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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist, joins us on this week's episode of Below the Radar. Am Johal and Leanne chat about her creative process, the significance of Nishnaabeg thought and practice in her work, and some upcoming projects including her newest book Theory of Water, set to be published in Spring of 2025. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/253-leanne-simpson.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/253-leanne-simpson.html Resources: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/ Leanne Simpson: Listening in Our Present Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VhckgLYX3k Episode 122: Theory of Ice — with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/122-leanne-betasamosake-simpson.html Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: https://arpbooks.org/product/dancing-on-our-turtles-back/ As We Have Always Done: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517903879/as-we-have-always-done/ Bio: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and academic, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the boundaries between story and song—bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity. Leanne has performed in venues and festivals across Canada with her sister singer songwriter Ansley Simpson and guitarist Nick Ferrio. Leanne's second album, f(l)light, was released in 2016 and is a haunting collection of story-songs that effortlessly interweave Simpson's complex poetics and multi-layered stories of the land, spirit, and body with lush acoustic and electronic arrangements. Her EP Noopiming Sessions combines readings from her novel Noopiming with soundscapes composed and performed by Ansley Simpson and James Bunton with a gorgeous video by Sammy Chien and the Chimerik Collective. It was produced during the on-going social isolation of COVID-19 and was released on Gizhiiwe Music in the Fall of 2020. Leanne is the author of seven books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which won the MacEwan University Book of the Year; was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award; was long listed for CBC Canada Reads; and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Quill & Quire. Her new novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies was released by the House of Anansi Press in the fall of 2020 and in the US by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and was named one of the Globe and Mail's best books of the year and was short listed for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. A Short History of the Blockade was released by the University of Alberta Press in early 2021. Her new project with Robyn Maynard, Rehearsals for Living will be released in 2022 by Knopf Canada. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Theory of Water — with Leanne Simpson.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 8, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/253-leanne-simpson.html.

“The immediacy of the crisis that we're in demands a new society and not in some imagined future, but now,” says Rehearsals for Living co-author Robyn Maynard. In this episode, Kelly talks with Maynard and David K. Seitz, author of A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine, about the radical legacy of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and how science fiction can shape our politics. Music: Son Monarcas, Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen & Howard Harper-Barnes You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: truthout.org/series/movement-memos/ If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter

“If you're trying to destroy things that are as massive as the structures and the institutions that we talk about wanting to get rid of, that we talk about wanting to overthrow, you're going to have to sustain yourself,” says organizer and author William C. Anderson. In this episode, Kelly takes a trip to the Northwest Territories and talks with Anderson, Robyn Maynard, Harsha Walia, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mahdi Sabbagh, and others about the crises of trauma, grief, and overwhelm in our communities, and the kind of healing activists need to stay in the fight.  Music: ​Son Monarcas, Leela Gilday & Wiiliideh Drummers You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: truthout.org/audio/let-this-conversation-with-mariame-kaba-radicalize-you/ If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter

We must figure out what liberation could look like so everyone can live the life they deserve. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, which compiles letters written by the authors to each other analyzing the histories, lived experiences, and struggles of Black and Indigenous communities around the world and offering possibilities for abolition and more liberatory futures, and what we take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work for collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Patreon, Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Leave us a voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch store⁠⁠

“We know that capitalism, which is already racial, gendered and violent, is not inevitable. And there's nothing natural about it,” says Robyn Maynard. In this episode, host Kelly Hayes talks with Rehearsals for Living authors Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about about organizing and parenting amid catastrophe, and how organizers can build new worlds, even as the worlds we know collapse around us. You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: bit.ly/movementmemos If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter Music: Son Monarcas, Moulins, Frank Jonsson, Michael Keeps, Martin Landh & Chill Cole

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg author, scholar, writer, advocate, and musician, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses the 2022 bestseller, Rehearsals for Living, which she co-wrote with Robyn Maynard, Indigenous and Black people's shared lived experiences and perspectives, parenting and pedagogy, all of the coups, loving Dr. Clarence J. Munford, abolition, hope, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad's Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches in the department of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. She's the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. In Rehearsals for Living, Robyn Maynard describes El as a “Black liberation visionary and long-time prison abolitionist [who] was nourishing abolitionist freedom dreams for years before the public would listen.” Since 2016, El has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on CKDU-FM. We talk about the important role that show played in producing the sorts of bonds that allowed for more substantial and sustained prison organizing. El explains how the show translated into building relationships, which translated into legal advocacy, a significant prison strike, and the creation of a manifesto demanding justice for those behind bars. The show led to the creation of a “kind of trust where” people like Abdoul Abdi could get to know El, feel connected, and from positions where they are made to feel utterly disconnected from the rest of the world. El's been on the podcast before, but this is a special occasion, because she's just put out a book that represents, as she's put it elsewhere, her “life's work.” The book, which you should order from Fernwood right now, is called Abolitionist Intimacies. It's started to appear on a number of lists of the best nonfiction books of 2022, and it is a difficult-to-describe intervention. As El describes it, the different parts of the book, the different approaches to writing in it, are kind of “in conversation with each other;” she says that different images and events “preoccupy” her throughout and tend to show up again and again in this iterative, poetic, meditative way. But the main idea of the book, she states very simply, is “friendship,” it's about love. What is by no means simple, though, is the book's preoccupation with the barriers to that friendship and love. Those barriers are not housed in the hearts and minds of the incarcerated, she says, but in the phone system that makes it near impossible to maintain communication with the world, the guards who police contact in the prison, the administrators who ban people from coming in. El is asking: How can anything like intimacy be sustained under those conditions? One way that she has cultivated over time is by thinking a lot about the power and the intimacy of voice. So much of Abolitionist Intimacies is about voice, voices heard over the phone, over the radio. There is so much joy there. And pain, too. Someone's voice, and the feeling of connection, can change your day. Take you away. There are some indelible moments in El's book where she documents exactly this sort of witnessing: witnessing the strength of connections across borders and through walls. Against the tyranny of a carceral society. And she points out that changing the world we have is within our grasp, even if it's difficult to imagine. Like, she admits that “it's difficult to live a different kind of life.” Of course it is. But the point is that it can be done, just not through separated acts of individual behaviour change. It has to happen collectively. Sacrifices, in her words, are also blessings.

A conversation with authors Andrea Ritchie, Robyn Maynard, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. As movements to defund and divest from policing and invest in community safety expand in the wake of the 2020 Uprisings, abolitionist organizers are increasingly grappling with questions around the role of the state in abolitionist futures. Where do we want funds diverted from police budgets to go: into other institutions currently controlled by the carceral state, to subsidize the creation of new state entities, or into community-based organizations? What actions and behaviors do we think should be regulated by the state? How should they be regulated? How do we think resources should be distributed? These are not just theoretical questions - they shape the sites of struggle we choose, our organizing objectives and strategies, and the contexts in which they unfold. Organizers Robyn Maynard, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explore these questions and more through Black feminist and Indigenous frameworks in their recently released books No More Police: A Case for Abolition and Rehearsals for Living. Get a copy of No More Police: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781620977323 Get a copy of Rehearsals for Living: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto and the author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe. Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant police misconduct attorney and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy have focused on the policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is the co-founder of, most recently, Interrupting Criminalization and the author of many books, including "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" (Beacon Press 2017). Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of seven books, including her 2021 novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/tqaz90hfGhk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

In this conversation Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson return to the podcast for the second conversation on their book Rehearsals For Living (part one is here). This conversation was recorded in late October, about a month after recording the first part. Most of these questions were conversations from the reading which we just weren't able to ask during our first conversation due to time constraints.  In this conversation we talk more about architects of climate catastrophe in Toronto, about fascist monsters, and we talk about cooptation and elite capture. We also discuss moments of intense spectacle and important organizing and world-making that takes place all the time outside of the light of media attention. Robyn reflects on the spread of abolitionist ideas into the mainstream and Leanne discusses prominent scholarship within settler colonial studies in the academy and the disconnect between that and indigenous forms of knowledge. Once again, Rehearsals for Living is a really powerful read and we encourage you to pick it up from Haymarket Books or from your local bookstore. As we release this episode, we're just 2 patrons away from hitting our goal for the month of November, which was to add 30 patrons to make up for non-renewals and continue to grow. If you appreciate conversations like this and the other 175 episodes of this podcast, you can help sustain our work at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

In this conversation we speak with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  Robyn is the author of the bestselling and award-winning book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. She is also an assistant professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at University of Toronto. She also has a lengthy history of writing about and organizing with social movements against borders, state violence and for abolition. Leanne is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician, and member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of seven books including A Short History of the Blockade and As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. In this conversation we discuss their latest book Rehearsals for Living. This will be part 1 of a 2 part discussion with the authors. Robyn and Leanne discuss world-endings and world-building as realities and practices of Black and Indigenous existence and resistance. They talk about grappling with building a necessary relationality and solidarity between Black and Indigenous movements in so-called Canada as well as internationally against white supremacy, capitalism, settler colonialism and other structures of violence and domination. They also talk about ways of living that are necessary to recall and to continue or renew practices of in the face of already existing climate change and devastation. And they discuss how social movements build upon each other continuing to produce knowledge that grows and sustains and builds their capacity for stronger bonds of solidarity and more effective modes of resistance.  As a note there is a portion of this episode and of Rehearsals for Living that builds on a conversation we published with Stefano Harney and Fred Moten back in July of 2020. Here is a link to that conversation for anyone who wants that context or wants to revisit it after hearing Leanne's reflections. Rehearsals for Living is a really powerful read and we encourage you to pick it up from Haymarket Books or from your local bookstore. This is our fourth episode of the month, we've just hit our goal of adding 25 patrons for the month. We want to thank everyone who signed up to support the show this month. It is only through the support of our listeners through patreon that we are able to sustain this work. If you would like to join them in supporting the show and its hosts and continue to grow our work, you can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism.

Join Robyn Maynard & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a discussion on abolitionist horizons for a world in crisis, hosted by Naomi Murakawa. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life. Get Rehearsals for Living from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living --------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto, and the author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present. Her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of seven books, including her 2021 novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of racial inequality in 20th and 21st century American politics, with specialization in crime policy and the carceral state. She is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. She is the editor of the Abolitionist Papers book series at Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/tyi8oO4oU5U Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

We discuss the new book by Robyn Maynard (@policingblack) & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about abolition from Black and Indigenous movements. Out now from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living

Hear how a series of letters between two women who'd only met a few times became part of the genesis for a new book by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard called Rehearsals for Living. This is their conversation with Portia.

