Library Resource Guide for Queer Newfoundland Hockey League: An Exhibition by Lucas Morneau: Getting Started
Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg presents Queer Newfoundland Hockey League
Recommended Fiction Reading List
Brainwyrms
When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie's workplace, she blows up Frankie's life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya. The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankie's feeling that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanya's secrets threaten to tear them apart, Frankie starts digging, and unearths a sinister, depraved conspiracy, the roots of which go deeper than she ever imagined. Shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy, Brainwyrms confronts the creeping reality of political terrorism while exploring the depths of love, pain, and identity.
A Guest in the House
After many lonely years, Abby’s just gotten married. She met her new husband—a recently widowed dentist—when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it’s strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband’s first wife, the more things don’t add up. And Abby starts to wonder . . . was Sheila’s death really by natural causes? As Abby sinks deeper into confusion, Sheila’s memory seems to become a force all its own, ensnaring Abby in a mystery that leaves her obsessed, fascinated, and desperately in love for the first time in her life.
Between the Pipes
In this engrossing graphic novel, teen hockey player Chase learns more about himself and his identity in the face of prejudice and homophobia. Thirteen-year-old Chase's life and identity should be simple. He's the goalie for his hockey team, the Eagles. He's a friend to Kevin and Jade. He's Kookum's youngest grandchild. He's a boy. He should like girls. But it's not that simple. Chase doesn't like girls the way that the other boys do. It's scary being so different from his peers. Scarier still is the feeling that his teammates can tell who he is--and that they hate him for it. If he pretends hard enough, maybe he can hide the truth. Real strength and change can't come from a place of shame. Chase's dreams are troubled by visions of a bear spirit, and the more he tries to hide, the more everything falls apart. With the help of an Elder, and a Two-Spirit mentor, can Chase find the strength to be proud of who he is? Between the Pipes explores toxic masculinity in hockey through the experiences of an Indigenous teen.
Artist’s Recommended Readings Available through The University of Winnipeg Library
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Gender Trouble
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Call Number: Available in UW Library’s collection as e-bookISBN: 9780203824979Publication Date: 2011-09-22One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent. -
Masculinities
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Call Number: Available through interlibrary loanISBN: 9780520246980Publication Date: 2005-08-31This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's groundbreaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. In its first edition, Masculinities provided one of the most important voices in feminist scholarship by men. Connell argued that there is no such thing as a single concept of masculinity, but, rather, that many different masculinities exist, each associated with different positions of power. In a world in which gender order continues to extend privilege to men over women, but that also raises difficult issues for men and boys, Connell's account is more pertinent than ever. In the new edition's substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. She explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of masculinity research. Looking to the future, her new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research as a way of understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, one that is presently dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. -
Against Interpretation
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Call Number: Available through interlibrary loanISBN: 9780374520403Publication Date: 1986-12-01First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," "Against Interpretation" includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag. -
Mad Dogs, Midgets and Screw Jobs
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Call Number: Available through UW Library’s collection as e-bookISBN: 9781770902961Publication Date: 2013-02-01Montreal was the proving ground for the biggest names in wrestling, including Andre the Giant, Abdullah the Butcher and the infamous Mad Dog Vachon. It was also the site of the first midget battle and was made famous for the screw job that saw Vince McMahon, the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michael and Bret Hart create the attitude' that reshaped the business. With a complete history of how wrestling developed on Montreal TV and an investigation of the murder of Dino Bravo, this book demonstrates how much of what has occurred in wrestling most likely happened in Montreal.'
