It consists of a lending library of books on trans themes and issues and a free library of non\u002Dtrans books.
The pickings were slim. For years the only book she could find at the Ottawa Public Library was Transvestites & Transexuals: Mixed Views by American sociologist Deborah Heller Feinbloom.
Later, she got a job in the Museum of Nature library. “There was a place I could live, I could grow in,” she said.Advertisement 3“I have an itch for social justice and I do what is meaningful for me personally,” said Sypniewski, who has been active in Ottawa’s transgender community since the 1980s and was one of the founding members of Ottawa’s Gender Mosaic in 1988.
It is also a philanthropic venture. Sypniewski has budgeted the money to pay the lease for two years and has an acquisitions budget to buy more books.Article content So far in July there have been a board game night, a clothing swap and a discussion of Michael Crichton’s 1975 The Great Train Robbery.
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