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss The Measure, Our Crooked Hearts, Beasts of Prey, and more great books. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. And sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Measure by Nikki Erlick  Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert Valentina Salazar is Not a Monster Hunter by Zoraida Córdova American Royalty by Tracey Livesay Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe  Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick projects what the end of Roe v. Wade could mean for future legal protections, David Sedaris tells tales from his new book Happy-Go-Lucky, philosopher Emily Thomas ruminates on our post-pandemic desire to travel, and writers Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson share their pandemic letters. Tell us what you think of our podcast by filling out this short survey: https://www.cbc.ca/1.6498021.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard on Rehearsals for Living, Buffy Sainte-Marie on Tâpwê and the Magic Hat and The Next Chapter Children's books with Michele Landsberg, Ken Setterington and Bee Quammie, and more.

Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press 2021) is about the displacement of Indigeneity in the discourse around race in American political theory, with settler memory being about recognizing or acknowledging the history of Indigenous peoples in colonialism, and then disavowing the active presence of settler colonialism and Indigenous politics in the present. Am and Kevin discuss how Black theorists, like James Baldwin, discuss Indigeneity in their politics, and how tensions can arise between different conceptions of land, history, and identity. Kevin's overall project is to link antiracism with anticolonialism, which shows through in the conversation.. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/173-kevin-bruyneel.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/173-kevin-bruyneel.html Resources: Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States by Kevin Bruynee: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665238/settler-memory/ Bacon's Rebellion: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/bacons-rebellion-1676/ W.E.B. Du Bois: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dubois/ James Baldwin: https://nmaahc.si.edu/james-baldwin The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-white-possessive Layli Long Soldier: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/layli-long-soldier Dr. Kim TallBear: https://kimtallbear.com/ Cristina Sharpe: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/cesharpe/ Cedric Robinson: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/robinson-cedric-j/ I Am Not Your Negro: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/i-am-not-your-negro/ Kyle Mays: https://www.kyle-mays.com/ Afro Pessimism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimism Frank Wilderson: https://www.frankbwildersoniii.com/about/ Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/ Robyn Maynard: https://robynmaynard.com/ Stuart Hall: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/hall-stuart/ Kēhaulani Kauanui: https://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/ Jean M. O'Brien: https://shekonneechie.ca/biographies/jean-obrien/ Lee Maracle: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lee-maracle-death-bc-indigenous-writer-poet-1.6245582 Jodi Byrd: https://as.cornell.edu/news/new-faculty-jodi-byrd Campuses and Colonialism: https://www.oah.org/insights/opportunities-for-historians/cfp-campuses-and-colonialism-symposium/ Malinda Maynor Lowery: http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lowery-malinda-maynor.html Stephen Kantrowitz: https://history.wisc.edu/people/kantrowitz-stephen/ Alyssa Mt. Pleasant: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/africana-and-american-studies/faculty/faculty-directory/mt-pleasant.html

When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and musician, and Robyn Maynard, a Canadian writer and scholar, and author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity. They had a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Focusing on her first letter, Simpson shares her experiences of this transformative collaboration in her virtual talk “Rehearsals for Living: My First Letter.”

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar and writer. She has worked over two decades as an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices and currently teaches at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning in Denendeh. Simpson is the author of numerous books including As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (2017), the novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020), A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin (2021), and the forthcoming Rehearsals for Living with Robyn Maynard. Simpson will give a virtual talk on Rehearsals for Living on April 5th, 2022, as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2021–2022 Clark Lecturer.

