Stand Ins

Dempsey considers the works of five women artists in relation to female experience and our ambivalence towards the body. Through descriptive analyses of their pieces, Dempsey foregrounds tensions between surface beauty/subtext, play/labour and vulnerability/violence

In the Life : Portrait of a Modern Sex-Deviant

Employing photography and text in the format of 1960s Life magazine, Dempsey and Millan's book portrays a fictive lesbian gang in Winnipeg through the life of the "bull-dyke" Sally

Handbook of the Junior Lesbian Ranger

This humorous artist's book produced by Lesbian National Parks and Services (performance artists Dempsey and Millan) is modelled after a Brownies' guide book. Includes instructions on protecting the "lesbian ecosystem," starting a fire, tying knots and orienteering. Also includes a "Junior Lesbian Ranger" badge

Winnipeg : One Gay City!

Three postcards by Dempsey and Millan, each with the caption "Winnipeg One Gay City!" and a figure representing gay identity

Bedtime Stories for the Edge of the World

"Into their re-imaginings of colonial North American myths, artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have inserted women who question puritanical values of good and evil, right and wrong, and the sense of promise, space, resource, and opportunity that the so-called New World has traditionally implied. The eight short stories of this volume span the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, exploring the distinctly North American fictions that justice and equality exist, that infinite growth is feasible and desirable, and that anything is possible. Pirate queens, inventrixes and sideshow performers stumble through tall tales usually reserved for Lone Rangers and Horatio Algers; plucky spinsters, religious zealots, deities and office workers challenge well-worn fables that continue to shape North America’s notion of itself and its dreams for the future. These rollicking yarns of personal survival are set amidst shifting frontiers of power and possibility." -- Publisher's website

The Very Short Tale of Little Lezzie Borden

Dempsey and Millan rewrite the story of Lizzie Borden, the woman accused of killing her parents. The authors trace the protagonist's early years, foregrounding the tale's beginning because "it is when anything can still happen." Underlying themes include: lesbianism, hysteria, female roles and repression

Lesbian National Parks and Services : Wet, Wet, Wet! : The Prairies and You // Lesbian National Parks and Services : Bushfire Alert! : The Prairies and You

Millan and Dempsey's pamphlet on the "lesbian ecosystem" of the prairies includes information on floods, bushfires, and the history of the L.N.P.S.–devoted to "the creation of a positive environment in which lesbians of all genus and species can flourish.