Reminder: The Letter Q giveaway!
Hey, folks –
Just a friendly reminder that I have three copies of The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves up for grabs this week. As Ontario’s Catholic schools fight against legislation that would require them not only to allow Gay-Straight Alliance clubs but actually — horrors! — actually call them Gay-Straight Alliance clubs, it seems like this book, and the giveaway, are more timely than ever. (Kudos, by the way, to the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA), which put out a press release yesterday in support of Bill 13, also known as the Accepting Schools Act.
“As Catholic educators, we believe that EVERY student is worthy of respect, dignity and love, and we affirm the sanctity of all human life,” said OECTA president Kevin O’Dwyer. “We cannot expect to address a problem if we cannot openly discuss that problem, regardless of how difficult that conversation may be.”
Leaving aside another difficult conversation about some of the likely vast differences between my definitions of the sanctity of life and those of the Catholic Church’s definitions of the same for a moment, it’s nice to see a voice of reason from the 43,000 teachers who work in Ontario’s publicly funded (to the tune of $7 billion annually, including my tax dollars) Catholic school board.
To win a copy of The Letter Q, leave a comment here, and/or become a Facebook friend of this here blog. Contest closes at midnight on Sunday June 3; I’ll announce the winners on Monday June 4. (And here’s a copy of the book trailer!)
Heaven help us! I would not want my procrastination to be the reason your junior-high social wounds re-open … I have sufficient of those (and a long enough memory) to try and avert the very possibility. Not to mention the fact that I ADORE winning anything! I do enjoy your blog and visit when I am on-line. I will “friend” you on FB – be well!!
Hi-
I have enjoyed reading your blog. My partner and I are the moms to 7 yo boy twins so I enjoy reading about families like ours.
I would enjoy reading “Q” and would love to pass it along to the GSA group that I started when I taught high school.
Thanks,
Ali
Missing you, Susan Goldberg. Reading your blog helps with that only somewhat
Hey Susan,
Have been following the GSA debate closely. Listening to the call-in on CBC the past two days has seriously sent me over the edge (the callers, thank goodness, all seem to have pretty clear heads, the Cardinals, not so much).
But maybe, just maybe, this is the debate we need to start the conversation of stopping public funding of catholic schools (like every other province in Canada has done)! Cheers -
Hey! I just signed the school petition this morning. How serendipitous to see your blog contest!
Thank-you!