Kick your summer reading into warp drive! Sci-fi radical reading and discussion series with Zainab A

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Location: Opirg York
This summer’s Radical reading series at OPIRG York is the exciting, transforming stuff your summer has been waiting for. Join the conversation with facilitator Zainab Amadahy for five weeks of radical science fiction. All free and all good! Email our gmail: opirgyork to register. Twenty participant limit! July 24, 2013 “2140 AD” – Robert Sullivan from Robert Sullivan. Star Waka. Auckland University Press, 1999; also from Grace L Dillon. Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. University of Arizona Press, 2012 About Star Waka: “In the Maori language, waka can be translated as canoe…The poems in Star Waka chart the sounds of the crews voices (the words) and the meanings of star (semantic navigation). Star Waka compels us into its poetic vehicles, guiding us through the betweenness of culture, memory, identity, and society.” – Craig Santos Perez, Recovery Project, octopusmagazine.com also on July 24, 2013 “Where the Borg Are” – Thomas King from Thomas King. A Short History of Indians in Canada (short stories). HarperCollins, 2005 About A Short History of Indians in Canada: “I felt comforted and finally amused and a little wicked, as when a mischievous and beloved uncle tells you tales that you know mean more than they say, and you know you will understand them better when you are older.” – Steven James Stunell, Rabble.ca July 31, 2013 – August 28, 2013 (skipping August 21) Lilith’s Brood – Octavia Butler from Octavia Butler. Xenogenesis Trilogy. Warner Books, 1987-89; also from Octavia Butler. Lilith’s Brood. Grand Central Publishing, 2000 From Lilith’s Brood: “Your Earth is still your Earth, but between the efforts of your people to destroy it and ours to restore it, it has changed.” Book 1: Dawn; Section 1: Womb; Chapter 5; pp. 33-32. August 28, 2013 depending on what the group is feeling, maybe an additional book i.e. Midnight Robber – Nalo Hopkinson Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula LeGuin Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor Twenty participant limit, so email us to register. (opirgyork@gmail.com) Zainab Amadahy authored the feminist science fiction novel Moons of Palmares. Her work also appears in Strong Womens Stories: Native Vision and Community Activism. She co-authored (with Dr. Bonita Lawrence) “Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples in Canada: Settlers or Allies for Breaching the Colonial Contract: Anti-Colonialism in the US and Canada. Her latest book is Wielding the Force: the Science of Effective Activism. Emerging knowledge and time-tested wisdom can inform and reinforce social justice activism. New scientific information about our brains, hearts and the biology of human interaction will amaze and delight those who seek a more generous, compassionate and peaceful world. Framed within the context of Indigenous and other ancient wisdoms, this new knowledge can inform, transform and revolutionize movement building — Our collective paradigm is shifting and science is firmly on the side of social justice! Like the rebels of the original Star Wars trilogy who brought down the Empire, activists can effectively wield The Force.

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