Rehearsals For Living Robyn Maynard Leanne Betasamosake Simpson by Robyn Maynard; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 9781642597158, 1642597155 instant download after payment.

During the initial wave of COVID-19 shutdowns in 2020, Maynard and Simpson, two radical writers, scholars, and activists, began exchanging the letters collected in Rehearsals for Living. Maynard is the author of the best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada From Slavery to the Present and has led a number of initiatives on police and prison abolition; Simpson has written seven previous books and spent decades teaching Indigenous forms of knowledge. 
At first, the letters simply enabled two friends to keep in touch during a dark time. As the year continued, both Maynard and Simpson joined the swelling, unprecedented Black Lives Matter and Indigenous land-defense movements, & their writing collaboratively imagined a society with, for example, no police & abundant shared resources. 
As they reflect on the many ways that the state has harmed their respective communities—including overpolicing & neglectful public-health responses to the pandemic—the letters contemplate what the future could look like, & writing becomes a form of coalition-building. — The Atlantic