Attention to land use planning and social issues leads inevitably to a consideration of identity and difference. How do our communities deal with the question of race? How do current land use trajectories "whiten" the Gulf Islands, and what will this mean to the future of our bioregion? How do we attend the processes of creating categories of identity and difference? How do people enter deviant and stigmatized roles and worlds? Exploring the meaning and experience of otherness, one must likewise attend the manufacture of normalcy and conformity.
Mapping Queer Meanings by Caffyn Kelley
Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time review by Phyllis Reeve
The William Robinson Mystery looks at the issue of race on Salt Spring Island in 1868.