muir discusses her newest book, An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and their work in 19th century Toronto, which details the work that women did in the city --which could have been any...
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Home of Her Heart: A Novel About Finding Family and a Place to Call Home
Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: BrentwoodIn this author reading and talk, Tara Goldstein will share her research process, read from her novel Home of Her Heart, and discuss some of the main stories that appear in the novel: living in an adoptive queer family, surviv...
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Rainbow Boys and Wonder Women: Histories & Futures of Queer Superheroes
Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: North York Central LibraryJoin Dr. Peppard, the award winning editor of the anthology Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy and the Superhero, as she talks about how homophobic prejudice informed decades of comics censorship, highlighting important touchstones...