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Bridget Saulnier
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"We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.'"
Screenshot of SNL's George Washington sketch from 10/28/23 with Nate Bargatze
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Flat times and the lifespan of urgency. open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
#ActivismFatigue #PoliticalOverwhelm #CommunityCare #Wintering #RestIsProductive #GentleMomentum #Burnout #Overwhelm #MentalHealth #Resilience #WritingLife #TorontoWriter
Flat times and the lifespan of urgency
Oh right, I used to write a Substack…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Such an honour to be featured on this podcast!
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Thanks so much to
@gpgottlieb.bsky.social for hosting me, and for featuring new literature!!
gpgottlieb.bsky.social gpgottlieb.bsky.social @gpgottlieb.bsky.social · Nov 25
Sarah Cartell was raised in a small town in Canada, in a family of white supremacists. As a college student, she decides to infiltrate a racist group so she can sabotage their despicable plans to hurt others, but her duplicity becomes unbearable.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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WHITE turned 1. Taking stock of my first year as a published fiction author. On #Substack:
"What Did I Expect? A few thoughts one year in".
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#AvivaRubin
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What Did I Expect?
A few thoughts one year in
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October 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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📻🎙 Tonight! On @howl895fm.bsky.social with @hollay.bsky.social.
howl895fm.bsky.social Howl @howl895fm.bsky.social · Oct 20
TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @Hollay2 talks to authors Aviva Rubin @avivarubin-author.bsky.social about her novel
“White” (RE:Reading Publishing) & Karen Smythe about her novel “A Town With No Noise” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!
October 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Can we talk about White neediness (mine)? You can read it on #substack here: 🔗 ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
Can we talk about White neediness (mine)?
Last spring as I was finalizing edits for WHITE, I started approaching folks to blurb the novel.
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February 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Shovelling out open.substack.com/pub/avivarub... #CommunityAction #SmallActions #UrbanCommunity @torontolifemag.bsky.social #torontolife #canadianflag #canadianwinter #centreville #neighbourhoodwatch #shovelling
Shovelling out
Many say that the first step to fighting the immeasurable nastiness with which a despicable few American politicians, cronies and their happy-to-watch minions are carpet bombing the many, is to start ...
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February 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The Homecoming – a 94 year old update
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The Homecoming – a 94 year old update
My dad got home last Tuesday after being away for two months.
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February 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Is there any chance it’s me being the asshole? bit.ly/Substack2Avi... #Substack
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#PersonalEssay #MentalHealth #SelfReflection #WritingCommunity #TheZoneOfInterest #ZoneOfInterest #TraumaHealing #TherapyJourney
Is there any chance it’s me being the asshole?
Human resistance to seeing ourselves
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December 23, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Confronting Homegrown Hate: Aviva Rubin in conversation with Aurélie Campana open-book.ca/Events/Confr...
Confronting Homegrown Hate: Aviva Rubin in conversation with Aurélie Campana
Open Book
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February 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Check out my new pot on seeking safe #bubbles in #toxic times. Sound familiar? "Laying My Own Eggs" #Substack #Canada #Pinot #tariffs #author #writersofbluesky #family #aging #parents #caregiving #anxiety #politics #eggs #personalessay #mentalhealth #currentevents open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
Photo of author Aviva Rubin and her mother, Roda with the title of her Substack Post "Laying My Own Eggs: The Chaos I Know And What I Can Do About It". It includes the first line of the post "I know things are really bad when the easiest place to be is with my parents".
March 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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How is the changing world order affecting your sleep? @avivarubin-author.bsky.social shares her fitful state: EOW Dreams open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Two books – multiple conversations open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
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#CanadianAuthors #IndiePublishing #Substack #PoliticalFiction #Nonfiction #FarRight #BookLaunch #AuthorLife #JewishVoices #Storytelling #research @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social #RE:Books
Two books – multiple conversations
I’m just back from Montreal where Paragraphe Bookstore hosted a double launch for my novel WHITE, and The Great Right North – Inside Far Right Activism in Canada, co-authored by Laval University Profe...
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April 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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WHITE by @avivarubin-author.bsky.social has been reviewed by @selenamercuri.bsky.social for TSR. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/white-by-a... #canlit
March 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Is no news ever good news? open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
#NewsFatigue #WriterLife #NoNewsIsBadNews #CultureCritique #DemocracyWatch #StayInformed
#MediaOverload #ThinkOutLoud #CanadianWriter #shockinglyimpressed #envious #disappointed #disgusted
Is no news ever good news?
I don’t know whether I’m shockingly impressed, envious, disappointed or disgusted when people tell me they’ve stopped consuming news or are doing their best not to.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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On Envy, Regret and Just Plain Wanting. My new post on #Substack #Envy #Regret #writerscommunity #writers open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
On Envy, Regret and Just Plain Wanting
I’ve been thinking about envy.
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April 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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My review of "Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors" by Grace Feuerverger (Amsterdam Publishers) is up on @theseaboardreview.ca #BookReview
#Holocaust #Memoir #SecondGeneration #Literature #writerscommunity
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Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Grace Feuerverger
Reviewed by Aviva Rubin
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April 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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My review of "Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity" by Gary Barwin on @theseaboardreview.ca www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/imagining-... #bookreview #booksky #writingcommunity #canlit #cdnBooks #CanadianAuthors #CanadaReads
Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity by Gary Barwin
Reviewed by Aviva Rubin
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April 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Envy 2.0 - The stuff grows back
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Envy 2.0 - The stuff grows back
It’s distressing, comforting and flattering that my last post hit home with all sorts of people.
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April 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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You can’t plan for relief. But it sure feels good.

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#PersonalEssay #CanadianPolitics #FamilyDynamics
#AgingParents #JewishPerspective #Anxiety
#ElectionThoughts #IntergenerationalConversations
#TorontoPolitics #PoliticalDifferences #Substack
You can’t plan for relief. But it sure feels good.
I’m so worried.
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May 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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“May It Have a Happy Ending: A Memoir of Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers” by Minelle Mahtani

The Seaboard Review of Books
Review of the Week: May 12, 2025

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May It Have a Happy Ending: A Memoir of Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers by Minelle Mahtani
Reviewed by Aviva Rubin
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May 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – by Omar El Akkad open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – by Omar El Akkad
A review and a plea
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May 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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And now for something a little lighter – I have pneumonia open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...

#SubstackWriter #PersonalEssay #WritingCommunity #DarkHumor #AuthorLife #VulnerableWriting #BookLaunch #Storytelling #CanadianWriter #WriterLife #humour #humor #Pneumonia
And now for something a little lighter – I have pneumonia
I believe this is the second Substack piece that could be categorized as, you know the world is fucked when…
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May 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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"Our newest episode of Totally Biased Reviews featured Aviva Rubin - Author talking about her book, WHITE, with Asha Dore.
...grab a copy of this thrilling, important book!" 20 min interview: www.parleylit.com/review-aviva...
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storytelling is a performance
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June 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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More in a life of homecomings on #Substack open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
#SubstackWriter #PersonalEssay #AgingParents #CaregivingJourney #FamilyDynamics #WritingCommunity #VulnerableWriting #AuthorLife #FatherDaughter #CanadianWriter #WritersofBluesky #AvivaRubin #TorontoAuthor #TorontoWriter
More in a life of homecomings
As I begin to write this, my dad Murray is in the Wheel Trans taxi heading home from his latest stint in rehab.
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June 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM