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Sheila Baxter (born 1933) is an anti-poverty activist who has written several books about poverty and mental illness in Canada.
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[edit] Life
She became active in the anti-poverty movement in Quebec, Canada in 1970. Baxter also co-founded Chez Doris, a drop-in centre for women living on the streets of Montreal,[1] and has more recently been active in Vancouver, British Columbia as a counsellor and welfare advocate at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre.[2] Baxter is a poet, educator and author of five books on poverty and homelessness, and is currently active with the Vancouver City-Wide Housing Coalition.[3][4]
She read at the Vancouver Public Library.[5][6]
[edit] Awards
- VanCity Book Prize [7]
[edit] Works
- No Way to Live: Poor Women Speak Out (New Star Press, 1988) (Photos: Lori Gabrielson)
- Under the Viaduct: Homeless in Beautiful B.C. (New Star Press, 1991)
- A Child is Not a Toy: Voices of Children in Poverty (New Star Press, 1993)
- Still Raising Hell: Poverty, Activism and Other True Stories (Press Gang Publishers, 1997)
- Death in a Dumpster: A Passion Play for the Homeless (Lazara Press, 2006)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=95
- ^ http://lazarapress.ca/category/authors/sheila-baxter/
- ^ http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=95
- ^ http://www.newstarbooks.com/author.php?author_id=3142
- ^ Ruth Ozeki and Sheila Baxter Both at the Library
- ^ http://www.beyondrobson.com/theatre/2007/05/sheila_baxter_at_the_library_tonight/
- ^ http://www.bcbookworld.com/vancity/sheilabaxter.html
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