In this group we鈥檒l be reading BIPOC authors discussing the climate crisis in fiction and non-fiction works. Open to everyone!
If you鈥檙e interested in joining, please contact Danielle DiNovelli-Lang (Danielle.Dinovelli@carleton.ca)听and/or Barbara Leckie (barbaraleckie@icloud.com).
Up Next:
24 April 2023, 7PM, (contact us for location information*):听Olufemi Taiwo鈥檚 (2022)
*Our winter meetings will be taking place in-person, pending COVID safety guidelines. However, we also welcome virtual participation in the meetings. If you’d like to zoom-in to our discussion, please email Danielle or Barbara.
Past Meetings:
Winter 2023 Schedule
6 March 2023, 7PM: Malcolm Ferdinand鈥檚 (2022)
Fall 2022 Schedule
2 November, 11AM, Dunton Tower Room 1816: Max Liboiron, (2021)
13 December, 11AM, Dunton Tower Room 1811: Alexis Wright鈥檚 听(2013)
Summer 2021 Schedule
26 July, 3:00PM: 听 (the first book in the Broken Earth Trilogy) (2015)
Winter 2021 Schedule
18 January, 1:00 PM:听听Waubgeshig Rice,听听(2018)
22 February, 1:00 PM:听Katherine听McKittrick, ed.,听听(2015)
29 March, 1:00PM: Octavia Butler,听听(1993)
10 May, 1:00PM: Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance听(2019)
Fall 2020 Schedule
16 November, 2:30PM: Our first book is Cherie Dimaline,听听(2017)
14 December, 2:30PM: Christina Sharpe,听听(2016)
Tentative book list:
Fiction
- Octavia Butler,听The Parable of the Sower
- Cherie Dimaline,听The Marrow Thieves听
- N.K. Jemisin,听The Broken听Earth Trilogy
- Waubgeshig听Rice,听Moon of the Crusted Snow
- Jesmyn Ward,听Salvage the Bones听
Non-Fiction
- Joshua Bennett,听Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man听
- Ailton Krenak,听Ideas to Postpone the end of the World
- Amitov Ghosh,听The Great Derangement
- Tiffany Lethabo King,听The Black Shoals:听Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
- Christina Sharpe,听In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
- Lauret Savoy,听Trace:听Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
- Kathyrn Yusoff,听A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
- Ian Baucom,听History 4 Degrees Celsius