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Bestselling author of Gutter Child + The Stone Thrower + Because You Are + The Hockey Jersey | ED @TheFOLD_ + @FOLDkids | book lover | she/her | Micah 6:8 |
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Ten years ago, I published my first book, The Stone Thrower. So grateful to be a part of three Canadian anthologies and to have written two kid’s books and a novel since then.
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You know what’s even better than buying an orange shirt - buying and reading books by Indigenous authors all year round.
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#ThanksCanada
for employing my father, a black kid from the projects, as a quarterback in the
@CFL
when the NFL didn’t want him. Thanks for opening your arms so widely in the seventies, when things were rough for folks like us, that he decided to stay and raise a family.
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Save this. Because a time will come. What will you do with your power? What have you done with your power?
She was escorted out of a writers event on POLITICAL WRITING for saying this. I love and respect this woman immensely. Her poise and her courage.
RAISE YOUR VOICE.
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I feel like we’re being told that work is the only thing that’s essential in a pandemic and I just want to say, connect with friends, hug your people/pets, take holidays, watch bad tv, read good books, listen to music, dance. Find peace. Help others. THESE are essentials.
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The repeated implication that people live in multigenerational homes solely because they can’t afford to do otherwise is ignorant and just effed up. Multigenerational homes are the heart, the model, of community. They should be protected at all cost. Not shamed.
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Please stop giving villains in books messy teeth or skin conditions or scars or disabilities. And don’t make them short and/or fat either. It equates disability and/or fatness with evil. And publishers should be questioning + addressing these things in the editing process.
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Went to an ice cream shop that had a bowl of lactaid pills for customers to take as needed, and honestly, why isn’t this standard practice for those of us who shouldn’t eat dairy but need to make exceptions for ice cream.
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@ungodlywests
Then he said “I was in a coma” and the reply was “from falling off a wall”? 🤣🤣🤣
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Nobody at the
@liberal_party
should be celebrating tonight. And
@JustinTrudeau
’s speech should be, “I’m sorry I wasted your time and risked your lives for this untimely experiment. I’ll do something important like get everyone clean drinking water to make it up to you.”
#elxn44
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Just keep in mind, that it wasn’t until weeks after the incident - when the video went viral - that these men were arrested and (now) convicted. Without that video, these men would still be walking free.
Breaking: Three men were found guilty of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, whom they confronted as he was running in their neighborhood in early 2020. The case drew national attention after a video showing the fatal shooting circulated.
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What the hell are we doing, CanLit, if an event celebrating political writing kicks a Black woman who lived through apartheid out for demanding we use our voice, that we speak out for injustice, for fellow writers who are dying for their work? Who are we?
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Confirmed: In the recent
@globeandmail
weekend feature of 10 children’s authors and illustrators, not a single one was Black. This kind of erasure in Can kid lit is typical. And it’s a problem. This is not about those who were featured. It’s about the fact that Black faces...
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I appreciate folks ordering orange shirts from verified Indigenous orgs, but please do not harass said orgs about getting your orange shirt to you by Sept 30, even if you ordered it weeks ago. You’re making it clear you really don’t get it and you’re embarrassing yourselves.
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Today a woman of colour defended a woman of colour’s book and won, making history on
#CanadaReads
. To celebrate
@AmandaBrugel
’s victory and to serve as a record of phenomenal Canadian BIPOC women and non-binary writers, please drop some other titles that apply.
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You may not be or feel racist. But ask yourself, IS YOUR BOOKSHELF? Who's there? Who's not? If you're a parent with lots of kids books, are there people of color? Are they Canadian (if you're Canadian you know why this matters)? Who's centered on the cover?
#DiversifyYourShelf
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When racism took Black lives, I wanted to know my non-Black friends knew and cared how it hurt me - how it affects me even when it happens in another county. Today, I want my Asian brothers and sisters to know that I see you. I’m thinking about you. You matter.
#StopAsianHate
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Friendly reminder: If you have not checked your kids lunch bag since the last time they used it for school, let me just recommend that you don’t. Don’t check it. Don’t open it. Deliver that bag straight to the curb and start over.
