Fighting Facebook censorship and body shaming plus more arts stories you might have missed

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These are the week's can't-miss stories:

'It's nudity. It's not sexuality': Facebook bans photographer for naked mannequin photos (CBC News)

The good news: Guelph photographer Julia Busato's latest series has gone viral on Facebook. The bad news: it keeps getting reported for "nudity." The images — which feature models of all body types posing behind naked mannequins — don't actually contain visible nudity on the part of the models, but that hasn't stopped people from flagging them or Facebook from removing them and temporarily banning Busato from posting on the site. But despite the setbacks and negative comments, Busato is more determined than ever to continue the series. "It's not stopping me," she told CBC News. "I just want everybody to all feel good about themselves."

Drake's global sound under fire for cultural appropriation (The Current)

Appreciation or appropriation? That's the debate Drake's new album — or, ahem, "playlist" — has sparked with its multicultural array of sounds. The Current invited writers on all sides of the aisle to weigh in on the issue, with some arguing that the Toronto rapper needs to do more to credit those global influences but others countering that his music is "really just an amalgamation of all these different people and cultures." And now CBC Arts has jumped into the conversation as well: check out this piece from writer Lindsey Addawoo on the playlist's "global sonic journey" and what responsibility Drake has to his audience.

Julia, a Muppet with autism, moving onto Sesame Street (CBC News)

Sesame Street's newest neighbour isn't just monumental because she's the first Muppet in the last ten years to move in. Julia has red hair, green eyes — and autism. And she's joined the show to teach children about those on the spectrum, showing viewers both what makes her unique and the ways that she's just like any other kid. Stacey Gordon, the puppeteer who voices Julia, is perfect for the role too: she has a son with autism, and she says the show's portrayal is exactly what she wishes her son's friends could have seen growing up.

After a stroke, the decades-long relationship between a poet and her therapist enters a new chapter (The Sunday Edition) 

"It didn't start out as love…
it started as watching,
one's sightings in the telescope
the other's findings from the microscope."

That's an excerpt from the new book Molly Peacock has just published inspired by her former therapist Joan Stein. Peacock was Stein's patient for decades — but after Stein had a stroke in 2012, their work relationship blossomed into a wonderful friendship. The Sunday Edition produced a touching documentary on the pair — and you might want to get out the tissues for this one.

Watch the Canada Reads book trailers (CBC Books)

Canada's annual battle of the books is underway! In the leadup to the debates — which kicked off today — CBC Books published trailers for each of the novels in this year's competition. If you didn't have time to read all five, this will get you up to speed in time for the rest of the week's literary crusades. Why are you still reading this? Get watching!

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