Episode 54 - Celebrating International Women's Day & Storytelling Day
Welcome to Season 9 Episode 2 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec! In today's episode, we are celebrating International Women's Day and International Storytelling Day with authors, illustrators, publishers and more!! Today, our guests are: Aisha Boubacar, author and illustrator, who wrote her first book “Crowned in Curls” at 14 years old and Kate Lavut, author, illustrator and publisher from Paper Dog Press Margie Wolfe, author, publisher, and cofounder of Second Story Press Second Story's Book Recommendations: Resilience and Triumph: Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories By the Book Project Collective The Unconventional Nancy Ruth By Ramona Lumpki Tilly and the Crazy Eights By Monique Gray Smith From Kitchen To Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra By Maria Noriega Rachwal The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose By Karin Wells Second Story's International Women's Day Event Can you Hear me now Event Recording Other Show Links Register for Lace Up 4 Literacy Charity Challenge 2022! Between March 24 and April 24 by getting outdoors and running, walking or strolling a 1K, 5K, 10K or 21K you can support your local literacy councils in Quebec, and help promote literacy! Find out more about Literacy Quebec Network events on Facebook Have questions or need help? Contact Literacy Quebec's Literacy Helpline or call 1-888-521-8181 What's Literacy Got To Do With It? is a community-based podcast for English-speaking, lifelong literacy learners in Quebec. Our hosts, Chris Shee and Jaimie Cudmore from Literacy Quebec, explore community building, lifelong curiosity, and multiple types of literacy. It's incredible what we can learn from each other. Subscribe, share our podcast, and write to us at admin@literacyquebec.org, call us at 514-508-6805. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for videos of interviews and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @LiteracyQuebec Special thanks: Podcast Theme Music by Gerry Legault and LQ's team, including Peter Morgan and Barbara Testa Gabaud, Margo Legault, and Laura Thompson, for their support.