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So I have a new book, illustrated by Brampton’s own
@chlschrls
and blurbed by the incredible
@PKSubban1
(who once lived in Brampton). It’s inspired by The Hockey Sweater, a classic hockey story, this one featuring Kareema Owusu and a cast of incredible characters.
#HockeyForAll
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Why does publishing treat books like fast fashion - releasing new new new each season like the last season’s picks have already gone out of style, when the truth is most of us barely know about the most recent ones and we certainly haven’t had a chance to read them.
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I’m going to play this clip over and over because that last little bit brought me to tears. And this might just save hearts and minds - it’s that brilliant and that profound (and important). ♥️😭
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This idea that books should have a certain level of “difficulty” in terms of language choice and narrators or whatever standard is being used to approve books for any high school student is exactly why teens leave school believing they’re not (or can’t be) “readers”. Stop it.
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The votes are in, and I’m the proud parent of a new Student Council Rep. 😍
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So I have some news. My first novel, Gutter Child, is coming out Fall 2020 with the folks
@HarperCollinsCa
: “Gutter Child exposes what happens when the most vulnerable among us are left to fight for survival against impossible odds and incredible obstacles.”
#GutterChild2020
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I realized today that the reason it’s called a glass ceiling is because it’s full of fragile men.
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I‘m annoyed that
@nationalpost
would publish trash like that where a guy like Rex Murphy gets to be positioned as the authority on racism in Canada. I wonder what he has to say about women’s rights? Or Indigenous politics? This is the very kind of racist stuff I’m tired of.
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To write in this world, especially as a member of a marginalized and underrepresented community, is a form of activism. It is a shout in the darkness, demanding light.
Light it up, BIPOC. Light it up.
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I wish Canadian educators valued Canadian authors and content creators at least as much as they did Americans, preferably more. I wish they were willing to commit to us and our work like they do those south of the border. We need you to, frankly. And we’ll wait. But it’s hard. 😔
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A book is a book.
Audiobook? Book.
Graphic novel? Book.
Picture book? Book.
Read what you need, how you need.
#amreading
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Excited to reveal the cover of my debut novel GUTTER CHILD, coming January 26 with
@HarperCollinsCa
- set in an imagined world where the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Pre-order now w/
@chaptersindigo
:
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How much money would we all save if we just liked, really liked, our bodies and faces exactly as they are?
Been thinking a lot about this a lot lately. And it’s got me feeling things hard.
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I am so grateful and honoured to have Gutter Child included on the Amazon First Novel Award shortlist.
I am overwhelmed, truly.
And it’s an added delight to be celebrated alongside
@franekwuyasi
@Sheung_King
@Creeborn
@marlowetatiana
@Stintzi
. ♥️
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My husband just sent me this photo in a text that says “The Hospitality Suite is open.” 😍
#FOLD2020
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My parents are celebrating 48 years of marriage today and I feel the need to brag. I just love them to pieces and their love for each other, for God, and for me and my siblings is one of the best things I’ve ever known. I’m just so grateful for all they’ve done.
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When I was younger, forty sounded old. Ancient. But today, forty feels pretty damn good, y’all. Thanks to everyone who has touched my life over the past four decades, whose attend or supported FOLD, whose read my work, whose helped my family, whose cheered me on. THANK YOU.
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@amil
I don’t have THE bike but I use the app. I’m not saying it’s cheap. It’s not, but it can be cheaper than a gym membership, especially if multiple people in your family use it. Also, in a cold place that’s in lockdown it’s been really helpful for mental and physical health.
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So excited for Gutter Child to enter the world today - now available in paper and e-book, and as an audiobook via
@audible_ca
(read by
@itsmepagliacci
). Thank you to everyone who travelled with me on this journey and to all of you who will hold it in your hearts and homes.
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I am more convinced than ever that how you do social justice work is as important as the social justice work itself. If you can’t uphold the dignity of those in the trenches with you in your effort to get it done, then we are not in this together…you are in it for your ego.
