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Robyn Maynard is a Black Canadian writer.[1][2] She is most noted for her 2017 book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, an examination of anti-Black Canadian racism that explores the enduring legacy of slavery in the ways that Black people experience surveillance and captivity through policing, jails, prisons, child welfare, and border controls.[3] The book was designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times,[4] listed in The Walrus‘s “best books of 2018”,[5] shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award,[6] the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction.[7] It is the winner of the 2017 Annual Errol Morris Book Prize.[8] Its French translation won the Prix des Libraires du Québec (2019) in the essay category.[9]

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Robyn Maynard's recent scholarly publications include "Police Abolition/Black Revolt" [10] and "Black Life and Death Across the US-Canada Border: Border violence, Black fugitive belonging and a Turtle Island view of Black liberation."[11]

Her writing has also appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the World Policy Journal, the Toronto Star, Canadian Woman Studies, Scholar and Feminist Online, and Maisonneuve^{[citation needed]}.

In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, Canada's literary award for emerging LGBTQ writers.[12]

Her newest work is called Rehearsals for Living, a book co-authored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rehearsals for Living is an exchange between two activists, one Black, and one Indigenous; both women and mothers, on the subject of where we go from here.

References

External links

• Official website

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