In this group we’ll be reading BIPOC authors discussing the climate crisis in fiction and non-fiction works. Open to everyone!

If you’re interested in joining, please contact Danielle DiNovelli-Lang (Danielle.Dinovelli@carleton.ca)Ìýand/or Barbara Leckie (barbaraleckie@icloud.com).

Up Next:

24 April 2023, 7PM, (contact us for location information*):ÌýOlufemi Taiwo’s (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’s (2022)

Fall 2022 Schedule

2 November, 11AM, Dunton Tower Room 1816: Max Liboiron, (2021)

13 December, 11AM, Dunton Tower Room 1811: Alexis Wright’s Ìý(2013)

Summer 2021 Schedule

26 July, 3:00PM: Ìý (the first book in the Broken Earth Trilogy) (2015)

Winter 2021 Schedule

18 January, 1:00 PM:ÌýÌýWaubgeshig Rice,ÌýÌý(2018)

22 February, 1:00 PM:ÌýKatherineÌýMcKittrick, ed.,ÌýÌý(2015)

29 March, 1:00PM: Octavia Butler,ÌýÌý(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 ResistanceÌý(2019)

Fall 2020 Schedule

16 November, 2:30PM: Our first book is Cherie Dimaline,ÌýÌý(2017)

14 December, 2:30PM: Christina Sharpe,ÌýÌý(2016)


Tentative book list:

Fiction

  • Octavia Butler,ÌýThe Parable of the Sower
  • Cherie Dimaline,ÌýThe Marrow ThievesÌý
  • N.K. Jemisin,ÌýThe BrokenÌýEarth Trilogy
  • WaubgeshigÌýRice,ÌýMoon of the Crusted Snow
  • Jesmyn Ward,ÌýSalvage the BonesÌý

Non-Fiction

  • Joshua Bennett,ÌýBeing Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of ManÌý
  • Ailton Krenak,ÌýIdeas to Postpone the end of the World
  • Amitov Ghosh,ÌýThe Great Derangement
  • Tiffany Lethabo King,ÌýThe Black Shoals:ÌýOffshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
  • Christina Sharpe,ÌýIn the Wake: On Blackness and Being
  • Lauret Savoy,ÌýTrace:ÌýMemory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
  • Kathyrn Yusoff,ÌýA Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
  • Ian Baucom,ÌýHistory 4 Degrees Celsius