Angela:You I have I've had troubles with the word microaggression, I've had troubles with it for quite some time. We hear, I think I've been hearing it more and more over the last few years in particular, the last year, I've been hearing it a lot more in the workplace. And because people are trying to be woke or aware, but the reality of living it, it's not micro,Patty:right. it's not meaningless.Angela:And so when we, for me, when we talk about it as a micro thing, the parallel is that when somebody is behaving that way, it becomes a dialogue or a narrative of that person's too sensitive, or I didn't mean anything by it. So I don't know what the big deal about it is, or, well, you know, she's just bringing it up, because she's hurt. And it's not, it's not about being hurt, it's about every instance of those things that have transpired over your life for a long period of time, continuing to open a wound of a larger viewpoint that you don't belong, or there's something not quite right with you, or those, we have to contain you, as opposed to the larger picture that you're not wanted to hear. And, or you're not wanted to be a participant in that society, or that structure in within the society.And so, for me, when I've been looking at this end, a lot of my writing over the last year has been about microaggressions, because of experiencing it, and while, you know, a lot lot different areas of my life. I go back to the beginning point of erasure. So, the eraser of, of my identity. So you know, being born, being taken from my Black mother, my birthday being changed, my name being changed, and my Black mother not being allowed to take me back to Jamaica, or make arrangements for me to go to Jamaica, because realizing that it's, she's going to lose me, right?So, and then that whole erasure are going to a small community where there's no people of color. And so I think one of the biggest macro regressions you can do to transracial adoptee, is to put them in a white family and not have any mentors. And, and so in that, you know, that whole, it becomes a series of events from from earlier in your childhood, basically, from your birth, to try to unpack, and try to find a place within living in a social structure that doesn't include you. And so how do we find that?So, you know, my writing is about that, but it's also that place of moving from that place to a place of where do you find your place within all of that, so that you can actually have good mental health? Is that possible? You know, and what is the generational impact of that?When I watched my, my son growing up, and facing these horrible aggressions, as a Black Indigenous child, young man, he's not a child. He's a young man.And I was, you know, I was gonna, with all that, you know, been paying attention to and relistening to interviews from in particular Robin Maynard and Desmond Cole, and defund the police. I’ve been listening to a lot of that lately. And I was framing an essay around around the police involvement in my life, and what and the transition of that from being a young young girl in kindergarten to late teens, early 20s. And that, and that experience, and so I never really thought much about it. But I've thought more and more about it by watching my son get stopped by the police. Recently, you know, in, in his teenage years, he shared with me recently that the reason he decided to go bald, from the time he was like 14 to 20 was because he found that he got stopped less by the police. So, I thought, yeah, and it didn't help. He still got stopped a lot. As he's got a look that people quite don't know. You know what he is right? Which is really a horrible thing to say. But that's,Patty: I don't know, they don't know where he belongs,  do you belong in this neighborhood? Or do you work in this neighborhood? What do you look like, you know, do you look like the people who live here? Do you look like the people who work here? You know, do you look like the people who you know who I think are going to be dangerous here. You know? Who have no business being here.In the book Traces of History that I did that I just finished, he, he quotes a woman who's saying, you know, when we talk about dirt? Well, all we're really talking about is things out of place. Right? That's all we're really talking about, you know, you know, things are, you know, I don't particularly object to dirt, you know, being out in my yard, I don't want it, I don't want it in my living room, I'm gonna vacuum it, I'm gonna say that it's dirty, you know, or dust or, you know, any of the things that my dogs drag like they have their place.And you know, and as, you know, racially marginalized people we're dirt, we're out of place. And we know, you know, so you know, to be racially marginalized, in the colonial West, is to be forever out of place, you know, whether you're Black or Indigenous, or some combination, you're out of place, you know, you're meant to be erased, you're meant to be moved around, you're meant to be, you know, you're meant to serve, particularly, you know, serve sort of particular purposes.And, and I am increasingly using the term racially marginalized, as opposed to just racialized because when I say that somebody is racialized, I'm still centering whiteness as not being racialized. Right? And, you know, so it's more words, and it takes up more, you know, more characters on Twitter. But yeah, that's okay. But I feel like, you know, that's just something because when I, because that's what we were racially marginalized, and it's the race has pushed us to the margins and centered whiteness, but their whiteness is racialized as well to its own purpose. So that's just kind of explaining a little bit about my language.Angela:Well, I like that when you say “to its own purpose” to clarify, because I think that that's important in when we share and talk about our stories into in particular, and I'll use your term racially marginalized. And, you know, I really wanted to talk about the police stuff, because it occurred to me how early that involvement is, like, I never really thought about it.But when I was working on this essay, I was talking about, you know, when I, when I was five years old, I was pretty determined young person, which probably got me a lot of trouble with my mother. But I was very determined so. And I really liked school. I like being at school much more than I like being in my parents’ home. So I was just set to go to school, and it was a PD day or some holiday or something. So I got up. And my, you know, mind you, my parents had three kids, they adopted four Black kids, so they, you know, and I was the youngest, so they somehow missed me in that whole thing. So I got dressed, and I went to school. And I didn't even notice that there wasn't anybody else. Any kids walking to school, I was just on my own determined to get to see my kindergarten teacher because I loved her, I was absolutely in love with this teacher. So anyways, I get to the school. And there's no school, I can't get into school. And I feel that I'm locked out. Like, I feel like nobody wanted me. So I'm crying. And I'm trying to get into school, and I'm banging on the doors. And finally I decide to leave and I'm walking up the path to go back to my parents house and a police car shows up. And the police says, “Are you Angela?” And I said, “Yes.” “Your mother's looking for you.” So I get in the back of the car, and I go home.And so the idea is framed in my mind is that the police saved me they from what I'm not sure, but they saved me from something. And you know, a couple years later, my favorite bike, my parents bought me this bike and I love this bike was stolen one weekend when we were away. So when we got back from this trip, the first thing I wanted to see is if my bike was okay, so I run and get, I look for my bike and it's not there. So my parents called the police and two weeks later they find my bike. And I overhear the conversation with the police. And what they say to the to my parents is we found in somebody’s back yard, not off the Herkimer drive and and they were “known to us.” So this is a very this is a key that they were “known to us.”So years go by and I'm 12/13 years old, and I'm out playing with my friends and my parents knew where I was the police show up. And they the police knew exactly where I was. So my parents knew exactly where I was, but they called the police to come and get me to bring me home rather than getting into the car. And this is what I'm setting up and what you know, Robyn Maynard talks about in terms of the police being involved with, you know, overly involved with people that are in care, right. And my parents used the police as part of their parenting, so they the police would show up and bring me home.And it and it didn't occur to me at the time, like I was embarrassed that this wasn't happening to any my white friends. So I was the only Black kid there, I was the only person of color. And so the police would come, and they would pick me up and take me home. And every now and again, my father would joke about well, I was at the mall, well, we weren't sure if we needed to call the police to come and get you. And as we got a bit older, my mother she had, by this point, she'd gone back to school. And later, in probably 48-ish, she went back to school, got her grade 12 became a social worker, and became very involved the police because she, part of her work was investigating social welfare fraud at the time.So she continued to use the police to parent her Black children. So, every time I use the phone, there was a card by the phone, it was taped to the wall that had inspector so and so's name. And it got to the point where I stopped using that phone, I wouldn’t go downstairs and use the phone because I always saw that I move out of the house when I was 16. I'm on my own, I get into some trouble. Not bad trouble. But I get into some trouble. I was drunk and I broke somebody’s door and you know, stupid teen stuff. But this person where I'm staying called the police, because I broke the door rather than have a conversation with me. She called the police. And so the first thing that police said to her, “Oh, we know Angela Gray, she's known to us.” And this person tells me that and I'm thinking how am I known to them. I've never been arrested. I've never shoplifted not at that time. But by that point, like I'd never been arrested. You know, the only involvement that they had with me was because of my parents’ use of them to help parent.And so we carry, you know, I've carried this idea of the police as being the savior. And by that point, by the time I was 16, I was petrified of the police, to the point where if I saw a police car drive by, I would duck and hide. And I did that pretty much up until my son was born. And then I had to just sort of get over that because I needed to use the police. And in the end, they actually really helped me. But that feeling still hasn't gone away. And that feeling is still in that involvement is still in my life today, even though they're not tracking me down they’re tracking my son.You know, he was out for we thought that this had stopped and earlier in the year us out for dinner with his girlfriend. And the police saw his girlfriend and then saw him outside of the restaurant came into the restaurant and ask them for ID and pull their computer up, set it up on the bar and searched to see if he had, probably if he had any priors, in front of everybody in this restaurant when he was trying to have a nice dinner.And there's a few things that came to mind here for me is nobody said anything. Not even the waiter or the manager, nobody said anything. And he came into the bathroom and called me. And he was so distraught by it, that he thought he was disturbing me, his mother who loves him the most in the world. He apologized to me for calling me about a really horrific situation.And so I bring that up in that this is the programming that happens with this stuff, and puts us at outside of society thinking that there's something wrong with us.  We’re not quite right, these thoughts. I had this dialogue with my therapist a couple weeks ago, because I'm dealing with some of this in in a couple areas of my life dealing with these significant microaggressions and trying to unpack them to find my voice in them so that I can stand up for myself and not be taking it on. And so what comes up for me though, is that there's still that little voice that there's something not quite right. There's something kind of off about me. And I have to correct myself and say, we need to unpack the larger society, the colonialism, all of that stuff that is not quite right.And how do we come back to ourselves and continue to unpack that so that it's not taking up our entire weekend? I was dealing with a board member from a volunteer organization all weekend because I called her out on her microaggression towards me. And what I was met with was some horrible, horrific emails.Patty: They always say, I'm not racist, I'm not racist.Angela:And you're insulting me that you're calling me out on poor behavior, and you're just sensitive. Right? And other people will chime in and say, well, Angela, I understand that you're hurt. And I'm, no, no, no, I am not hurt. This is not about hurt. The issue is much deeper than this. And I'm not going to do it in an email dialog. But if you want to talk to me about it, I will talk to you. Right. And these are the things that we have to keep unpacking and correcting and living our lives and then eat this thing. What's the point? Why am I doing this?Patty: Yeah, yeah, it's exactly what and then when you talk about the police, you know, being known to police, you know, 16 years of child welfare, that's got consequences. Right, like you call, you know, like, you know, like, you get a police report about something, because in some neighborhoods, people are just in each other's business all the time. And so they're calling the police, because they can't parent, they can't problem solve. So they call on the police all the time, because, you know, they can't find their, you know, you know, they go get their kid, or, you know, they're having a dispute with a neighbor or something. And then if there's children within eyesight of a cop, those they send that report into child welfare.And then, and then that phrase, they're known to us, they're known to us. And it could be completely benign, like what you're describing, it's parents that are using the police to parent their child, or because you can't, or because your neighbor can't problem solve and calls the police on you all the time. Right. And yet, that little phrase, they're known to us, they're known to us. And that gets interpreted a very particular way in child welfare.  Now try it now try to get rid of this, now try to get rid of the social worker, something, something must Something must be going on, something must be going on. We don't know what it is yet, but we're going to find out, something must be going on.And that's, you know, when you know what you even say, you know, you've got a, you know, you got help, you know, the one time that you, you know, you needed them, and they were helpful to you. And I know, you know, Kerry and I had had a good experience, you know, you know, in our working relationship, but wouldn't it be nice if they were non carceral systems where people could get that kind of support. Just because just because we got a little bit of help here and there from the systems, that's how they suck us in. That doesn't legitimize them.Kerry: It's so interesting, like, I've just been really listening to you, Angela, and your story. And first, I just want to mention and witness you, as you've moved through the process. You know, I'm, I feel it very deeply, because your story, you know, has been very similar. There are some tendrils that make a lot of sense, in my own experiences with having to deal with the police as well. And I know that it's just that commonality, that space of being Black and dealing with, you know, officers, and that system is a factor, it's just what we have to do as people of color to grapple with the space.I know even till this day, and I like you had have like this very conflicted relationship with the, with police, because literally, they they have saved my life when I was in a very detrimental situation. I however, it took, I had to go 20 times before I got it there. There was a lot of disregard in some of it. But when I finally got it, it came through and it won for me. So I have this conflicted space, but I also and even now, when a police officer drives past me, I flinch. It is I am still dealing with some of the residual because as I've had that positive experience, I've also had some very negative ones where you know, the neighborhood I live in presently presently. Is is all white. There's myself and another family, there's probably a subdivision about 500 houses, there's another family, there's an I just found out one moved in. So there's three of us out of about 500 houses.And we used to very often notice officers just driving by, sitting at the end of our line that was involved in the system and had some things going on. But since that cleared up, and it's been about a year, now, I've noticed that there's no more officers anywhere in the vicinity of where I live, whereas about at least three times a week, one would sit somewhere, and we're a very quiet crescent, it's a very quiet little crescent, cul de sac, it doesn't make any sense that they would be here on the regular, you know, so, um, you know, those experiences are, are really hard. And I could tell there's, there's so many I lived, I have our came from a family where we had five young men, teenagers, and it would be without fail. One of those young men, and my husband, somebody would be stopped by the police at least once a week and asked for IDAngela:and, and that whole thing, right? Like that, that whole space of public humiliation to be stopped outside of your house to be, you know, and it crosses over from, you know, that sort of involvement, but from the police and the, the taking on of the role in say retail, right? So it wasn't very long ago is about three or four years ago, I was walking into a store. On my way home from work, I was walking home, and I thought, oh, that place has some funky shirts. I think I go in there. And I was outside looking on the rack. And the store owner came out. And he looked at me and he says, Yeah, I don't think we have anything in the store that fits you.Kerry: You know, I had an experience in one of our local stores recently, my daughter and I, this was before the for this last lockdown. We were in a drugstore. That's what I'll say, in our region. And we were by the makeup section, looking for a lipstick I think it was and we got the exact same response. I was looking for our particular red. And they were like, Yeah, we don't have it. But then when I looked around, I was like, it's right there. And they were like, No, we don't, we don't have it. And I was like, but it's right there. That's exactly the color I looked it up before it got here. And she was like no, because it had to be they had it behind the case. And she was like, No, that's not it. Sorry. And because I was like, I'm gonna leave this to Jesus moment, I was having to leave it to Jesus moment. Instead of instead of, you know, I just I just decided I was going to leave the store.But that is the reality of some of how we have to exist. And in fact, there's another one more story before we we can you know, move on. I have I mentioned to you that there's another family that moved into this area. And she she bought a house on the street. That's pretty it's really a private kind of section of this subdivision. And you know, the houses were this neighborhoods about 30 years old, most people don't move so she just recently purchased and you know what have stood out like, you know, she's new. She was bought, bought her groceries, opening her front door trying to get in and a car drove past her and slowed down, took a big old look then sped off and sped away. within about five minutes. She was taking the her you know, stuff out she has three kids so you know you're gonna have a whole pile of stuff. within about five minutes. Two officers pulled up at the front door and said they had had a report of somebody breaking into this house.Angela:*sighs*Patty: Right. So nice to feel welcome and safe.Angela:In 2021,Kerry: and I think, you know, when we speak about these incidences, we're recognizing that there there's been some sort of shift, I think, you know, some people have that felt really brazen, in the realm of watching what has happened in the United States, and when Trump was in power, I almost think that there was like a refueling of this space, where, you know, people thought they can be bright and outright with with some of this racist dialogue,Patty: For sure, he normalized it and empower them. And I admit, I had there was a woman on Facebook I was engaging with, she had made a comment that, you know, it was so easy to, you know, she'd give this to Trump, you know, having it out in the open, where we could see, we could see the ugly racism. And I was trying to get her to understand that one if she had just been listening to Black and Indigenous people all along, right. None of this is new. You know, Standing Rock and Ferguson, I never tire of reminding people Standing Rock and Ferguson happened on Obama's watch, having a Black man in the White House, did not save Black people did not save Indigenous people having Deb Haaland, she might be a great pick, but having her as the head of the Minister of the Interior, whatever they are, will not save the Indians. Right. She's not even the first Ely Parker was right first. Curtis came after him, he was a vice president. So she's not the first and but you know, these things, you know, these, these things don't save us.And yet, you know, she didn't, she didn't get what I was trying to tell her is that having it out, and normalized and empowered, is killing us. People are literally dying. Because as you said, Kerry, these white supremacist feel empowered, they can act on it, they think, you know, they don't have they don't have to be in secret anymore. I like them better when they were secret, and not burning s**t down and shooting everybody. Please go back underground and keep your s**t to yourself. I know you're there. I know, you're there. The racisms still happen. The police are still who they are. The systems are still in place. But I like you better when you're quiet. And you're not in my space.Kerry: This is not doing us a favor. When you're working in that kind of stealth, you understood that there was maybe a semblance of a chance for a consequence. But when you are just bracing with your stuff, that tells us that we have now stepped up into a level. Now, when you're outright like that, there, there is that sense of of knowing that we I've for me, we've crossed that boundary, you know, where we got to really almost level up now. Because the reality of the truth is, if you're if you can feel so bright with yourself, then that means that there's an inference that the system is working on a level that is keeping us you know, having to be directly in this confrontation.And yeah, and I'm I'm recognizing though I'm enjoying some of the dialogues. I was looking up I've been watching a young woman, Kim Foster, from For Harriet, she's she's a YouTube, a young woman, brilliant, brilliant young woman. She talks quite a bit about pop culture, but she's a feminist. And she's a Black feminist. And she is very much about dissecting these kinds of issues. And she had on and did an incredible talk about restorative justice, with I'm just looking it up but she had this incredible talk. And what they were talking about is completely pulling down and decriminalized, not just decriminalizing, but abolishing the system and what it could potentially look like when we you know, replace it or, you know, whatever that realm would be knowing that you know, going in with the understanding and the knowing that it's kind of a trial and error space, you know what I mean that you we may have to try many things before we could reconstruct or create something that is going to value and create real sense of justice.Because what what was mentioned in it, and I thought it was powerful is that she was saying that, you know, for many people, especially they were talking in particular about using it in domestic or intimate partner violence. And that's something that's near and dear to my heart. But what she was speaking about is that for most people, sometimes you get that sense that feeling of completeness, when you, you know, your your partner has been punished, and it's punitive. But a lot of the time, in those kinds of systems, you still come out, even if your partner goes through it, without that sense of feeling completed, that you really have had justice served. And what I thought was so brilliant about that conversation was what she was interested in, the lawyer that she was speaking to, was interested in creating a space that was based upon what the want of the person who had had the injustice done to them, what would be their idea of justice, you know, for some, it may be, you know, you lock them up for 50 years, and, and that be one end of it. But for others, it might be the apology and writing the right. Do you know what I'm saying, um, maybe it's you paying for my counseling that I may need, because you've caused me this harm. Maybe it would be, you know, paying these damages. But what I thought was so wonderful was that it gave the options, the idea of really going with who, and what my desires and wants would be, after I've been through a space like that, versus it being, you know, a system that throws everybody in and may, you know, not deal with the needs at all, in fact, or create huger chasms for people who are going through those spaces.And we know that, you know, like, especially in a space like domestic violence, a lot of the times an officer is probably not necessarily the first point of contact, or are the best point of contact, right? Wouldn't it be great to have somebody who has the training, understand what is happening, because we know, for many people, you don't leave on that first try or those first incidences, and dealing with the whole scope of what happens when we're moving through a situation that can be so layered in the way that we look at it?You know, I just, I just when we talk about this conversation, of being, because to me, we're talking macro aggressions. And a lot of the ways you're right, the micro and the macro pulled together, what what is not, I think, often address is the deep layers of ongoing trauma that these exposures cause us. You know, it is it's ongoing, it's, it's, it's just like a, you know, it's like the, the this heavy load that sits on our shoulders in every moment, I never know, like, the other day, an officer pulled up behind me. And I remember just doing this my instant sense, and everything's good. I'm not worried. But until he went around me, I'm like, ooh. And it shouldn't, I shouldn't have to have those sensations. And that's still after having a positive look.But I remember the 20 times that I'm, you know, my 12 year old, got pulled over over the space of five years. You know, like, I remember those incidences, I remember having to take the the numbers and the badge names down of all of these different officers when they were approaching us. I remember an officer, like we were in the middle of an emergency situation, and trying to defuse it amongst our own, amongst a group of Black kids and my husband getting hauled down and put in on the ground, even though he was the one that was being able to mitigate the situation. But you know, the colors all the same. And it's, it's those experiences that have left that imprint in the space of this. And I just really think there has to be a better way that we can engage and create different spaces for this. I'm all for abolition, like abolish, abolition. abolishing police and and that system, it doesn't serve us in the best way? And what would it be to allocate these funds into, you know, the work and the trauma work, especially amongst our communities that have been marginalized, we so don't get access to some of those resources that would help us go through and create the healing that we still need.Patty: And that's that that's actually one of the big critiques about restorative justice work, is when you put it back on the victim to say, okay, you know, you, you know, what do you want? What do you need, what you're getting what you're what you're getting from them as a trauma response. You're getting your get your, and you're making it there, you're making everyone's healing the victims responsibility, particularly in domestic violence cases. But in any case, where you've been wronged when now, you know, so there's other model models out there where somebody takes responsibility for the wrong door. And the purpose then is healing. So the person who's taken responsibility for the wrongdoer is basically working with that person. And when they come together, it's basically How's everybody's healing going? Are we there? Do we still need more time? Do you feel safe? What do you need to feel safe? You know, and, and, you know, and then those people are the ones that are saying, okay, you know, what this, he's, he's still got a lot of work to do, she still got a lot of work to do, we're not there yet. And so there's space for the victim to talk about what they need and how they need to feel safe. But the ultimate, you know, the, the ultimate burden of restoration or healing is on that other person and whoever is responsible for them. Because it is a trauma response, we've dealt with a lot. We've dealt with a lot, particularly when we get to that place. And so I'm not opposed to restorative justice work. But there's just been a lot of critique around that model of putting it all on putting it all on the victim.Kerry: Well, I believe that a part of that discussion, and I love that we can have that conversation, because I think it's very individualized. And I think that the the idea that one model fits all, is it a part of where this fails? For me, you know, what I mean? Where the system has failed, is that my response and even how I'm going to show up in my trauma may not be the same as somebody else. Right. So I think that, you know, there's a lot to flesh out. I think that it would be, as we said, that idea of recognizing that there isn't going to be a one necessarily a one sock fits all. But But I love the idea of having those conversations, and figuring out what will work what what, you know, what,Patty: what does, what does this situation need? What are the harms that have been done and what does this situation need?Kerry: There are some cases where absolutely, you know, like, I'm not speaking personally, but I was very glad that some people got locked up around my space, I was very glad it was needed, you know. And, and that was justice for me. But I could also see how, for some of it, there, we there, there could have been more, right. And I and I just wish that those opportunities, these dialogues were available in those spaces. And I'm very encouraged that no matter what the you know, we come up with, we're starting to talk about it, we're starting to offer new ways of coming up with something that's just different than a system that we know, feeds very deeply into a capitalist agenda of, you know, putting people in jail so that they can create goods and commodities, we at least we're starting to have those conversations. Now how that's serving us in the interim. Um, you know, that's, that's still the work in progress, I guess.Angela:I think that, you know, from one of the things that I continue to go back to, in particular, when I was going through the police legal stuff around my adoptive family, in particular, my job for parents, is that and we, I grew up believing that the legal system was a justice system. And until we as, as a community as a people can reconcile that, if we need it will make space to have those deeper conversations about what it could be. But we're not living in that world we're living in a legal system that doesn't create justice. So we need to stop thinking that that's what his purposes I don't think that that for me, I don't think that that's what the purpose is for that system.So to talk about changing something, the conversation has to be a the broader conversations, and almost maybe from a from philosophy, philosophy perspective around really what justice and democracy is, what is it? Because we're not, we're not living that. And we're certainly not living it as it was construed, you know, from our Greek and Italian philosophers. And I just go back there because I have an interest in philosophy, I think we can have some greater discussions around democracy. And there's actually a really great the National Film Board put out a really good documentary called what is what is democracy. And it goes through everything that we're talking about in terms of our legal system and our prison system. And, and, you know, where is the space for the victim to have a conversation, a meet, and I don't know what that could be. Because I can sit down and say, there's no way that I could have a conversation with my adoptive parents, even though at one time I wanted that, because until somebody is able to recognize the harm that they've done to another, we can't have these conversations. And so what do we do in the interim? I do think that money should be taken away from the police and put into community resources that just makes sense, like this just not make sense like to havePatty: How does that not make sense. It makes sense to everybody except police and people who want to keep their neighborhoods white. Those are the only people that it makes sense to, or that it doesn't that they want the police to keep having money.Angela:Right. But I do in terms of the micro aggressions and the macro aggressions when I was talking to a lawyer recently, who she's not she's my friend, she's a good friend. And she sometimes we have these discussions she's bring brings in it from a lawyer, and and somewhat of a justice perspective, cuz she's a human rights lawyer. But one of the things she was talking to me about in a situation that I then I'm currently struggling with and working through is what, when this all gets sorted out? What's going to be given to you like, are they going to provide you with some extra counseling? Are they going to, you know, pay for some days off? Like, what are they going to give to you for having to experience a situation for the last 20 months.And I think that in these systems, what I'm learning is that it's hard to voice those things. When I watch my son, you know, you should do something about this. And he's like, it's wrong. So I'm not going to go up against the police. What do you think they're going to do the next time when they look at me in the system? And know? And fair enough, right? And when we have these systems, how do we voice our concerns in a way that doesn't continue to diminish and dismiss us in terms of, I'm not hurt? This is just not just? Can we can we change the dialogue around what the impact is that every time you get stung by that micro aggression be? It opens up that wound and continues and continues? And then you're 30 years later? And you're still dealing with the police that fucked you up when you're 14, right?And so it is when can we have those greater discussions around justice and ended up democracy and inclusion from a macro level distinguishing against that, that does not those discussions does not fit into a capitalist market. It doesn't, because it's a it's some, the commodity of information shifts when we're talking about capitalism. So the information that we are processing and giving and discussing in that model isn't going to work for us. And I don't know what it is, I spent a week in February, listening to Black Buddhists Summit out of the states. So these are Black people that practice Black people that practice Buddhism, because they found within the Buddhist sect that there is there's issues around inclusion. And one of the one of the speakers that I really, really liked was when he was talking about the impact of microaggressions on a larger level, is that we as Black people, as people of color, need to find our ways to step back from that, knowing ourselves like so and he was encouraging Black people themselves to go to other countries to be around Black people to see that it's different there as opposed to what it is in the States.Patty: Well, that your experience in Jamaica.Angela:Exactly, exactly. And one of the things that a friend of mine, my hairdresser said to me, before I went, he said, you're going to find a deeper strength within yourself, you're going to feel more empowered, you're going to feel more empowered to get out there and do. And somehow he's right. Like, I feel like, I don't feel as much of that there's something off with me feeling that you just kind of carry around on your shoulder, not not wanting to look at it, but knowing that it's there. It's not, it's not that I'm off. It's this community that I'm living in the society that I'm living, that's kind of off.Kerry: I love that. You know, it was interesting. You mentioned Patty, earlier when Obama got in, I remember speaking with some,Patty: Yay we’re in a post racial world! The racisms are over!Kerry: That whole idea that, above all, there's no more racism. And and that was kind of a conversation I was having with some of my American friends. Right. And I was, we were kind of, you know, yay, celebrating. But, um, for me, and I remember my husband and I to we were like, Yeah, this is great. And it's, it was so monumental for them, but for myself and for and for my husband, we come from Antigua, and Barbados, right? Where there have been Black Prime Ministers all day, every day. You know what I mean, so the experience of this was monumental. And of course, it was amazing, you know, for whatever it was worth or wasn't worth, you know, whatever. But that that piece of, of what you were saying, Angela really resonates with me in that regard, because they're, each community has the experience of, you know, in the diaspora of what it is to be in our Blackness. I know when I go to Antigua, everybody looks like me and then some, the shopkeepers are all Black, you know, if you had a white teacher, something was weird. Whereas in our experience, if you had a Black teacher, something was weird.Patty: I don't think I ever had a Black teacher. I can't. I think in college, in college, I had one Black teacher in college, and, you know, university, it was at Niagara University. So that would have been my third year I, but I didn't think of a Black teacher in high school. I know there wasn't one in elementary school. I can't think of one in high school. I don't think I had one when I was in college. But even but even just, you know, to continue dragging the Obama years, the movie Get Out. Right? Well, you know, when you had said, you know, we're talking about Obama's election and the movie Get Out where he says I would have voted for Obama a third time if I like that movie was written during the Obama administration. That's when Peele was thinking about it and writing about it, so he's not, it's not about Trump level racists it’s about white liberals. The people think they're the good guys.Kerry: That Trumps nowPatty: That’s who he is skewering in that movie and nobody gets it they all think that they're not like that. You can vote for Obama as many times as you like. You can have one you know you can have brunch with your Black friends.  Racists always have Black friends, it blows my mind it's always the same one I think there might be two of you out there that are friends with all this white foolishnessAngela:Oh, it's when your white friends tell you sincerely you know Angela I don't see colour, and I love this person I do I see her good and I and that's where I have to go always is actually you know I just don't see your color I don't understand and I just and and I you know after the third time hearing that I just said okay, look, look, if you don't see my color, then clearly you don't see me, you don't see my experience. You didn't hear it when I told you about the guy giving the monkey sounds when I was crossing the street. You didn't hear it when I was told that that you know stop going into a store. Clearly you don't hear those things. But those are my reality. So if you can't share my reality on some leve,l at least have some empathy for it. We can't be friendsKerry: like stop the erasure. I love that.Angela:It's it's the erasure and that's that's that is the that is the that is not micro that is macro. That is to to not consider that, you know, your heritage, whatever that like, I have enough struggle not knowing my heritage. I don't need somebody else putting that s**t on me. Whether you love me or not, like, you know. So God love them but man, f**k off?Patty: Well, yeah, I mean, we navigate these things in our relationships and in our friendships, and then when we try to bring them up, then we're dealing with the tears and the anger. And the you're always on me. And why do you say this? And then, you know, I didn't mean it that way. And it's like, well, could this not be about you for 30 seconds.Kerry: White, to deal with that space of white fragility is almost as exhausting as the actual micro aggression. But yeah, it is work. That, you know, that's that, you know, for me is the question. Do you find Angela, that you pick your battles? Do you pick your battles with this? Do you find that Patty?Angela:I do.Patty: Oh, for sure. For sure. There's so many people that I don't bring it, I don't bring it up to and really for anybody. If what if we do bring it up to you? That is such a gift that is such a gift, I mean, it is it, we're demonstrating trust, we're demonstrating the belief that you want to do better, we're making an investment in this relationship. Because we're not bringing it up. I mean, you're doing it, I can promise you, you're doing it. And if we don't bring it up, then you know, if we're not having these conversations with you, that reveals a lack of trust and a lack of investment in the relationship. So if we do bring it up, put yourself aside for 30 seconds, listen to what we're saying, listen to the fact that we're saying we believe that you can do that better, we believe in you, you just need to listen.Angela:Right? And thank you, because that is so true. And it is tiring. And, you know, with, you know, I been in a book club for 15 years, and there's two people of color in the book club. And I decided, ironically, in Black history month that I'm going to take a take a break. And it's not because the women aren't lovely women. And it's not because we haven't had some of these conversations over the years. It's the ongoing issue around primarily reading works from white writers. You know, and when you look at that, in the whole scheme of things in terms of our lives, like I didn't grow up with having,  Patty, I'm, you know, we none of us grew up in Canada, having people of our culture reflected in our materials, right. And so, I've been reading this really, it's, I'm reading it very slowly. But it's a great book, and it's by David Mura. It's around craft, narrative craft, writing around race and identity(A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing).And so he talks about how, you know, when we're reading, and unless it's a Black person, Indigenous person, an Asian person that's actually identified in the story, the assumption is the person's white, the story is what always, and I've known that, but when you're actually reading it, and going holy, and not swearing, and then I put the book down, and I have to go in and just process that for a minute as a small but what does that mean, and the whole context of your life is that since you were young, that's what it's always been. And so that, you know, the micro bits of Indigenous history, true Indigenous history, I'm on the third time doing this course around cultural, Indigenous cultural safety, third time, because every time I learned something new, and I cry, because of the parallels in terms of what you know, that's my son's history, that's his father's history. And, and then there's my history, that's erased as well. It's that's the biggest those micro, macro aggressions, so I had to lead this group so that I can take space to focus on Black and Indigenous writers in Canada. I'm taking the next year. And that's all I'm reading.Patty: Hmm. The thing that I really got out of the history was in Native studies, there's gaps where Black people should be in Black Studies, there's gaps where the Native people should be. Yeah. And so we need to put these histories together and have these conversations together. Because like I said, at the beginning, because and I know, you know, we're just kind of wrapping up. Black and Indigenous are useful categories in terms of talking about race, but they're not mutually exclusive.Angela: Yes.Patty:They're not discrete categories where everybody is either one or the other. There ends of a continuum. And there's lots and lots and lots. Yeah, so useful categories to think about, but not discrete categories, not mutually exclusive.Kerry: I am chomping at the bit to get in. But right now, unfortunately, my focus is to be on all kinds of sex books. But once *laughter*Angela:I might jump ship, I might jump ship.Patty: I'm sure Black and Indigenous have sex.Kerry: So I love to hear how you are managing to bring this infusion. And it's so fitting for this conversation. Because, like, as we as we were talking about, those are the spaces to which we can heal, when we pull those kinds of panels together, when we start to, you know, mesh, any mesh the histories in such a lavish and luscious way and bringing a fullness to the experience and stories of us. I think that that's powerful, and offering up this place for us to finally start the process of moving through this.And Angela, I just want to thank you for coming on for just giving us such a beautiful piece of yourself. And your story, as usual, you always do that. And and in just bringing a light to how we're all affected in this space. I appreciate you so much for that.Angela:I appreciate you guys for the openness and just to have this space, right, like, you know, Kerry, and I talk a bit outside of here, which I'm grateful for. But I'm finding, you know, so many years of having the absence of people of color in my life that I'm wanting and gravitating more and more to that because I think we all need that understanding and that place where we can feel that we can be real. And it's it's taxing not to be able to be real. And I find that my circles as I get older are becoming smaller, because you know, it we have to heal from the daily day. Right. You know, we deal with this in our workplaces, as you've talked about Patty and I made a may or may not have alluded to, you know, in our volunteer circles in our relationships, it's it's hard work. It's hard work. And to find that space of being still.Patty: I thank you so much, Angela. I'm always so happy when you guys …Angela:you know the we were aligned. We were aligned together and ungrateful to I get so excited. I get nervous and then I get excited.Kerry: But we're fine, not you.Patty: We have good conversation for call girl so we will link up Okay, all right.Kerry: Bye bye. Have a great night guys. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com

