The Disorientation of Discrimination: Kei Miller & Ian Williams
Originally aired on October 21
Re-release February 01
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Jamaican poet, essayist and novelist Kei Miller presents his critical and lyrical collection of interconnected essays, Things I Have Withheld, as Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes to today’s urgent conversation on race and racism with his collection of essays Disorientation: Being Black in the World. This archived presentation from the Toronto International Festival of Authors (originally aired on October 21, 2021) illuminates and explores the experience of discrimination, the silences in which so many important things are kept, and how the meanings of our bodies can shift as we move through the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.
Interviewer: Fiona Raye Clarke
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This event is currently re-released as part of Harbourfront Centre’s 2023 KUUMBA Presented by TD Bank Group, Toronto’s largest Black Futures Month celebration. The video is available to watch for free throughout the month of February. Learn more here.
