Robyn Maynard's guest appearances

Robyn Maynard

Kreative Kontrol

The Next Chapter

The Henceforward

Redeye

Seat at the Table

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

Warrior Life

Medicine for the Resistance

The Red Nation Podcast

Anti-Racist Educator Reads

Nwar Atlantic

Hidden Authors Book Club

Haymarket Books Live

Art is Human Nature

Desmond Cole

KIM TALLBEAR

Tim Fontaine

Helen Knott

Sean Michaels

Tara Houska

Kim Fu

Sharine Taylor

Harsha Walia

Omar El Akkad

Esi Edugyan

Malcolm Gladwell

Charles Demers

Arthur Manuel

Veldon Coburn

OwlTail

In this conversation Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson return to the podcast for the second conversation on their book Rehearsals For Living (part one is here). This conversation was recorded in late October, about a month after recording the first part. Most of these questions were conversations from the reading which we just weren’t able to ask during our first conversation due to time constraints.  In this conversation we talk more about architects of climate catastrophe in Toronto, about fascist monsters, and we talk about cooptation and elite capture. We also discuss moments of intense spectacle and important organizing and world-making that takes place all the time outside of the light of media attention. Robyn reflects on the spread of abolitionist ideas into the mainstream and Leanne discusses prominent scholarship within settler colonial studies in the academy and the disconnect between that and indigenous forms of knowledge. Once again, Rehearsals for Living is a really powerful read and we encourage you to pick it up from Haymarket Books or from your local bookstore. As we release this episode, we’re just 2 patrons away from hitting our goal for the month of November, which was to add 30 patrons to make up for non-renewals and continue to grow. If you appreciate conversations like this and the other 175 episodes of this podcast, you can help sustain our work at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

In this conversation Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson return to the podcast for the second conversation on their book Rehearsals For Living (<a href="https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/getting-ready-for-the-next-act-on-rehearsals-for-living-with-robyn-maynard-and-leanne-betasamosake-simpson" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">part one is here</a>). This conversation was recorded in late October, about a month after recording the first part. Most of these questions were conversations from the reading which we just weren’t able to ask during our first conversation due to time constraints.  In this conversation we talk more about architects of climate catastrophe in Toronto, about fascist monsters, and we talk about cooptation and elite capture. We also discuss moments of intense spectacle and important organizing and world-making that takes place all the time outside of the light of media attention. Robyn reflects on the spread of abolitionist ideas into the mainstream and Leanne discusses prominent scholarship within settler colonial studies in the academy and the disconnect between that and indigenous forms of knowledge. Once again, <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Rehearsals for Living</a> is a really powerful read and we encourage you to pick it up from Haymarket Books or from your local bookstore. As we release this episode, we’re just 2 patrons away from hitting our goal for the month of November, which was to add 30 patrons to make up for non-renewals and continue to grow. If you appreciate conversations like this and the other 175 episodes of this podcast, you can help sustain our work at <a href="http://patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism</a>

"What Does It Mean To Change The Air?" - Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rehearsals for Living (part 2)

In this conversation we speak with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  Robyn is the author of the bestselling and award-winning book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. She is also an assistant professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at University of Toronto. She also has a lengthy history of writing about and organizing with social movements against borders, state violence and for abolition. Leanne is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician, and member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of seven books including A Short History of the Blockade and As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. In this conversation we discuss their latest book Rehearsals for Living. This will be part 1 of a 2 part discussion with the authors. Robyn and Leanne discuss world-endings and world-building as realities and practices of Black and Indigenous existence and resistance. They talk about grappling with building a necessary relationality and solidarity between Black and Indigenous movements in so-called Canada as well as internationally against white supremacy, capitalism, settler colonialism and other structures of violence and domination. They also talk about ways of living that are necessary to recall and to continue or renew practices of in the face of already existing climate change and devastation. And they discuss how social movements build upon each other continuing to produce knowledge that grows and sustains and builds their capacity for stronger bonds of solidarity and more effective modes of resistance.  As a note there is a portion of this episode and of Rehearsals for Living that builds on a conversation we published with Stefano Harney and Fred Moten back in July of 2020. Here is a link to that conversation for anyone who wants that context or wants to revisit it after hearing Leanne’s reflections. Rehearsals for Living is a really powerful read and we encourage you to pick it up from Haymarket Books or from your local bookstore. This is our fourth episode of the month, we’ve just hit our goal of adding 25 patrons for the month. We want to thank everyone who signed up to support the show this month. It is only through the support of our listeners through patreon that we are able to sustain this work. If you would like to join them in supporting the show and its hosts and continue to grow our work, you can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism.

In this conversation we speak with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  Robyn is the author of the bestselling and award-winning book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. She is also an assistant professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at University of Toronto. She also has a lengthy history of writing about and organizing with social movements against borders, state violence and for abolition. Leanne is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician, and member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of seven books including A Short History of the Blockade and As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. In this conversation we discuss their latest book Rehearsals for Living. This will be part 1 of a 2 part discussion with the authors. Robyn and Leanne discuss world-endings and world-building as realities and practices of Black and Indigenous existence and resistance. They talk about grappling with building a necessary relationality and solidarity between Black and Indigenous movements in so-called Canada as well as internationally against white supremacy, capitalism, settler colonialism and other structures of violence and domination. They also talk about ways of living that are necessary to recall and to continue or renew practices of in the face of already existing climate change and devastation. And they discuss how social movements build upon each other continuing to produce knowledge that grows and sustains and builds their capacity for stronger bonds of solidarity and more effective modes of resistance.  As a note there is a portion of this episode and of Rehearsals for Living that builds on a conversation we published with Stefano Harney and Fred Moten back in July of 2020. Here is a <a href="https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/give-away-your-home-constantly-fred-moten-and-stefano-harney" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">link</a> to that conversation for anyone who wants that context or wants to revisit it after hearing Leanne’s reflections. <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Rehearsals for Living</a> is a really powerful read and we encourage you to pick it up from Haymarket Books or from your local bookstore. This is our fourth episode of the month, we’ve just hit our goal of adding 25 patrons for the month. We want to thank everyone who signed up to support the show this month. It is only through the support of our listeners through patreon that we are able to sustain this work. If you would like to join them in supporting the show and its hosts and continue to grow our work, you can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at <a href="http://patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism</a>.

