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Lori Fox
April 25, 2021
TV and Film So White? Caldwell’s literary agency is changing that.
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TV and Film So White? Caldwell’s literary agency is changing that.
Kulbinder Saran Caldwell, founder and CEO, REALLIFE Pictures. Photo provided.
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TV and Film So White? Caldwell’s literary agency is changing that.
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SEMINARS 12:00 PM-9:00 PM EST EACH DAY
The Festival of Literary Diversity was founded in 2014 by author Jael Richardson (and recent guest on LiisBeth’s The Fine Print show).
Since then, the festival continues to provide an important space for writers from marginalized communities to discuss their craft and the challenges involved in creating stories that ask difficult questions, expose hard truths and push literary boundaries.
Register today for an individual pass, a bundle of passes, or as a school group.
The Festival of Literary Diversity was founded in 2014 by author Jael Richardson (also a guest on LiisBeth’s The Fine Print show) . In May 2016, the first festival devoted to underrepresented authors and storytellers was presented in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Since then, the festival continues to provide an important space for writers from marginalized communities to discuss their craft and the challenges involved in creating stories that ask difficult questions, expose hard truths and push literary boundaries.
Register today for an individual pass, a bundle of passes, or as a school group
In times of rising extremism and hate, this special gathering invites you to explore how ordinary people can help create space for those beliefs to change. Using short documentary videos and engaging group discussion, we will explore the stories of how Christian Picciolini left the neo-Nazis and filmmaker Deeyah Khan’s Radical Compassion in the face of extremism. Facilitators: Rivera Sun and Rosa Zubizaretta.
Saturday May 8, 2021
5:00-7:30 PM EST
Cost: Varies
Register here.
A bracing tour of “Business Truths that Feminists Can’t Ignore”, plus strategies for working through them. Join CV Harquail in a workshop that takes stock of a dozen of business truths. And, we’ll strategize how to deal with them in feminist ways so that we and our businesses flourish.
Monday, May 17
12:00-1:30 PM EST
Cost: $15-$35 USD.
Register here.
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Even in our digital and automated era, the body remains a source of power. Everybody brilliantly and inspiringly reminds us that the future is, literally, in our hands.
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2:00-3:00 PM EST
Cost: Varies
Register here.
Angela Y. Davis, Beth Richie, Liat Ben-Moshe, Maya Schenwar, and Victoria Law in conversation on disability, madness, and prison abolition.
This event will be a timely conversation about disability, madness, prison reform and abolition. Speakers will confront the entanglement of punishment and treatment, the carceral state and social work, and caging and “rehabilitation.” They will engage with the Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s Prison by Any Other Name and Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability, and the questions these books raise.
Friday, May 21, 2021
3:00-4:45 PM EST
Cost: $0-$25 USD
Register here.
Toggle CoNew American Dream is a five-week series of virtual forums that will gather thought leaders from across the country to discuss the impact of white supremacy and state-backed racism on America today. The event will also explore ways to make the nation’s policies and culture more accountable to its democratic ideals.
The summit will examine systemic racism in relation to five pillars of contemporary society: voting rights, technoscience, journalism, antiracism, and cultural narrative. The focus is on strategies and solidarity, with an understanding of history and eyes toward the future.
April 28 – May 26, 2021
Cost: FREE!
More information here.ntent
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A collection of ten of our favourite trending TikTok songs.
It’s impossible to write about our collective experience as neurodivergent people and tie it with a bow; autism is a spectrum that comprises infinite diverse experiences.
Shaena Lambert uses fiction to tell the true story of the revolutionary Founder of the German Green Party, Petra Kelly
Our top Rabble picks for April/May 2021.
TV and Film So White? Caldwell’s literary agency is changing that.
“We weren’t offered a seat at the
table, so we created our own.” — Nancy Wilson, Executive Director, CanWCC
From a Brit who zoomed in for the Canada’s women entrepreneur StrikeUP conference.
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The Festival of Literary Diversity was founded in 2014 by author Jael Richardson. In May 2016, the first festival devoted to underrepresented authors and storytellers was presented in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Since then, the festival continues to provide an important space for writers from marginalized communities to discuss their craft and the challenges involved in creating stories that ask difficult questions, expose hard truths and push literary boundaries.
Register today for an individual pass, a bundle of passes, or as a school group.
In times of rising extremism and hate, this special gathering invites you to explore how ordinary people can help create space for those beliefs to change. Using short documentary videos and engaging group discussion, we will explore the stories of how Christian Picciolini left the neo-Nazis and filmmaker Deeyah Khan’s Radical Compassion in the face of extremism. Facilitators: Rivera Sun and Rosa Zubizaretta.
Saturday May 8, 2021
5:00-7:30 PM EST
Cost: $20 USD
Register here.
A bracing tour of “Business Truths that Feminists Can’t Ignore”, plus strategies for working through them. Join CV Harquail in a workshop that takes stock of a dozen of business truths. And, we’ll strategize how to deal with them in feminist ways so that we and our businesses flourish.
Monday, May 17
12:00-1:30 PM EST
Cost: $15-$35 USD.
Register here.
Hear the acclaimed author of The Lonely City, Olivia Laing, as she discusses her urgent new book, Everybody. Olivia will be joined in conversation by the therapist and social critic Susie Orbach, author of the classic, groundbreaking work, Fat is a Feminist Issue.
Even in our digital and automated era, the body remains a source of power. Everybody brilliantly and inspiringly reminds us that the future is, literally, in our hands.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM EST
Cost: $20 USD.
Register here.
Angela Y. Davis, Beth Richie, Liat Ben-Moshe, Maya Schenwar, and Victoria Law in conversation on disability, madness, and prison abolition.
This event will be a timely conversation about disability, madness, prison reform and abolition. Speakers will confront the entanglement of punishment and treatment, the carceral state and social work, and caging and “rehabilitation.” They will engage with the Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s Prison by Any Other Name and Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability, and the questions these books raise.
Friday, May 21, 2021
3:00-4:45 PM EST
Cost: $0-$25 USD
Register here.
New American Dream is a five-week series of virtual forums that will gather thought leaders from across the country to discuss the impact of white supremacy and state-backed racism on America today. The event will also explore ways to make the nation’s policies and culture more accountable to its democratic ideals.
The summit will examine systemic racism in relation to five pillars of contemporary society: voting rights, technoscience, journalism, antiracism, and cultural narrative. The focus is on strategies and solidarity, with an understanding of history and eyes toward the future.
April 28 – May 26, 2021
Cost: FREE!
More information here.
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