We're giving you notes from the shoal! In our last episode of the semester, Alyssa and Brendane are joined by the brilliant Amber Starks AKA Melanin Mvskoke to talk about blackness, indigeneity, the im/possibility of solidarity, and so much more! What's the Word? Praxis. A commonly used (and perhaps abused!) term in conversations around activism and solidarity that we historicize and define as ethical and accountable action. What We're Reading. “Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World,” an Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In this interview, Maynard and Simpson discuss their process of writing letters back and forth during the early days of pandemic and how that pushed them read and deepen their thinking on what it means to get free, which they call a politics and praxis of rehearsal. Throughout the interview, they reflect on topics like the violence of normality, the politics of recognition and respectability, the issue with apocalyptic rhetoric, disrupting linear temporality, the way state violence is inherently gendered, among others. What in the World?! In this segment, we have Amber Starks AKA Melanin Mvskoke to discuss enculturation, the hypervisibility of blackness and hyperinvisibility of indigeneity, that "Land Back" does not mean an eviction notice, the ways we can think Black liberation and Native sovereignty together and in community, that the land recognizes the indigeneity of African descendants, and how Black folks risk participating in Native erasure. We also discuss the accusations of anti-indigeneity against Black anthropologists and the piggybacking of other causes onto Black people's and why Brendane does not believe in solidarity. Follow Amber on Twitter and Instagram! Liked what you heard? Donate here! Discussed in this episode: Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World (Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Hannah Voegele, Chris Griffin, 2021) White Supremacy Culture (Tema Okun, 2001) Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (Kim TallBear, 2013) An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (Kyle T. Mays, 2021) ZD merch available here and the syllabus for ZD 201 is here! Let us know what you thought of the episode @zorasdaughters on Instagram and @zoras_daughters on Twitter! Transcript will be available on our website here.

