The Politics of Black Lives: Cheryl Thompson

Cheryl Thompson and Karen Lee

The Politics of Black Lives: Cheryl Thompson

Cheryl Thompson and Karen Lee

8:30pm

Sunday, October 25, 2020

45 mins

Lean in to a bold dialogue about the political movements and racial tensions that continue to rock the world and spark international debate. In this archived Toronto International Festival of Authors presentation, Dr. Cheryl Thompson (Uncle: Race, Nostalgia and the Politics of Loyalty) provides a uniquely Canadian perspective on Black racism and institutional oppression, as demonstrated through her latest works of non-fiction. This perspective-shifting conversation spotlights Black lived experiences and the societal consequences of staying the current trajectory. (Originally aired October 25, 2021)

Interviewer: Karen Lee.

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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.

Lean in to a bold dialogue about the political movements and racial tensions that continue to rock the world and spark international debate. In this archived Toronto International Festival of Authors presentation, Dr. Cheryl Thompson (Uncle: Race, Nostalgia and the Politics of Loyalty) provides a uniquely Canadian perspective on Black racism and institutional oppression, as demonstrated through her latest works of non-fiction. This perspective-shifting conversation spotlights Black lived experiences and the societal consequences of staying the current trajectory. (Originally aired October 25, 2021)

Interviewer: Karen Lee.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

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.

Featured Authors

Cheryl Thompson
Cheryl Thompson is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in the School of Creative Industries. She is author of Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. She previously held a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. Her work has appeared in The Conversation, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Spacing, Herizons Magazine, Halifax Coast and Rabble.ca. She was born and raised in Toronto, where she currently resides. She has also lived in the US.

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Karen Lee
Karen Lee is most captivated by Voice. Sound. Beat. A lyrical storyteller reclaiming voice against tyrannies that silence. Lee supports accessibility and social justice as a Jamaican Patois Court interpreter (Ministry of the Attorney General Registry), voiceover artist, described video narrator, vocalist, actor and poet. Lee's poetry is published in The Malahat Review, Brick / Brickyard, the Humber Literary Review, Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, commissioned for Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989 - AGO, and shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Prize. Tekkin Back Tongue, her poetry manuscript in progress, is named after her self-directed writing residency in Ghana, Kenya (2018).

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8:30pm

Sunday, October 25

45 mins

What to read

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