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We saw all the Raptors and Drake from a few feet away and got free ice cream and only waited an hour around some reasonably tolerable people. So we’re going home in a really high note. Boys said it was the best day of their lives.
#WetheNorth
🤣
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I won. ❎❎❎
#GutterChild
by
@JaelRichardson
and
#TheWisdomOfYourBody
by
@hillarylmcbride
have won awards from The Word Guild! Congratulations both 🎉
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I got pregnant soon after I announced I was leaving my 9-5 to do my MFA. Six months into the program, I had my son. Took two weeks off and came back, workshopping my memoir while classmates too turns holding him. My book baby and my human baby began at the same time. 13 yrs ago.
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Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka have had to speak up on issues, and do it alone, while their peers continue to compete without them, benefitting from their absence. This is how white supremacy works - from the silence of many in the face of systems that are failing all of us.
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Incredibly honoured and overwhelmed. This is for the entire
@TheFOLD_
team and all of our supporters and sponsors. This is especially for the writers whose stories have been overlooked. May your voice find its way into the world with courage and may they be received with love.
And the 2019 Freedom to Read Award goes to...
@JaelRichardson
and
@TheFOLD_
!
This Award is presented annually by TWUC during
#FTRWeek
in recognition of work that is passionately supportive of the freedom to read and free expression.
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LAWRENCE HILL MENTIONS MY BOOK, THE STONE THROWER, IN HIS MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL - BEATRICE AND CROC HARRY - AND I AM NOT OKAY.
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So proud of you
@ianwillwrite
. I got to see that book in its infancy as we worked on our novels at a coffee shop in Brampton. You really are the Literary Drake tonight.
#BramptonProud
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Libraries are our most community important spaces and should be protected. I remember Richard Wagamese talking about how he used a library to research his first journalism job. He was homeless and couldn’t afford school. That library changed his life and he changed ours.
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Want to see something hilarious? Check out
#TheBachelerotte
feed and see people lose their minds over trump and his North Korea visit interrupting the show. Don’t mess with Bachelorette fans.
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Do not measure your sense of self-worth by your book sales. Every time you allow it to boost your ego, you open up plenty more room for it to shatter your heart. Your book is your journey, it’s a gift to yourself and whoever reads it. The end. Don’t let capitalism steal your joy.
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You never forget your first. ♥️🥰
#GutterChild
by
@JaelRichardson
is officially a Canadian bestseller!! Congratulations! 😍 😍 😍
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One year ago, Gutter Child entered the world. What a treasure it is to look back on this past year and to feel such deep gratitude and gratefulness. Happy Book Birthday, Gutter Child, and thank you to every reader and listener who followed Elimina’s journey to the bitter end.
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A publisher just sent me a Fall 2020 catalogue FULL of stories where all of the books with Black people on the cover (there were about six in a catalogue of more than a hundred books) were written by white women. And I’m a “little” annoyed. Do better, Can Lit. I’m tired of this.
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Just feeling exceptionally grateful today. ♥️
"Author and literary festival director
@JaelRichardson
has been named the winner of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents’s (PACLA) inaugural Publishing Professional of the Year Award for her work developing
@TheFOLD_
"
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Sad to say that I won’t be returning to
@cbcradioq
as a book columnist this fall. I loved every minute of that role. It changed so many things for me - as a reader and a writer - but I’m slowing down a bit and this was something I had to let go. Thanks for having me
@tompowercbc
.
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“My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something.” - Lee Maracle (1950-2021)
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This picture by
@RyanEmberley
is everything. Taken in the Press Room after Ian Williams received the
@GillerPrize
. Media are waiting to talk to him, and here he is crouching between two columns, topped with roses. The shock. The delightful emotion.
#photooftheday
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Just think about who we know is more likely to be outside to get to jobs as essential workers right now and what we already know to be statistically true about who’s more likely to be stopped and who’s more likely to wind up dead from these kinds of encounters.