• The word kwikˈsädik• About my aka: Robyn Maynard is a Black Canadian you need to know! Robyn is a Toronto-based writer, academic and Activist. Learn more about Robyn, her subsequent work, or teachings visit robynmaynard.com• Back to school antics 2021• Facebook mislabeled a video of black men as primates.• Candace Owens got refused service from a private clinic for a Covid test.• Mail-in ballots still inaccessible for blind voters, advocates say• Actor Michael K. Williams, Omar on ‘The Wire,' dead at 54.• Michigan Parents Owe Son $30,441 For Tossing Out Prized Porn Collection.• The Players: David's messengers, Joab (Joe-Ab), Uriah (Yoo-Rye-Ah). 2nd Book of Samuel Chapter 11 - "Just the two of us".“Within the media, the way that women are portrayed - especially young women - sometimes there is a lot of sexual objectification and, I would say, 'lad culture.' These are all things that connect with domestic abuse.” ― Georgina Campbell who is an actor from the UK who won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress in 2014. Thank you for listening to S1 – Ep.53 ▶️ http://bit.ly/chonillanetwork Could you help us to keep creating? Pass the plate & donate to https://bit.ly/passtheplatedonate ☻Tweet https://twitter.com/tsacpod and use the hashtag #TSACP while listening. – Join the Sherley & Clove podcast community on FB – Have a question or feedback; submit a five-star review on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser. You never know; we may read or play your msg on the show! – Email us: tsacpodcast@gmail.com☺