Additional Reference Work
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Craftivism and Yarn Bombing
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Call Number: Available through library collection as e-bookISBN: 1137579900Publication Date: 2019-08-30This book explores the use of handmade crafts as a vehicle for protest. Craftivism has experienced a resurgence in recent years, often in direct response to the social, environment and political concerns of those who engage in the practice. Acts of craftivism raise important questions for criminologists about the use of public space, power, and resistance. McGovern focuses on an example of the 'craftivist' movement that has been steadily gaining momentum since the early to mid-2000s: yarn bombing. As an urban craft movement that melds the skills of knitting or crochet with the act of graffiti, yarn bombing has the potential to contribute to criminological understandings of graffiti and street art, particularly on issues of gender, perceptions of and motivations for graffiti, and the commodification of crime. Drawing on interviews with yarn bombers and craftivists, Craftivism and Yarn Bombing explores how such acts can be understood and explored through a criminological lens,and will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including criminology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, and urban studies. -
Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory
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Call Number: Available through library collection as e-bookISBN: 9780203020098Publication Date: 2007-01-24The first book focusing exclusively on this subject, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory captures the newest and best writing on an emerging focus of study that brings in perspectives from a number of disciplines including sports studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer studies. An accessible introduction to this dynamic field, this is an explorative analysis of lesbian, gay, transgender, transsexual and intersex people's experiences of sport as well as a rigorous theoretical consideration of sociological and political issues. Bringing together in a single source an exciting array of contributions, this is an ideal source of inspiration for anyone involved in this rapidly growing field, and fills a need for an excellent introduction to the main themes and issues. -
In the Game
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Call Number: Available in library’s collection physically or as e-bookISBN: 9780791465349Publication Date: 2005-01-06Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity. 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Using interviews with openly gay and closeted team-sport athletes, Eric Anderson examines how homophobia is reproduced in sport, how gay male athletes navigate this, and how American masculinity is changing. By detailing individual experiences, Anderson shows how these athletes are emerging from their athletic closets and contesting the dominant norms of masculinity. From the locker rooms of high school sports, where the atmosphere of "don't ask, don't tell" often exists, to the unique circumstances that gay athletes encounter in professional team sports, this book analyzes the agency that openly gay athletes possess to change their environments.
About the Artist
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lucas Morneau (they/he) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Ktaqmtuk (Newfoundland). Employing drag as a central tool in their practice, Morneau blends textiles, photography, video, and sculpture to queer Newfoundland/Canadian cultural traditions, exploring gender performativity and challenging the dominance of heteronormative and patriarchal systems within Canada and Newfoundland.
Morneau has exhibited solo exhibitions throughout Canada, as well as exhibited in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Notable exhibitions include Queer Newfoundland Hockey League, at ODD Gallery in Dawson City, YK, Kamloops Art Gallery in Kamloops, BC, and Forest City Gallery in London, ON, and The Queer Mummer at Grenfell Art Gallery in Corner Brook, NL, Acadian University Art Gallery in Wolfville, NS, and Cape Breton University Art Gallery in Sydney, NS.
Morneau has participated in residencies across Canada, including Critical Mass’ 2021 Artist in Residence program in Port Hope, Ontario, the 41e Symposium international d‘art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec in 2023, and La Napoule Canadian Artist Residency in Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France in 2024.
Morneau has won multiple awards and honours, including the 2016 BMO 1st Art Award for Newfoundland and Labrador, the 2018 Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point Grant, the 2018 and 2021 Scotiabank New Generations Photography Award Shortlist, and the 2024 Sobey Art Award Longlist. They have also received multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, and ArtsNB.
Morneau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland—Grenfell Campus (2016) and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Saskatchewan (2018). They currently live in the Siknikt distric of Mi’kma’ki — Sackville, New Brunswick, where they work as the Production Manager for artist run-centre Struts Gallery.
Headshot photograph by Annie France Noël.
Further Recommended Reading List
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Who's Afraid of Gender? Solidarity, Radical Democracy, and the Global Politics of the Anti-Gender Ideology Movement: A Conversation with Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam
Call Number: Available through UWinnipeg Library’s collectionAn interview between Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam about Butler’s 2024 book Who’s Afraid of Gender? from GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies -
Paradoxes of Gender
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Call Number: Available through UW Library’s collection as ebookISBN: 9780585357775Publication Date: 1994-01-01In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist-who is also the founding editor of Gender & Society-challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.
