Robyn Maynard

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Robyn Maynard is a Canadian writer focusing on race and gender-based state violence. [1] [2]

She is most noted[ according to whom? ] for her 2017 book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, [3] which received praise in some Canadian publications [4] [5] and achieved several awards and nominations. [6] [7] [8] [9] Alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Maynard also co-authored the 2022 book Rehearsals for Living, which was shortlisted in the 2022 Governor General's Awards. [10] She has also produced scholarly publications on the topic of race and police abolition. [11] [12]

In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Tayo Bero, "Robyn Maynard Is Writing Canada's Hard Truths". Chatelaine , August 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ ""Do I believe we can have a police-free future in our lifetime? Absolutely": Policing expert Robyn Maynard on how defunding would work in practice". 12 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Ryan B. Patrick, "Why Robyn Maynard wrote a book exposing the underreported history of racial injustice in Canada". CBC Books, October 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Hill Times' List of 100 Best Books in 2017". 18 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Ten Canadian Authors on the Best Books of 2018 | the Walrus". 28 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language Authors : Books: View".
  7. ↑ "Call for Nominations for the 2021 Society for Socialist Studies' Errol Sharpe Book Prize -". 13 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "2018 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist".
  9. ↑ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Arts- (17 May 2019). "Prix des libraires 2019 : NoirEs sous surveillance et Uiesh –Quelque part parmi les œuvres primées". Radio-Canada.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  10. ↑ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists".
  11. ↑ Maynard, Robyn (2020). "Police Abolition/Black Revolt". Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 41: 70–78. doi:10.3138/topia-009. S2CID   229355864.
  12. ↑ Maynard (2019). "Black Life and Death across the U.S.-Canada Border: Border Violence, Black Fugitive Belonging, and a Turtle Island View of Black Liberation". Critical Ethnic Studies. 5 (1–2): 124–151. doi:10.5749/jcritethnstud.5.1-2.0124. JSTOR   10.5749/jcritethnstud.5.1-2.0124. S2CID   213906932.
  13. ↑ Ryan Porter, "Finalists announced for the 2020 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire , August 25, 2020.


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