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pickChantal Gibson challenges imperialism in Canada by responding to mid-twentieth school textbooks, images of Black women in museums, and other racist cultural encounters. Sharp, fierce poetry. #CanadianAuthor #poetry #OwnVoices
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pickChantal Gibson challenges imperialism in Canada by responding to mid-twentieth school textbooks, images of Black women in museums, and other racist cultural encounters. Sharp, fierce poetry. #CanadianAuthor #poetry #OwnVoices
So, lookit. Let this be a lesson. If our neighbours to the south / replace Andrew Jackson and put Harriet Tubman‘s miserable / mug on the twenty—you‘d better put mine on the ten.
(‘Cease n Desist: From the Desk of Viola Desmond‘)
I go for years without seeing mention of Royal Albert china in the books I read, then it shows up in two books in a row. 🤷♀️
