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What role can art and imagination play in resisting exclusion and erasure? In his piercing essay collection, Black Boys Like Me, Toronto teacher and writer Matthew R. Morris confronts what it means to be a young Black man in a school system built on narrow definitions of success. He traces a journey of how identity is shaped by culture, expectation, and resilience. Acclaimed author Saeed Teebi in You Will Not Kill Our Imagination turns to language and storytelling in the face of violence and displacement. With urgency and moral clarity, he explores art as both defiance and survival and it means to be a writer in exile during war in your homeland. Together, they consider how writing becomes a site of resistance, a path to healing, and a way to reimagine the future.

Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging

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You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times

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Matthew R. Morris

Matthew R. Morris is an educator, anti-racism advocate, and writer based out of Toronto.

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Saeed Teebi

Saeed Teebi is an award-winning writer and lawyer. His debut short story collection, Her First Palestinian, was a finalist for several awards, including the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize.

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