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El Jones | |
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 Jones in 2018 | |
| Born | Wales |
| Occupation | Poet, journalist, columnist, professor |
| Subject | Racism, colonialism, prison reform, human rights, social justice |
El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. [1]
She was born in Wales and grew up in Winnipeg. [2] Her book, Live From the Afrikan Resistance! published in 2014 by Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, [3] is a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. [4] In 2015, she was a resident at the International Writing Program at University of Iowa. [5] [6] Her work focuses on social justice issues such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization; [3] she wrote in The Washington Post in June 2020 about "the realities of white-supremacist oppression that black people in Canada have long experienced." [7]
Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on CKDU-FM, an educational program which provides information on Black history and culture aimed at incarcerated people. [8] Listeners from prisons call in to rap and read poetry that they have written, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience. [9] She is a contributor to the Halifax Examiner and the Huffington Post Canada. [10] She has taught at Dalhousie University, Acadia University, Nova Scotia Community College, Saint Mary's University and Mount Saint Vincent University. [11] In 2017, she was named the 15th Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. [12]
In 2021, Jones became a contributor to The Breach, an alternative, Canadian news website. [13]
In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [14]
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