#onpoli
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I can’t stress enough how important it is to read books by Canadians at this time. Know the names of the founders of the movement. Understand the struggle and how the movement began here. Including two of my favourites to add to your home library.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackCanLit
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I’m going to make an unofficial rule that I recommend following: Do not have a “CanLit” panel without an Indigenous person on it. I personally recommend AT LEAST 1 POC EVERY TIME you want to talk about CANADIAN LITERATURE specifically - its history or its future.
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Today is the official launch day of
#BecauseYouAre
- my new picture book, illustrated by
@kiinopia
. Get it for a kid, or a middle grader or a teen or an adult. This is a message we all need to hear - a reminder of where we come from and who we can become when our focus is right.
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Well, guess who’s back in the guest host chair
@cbcradioq
next week while
@tompowercbc
is away? ♥️
It’s a challenging job for me, but I can’t wait to get on the mic again. 🎙
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Don’t freak out. Don’t freak out. Be cool. Be cool. OMG. Same tweet. Same photo. Practically besties, right?
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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCENES I’VE EVER WATCHED ON TELEVISION.
#ThisIsUs
Everyone should watch this scene, it's intense and heart wrenching but necessary.
This is reality. Thank you
@NBCThisisUs
@ThisIsUsWriters
#ThisIsUs
#BlackLivesMatter
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A police officer happened to be at a school of someone I know where an anti-Vaxxer was “protesting”. While the vp dealt with them, the cops ran their plate. Their license had expired and they had no insurance on them so the cop arrested them and impounded their car. Happy Friday.
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I just visited Canada’s largest independent bookstore in Winnipeg, Manitoba and I am not okay in the very best way. I’m now obsessed with
@mcnallyrobinson
and am currently manifesting my return.
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If you’re living in a diverse community and you hold an event and your audience is not as diverse as the community where your event is set (class, age, race, ability, etc.), ask yourself some hard questions...and do something about it. That’s my inclusion advice.
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They’re here. They’re really here. Advanced Review Copies of Gutter Child. 😍
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If as festival planners, you take the time to plan out the path and priority seating of your big donors/wealthiest guests/so called VIPS, but you do not consider the path and seating for your Disabled guests and guests with limited means, you’re doing event planning wrong.
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Gutter Child is hanging out with
@BarackObama
and
@angiecthomas
on the
@chaptersindigo
homepage, and I am overwhelmed.
#BHM
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Rest in Power, Lee Maracle.
You are a force whose words will remain with us — in me — treasured, admired, always revered.
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From now on, I would like to be paid in ten dollar bills. That is all.
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So tired of white folks being given the space to lead the discussion on the experience of BIPOC folks. I’m open to a discussion on the term but this is not it. To create a term that removes folks of colour to prioritize a non-racialized community is white supremacy 101.
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Interesting fact: Gutter Child was rejected by two literary agents, one small press and one multi-national before it found its home. All on the basis that there was a lack of interest or connection with the story. It was born a national bestseller.
#ThisIsCanLit
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One of my close friends took her kids to hockey practice where they saw a friend’s older brother carrying GUTTER CHILD for school. Her kids were so proud to tell this boy that they know me. But I just thought, OMG, that teenage boy carried my book to the rink to READ IT. 😭♥️😍
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A new day. A new gig. I’ll be sitting in for Tom Power as guest host on
@cbcradioq
Tuesday morning. Tune in via radio or online at . Catch my first take at a new LIVE adventure (Also, pray Tom Power recovers soon)!
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I...um...I'm a little speechless...
Review: Jael Richardson sets a new standard for social criticism through dystopian storytelling in her debut novel, Gutter Child /via
@globeandmail
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Will you share piles of all-black authored books when it’s not February anymore?
#BHM
Asking for...all of us.
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Last year, when we watched the Giller Prize longlist reveal and we knew we both had books coming out the following year,
@AmandaLeduc
and I came up with a plan to celebrate before the next award season cycle began, before announcements affected our dreams. That day has come….
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The
#KyleRittenhouse
acquittal reflects what Black folks have known before and after the events of 2020. George Floyd’s murder did not change things. Racism and white supremacy are not behind us. They are built in to America’s DNA and the system is designed to protect itself.
