[homeles_ot-l] TONIGHT FW: Event: Women & Homelessness

[Lynne Browne]

FYI, with thanks to Khristin Hunter.

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

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From: Khristin Hunter [mailto:khunter at unitedwayottawa.ca] 
Sent: June 7, 2007 2:51 PM
To: Lynne Browne
Subject: Event: Women & Homelessness

 

Khristin Hunter

Director, Community Impact and Investment/

Directrice, impact et investissement communautaires

HYPERLINK "http://www.unitedwayottawa.ca/"United Way/Centraide Ottawa

* 613-228-5792   * 613-228-6730

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From: Octopus Books [mailto:octopus at octopusbooks.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:06 PM
To: octopus
Subject: info at unitedwayottawa.ca - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO:
fields in the email addresses - Event: Women & Homelessness

 

To our community partners:

 

Octopus Books is proud to be hosting a reading and discussion with Susan
Scott, author of All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada. This
event will be taking place at the bookstore on Thursday, June 7th, starting
at 7pm. It is free and accessible though the on-site bathroom,
unfortunately, is not. 

 

We hope that you will be able to join us!

 

 

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All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada, by Susan Scott

 

"Though they account for only a small portion of the formal homeless
statistics, there are many more women living on insufficient funds, with
violent partners, in unacceptable dwellings, or in other fragile
circumstances that are too often overlooked. They are our mothers, our
daughters, our aunts, our nieces, our wives—they are all our sisters—and
they remain largely invisible compared to homeless men. 

Susan Scott interviewed more than 60 women facing homelessness across
Canada. Part of her agreement with these women was to tell their stories in
the way they would want to have them told. With uncompromising honesty and a
deep sense of empathy, Scott recounts their stories while highlighting the
many underlying problems they face. These include personal histories of
abuse, addiction, and violence, as well as systemic conditions of
gentrification, a paucity of affordable housing, and a lack of social
services sensitive to women's needs. 

All Our Sisters is essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about
the conditions facing homeless women in Canada." 

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Octopus Books
ph. 613-233-2589
HYPERLINK "http://www.octopusbooks.ca"www.octopusbooks.ca
critical thinking since 1969


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