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Item Open Access Managing Cultural Specificity and Universality in Trey Anthony’s Da Kink in My Hair and Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience(2024-05-03) Lomibao, Adelvida AmorIn Da Kink in My Hair and Kim’s Convenience, Trey Anthony and Ins Choi respectively represent different ethnic spaces situated within a larger dominant white society. The setting of both the Caribbean hair salon and Korean-owned convenience store provides representations of and insights into underrepresented peoples. While both the hair salon and convenience stores are run and operated by ethnic Canadian hyphenates, they differ in who is granted entrance. For the salon, being a black woman is a prerequisite to access but anyone from off the street (literally) may enter the convenience store. Da Kink in My Hair is the story of black women; Kim’s Convenience is universal. The women of the hair salon retreat from society even if temporarily. The Kim family is demonstrative of the Canadian value of multiculturalism, shedding Asians’ status as the perpetual outsider. While both are set in Toronto, the two plays’ settings, the black hair salon and the Korean-owned convenience store offer two different responses to being made foreign by the dominant white society: create a safe space with and for your fellow black women, or acculturate and be a cornerstone (or corner store!) in your Canadian neighbourhood.Item Open Access Working on Blood Relations and The Rez Sisters with an Axe and a Hammer(2023-11-28) Lomibao, Adelvida AmorSharon Pollock’s Blood Relations and Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters are seminal Canadian plays that follow the lives of women who feel trapped and examine how they react to their circumstances. The characters Lizzie Borden and Pelajia Patchnose are both women who desire to escape from the restrictive patriarchal home or the opportunityless reserve. These two women also famously wield weapons: Lizzie Borden took an axe and Pelajia has her hammer. This difference in weapons is reflective of these women's differing approaches to combatting the violence they experience. Axes break but hammers fix. While both women suffer under the patriarchy, Pelajia’s experience as an Indigenous, less financially fortunate woman adds different shades of oppression. Despite this, Pelajia has something Lizzie sorely lacks: love for her family. These differences manifest themselves in the women’s weapons of choice. Lizzie Borden uses the axe to violently remove her obstacles, whereas Pelajia uses her trusty hammer to slowly repair what is broken.