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Stories to read/teach in Canadian classrooms in 2018 instead of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD:
1. Brother - David Chariandy
2. Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
3. Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill
4. American War - Omar El Akkad
5. Harlem Duet - Djanet Sears
#DiverseCanLit
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Holy smokes. ♥️😭♥️
We're excited to announce our next Cityline Book Club pick: 'Gutter Child' by
@JaelRichardson
! Pick up or order your copy today, join the Cityline Book Club group on Facebook for more, and join our live chat with Jael on Cityline's YouTube Channel on March 31st at 3pm EST! 📚
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I resent when privileged folks perform exhaustion when exposed to stories by folks from marginalized communities. What should exhaust you is the lack of actual political progress, not “having to read about it”. Tired of hearing about struggle? Imagine living it.
#CanadaReads
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I have a funny feeling I’m going to come out of this pandemic and I’ll go to put on my fancy clothes and nothing will fit the same. Which is why I love glasses and shoes. They’re loyal like that.
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These ridiculous turn-the-clock-back changes to education - from sex ed to Indigenous education all demonstrate how important it is for English classes to read current books that reflect the story of this land and the range of people who call it home.
#DiverseCanLit
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The word is out. In 2022, I’ll be publishing my second children’s book with
@HarperCollinsCa
, titled Dear Me. Thanks to
@carlywatters
for her age ring work. I’m already loving working with
@sutherlandsuz
.
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When you find out your nephew is reading Brave New World and Hamlet for summer school.
Maybe I should just give him my essays from 30 years ago.
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My father, Chuck Ealey, still has the most wins as a college football QB. He never got to play in the NFL because he was a black QB and it was 1972. He went to the Canadian Football League and won the Grey Cup as a rookie. The NFL is racist. Period. It’s not new.
#ImWithKap
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Does no one else think it’s ridiculous for high schools to start at 8am?? Like huuuuuh?? My 13 yo can barely get to school for 8:30 and his school is 5 minutes away. I can’t with this stuff. And, teachers, I feel for you too. That’s roouuuughhh.
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“I would never live in Brampton.”
what’s something that ISN’T racist but still FEELS racist to you?
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I’ve started to wear a fanny pack around the house because not all my tights and sweatpants have pockets and while my husband thinks this is the low point of quarantine/pandemic life, my only regret is that this genius approach didn’t come sooner.
#covidlife
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Annual reminder that Black authors do work in March, April, May and all the other months too.
#BHM
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Wow. Thank you to everyone who voted once or twice or whenever you could. And special thank you to my family and friends who took this challenge to heart, setting timers so they could vote every hour for weeks. I’m overwhelmed and grateful. First BIPOC woman but not the last. 🎉
And the
#HCCMarchMadness
2023 CHAMPION is... GUTTER CHILD! Congratulations
@JaelRichardson
🎉 Thank you for participating in this year’s HCC March Madness competition, readers! The winners of each of the 16-book prizes will be contacted via email so keep your eye on your inbox!
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It’s my first red carpet, y’all!!
.
@cbcradioq
books columnist
@JaelRichardson
graces the Giller red carpet.
#GillerPrize
#GillerPrize25
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11 years ago today, I announced my first publishing contract. I was a mother of a toddler, barely out of a masters program, juggling multiple jobs to make a piecemeal salary. I had no plans to be a novelist, a festival director or an entrepreneur. What a decade it’s been. 🥹🥰🎉
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White folks tearing down folks from marginalized communities for “not doing enough” or “not doing it right” is a form of white supremacy. At the heart of decolonized community work and social justice efforts is care for the work AND those doing the work as well.
#IsaidWhatisaid
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I’m shocked, thrilled and overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you to everyone who’s enjoying
#GutterChild
and who lifted it to Number 4 on the
@TorontoStar
Canadian Fiction Bestsellers list this week!! ❎♥️😘
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Oh gawsh, I really hate being the only Black person in a discussion on anti-black racism. Do they really want my opinion? Should I give it to them? Do I want to give it to them?
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