Julie LaLonde

Nov 25, 2024 | btlbooks.com | Julie LaLonde |Francis Dupuis-Déri |Melissa Bull

Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence $29.95 $23.96 20% off 240 pages ISBN 9781771136617 Ships by November 26, 2024 Shop Local Despite decades of activism by feminists and their allies, women and their children continue to be killed by their partners and former partners in shocking numbers, leading the federal government to describe intimate partner violence (IPV) as an epidemic in Canada. Why have we failed to respond effectively to a social problem that affects millions of...

Jul 11, 2024 | thespec.com | Julie LaLonde

I vividly remember reading my first Alice Munro. As a Canadian Studies major, I’d been assigned to read a short story of hers; a rite of passage for any CanLit nerd. “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” knocked my socks off. The writing was so beautiful, the characters so rich and then that gut punch of an ending. It sparked a lifelong love of short stories for me. Throughout her long career as a writer, she only wrote one novel.

Jan 19, 2023 | broadview.org | Julie LaLonde

CW: This story discusses sexual assault and online harassment and hate. Take care when reading. I got my first death threat online in 2011. I had written a personal essay about an experience of sexual assault and was immediately bombarded with hate messages. People called for me to be hanged, beaten in the town square and sterilized. Online harassment has gotten exponentially worse in the last decade or so, especially for women.