Thinking From Black: A Lexicon by the Practicing Refusal Collective

Thinking From Black is an animated collection that illuminates, interrogates, and grabs hold of what Blackness means from as many angles as humanity, history, and artistry allow. Initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, whose members span the US, Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, and Africa, this fierce book is as much about creativity as it is about the political realities and ethical practices of being Black at a time when anti-Black violence is resurging in terrifying ways. A reference book, a glossary, and an inventive vocabulary that …

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Cover of lac Cake, Turtle Soup and Other Dilemmas by Gloria Blizzard. The cover is a dark blue sideways gradient, with the title taking up most of the space.

Throwback: “I am (Un)Seen, I am (Mis)Seen, I am (Over)Seen”: Black Cake, Turtle Soup and Other Dilemmas by Gloria Blizzard

With a MFA from the University of King College, being a multi-award winning Black Canadian writer and poet, she uses her remarkable skills in lyricism and thoughtful analysis to understand what it means to be in this constant state of movement.

Cover of Blue thinks itself within me by Kim Trainor. THe cover is cream, with the title in the middle and a bkue-tine picture of lichen in the upper right=hand corner.

Blue thinks itself within me by Kim Trainor

Full of a variety of works of art and poetry, slices of history, theories, and anecdotes of Trainor’s activism, all sections weave source material and personal experience back to the pulsing questions Trainor poses: what can artists do in the face of climate disaster, and more specifically how can activism be informed and impacted by ecopoetry?

Reframing Healing: Indigenous Voices for the Future

Two recent collections, You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People and A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices, offer something rare in conversations about Indigenous experiences: a shift away from narratives that confine us to trauma, and toward stories that illuminate healing, agency, and responsibility to one another.