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Laying bare the violent realities behind Canada鈥檚 veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black life in Canada.  Through an unapologetically intersectional, feminist and abolitionist lens, this talk looks at how slavery's legacy has been carried forward by the state, exposing the social and historical forces behind carding/street checks, the war on drugs, the school-to-prison pipeline, welfare 鈥渇raud鈥� and child welfare enforcement, deportation, and the disproportionate incarceration of Black folks in Canada's jails, prisons, and immigration detention centres.

Queen鈥檚 Campus Bookstore will be selling copies of Policing Black Lives at this event.

Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist writer, grassroots community organizer and independent scholar based in Montr茅al. She has been a part of movements against racial profiling and police violence for over a decade, and has an extensive background in community work doing harm-reduction-centered outreach and support work. She currently co-cordinates workshops for incarcerated women with the Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance.  Her written work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Montr茅al Gazette, and a number of academic journals and anthologies.