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Comic artist, writer, and English professor. Co-author of The Bum Drum Conundrum, a picture book about consent. Forthcoming picture book with Bayard Canada.

People often ask me why my co-author, Ashley Lanni, and I decided to write a picture book about consent and how we managed to do so without making the topic sexual.

Initially, we had actually written a whole anthology of inclusive books including some about the LGTBQIA2S+ community, and privilege. However, we quickly realized that anthologies of children's books don't sell as well, so if we wanted Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 15, 2019 07:09 • Tags: children-s-books, consent, kid-s-books, kidlit, mel-ash, picture-books, the-bum-drum-conundrum

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	Teach English With a Sense of Humor: Why (and How to) Be a Funnier and More Effective English Teacher and Laugh All the Way to Your Classroom by Kishor Vaidya, Don L.F. Nilsen, Jenny Baranick (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Canada In The World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination

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“People with impairments are disabled by their environments; or, to put it differently, impairments aren't disabling, social and architectural barriers are.”
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