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Robyn Maynard

@policingblack.bsky.social

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New on here. Author of Policing Black Lives (Fernwood/Duke University Press, 2025) and co-author of Rehearsals for Living (Haymarket 2023). More at www.robynmaynard.com

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · May 21

excited to announce a revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub.bsky.social /Duke University Press) now available for pre-order, out October 15. ft. two new chapters, a new preface & an expanded conclusion. US version now offering 30% off with author code E26MYRD.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

A timely excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, written by my friend Aaron Goggans, who has supported many frontline activists struggling with their mental health during moments of mass protest and upheaval. Thank you, @pempem.bsky.social for uplifting.

A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken

An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2d

No War on Chicago
No War Anywhere

No War on Chicago; No War Anywhere!

“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to ga...

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Black stories are unfairly targeted in recent book bans. In the last six years, the book banning movement has increased significantly.

A substantial amount of the ire is directed at Black authors and works highlighting Black stories.

Book Bannings Targeting Black Authors and Perspectives Are Skyrocketing

Books by Black authors are being disproportionately banned at an alarming rate.

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 2d

Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.
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🆘 Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.

YouTube video by CanadaBoatGaza

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Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 6d

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Italians take to the streets for Gaza flotilla general strike

Tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets across the country on Friday, as part of a day-long general strike called by unions in support of an aid flotilla carrying food to Gaza that was intercepted by Israel this week.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 7d

🧵 in Chicago right now . Sending you love @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 7d

Sickening. Sending solidarity to our folks in Chicago. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 8d

Hands off Haiti, and no more imperial interventions. The “chaos” cited as the reason for intervention is directly related to the coup d’état organized by Canada, France and the US.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking of all those big hearted ones who were abducted from the flotilla today. Free Palestine.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 9d

Solidarity with the the #SumudFlotilla: end the siege, feed the starving and end the genocide

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 9d

“Blouin’s very birth troubled a colonial order erected on a strict racial hierarchy. She would make sure that her life would be far more of a problem for it.”

@sandipto.bsky.social reviews MY COUNTRY, AFRICA, the autobiography of the anticolonial revolutionary published by @versobooks.bsky.social

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review

The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

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You've Changed Records @youvechanged.bsky.social · 9d

Presenting the new single from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson:
White Kites and Sky Blue previews the upcoming album Live Like The Sky with a powerful new video directed, filmed, and edited by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh

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On tour this November

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Truthout @truthout.org · 10d

Trump and accused war criminal Netanyahu unveiled a proposal that includes the creation of a “Board of Peace,” which will govern Gaza headed by Trump. Netanyahu threatened to “finish the job” if Hamas rejected the plan, which, at the time, Hamas said it had not even seen.

Trump’s Proposal to “End the Gaza Conflict” Condemned as “Colonial Abomination”

Under the plan, Gaza would be temporarily governed by a “Board of Peace” led by President Trump.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 10d

We live in a society and a world in which structural and state violence are permissible: Harm is penalized only when it is committed by the powerless, and the mass organized looting and brutality committed by private companies, powerful individuals and the state, is protected and sanctioned.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 10d

Just a reminder that only 14 of the 94 Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action have been implemented in Canada. The history of settler colonialism in Canada is uninterrupted, violent, ongoing.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10d

This is not a conversation about residential schools. it is a conversation about history, about who gets to tell the authoritative stories and whose stories are extra reading.

Bad Indians Book Club podcast. Read it here, or catch it in your podcast app

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History is my first love. Had I studied what I wanted when I took my first run at university it would have been history rather than the psychology program I eventually dropped out of. I had been told ...

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 10d

This newsletter is a must read- in an an onslaught of news of the rise of fascist authoritarianism our centre needs to always be in the work to fight back, which is always so much larger than the media presents to us.

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 15d

The news can be overwhelming (bad), but it's helpful to remember that people everywhere are taking action to resist.

Our "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter by @dreanyc123.bsky.social has the latest info/updates, alongside ways you can join the fight. The latest is out now: bit.ly/IC-TMIC9

This Month in Criminalization — Interrupting Criminalization

The September edition of Interrupting Criminalization’s This Month in Criminalization newsletter shares critical information, calls to action, and resources related to the further consolidation of aut...

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 10d

Must read!

daanis @daanis.ca · 10d

A TRC Day listicle for CBC. Enough books here to keep you going through the winter.

"These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools."

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Patty Krawec's 'must-read' books to reflect on the Indigenous experience in North America | CBC Books

Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author and activist recommends 18 titles to read today and beyond.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 11d

It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 11d

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CSIS allowed targeted assassination of 2 residents on Canadian soil, says ex-spy in court docs - APTN News

Canadian spies used death threats to secure sources and allowed the assassination of two people on Canadian soil by a foreign agency, a former intelligence officer alleges in documents filed with the ...

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 11d

We should all be anti-fascist

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 11d

My students were very happy to spend time with assata shakur’s words today and to engage her reflections on prison, slavery, and exile. Her works were already in the curriculum but we spent additional time today to honour her passing.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 11d

Toronto book launch Oct 23! with brilliant co-thinkers, David Chariandy, Andrea J. Ritchie and Desmond Cole , grab a ticket here! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-relau...

Book Relaunch | Policing Black Lives: Revised & Expanded Edition

Celebrate the launch of the extended and revised edition of Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 11d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Policing Black Lives," by Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social, which documents how a half a century of police reforms in Canada have expanded the scope and scale of policing and perpetuated anti-Black violence. #BlackStudies buff.ly/zsCOj1C

Cover of Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard. The background features a grainy, black-and-white image of a Black individual facing a wall. The person's posture and the ruler markings adjacent to the figure suggest that the image is a mugshot. The entire cover has a gritty feel and is overlaid with a grainy, stippled texture. The title text is bold and distressed.

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