To try to convene and commune on building a more livable life for ourselves, for our kids, and for our ancestors to come.”Īs the pandemic began and many were living in relative isolation, both authors were able to continue to think dialectically and work together through their letters to each other. “And it’s a way of thinking globally about what does it mean to build liveable futures in the context of all of this in the context of the long history and afterlives of slavery, and colonialism? And trying to map out together, through the process of letter writing through personal scaffolding, different intellectual traditions. “It’s a book of letters between two feminists, theorists, parents, people who’ve been part of, in different ways, Black liberation and Indigenous decolonization and liberation movements over many years,” Maynard said in an interview with the South Seattle Emerald. The two bring to Elliott Bay music, words, and reflections on what it means to ask ourselves and one another what it means to build a world premised on love and care. Simpson is a Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer and musician, having written books such as Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, A Short History of the Blockade, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance, and more. Maynard is best known for her book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, and is currently an assistant professor of Black feminism at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
The book in itself is a dialogue between the two authors as they processed and reimagined life and liberation amid the pandemic. The two are releasing a new book, Rehearsals for Living, a series of letters between the two written mostly over the pandemic. This Wednesday, July 27, acclaimed writers, movement builders, and academics Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard will virtually visit Elliott Bay Book Company. Two writers and movement builders reflect on their new book, written as letters throughout the pandemic.
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