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	Algorithms of Identity Lisa Bird-Wilson on why claiming status and being claimed is an important factor in Indigenous identity. By Lisa Bird-Wilson
	If I Was a Girl Ivan Coyote wonders if life would be different if they looked like a "real girl." By Ivan Coyote

Geist 108 Has Arrived! What's inside? Connie Kuhns looks at fifty years of reviews and interviews about Joni Mitchell. Lisa Bird-Wilson on claiming Indigenous identities and the Indian Act. The winners of the Erasure Poetry Contest. Special summer offer: subscribe to Geist for *4 issues at $24.95 and receive Geist* 108 FREE**. (Tax and shipping included!)

	Memory Loss Patty Osborne on Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter, a novel about a Cambodian refugee in Montreal coming to terms with survival and loss. By Patty Osborne
	Identity Crises Provincial identities inform our perceptions but what's really going on behind the tourism brochures? By Daniel Francis

THIS WEEK IN REVIEW Baskets Case Thad McIlroy on Zach Galifianakis's Baskets. More » Haunts Peggy Thompson on Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn. More » Wee, Small Hours Jill Mandrake on Smaller Hours by Kevin Shaw. More »

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