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Aviva Rubin - Author
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I am a Toronto-based writer of memoir, essays and social commentary. My work has been broadly published. WHITE is my debut novel. Follow me on Substack!
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Aviva Rubin - Author @avivarubin-author.bsky.social · Feb 28
📚 Friends! Let's connect on #Instagram @aviva_rubin_author www.instagram.com/aviva_rubin_... & #Substack avivarubinauthor.substack.com

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Welcome to the land of mixed metaphors where I will dump and/or carefully place a few sweet (and some sour) nothings for your consumption and comment. Click to read Aviva's Substack, a Substack public...
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"The end of the world as we know it – again: I haven’t posted in a while. It’s not that I don’t know what to say, but rather that I don’t know what not to say – bombarded as we all are with myriad calamities that demand reactions..."

#Antisemitism
#JewishLife
#StandAgainstHate
#Empathy
The end of the world as we know it – again.
It’s the season for wishing good riddance to the year that has been, and pleading to God, or whoever we plead to, that the next one will be better. Given recent history, that plea feels more like temp...
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December 28, 2025 at 2:49 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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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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📻🎙 Tonight! On @howl895fm.bsky.social with @hollay.bsky.social.
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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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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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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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Confusing Solidarity with Orthodoxy on #Substack: open.substack.com/pub/avivarub... @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social #rachaelbedard #ezrakleinshow #solidarity #orthodoxy
Confusing Solidarity with Orthodoxy
“Don’t confuse solidarity with orthodoxy.” That’s what guest Dr.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A Place For People Like Us by Danila Botha www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/a-place-fo... @danilabotha.bsky.social
A Place For People Like Us by Danila Botha
Reviewed by Aviva Rubin
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September 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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#Toronto friends!
Mon, Sept 15 · 6:30 PM I’ll be at Toronto Reference Library (Beeton Hall, 789 Yonge St) in conversation with Phillip Dwight Morgan. Would love to see you there!
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#TorontoPublicLibrary #TorontoEvents #AvivaRubin #PhillipDwightMorgan
Event poster: ‘Rooting Out Hate at Home.’ Aviva Rubin in conversation with Phillip Dwight Morgan. Monday, September 15, 2025, 6:30 PM. Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Hall, 789 Yonge Street. Photos of Aviva Rubin and Phillip Dwight Morgan and the cover of WHITE.
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Should we stop yelling at Mark Carney? open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...

#CdnPoli #OntarioPolitics #CanadianPolitics #Canada
Should we stop yelling at Mark Carney?
The risks in moderation
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August 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🎙️ Such an honour and a bit of a trip to be interviewed by @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social for @thewalrus.ca podcast, What Happens Next!!

🔗https://shows.acast.com/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8/6896343df9482328d018aa8a
August 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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My father and Victoria Mboko: A decade-long tennis dream comes true
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My father and Victoria Mboko: A decade-long tennis dream comes true
Contributed by Aviva Rubin to Opinion, The Globe and Mail.
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August 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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OPINION: My father and Victoria Mboko: A decade-long tennis dream comes true
Aviva Rubin
Contributed to @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: My father and Victoria Mboko: A decade-long tennis dream comes true
Before she conquered the field at the National Bank Open, the Canadian tennis star won my father Murray Rubin’s under-10 tournament at the age of 7. The rest is history
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August 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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This Is Me Standing Up #Substack open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
This Is Me Standing Up
Can I talk to the Jews for a minute please?
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August 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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No Off-Ramp
Are boundaries and balance really all they’re cracked up to be?
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No Off-Ramp
Are boundaries and balance really all they’re cracked up to be?
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July 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Braced for hate 🚨 Trigger warning – this piece contains vile antisemitic language and threats of violence.

Finally, some of the hate I braced for.

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#Substack #Antisemitism #OnlineHate #WhiteSupremacy #JewishVoices #JewishWriter #WritingCommunity #CounteringHate
Braced for hate
Trigger warning – this piece contains vile antisemitic language and threats of violence.
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July 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Leah Eichler and Aviva Rubin in conversation about WHITE, Rubin's debut novel
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Leah Eichler and Aviva Rubin in conversation about WHITE, Rubin's debut novel
We don't talk about the rise of white supremacy in Canada enough. Rubin's WHITE sparks that conversation.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"I’m so itchy...So what’s the deal with the bug appeal?"

➡️ Read the post on Substack!

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I'm So Itchy
I’m so itchy.Thanks for reading Aviva's Substack!
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July 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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"Here I am. Growing up. Again. Learning to navigate, master and matter. Again.

And what to wear?"

'A Fresh Opportunity to "Grow Up"' is now live on Substack:

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A fresh opportunity to “grow up”
Here I am.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Wendy Coburn: How has it been ten years? #memorial #friendship #grief #remembrance #loss #tribute #anniversary #inmemoram #healing #wendycoburn #writing
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Wendy Coburn: How has it been ten years?
June 15, 2015
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June 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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More in a life of homecomings on #Substack open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...
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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
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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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And now for something a little lighter – I have pneumonia open.substack.com/pub/avivarub...

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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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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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“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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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