Book launch: "Abolitionist Intimacies" by El Jones
Le samedi 5 novembre 2022, à 14h00.
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Librairie Racines, 6524 St-Hubert (métro Beaubien)
Please join us at Librairie Racines for the Montréal launch of ABOLITIONIST INTIMACIES. Cohosted by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University and Fernwood Publishing.
Featuring the author, El Jones; activist Sheri Pranteau; and poets Deanna Smith and Ricardo Lamour. Hosted by Black feminist community organizer Marlihan Lopez.
This venue is wheelchair accessible. This event is free and open to the public.
Librairie Racines 6524, rue Saint-Hubert Montréal, QC, H2S 2M3
El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies in 2017. She was Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on social justice issues, such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour, on CKDU-FM where listeners from prisons call in to rap and read their poetry, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience.
Sheri Pranteau is an indigenous woman born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her family of origin is from the Pine Creek band in Manitoba. She is a mother to her 10 yr old son, who is her pride and joy. Her reason for continuing to move forward in her life. Sheri is also serving a life sentence. With 15 + years in the Penitentiary and now going on 13 years on parole. Sheri is a front line worker for the indigenous homeless and was the first person hired to work for the "Indigenous Support Workers Project" back when it first started up. Once covid came along, she had to take a step back and from there she chose a different path. Sheri is currently the Advocacy liaison for the BTC National team of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. She is also employed with "Resilience Montréal" part time, which is a day shelter for the homeless. She is a board member to the Native Friendship Centre of Montréal, President to the Centre for Justice Exchange group/project and is busy with creating a better support type of group for women coming out of prison.
Marlihan Lopez is a Black feminist community organizer tackling issues surrounding anti-blackness, gender-based violence and its intersections. She coordinated the EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) division for the Quebec Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, where she did advocacy work and raises awareness on how gender, race, class and ability intersect in the context of sexual violence. She has also organized with movements such as Black Lives Matter around issues such as racial profiling and police brutality. She was co-Vice-President for la Fédération des femmes du Québec from 2017-2022 and is currently Program and Outreach Coordinator at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. She is also cofounding member of Coalition to Defund the Police, based in Montreal.
Deanna Smith is a Montreal-based poet, performer, and teaching artist. Her work is based on her experiences and perspectives as a 5th generation Canadian, daughter, wife, mother, and bilingual person of African descent. Deanna facilitates creative writing, poetry, and anti-racism workshops for participants age 4+. Her work has been published in “Great Black North; Contemporary African Canadian Poetry” (Frontenac House, 2013), and Montreal Serai Magazine (Vol. 31, Issue 4). She is the director of the Ile-Ife Africana Studies Collection, and is actively seeking publication of several children's books.
A graduate of the School of Social Work at the University of Montréal, Ricardo Lamour is an artist, columnist and community activist. He has also released albums, acted in films and appeared in documentaries. His writing often adresses racial justice and anti-black racism. His work was published in Pivot, Ricochet, La Presse, Nouveau Projet, Beside. Lamour actively mentors the collective Bout du Monde which consists of 5 black youths that occupy cultural, physical and political spaces in order to transform them. Bout du Monde was founded 7 years ago with the goal of creating environments that nurture the genius of Black youth. They recently collaborated with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights for the revision of its black content. Lamour has provided analysis and advice on anti- black racism to actors in the philanthropic, community and political ecosystems, took part in key efforts to address the censorship of black voices in arts in Quebec and has contributed to Montreal adopting a motion recognizing the United Nations’ 68/237 resolution for the International Decade for People of African Descent. The CRTC recently ruled in his favour regarding the usage of the N-word by the French services of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and although CBC/SRC is appealing the decision, they have issued an apology to Ricardo Lamour.
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