Book description
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.
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…
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1 author picked Rehearsals for Living as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
“Eventually, if we are lucky, we will release this work from the past, through the present and into the future, as a record of how we thought and interacted at one point in time.” I love dialogical work formed through a conversation by two or more authors. Comprised of letters between Maynard and Simpson during the COVID lockdown, Rehearsals For Living thinks the violence of settler/racial capitalism and the struggles of Black and Indigenous subjects in the immediacy of the pandemic.
One reason I enjoyed it was that it echoed a dialogical project I was part of at the…
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