Katherine Govier @kmgovier.bsky.social
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new novel RED FUJI Nov 2024 Japan THREE SISTERS BAR & HOTEL, Founder, The Shoe Project. repped Inkwell. women's art, PENCanada, @kmgovier.bsky.social
Toronto
Joined July 2009
Video link to The Hurtig Lecture on the Future of Canada, given my yours truly now up https://t.co/ss04OFGXyG
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David Eby on Alberta separatists seeking assistance from the U.S.: "To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that. And that word is treason."
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‘I meant what I said:’ Carney stands by Davos speech despite U.S. claims, @stephanie_ha reports https://t.co/eNCwSpxaBQ Find out more at https://t.co/1zbPY5GAhV
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brilliant #womenartists
US quilting bees, where women communally created quilts, aided women's rights by providing a safe women-only space for shared ideas, economic empowerment, and political organisation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries #WomensArt #QuiltArtWeek
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Is "immersive historical fiction" now a thing? I like it! Thanks - to Mary and to Janie Chang.
NYT Top pick - The Printmaker’s Daughter by Katherine Govier 👏👏👏 @kmgovier
#womenwriters on #womenartists
https://t.co/FnjwWY3rC9
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The Printmaker's Daughter top pick in Immersive Historical Fiction
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The author Janie Chang recommends novels about people who push back against the expectations of their time.
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The Trump administration claims that Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was armed and a threat when agents shot him in the back and killed him. In fact, as best we can tell at this stage from the multiple videos, he was: a.) a Good Samaritan trying to help a small woman with a backpack
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Naomi Osaka makes a statement as she walks on court at the 2026 Australian Open. One of the boldest fashion choices in tennis history. WOW.
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Message from inside Iran: Please help us. The situation here is horrific. It is a full scale war. The regime’s forces show no mercy. They shoot protesters in the head and heart and even finish off those already wounded on the streets. In hospitals the wounded are being kidnapped
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The articulation of murder is never easy. As a political commentator I have never felt so helpless as I have over the past 48 hours trying to accurately represent the facts surrounding what happened to Renee Good. I went to bed last night mentally exhausted terrified that I had
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Watch the flood of people in Iran’s streets. More than 20 people have been killed. Thousands detained. Yet the people did not give up their fights. This is a nation refusing to surrender. World leaders, media, human rights organizations: do not stay silent. This is city of
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🔴 IRAN | BREAKING: Viral videos show massive anti-Islamist-regime protests underway in Marvdasht, with tens of thousands of pro-Shah protesters gathering & chanting for the removal of the Islamist regime and the return of Reza Shah II. Share this, and support the Iranian people.
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Message from Iran: This is Marvdasht. People are in the streets. The Islamic Republic is brutally cracking down. With every young person the Islamic Republic kills, our anger grows stronger. We must win, otherwise Khamenei will slaughter us all and hang us. Let the world hear our
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dizzying year, detailed here 👇
@Observer looks back on a year of profound change, marked by high-profile gallery closures, mounting institutional strain, a digital art renaissance and more.
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Masao Higashi, the Japanese literary critic, placed "Red Fuji and Otu" second place in his personal best ten novels for 2025. 📷 # い Kindle version is still half price. https://t.co/QSFycxle4e赤富士と応為、そしてボストンの男たち-RED-FUJI-キャサリン・ゴヴィエ-ebook/dp/B0G17RXP3Z
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Masao Higashi, the Japanese literary critic, placed "Red Fuji and Otu" second place in his personal best ten novels for 2025. 📷 # い Kindle version is still half price. https://t.co/QSFycxle4e赤富士と応為、そしてボストンの男たち-RED-FUJI-キャサリン・ゴヴィエ-ebook/dp/B0G17RXP3Z
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A traffic camera in Montreal caught this shot of a snowy owl in flight 🦉❄️
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It's happening. More women museum directors, affluent female collectors, women editors-in-chief, and decision making by women = more looking at #womenartists and more recognition. Then prices rise and the canon is rewritten. #AboutTime
With Rising Wealth, More Women Are Shaking Up the Art Market. The representation of women artists in the art market, and the price of their work, still lags behind their male peers. Can the buying power of younger collectors change that? By Kathryn Jully
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This is a strong and well-argued essay that should be seen. I agree with some- but not all of it.
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Getting the moral of the story wrong after the ‘King’ of identity scandals
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