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The Rainbow Goblins is a picture book first published in 1978.

Why Robyn Maynard wrote a book exposing the underreported history of racial injustice in Canada.

"There are these contributions from elders, from youth, from folks inside and outside prison. It's this beautiful compilation of what it means to be black in this moment in Canada and to be involved in revolutionary change." This book was a labour of love that came out of our community. They talk about organizing and digital activism in this online world that we find ourselves in to talk about abolition. They talk about mothering in the movement. Our community members came together to write and tell stories of Blackness here in this part of Turtle Island to tell stories of what it's like to be Black. "I edited this book with Rodney Diverlus and Sandy Hudson. (Submitted by University of Regina Press)

Until We Are Free is a collection of writing that reflects on the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada. Being Black in Canada: Highlights the stories and experiences of Black Canadiansīeyond Survival, edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.The book is an opportunity for us to reimagine who our heroes are and to also to start thinking for ourselves how we might survive in a post apocalyptic future." "What's important about Parable of the Sower is that it's an unlikely hero that ends up taking us through a journey of ultimately finding safety in the world. It's a Black disabled woman who is the person who is able to bring people together - to form a community and to resist the violence of the state. "She was able to predict the conditions of white supremacy and violence we're seeing in the now in such a beautiful way. I've even had a couple of quotes from the book tattooed on my body. Octavia Butler was writing it in the early 1990s, and she was able to predict in 2021 - which is so eerily exact and surprising - that there would be a right-wing leaning presidential hopeful whose campaign slogan is 'Make America Great Again.' I reread this book every couple of years. It is one of those prescient novels that predicted a future. "I think it speaks to the now in such an important way. I reread this book every couple of years. (Cheung Ching Ming, Grand Central Publishing) Octavia Estelle Butler was a California-based science fiction author.