Julietta Singh - "The Breaks" - Billy-Ray Belcourt
"A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world."
Join us for a conversation with Julietta Singh on her book, The Breaks. She will be joined in discussion by Billy-Ray Belcourt.
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About the book: In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths.
The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary U.S. discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces--climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism--inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.
About the author: Julietta Singh, photographed above by Chase Joynt, is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization, current ecological crisis, and queer-feminist futures. She is the author of two previous books: *No Archive Will Restore You* (Punctum Books, 2018) and *Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements* (Duke University Press, 2018). She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family.
About the interlocutor: Billy-Ray Belcourt, photographed above by jaye simpson, is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta. He lives in Vancouver, where he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. His books are *This Wound is a World*, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, *NDN Coping Mechanisms*, and *A History of My Brief Body*, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir.
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A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In...