Deconstructing Racism: Desmond Cole & Grada Kilomba

Grada Kilomba, Desmond Cole and Fiona Raye Clarke

Deconstructing Racism: Desmond Cole & Grada Kilomba

Grada Kilomba, Desmond Cole and Fiona Raye Clarke

1:00pm

Sunday, November 1, 2020

45 mins

A big congratulations to Desmond Cole on winning the 2020 Toronto Book Prize for his book The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power! To celebrate, check out this interview from #FestofAuthors20 with Grada and Desmond.

Join us for an afternoon with Toronto activist and award-winning journalist and author of The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, Desmond Cole, with Berlin-based Portuguese interdisciplinary artist and author of Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism, Grada Kilomba. The authors will discuss methods for actively engaging in anti-racism in our everyday lives and within the broader scope of the institutions in which we live. Systemic problems of complacency, injustice and violence against the Black community will be unpacked, as demonstrated in their powerful and timely books.

Interviewer: Fiona Raye Clarke

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A big congratulations to Desmond Cole on winning the 2020 Toronto Book Prize for his book The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power! To celebrate, check out this interview from #FestofAuthors20 with Grada and Desmond.

Join us for an afternoon with Toronto activist and award-winning journalist and author of The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, Desmond Cole, with Berlin-based Portuguese interdisciplinary artist and author of Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism, Grada Kilomba. The authors will discuss methods for actively engaging in anti-racism in our everyday lives and within the broader scope of the institutions in which we live. Systemic problems of complacency, injustice and violence against the Black community will be unpacked, as demonstrated in their powerful and timely books.

Interviewer: Fiona Raye Clarke

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Featured Authors

Grada Kilomba
Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese artist and writer living in Berlin. Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, gender and the decolonisation of knowledge. She is best known for her subversive writing and artistic practice of giving body, voice and image to her own texts, using publication, staged reading, performance, installation and video. Her work has been presented internationally. She is the author of the acclaimed Plantation Memories, a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories that has been translated into several languages and listed as the most important non-fiction literature in Brazil. Appearance supported by CAMOES, I.P. and Portuguese Embassy.

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Desmond Cole
Desmond Cole is an award-winning journalist, radio host and activist in Toronto. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, Toronto Life, The Walrus, NOW Magazine, Ethnic Aisle, Torontoist, BuzzFeed and the Ottawa Citizen. The Skin We're In is Cole's first book.

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Fiona Raye Clarke
Fiona Raye Clarke is an award-winning Trinidadian-Canadian writer and community-engaged artist. Her co-created screenplay, Intersecting won the 2017 CineFAM Short Film Challenge and her writing has appeared in various publications online and in print, including the Puritan Town Crier, the Room Magazine blog, and the League of Canadian Poets Chapbook edited by Chelene Knight: These Lands. Her plays have been produced by the rock.paper.sistahz festival and InspiraTo Festival and she is an alumnus of the Banff Centre. She holds a Creative Writing Certificate from Humber College and a Master of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School. 

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1:00pm

Sunday, November 1

45 mins

What to read

The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by , Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism by ,
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