PEI Community Reads

PEI Community Reads Join us in reading Desmond Cole’s book 'The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power.' Reading this book together is one way to do that."

Join us for the launch of our year-long “community reads” book club. We will be reading Desmond Cole's book 'The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power'. Every month we will read one chapter, learn, and discuss it together using an intersectional and antiracist lens. We invite you to read and reflect on race, injustice, history, and a better future together. Leila Edwards from the Citizen's for Public Justice says "The Skin We’re In actively contests Canada’s national narrative by following a year in Black encounters with and resistance to white supremacy. Desmond Cole raises a wide range of stories and experiences including microaggressions in employment, anti-Black racism in education, the oppression of Indigenous Peoples, and violent police brutality. He presents the stories and experiences of Black Canadians in a way that validates; it makes our stories accessible and our emotions palpable for readers... This book forces readers to confront Canada’s historical and contemporary narratives and reflect on what exactly is being celebrated". UPEI Librarian, Yolanda Hood, reminds us all that, "As the PEI community continues to grow, we want to ensure that we do our best to thrive and grow together. PEI Community Reads is a joint initiative of the UPEI Robertson Library, the UPEI International Student Office, the UPEI Rotaract Club, the Rotary Club of Charlottetown, the PEI Public Library system, and the Black Cultural Society of PEI.

02/25/2022

A Year of Black Resistance and Power is the acclaimed book from author Desmond Cole and has been the focus of Island readers over the last year through the PEI Community Reads project. Desmond is part of an Island online event next week.

Discussion Questions for the final chapter of The Skin We're In. We hope you enjoyed reading along with us! Please joi...
02/15/2022

Discussion Questions for the final chapter of The Skin We're In. We hope you enjoyed reading along with us! Please join us for our virtual author event, "A Conversation with Desmond Cole," on Wednesday, March 2nd at 7 PM. This event is free but registration is required: https://bit.ly/32I8Sos

Follow the event page for updates: https://fb.me/e/1yp3B6m1N

Check out our resource kit for handouts, discussion questions, and recommendations for further reading: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U-rtq1VNq4Nl_rgAZvXzVIqcpH5VmOpO?usp=sharing

Have you read Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist? BCcampus has created a guide for readers - *Book Club Facilitat...
02/12/2022

Have you read Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist? BCcampus has created a guide for readers - *Book Club Facilitation Guide: How to be an Antiracist*

Book Club Facilitation Guide: How to be an Antiracist by Olaolu Adeleye is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Download for free from https://opentextbc.ca/BCCAntiRacistBookClubHub/

Chapter 12 : competing interests (december)Discussion Questions
02/08/2022

Chapter 12 : competing interests (december)
Discussion Questions

SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE: PEI Community Reads is hosting a virtual event with DESMOND COLE, author of The Skin We're In: A...
02/07/2022

SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE: PEI Community Reads is hosting a virtual event with DESMOND COLE, author of The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power on Wednesday, March 2nd at 7 PM. This event is free but registration is required at https://bit.ly/32I8Sos.

Copies of The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power are available for sale at BOOKMARK, Charlottetown’s locally owned, independent bookshop, at a 15% discount.

Presented in partnership with Bookmark, UPEI Robertson Library, UPEI International Student Office, UPEI Rotaract Club, Rotary Club of Charlottetown, Black Cultural Society of PEI, and PEI Public Library System.

Have you finished reading Chapter 11, "community policing (november)" of The Skin We're In? Here are a few discussion q...
02/01/2022

Have you finished reading Chapter 11, "community policing (november)" of The Skin We're In? Here are a few discussion questions to get you thinking. Engage with us- we'd love to hear your thoughts on the chapter...

02/01/2022

The New Black: Celebrating & Educating.

We chose this theme as a way to engage the community in a dialogue around defining or redefining Blackness in PEI in terms of the social determinants of health and wellness, and challenging the preconceived notions of others about who Black people are or what Black culture is.

Our BHM activities celebrate Black history, culture, and arts, but also educate people about the issues faced by the Black community. The Black community in PEI is growing and its members need to connect with one another, and to find or create opportunities within the larger community. Our BHM program will help to create these opportunities and address these issues through cultural engagement, the celebration of local talent and through educational activities for both the general public and in schools.

Our main goal every year for Black History Month is to give opportunities to members of the Black community to realize ideas that will foster and create a sense of community on the Island. Our BHM events and activities are structured to create an opportunity for empowerment, solidarity, acknowledgement, and cross-cultural learning, as well as an opportunity to demonstrate, educate, and inform, fostering inclusivity with the broader Island community. The activities of the month are structured inclusively to accommodate all members of the Island community in discussions that will foster inclusion and equity within the community at large. It also provides an opportunity to strengthen the ties and bonds across all Island communities through solidarity, knowledge exchange, and reflection.

Please share our calendars of events. To know more visit us www.bcspei.ca

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