“I think that there are a lot of things that are a part of activism that don't always get categorized as such.” - Robyn Maynard (@policingblack)  See the artwork for this episode: https://www.artbyrobinson.com/episode-2-matching-descriptions Robyn Maynard and Pascale Diverlus' Political Education Platform: https://www.buildingtheworldwewant.com/ For this episode, Alexander speaks with Robyn Maynard (award-winning author and activist) as she brilliantly covers topics like racial profiling, police brutality, and overall state violence that is enacted against Black lives while also sharing her interpretation of his painting titled “Matching Descriptions.” All music used is produced by Roosevelth: https://soundcloud.com/roosevelth Funded by Canada Council for the Arts

Below the Radar invites Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson into conversation about her latest album, Theory Of Ice, as a thinking through of water as a connector. She talks with host Am Johal about covering Willie Dunn’s “I Pity the Country,” and how her work aligns with, and is inspired by, a long tradition of Indigenous musicians and activists. Leanne speaks to her artistic and academic work as being underpinned by a deep love of the land, and the land as a site of knowledge production. She shares some of her experiences working with the Dechinta Centre for Research & Learning on land-based education in Denendeh. We also learn about some of Leanne’s exciting collaborative works, from artistic collaborations with filmmakers and visual artists to Leanne’s work with Robyn Maynard on "Rehearsals for Living," a book forthcoming from Knopf Canada in 2022. Thank you to Leanne for the use of her recording of Willie Dunn's "I Pity the Country," from "Theory Of Ice," for this episode. Read the full transcript of this conversation: https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/community-engagement/Below-the-Radar/transcripts/ep122-leanne-betasamosake-simpson.html Resources: — leannesimpson.ca — leannesimpsonmusic.com — "Theory Of Ice" album by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://youvechangedrecords.com/product/leanne-betasamosake-simpson-theory-of-ice/ — “I Pity the Country” cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DUV60wpmgk — "The Ballad of Crowfoot", an NFB film by Willie Dunn: https://www.nfb.ca/film/ballad_of_crowfoot/ — "Viscosity" video collaboration with Sandra Brewester: https://youtu.be/Gf0TzU9wCPU — "Solidification ᒪᔥᑲᐗᒋ 凝" video collaboration with Sammy Chien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA70--wIbbQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt — More films and music videos: http://www.leannesimpsonmusic.com/videos — "Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://houseofanansi.com/products/noopiming — "As We Have Always Done" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/as-we-have-always-done — "A Short History of the Blockade" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/986-9781772125382-short-history-of-the-blockade — "Rehearsals for Living", forthcoming from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard: https://www.transatlanticagency.com/2020/12/11/deal-news-canadian-rights-to-rehearsals-for-living-by-robyn-maynard-and-leanne-betasamosake-simpson-to-knopf-canada/

This is the 3rd episode of our Black History Month series. This week, Olejuru and  Paula speak with Kayla, a sociology major at Mount Royal University and Olejuru's friend. Kayla is a  lover of all things sports, kids, and learning about cultural diversity.  Kayla tells us what she has learned on her journey to become more educated on issues of race, discrimination, and white privilege. In this open and honest conversation, we dive into the importance of not only educating ourselves, but being willing to initiate conversations on race, and then patiently listen with humility. Kayla's List of Recommended Resources: Instagram page: "Privilege to Progress"  @privtoprog "Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race" by Renni Eddo-Lodge"Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present" by Robyn Maynard

ENGLISH          (traduction française plus bas)Killer K and her co-hosts discuss 3 themes found in the book "American spy" by Lauren Wilkinson:- USA "subtle" infiltration in the Upper Volta (Burkina Faso)- Fractured family structure- Being a spy: "Playing the game" vs not conformingView our chapter markers on our website https://habcpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ to access the questions discussed in this episode.Continue the conversation on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #HABCpodcastOther books or podcast mentionned in this episode:Blackbirds - Eric Jerome Dickey       (Rest in peace)Policing black lives - Robyn Maynard             (listen to our ep#1 and 2)"Archives d'afrique" podcast series on Thomas Sankara-------------------------------------------------------------------------------FRANÇAISKiller K et ses co-animateurs discutent de 3 thématiques retrouvées dans le livre "American spy" de Lauren Wilkinson (seulement disponible en anglais):- Infiltration "subtile" des États-Unis dans la Haute Volta (Burkina Faso)- Structure familiale fracturée- Rôle d'un espion: "Jouer le jeu" ou ne pas se conformerQuestions discutées dans cet épisode: 6 questions explicitées dans l'enregistrementParticipez à la conversation sur Instagram et Twitter en vous servant du hashtag #HABCpodcastAutres livres ou baladodiffusion mentionné dans cet episode:Blackbirds - Eric Jerome Dickey       (seulement disponible en anglais; Repose en paix)Noires sous surveillance - Robyn Maynard      (écoutez notre épisode #1 et 2)Série d'épisodes sur Thomas Sankara dans le podcast "Archive d'afrique"Support the show

Writer, educator, and author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present, Robyn Maynard joins me to discuss policing, state violence, and prisons in Canada, as well as the connections between Indigenous and Black struggles against state violence. We also talk about the 'post-racial' mythmaking which is synonymous to Canada, despite its centuries-long history of enacting structural and systemic violence on colonized communities globally.  

Robyn Maynard joins Breht to discuss her new book "Policing Black Live: State Violence in Canada From Slavery to the Present".  Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. Please Support Rev Left Radio HERE Outro Music: 'Celebrate' by Grxwn Fxlks LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com

Au programme de ce premier épisode : la perception du racisme et des mobilisations, avec un pays où beaucoup de Noir-es ou Arabes français-es s'en vont en espérant subir moins de racisme (surtout à l'embauche). Un pays qui se pense comme celui des bisounours et de la bienveillance. Le Canada. Où devrais-je dire les Canada(s), tant la différence de types et modalités d'organisation est palpable entre le Quebec (francophone) et le reste du pays. Je reçois Robyn Maynard (@policingblack) , depuis Toronto. Robyn est une militante et essayiste canadienne que j'ai rencontré en 2017 à Montreal. Son dernier livre « NOIRES SOUS SURVEILLANCE. ESCLAVAGE, RÉPRESSION ET VIOLENCE D'ÉTAT AU CANADA » a été plébiscité tant par les militant-es que par la critique. Jingle nickylars beats Chargé production Douce Dibondo

ENGLISH          (traduction française plus bas)Killer K and her co-hosts discuss 3 themes found in the marvelous book "Policing black lives" by Robyn Maynard:- The guise of multiculturalism and tolerance in Canada- State violence in a Canadian context (across provinces)- Anti-black and anti-indigenous practices in CanadaView our chapter markers on our website https://habcpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ to access the questions discussed in this episode.Continue the conversation on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #HABCpodcast-------------------------------------------------------------------------------FRANÇAISKiller K et ses co-animateurs discutent de 3 thématiques retrouvées dans le fabuleux livres "NoirEs sous surveillance" de Robyn Maynard:- Le prétexte de la tolérance et du multiculturalisme au Canada-Violence d'état dans un contexte canadien (à travers les provinces)-Pratiques racistes envers les Noirs et les autochtones au CanadaParticipez à la conversation sur Instagram et Twitter en vous servant du hashtag #HABCpodcastQuestions discutées dans cet épisode:Q1a) Pourquoi est-il attendu d'une personnalité influente faisant parti d'une communauté ciblée de se prononcer sur les violences d'états? Peuvent-ils demeurer neutre?Q1b) Une personnalité influente doit-elle prendre parti si elle désire garder sa popularité dans son domaine?Q2) Les hormones, comme tout autre drogue nécessaire à la survie, devraient-elles être fournies aux prisonniers membres de la communauté LGBTQ+ sachant que l'État leur a historiquement refuser accès aux hormones et aux habits au genre approprié? Q3) Quel serait le gain pour le Canada d'appliquer des politiques financièrement et temporellement coûteuses pour marginaliser, surveiller, incarcérer, déporter les Noirs et démanteler la structure familiale Noire?Q4) En tant qu'afro-canadiens, perpétuons-nous la marginalisation des nouveaux arrivant de nos propres communauté?Q5) Pourquoi pensez-vous que le racisme exercé par les personnes de couleurs (POC) envers les Noirs n'est pas aussi discuté qu'il l'est lorsqu'exercé par les Blancs?Q6) Comment pensez-vous que ce livre influence votre manière de naviguer au travers des mesures systémiques racistes mis en place dans notre société?Q7) Pensez-vous, suite à ce livre, que la solution au racisme systémique envers les Noirs se retrouve dans un combat pour l'intégration dans la société actuelle ou dans le développement d'infrastructures afrocentriques au sein de la communauté même?Support the show (https://paypal.me/habcpodcast?locale.x=en_US)