"Getting Ready For The Next Act" - On Rehearsals for Living with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Join Robyn Maynard &amp; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a discussion on abolitionist horizons for a world in crisis, hosted by Naomi Murakawa.When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here.Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life.Get Rehearsals for Living from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living---------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto, and the author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present. Her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe.Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of seven books, including her 2021 novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction.Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of racial inequality in 20th and 21st century American politics, with specialization in crime policy and the carceral state. She is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. She is the editor of the Abolitionist Papers book series at Haymarket Books.Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/tyi8oO4oU5UBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.orgFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Robyn Maynard &amp; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a discussion on abolitionist horizons for a world in crisis, hosted by Naomi Murakawa. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life. Get Rehearsals for Living from Haymarket: <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living</a> --------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto, and the author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present. Her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of seven books, including her 2021 novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of racial inequality in 20th and 21st century American politics, with specialization in crime policy and the carceral state. She is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. She is the editor of the Abolitionist Papers book series at Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: <a href="https://youtu.be/tyi8oO4oU5U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/tyi8oO4oU5U</a> Buy books from Haymarket: <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.haymarketbooks.org</a> Follow us on Soundcloud: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks</a>

Rehearsals for Living w/ Robyn Maynard & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

We discuss the new book by Robyn Maynard (@policingblack) &amp; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about abolition from Black and Indigenous movements.    Out now from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living

We discuss the new book by Robyn Maynard <a href="https://twitter.com/policingblack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(@policingblack)</a> &amp; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about abolition from Black and Indigenous movements. Out now from Haymarket: <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living</a>

Rehearsals for living w/ Robyn Maynard & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard on Rehearsals for Living, Buffy Sainte-Marie on Tâpwê and the Magic Hat and The Next Chapter Children's books with Michele Landsberg, Ken Setterington and Bee Quammie, and more.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard, Kids Book Panel -- The Full Episode

“I think that there are a lot of things that are a part of activism that don’t always get categorized as such.” - Robyn Maynard (@policingblack)  See the artwork for this episode: https://www.artbyrobinson.com/episode-2-matching-descriptions Robyn Maynard and Pascale Diverlus' Political Education Platform: https://www.buildingtheworldwewant.com/ For this episode, Alexander speaks with Robyn Maynard (award-winning author and activist) as she brilliantly covers topics like racial profiling, police brutality, and overall state violence that is enacted against Black lives while also sharing her interpretation of his painting titled “Matching Descriptions.” All music used is produced by Roosevelth: https://soundcloud.com/roosevelth Funded by Canada Council for the Arts

“I think that there are a lot of things that are a part of activism that don’t always get categorized as such.” - Robyn Maynard <a href="https://www.instagram.com/policingblack/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(@policingblack)</a> See the artwork for this episode: <a href="https://www.artbyrobinson.com/episode-2-matching-descriptions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.artbyrobinson.com/episode-2-matching-descriptions</a> Robyn Maynard and Pascale Diverlus' Political Education Platform: <a href="https://www.buildingtheworldwewant.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buildingtheworldwewant.com/</a> For this episode, Alexander speaks with Robyn Maynard (award-winning author and activist) as she brilliantly covers topics like racial profiling, police brutality, and overall state violence that is enacted against Black lives while also sharing her interpretation of his painting titled “Matching Descriptions.” All music used is produced by Roosevelth: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/roosevelth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/roosevelth</a> Funded by Canada Council for the Arts

Matching Descriptions - Police Brutality, The Far Reaches Of State Violence, And Activism (Ft. Robyn Maynard)

For the final episode of the Policing Black Lives, Colinda is joined by Tisha Nelson and Donna Cardoza. They discuss racism in the child welfare and education systems, and finish the book with radical hope.

EP 04 Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard ft. Tisha Nelson and Donna Cordoza

The very first Black Lives Matter presence outside of the U.S. began with Sandy Hudson in 2014. Martine and Isabelle look at how far the movement has come in Canada with Hudson, and take the time to really understand what defunding the police and abolition mean with Robyn Maynard, author of “Policing Black Lives”.

BLM in Canada with Sandy Hudson; Defunding the Police and Abolition with Robyn Maynard

Camille Logan

In episode 3 of Policing Black Lives, Colinda is joined by Camille Logan and Gerry Walker to discuss chapters 5 &amp; 6, and the intersectionality of anti-Black racism with misogyny and immigration.

EP 03 Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard ft. Camille Logan and Gerry Walker

In this episode, Colinda is in conversation with the author of Policing Black LIves, Robyn Maynard talking about systemic racism, how the education system has been failing Black students and how schools and school communities can be sites of transformational healing and learning.