The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement’s message found fertile ...

Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story ...

Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, ...

Combining graphic fiction and non-fiction, this young adult graphic novel serves as a window into the unique dangers of being a girl from a racialized minority background. The text of the book is derived ...

Dans cet essai poétique, l’auteure de Pointe-Maligne, l’infiniment oubliée (Prix du Gouverneur général 2009) remonte cette fois le fleuve Saint-Laurent jusqu’aux chutes de Niagara pour nous ...

After And the Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman’s disappearance. ...

Voici enfin la traduction française, de Jean-François Cyr, de la troisième édition du livre désormais classique de Daniel N. Paul. Ce n’était pas nous les sauvages est un essai percutant, qui ...

In a fictionalized French-Canadian Detroit, Gloria moves into her late daughter’s house. Hoping to understand what led to her death and to find her missing granddaughters, she starts exploring her neighbourhood. ...

Voici un phénomène unique dans le monde occidental : la fixation des Québécois sur la question linguistique. Ce livre d’abord publié il y a plus de 20 ans – mais toujours d’une brûlante actualité ...

It’s the middle of the 80s. Little Melanie bravely faces the poverty, cruelty, and injustice of her neighbourhood, which people refer to as “Burgundy. ” With her dishevelled hair and her grape juice ...