Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness
Join us for an urgent conversation with Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Fernwood 2017), about similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and at the border, articulating critical questions and strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in the current political moment.
Robyn Maynard is a Toronto-based writer and the author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017. The book is a CBC national bestseller, currently in its third printing, and has been widely acclaimed since it’s release, designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times, shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, and the winner of the 2018 Annual Errol Morris Book Prize. The book is also a finalist for two Quebec Writers Federation awards, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction. This work received a starred review in Publishers Weekly as well as glowing coverage in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, Now Toronto, Maclean’s, and the Ottawa Citizen. In the words of the Winnipeg Free Press: ““Every Canadian — black, white, Indigenous or otherwise — could benefit from reading Maynard’s frank and thorough assessment of racism in Canada.” In October 2018 the book was published in French with Mémoire d’encrier: NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage, répression et violence d’État au Canada, translated by Catherine Ego, and it is currently a finalist for the 2019 Prix de libraires in the category of “essais.”
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