ENGLISH          (traduction française plus bas)Killer K and her co-hosts discuss 3 themes found in the marvelous book "Policing black lives" by Robyn Maynard:- The guise of multiculturalism and tolerance in Canada- State violence in a Canadian context (across provinces) - Anti-black and anti-indigenous practices in Canada View our chapter markers on our website https://habcpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ to access the questions discussed in this episode.Continue the conversation on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #HABCpodcast-------------------------------------------------------------------------------FRANÇAISKiller K et ses co-animateurs discutent de 3 thématiques retrouvées dans le fabuleux livres "NoirEs sous surveillance" de Robyn Maynard:- Le prétexte de la tolérance et du multiculturalisme au Canada -Violence d'état dans un contexte canadien (à travers les provinces)-Pratiques racistes envers les Noirs et les autochtones au CanadaParticipez à la conversation sur Instagram et Twitter en vous servant du hashtag #HABCpodcastQuestions discutées dans cet épisode:Q1) Pensez-vous qu'il y a un besoin pour des études comparatives entre les différentes ères d'esclavage pour mieux saisir la profondeur, la sévérité et les particularité de l'esclavage des Africains fait par les Européens et les Arabes? Q2) Parmi les différentes formes de violence d'état présentées dans ce livre, choisissez celle que vous considérez comme étant la plus problématique/nuisible à une population donnée? Q3a) Quelle est l'importance du choix des mots lorsqu'on décrit une période historique difficile ou certains concepts? Q3b) Pouvez-vous penser à d'autres termes que vous avez de la misère à digérer lorsque vous les entendez? Q4a) La position hiérarchique d'une personne dans une organisation criminelle devrait-elle être considérée pour livrer la sentence appropriée? Q4b) Un juge mentionne également que "l'importation est plus importante que le traffic". Qu'en pensez-vous? Q5) Y a-t-il des mesures que les touristes peuvent prendre lorsqu'une injustice se produit, comme dans le cas de Mme. Audrey Smith, une touriste jamaicaine en Ontario?Support the show (https://paypal.me/habcpodcast?locale.x=en_US)

For the final episode of the Policing Black Lives, Colinda is joined by Tisha Nelson and Donna Cardoza. They discuss racism in the child welfare and education systems, and finish the book with radical hope.

The very first Black Lives Matter presence outside of the U.S. began with Sandy Hudson in 2014. Martine and Isabelle look at how far the movement has come in Canada with Hudson, and take the time to really understand what defunding the police and abolition mean with Robyn Maynard, author of “Policing Black Lives”.

In episode 3 of Policing Black Lives, Colinda is joined by Camille Logan and Gerry Walker to discuss chapters 5 & 6, and the intersectionality of anti-Black racism with misogyny and immigration.

In this episode, Colinda is in conversation with the author of Policing Black LIves, Robyn Maynard talking about systemic racism, how the education system has been failing Black students and how schools and school communities can be sites of transformational healing and learning.

In episode one of Policing Black Lives, Colinda is joined by Melissa Wilson, VP in PDSB and Natasha Henry, President of the Ontario Black History Society. They will discuss the history of slavery and segregation, how anti-Black racism in Canada is connected to state-sanctioned violence, and why is it critical for educators to understand the legacies of slavery and segregation in Canada in order to understand and disrupt contemporary anti-Black racism.

As calls to defund continue to grow, why not imagine what Canada would look like without police? Robyn Maynard joins us to unpack the idea. Get in touch at oppo@canadalandshow.com or on Twitter @OPPOcast. This episode of OPPO is brought to you by WealthBar. While OPPO is not made using Patreon funds, CANADALAND’s other shows rely on listener support. Please consider becoming a monthly supporter.

Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, joins us for a conversation about policing. People are not just marginalize, they are pushed violently to the margins and policing is one way that this is done. With the release of prisoners because of the risk of Covid-19 in prisons, we are seeing a glimpse of what is possible. That we can truly imagine a world without policing. transcript with links to many of the things we talk about at:

In Episode 58, I talk about the recent protests in Canada and the United States against police racism and violence towards Black and Indigenous peoples, set in motion by the video showing the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police officers. This episode is a synthesis of my recent publications on police racism, brutality, sexualized violence and killings of Black and Indigenous peoples and the calls to defund the police. Link to Robyn Maynard's book: Policing Black Lives amzn.to/3dkKlWn Link to Desmond Cole's book: The Skin We're In amzn.to/2U0395O Link to my new book: Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence (use code warrior10 for 10% discount) https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/warrior-life Some of my recent publications: Yes Canada has a racism crisis and its killing Black and Indigenous peoples https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/yes-canada-has-a-racism-crisis-and-its-killing-black-and-indigenous-peoples Inquiry Needed into Police Violence against Indigenous peoples https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/inquiry-needed-into-police-violence-against-indigenous-peoples Canada should declassify, deconstruct and defund the RCMP https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/declassify-deconstruct-and-defund-the-rcmp Brenda Lucki must go https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/brenda-lucki-must-go/ Please note: Nothing in this podcast advocates for violence on Indigenous territories. From my website you can access other Warrior Life podcast episodes, my Indigenous Nationhood blog, my Youtube videos and my new podcast for kids called Warrior Kids Podcast: www.pampalmater.com If you would like to help me keep my content independent, please consider supporting my work at Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/2144345 Note: The information contained in this podcast is not legal, financial or medical advice, nor should it be relied on as such.

Métis matters in research and in Canada On this edition of VIEW to the U podcast, Professor Jennifer Adese, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at UofT Mississauga, discusses her Indigenous research. Her research focuses on Indigenous political and cultural representation across several sites. While her earlier work focused on confronting misrepresentations of Indigenous people, her more recent work examines Métis women's political representation and activism. Resources Jennifer's Book recommendations - Chris Andersen, "Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood https://www.amazon.ca/dp/077482722X/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 - Constance Backhouse, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 https://utorontopress.com/ca/colour-coded-4 - John Borrows, Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law https://www.amazon.ca/Recovering-Canada-Resurgence-Indigenous-Law/dp/0802085016 - James Daschuk, Clearing the Planes https://uofrpress.ca/Books/C/Clearing-the-Plains - Susan Hill, The Clay we are Made of https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/the-clay-we-are-made-of - Sarah-Jane Mathieu, North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955 https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871669/north-of-the-color-line/ - Renisa Mawani, Colonial Proximites: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 https://www.ubcpress.ca/colonial-proximities - Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives - Sherene Razack (Ed.), Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society https://www.akpress.org/race-space-and-the-law.html - Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus https://www.dukeupress.edu/mohawk-interruptus - Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers https://houseofanansi.com/products/seven-fallen-feathers - Jean Teillet, The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation https://www.amazon.ca/North-West-Our-Mother-People-Nation/dp/144345012X - Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes https://www.portageandmainpress.com/product/indigenous-writes/

Exactly 10 years ago this June, Toronto was a battleground. The G20 had just invaded the city, with the leaders of the world's largest economies meeting behind fortified fences to discuss pillaging the world. Outside were thousands of us, there to crash the meeting. The massive demos, and some rioting that followed, gave way to the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Two of those people arrested were our guests on the program today, Testament and Illogik of the long-standing anarchist hip-hop duo Test Their Logik. They join us to reflect on the history of their group, the 10 year anniversary of the G20, and their new album "See". Like this podcast? Then support us on Patreon! Grab the new Test Their Logik album on their bandcamp page here! Also check out these other dope projects that Test Their Logik are involved in: Realitea Cannabucha, and the True Cost of Coal book with the Beehive Collective. Playlist Kay the Aquanaut, Cee Reality, Lee Reed - 123 Test Their Logik - Rebel Test Their Logik - WCH (Class) Test Their Logik - B Test Their Logik - C Test Their Logik - Water Test Their Logik - G8 G20 Crash the meeting Other links to things we mentioned on the show: Uprise Daily podcast (give it a listen!), Policing Black LIves book by Robyn Maynard

Le racisme systémique revient à l’avant-scène de l’actualité en raison des manifestations monstres dénonçant en ce moment le sujet aux États-Unis. Dans sa chronique littéraire du 12 juin dans Les Matins Éphémères, Carolyne Ménard nous recommande deux livres qui traite du racisme systémique au Canada sous deux genres différents. Le premier, de Robyn Maynard, est un essai écrit afin de mieux faire comprendre l'existence du racisme systémique au Canada: « NoirEs sous surveillance: esclavage, répression et violence d'État au Canada » Le deuxième est un recueil de poèmes qui évoque la souffrance et les difficultés des immigrants, composés par le poète québécois d'origine haïtienne et fondateur de la maison d'édition Mémoire d'encrier, Rodney Saint-Éloi: « Nous ne trahirons pas le poème ». Plus d’infos: NoirEs sous surveillance: esclavage, répression et violence d'État au Canada, Mémoire d'encrier, 2018 Rodney Saint-Éloi, Nous ne trahirons pas le poème, Mémoire d'encrier, 2019 Extrait de l'émission Les Matins Éphémères du 12 juin 2020.

In Episode 57, we talk to social justice warrior Robyn Maynard who is a Black feminist writer, activist and educator. Her book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present was published by Fernwood Publishing in 2017 is the go-to source right now to understand the context of police anti-Black racism and violence in Canada. Link to her book: https://amzn.to/3dkKlWn The link to her website where you can access her blog, publications and videos: https://robynmaynard.com/ My latest Youtube video calling on media to better cover stories about racism in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_Rg79LaVs&t=1s And my video calling for solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters to end police anti-Black racism and violence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGNy0Gp0Alg&t=2s Please note: Nothing in this podcast advocates for violence on Indigenous territories. From my website you can access other Warrior Life podcast episodes, my Indigenous Nationhood blog, my Youtube videos and my new podcast for kids called Warrior Kids Podcast: www.pampalmater.com If you would like to help me keep my content independent, please consider supporting my work at Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/2144345 Note: The information contained in this podcast is not legal, financial or medical advice, nor should it be relied on as such. (Picture of of Robyn Maynard taken by Stacy Lee Photography and used with permission.)

