Equity Matters - Rehearsals for Living: In Conversation with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. These letters soon grew into a powerful exchange about where we go from here. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and reiterating the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment, Maynard and Simpson create something new: an urgent demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up other ways of ordering earthly life. Please join us for a reading from Rehearsals for Living by Maynard and Simpson and an engaging conversation about the book between the authors and Professor Karina Vernon. As a follow up to the Equity Matters seminar, the Office of the Vice-Principal and Dean will be sponsoring a reading group that will provide participants with the opportunity to meet one of the authors, Robyn Maynard, and other readers (details to be announced).