Note This is a pretty light-hearted episode. If you’d prefer some more topical podcasts, try these episodes: The Daily: Why They’re Protesting Front Burner: Black Canadians reflect on this week’s unrest Today Explained: American Nightmare Code Switch: A Decade of Watching Black People Die The Ezra Klein Show: Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful If you’d like to hear some podcasts from Black creators, here are a few shows to check out across a variety of genres: Code Switch Punch Up The Jam (at least the pre-September 2019 episodes count for this list) 1619 Sampler Heaven’s Gate It’s Been a Minute Show Notes Recommendations Ryan: Highlighted Tim: So Dark/Honeymoon by Dan Croll Jon: I haven’t read these, but I’ve seen them recommended numerous times and they seem timely – So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard, The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

Hundreds of cities in the U.S. and Canada have erupted in protests and rallies supporting Black Lives Matter and opposing police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. At the heart of the argument is the injustice of systemic racism. On this episode of This Is Why, we hear from two perspectives on being Black in Canada, including the problematic history of Black cowboy John Ware and the challenges facing the largest Black community in the country. Contact: Adam Toy - @Adam_Toy on Twitter Dave McIvor - @d_mac1519 on Twitter This is Why - @ThisIsWhy on Twitter Email us - thisiswhy@globalnews.ca Guests: Cheryl Foggo, a multiple award-winning author, playwright and filmmaker, whose work focuses on the lives of western Canadians of African descent. Anthony Morgan, a racial justice lawyer and manager of the City of Toronto’s confronting anti-black racism unit. More resources: Foggo recommends reading "Policing Black Lives" by Robyn Maynard and "The Skin We're In" by Desmond Cole. She also suggests listening to the podcast "The Secret Life of Canada." Morgan has penned a couple of articles, including "Black People in Canada are not Settlers" and "What’s wrong with a cheque? A call for slavery reparations in Canada."

What are we reading? Several books over the past months; mixing fiction and non-fiction. Listen for recommendations. We are also starting our own journey on educating ourselves about systemic racism. As we introduce a new thought, phrase or idea, simply sit and ask yourself: what words or ideas resonated with me? Why? And how did it make me feel? We will be reading: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo Policing Black Lives: State Violence In Canada From Slavery To The Present, by Robyn Maynard, Marcia Johnson, et al.

Last weekend, thousands of people took to the streets in Toronto to protest police brutality in solidarity with the protests happening across the US, in response to the killing of George Floyd. But the protesters in Toronto were also chanting a name you won’t hear at the American protests: Regis Korchinski-Paquet.  Today, we’re talking about the death of the 29-year-old and racism in Canadian policing with Global News reporter Kamil Karamali and activist and author Robyn Maynard. 

Richard Madan, CTV News; Bishop Harding Smith, Minnesota Acts Now; Ahmed Hussen, Social Development Minister; Sandy Hudson, Black Lives Matter; Robyn Maynard, Author, ’Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the the present’; Kennedy Stewart, Vancouver Mayor; Glen McGregor, CTV News; Vicky Mochama, The Conversation; Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, University of Toronto.  *The viewpoints expressed in this podcast represent the opinions of the host and participants as of the date of publication and are not intended to be a substitute for medical advice and best practices by leading medical authorities as the information surrounding the current coronavirus pandemic is constantly evolving.

Date: February 27, 2020Venue: Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D214Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PMSpeaker:  El Jones, Mount St. Vincent University “El Jones is the Black liberation visionary of our time” – Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present  El Jones, Mount St. Vincent University The former Poet Laureate of Halifax, El Jones is also Continue Reading

Cette semaine, Clotilde Seille reçoit la comédienne Mireille Métellus afin de parler de l’essai Noires sous surveillance, de Robyn Maynard, qu’elle a lu chez Vues et Voix. Animation et recherche : Clotilde SeilleMise en ondes: Mathieu TessierChronique: Marie-Ève Groulx Livres audio pour tout le monde (Format Mp3 ou en ligne) La boutique en ligne de… Cet article Avec Mireille Métellus est apparu en premier sur Canal M, la radio de Vues et Voix.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Donald Trump has made the United States a nightmare destination for poor, non white immigrants, but a Black Canadian activist says her country is no safe haven; Philadelphia celebrates Muhatma Gandhi along with Martin Luther King; and, the leader of a small Caribbean country blasts the United States for its regime change campaign against Venezuela. One could get the impression, from listening to today's Black politicians, that African Americans don't know or care much about what goes on in the rest of the world. We spoke with Professor Paul Ortiz, a professor of history at the University of Florida, and author of the new book, “An African American  and Latinx History of the United States.” Ortiz says the struggle for Black liberation in the U.S. has always been international.  Immigration to the United States is way down, this year, as President Trump succeeds in making Coming to America a nightmare experience. Canada takes in even more immigrants, proportionately, than the United States.  Black Canadian activist and writer Robyn Maynard is author of the book, “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.”  She warns that her country is no safe haven for Black newcomers. All this year, the Philadelphia Saturday Free School has been publicizing the life and philosophy of Muhatma Gandhi, the Indian national liberation leader. On Thursday, October 3rd, the Free School will hold a special program titled, “Mahatma Gandhi and Our Single Garment of Destiny: Our Inescapable Struggle for Peace and Justice.” Philadelphia Free School activist Jahan Choudry says any study of Gandhi must include Dr. Martin Luther King.  Heads of state from all over the planet journeyed to New York City last week to attend the yearly opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. Among them was Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of the tiny Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Prime Minister Gonsalves criticized the Global North for polluting and warming planet, denounced the US economic blockade of Venezuela, and celebrated new movement towards unity within the African diaspora.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Donald Trump has made the United States a nightmare destination for poor, non white immigrants, but a Black Canadian activist says her country is no safe haven; Philadelphia celebrates Muhatma Gandhi along with Martin Luther King; and, the leader of a small Caribbean country blasts the United States for its regime change campaign against Venezuela. One could get the impression, from listening to today’s Black politicians, that African Americans don’t know or care much about what goes on in the rest of the world. We spoke with Professor Paul Ortiz, a professor of history at the University of Florida, and author of the new book, “An African American  and Latinx History of the United States.” Ortiz says the struggle for Black liberation in the U.S. has always been international.  Immigration to the United States is way down, this year, as President Trump succeeds in making Coming to America a nightmare experience. Canada takes in even more immigrants, proportionately, than the United States.  Black Canadian activist and writer Robyn Maynard is author of the book, “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.”  She warns that her country is no safe haven for Black newcomers. All this year, the Philadelphia Saturday Free School has been publicizing the life and philosophy of Muhatma Gandhi, the Indian national liberation leader. On Thursday, October 3rd, the Free School will hold a special program titled, “Mahatma Gandhi and Our Single Garment of Destiny: Our Inescapable Struggle for Peace and Justice.” Philadelphia Free School activist Jahan Choudry says any study of Gandhi must include Dr. Martin Luther King.  Heads of state from all over the planet journeyed to New York City last week to attend the yearly opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. Among them was Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of the tiny Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Prime Minister Gonsalves criticized the Global North for polluting and warming planet, denounced the US economic blockade of Venezuela, and celebrated new movement towards unity within the African diaspora.

This episode of Long Night with Vish Khanna was recorded before a live studio audience at Workman Arts in Toronto, Ontario during Long Winter on Saturday February 9, 2019. Our guests were visual artist and activist Syrus Marcus Ware, scholar and activist Robyn Maynard, and journalist and activist Desmond Cole. With announcer/sidekick James Keast and our house band, the Bicycles. Recorded by Dave MacKinnon. Produced by Vish Khanna and Long Winter. Photos by Shane Parent. Sponsored by Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad's Donuts.

Le texte de la semaine avec Aurélie Lanctôt et Vanessa Destiné. Entrevue avec Jean-Jacques Pelletier, lauréat du Prix Saint-Pacôme, pour son roman Radio-vérité. Faits divers avec Steve Gagnon; discours du chef des goélands à ses mouettes! Jean-Philippe Cipriani répond à vos questions. May Telmissany et Martin Bilodeau ont lu pour nous l’autobiographie de Sally Field, In Pieces. Entrevue avec Robyn Maynard, pour son essai NoirEs sous surveillance. Analyse d'un objet culturel avec Stéfany Boisvert et Manon Dumais; le téléroman.

In episode #289 of Talking Radical Radio (October 2, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Robyn Maynard. She is a Black feminist writer and long-time anti-authoritarian organizer who has been active in movements around racial profiling, police violence, migrant justice, sex worker rights, and harm reduction, mostly in Montreal. Since the publication of her book *Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present* (Fernwood Publishing, 2017), she has been doing launch events and speaking engagements in communities across the country. Maynard talks about the book, and about what she has learned via conversation with activists and organizers in the course of her touring about the book's uptake in movement contexts and about the state of Black struggles in Canada today. For a more detailed description of this episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/10/02/trr-policing_black_lives/

Author and activist Robyn Maynard has written the first comprehensive account of nearly 400 years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. In this episode, we bring you Robyn Maynard’s presentation recorded at the Vancouver launch of Policing Black Lives on March 1.

Author and activist Robyn Maynard has written the first comprehensive account of nearly 400 years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. In this episode, we bring you Robyn Maynard’s presentation recorded at the Vancouver launch of Policing Black Lives on March 1.

In this episode, Danielle Cantave and Sefanit Habtom interview Robyn Maynard, author of the new book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. In her book, Maynard narrates little known - or entirely unknown - stories of Blackness in Canada and the continued state-sanctioned violence enacted upon Black people. This conversation includes her reasons for writing the book and her imaginings for the future.

Canadian writer and intellectual Robyn Maynard discusses her important new book, Policing Black Lives - State Violence in Canada From Slavery to the Present, which was published by Fernwood Publishing. Sponsored by Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, Grandad's Donuts, Freshbooks, and Hello Fresh Canada.

Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. We chat with Robyn about what she calls our (mis)education: Canada's amnesia to its history of slavery and segregation, and about the ways in which Canadian classrooms are still rife with anti-black racism.

This week of FemRadio, we'll hear from Robyn Maynard, the author of a new book that traces the history and current landscape of anti-black racism in Canada. And Emily and Zahraa have your Canadian Feminist News Headlines, Toronto events, and stuff we're digging this week! Aired October 23, 2017. Produced by Emily Joveski, Zarhaa Hmmod, Meera Govindasamy.