So excited our books by Mary Annaïse Heglar have arrived from A Different Booklist. FWIW, “Home is Always Worth It”, also by Mary on Medium, remains my favourite piece about the #ClimateCrisis to this day and I quote it regularly 💚 medium.com/@maryheglar/ho…

An Anonymous DSA Member🌹 Every 3rd Saturday in Toronto at “A Different Booklist”

The site postings aren’t yet updated for this month, but this month we read “Blacks and the Dialectics” by Dennis Forsythe and a piece in Roar Magazine on Claudia Jones by Lola Olufemi

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📚🎉👏🏿More thank yous - to all who came to celebrate Jarol, to Greg for conducting an in-depth author interview and to U of R Press for partnering with us. Enjoy these highlights of yesterday's launch of Dr. Boan's The Medicine Chest: A Physician's Journey Towards Reconciliation!📚

📚🚀💊Dr. Boan shares key takeaways from her journey. The 9 #TRC calls to action that pertain to healthcare should be implemented. Listening is key and so is a holistic approach to medicine that involves spirituality and traditional medicine that typifies circular thinking.📚

📚🚀💊Dr. Boan discusses what the interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities were like early on in her career. There were few as reserves are a form of an apartheid, and while there is progress, there is still a barrier related to hearing the other side.📚

📚🚀The Interview - Why write about the relationship between Indigenous & non-Indigenous communities in health care using an emotional tone? Dr. Boan began writing academically, but realized it's the emotional connection that make stories resonate with readers. #TheMedicineChest 📚

📚🚀💊A powerful takeaway for Dr. Boan during her research for the book and for we who read it is the lesson of the importance of listening to the other side and of being humble. To purchase THE MEDICINE CHEST, all about #reconciliation in healthcare: adifferentbooklist.com/?q=h.tviewer&u…📚

📚🚀🎉Dr. Jarol Boan with her new book, THE MEDICINE CHEST: A PHYSICIAN'S JOURNEY TOWARDS RECONCILIATION. Dr. Boan came to A Different Booklist yesterday for the Toronto launch of the book. Congrats on its success and the difference you're making in the Canadian health care system!📚

📚🚀💊TOMORROW! A Different Booklist & U of R Press present the Toronto launch of Dr. Boan's book, THE MEDICINE CHEST, 6pm at the BCC. Learn from a physician who has worked with Indigenous communities why 🇨🇦's health care system fails them and how it can be improved. All are welcome!📚

📚THIS WEEK - REMINDER: Join us
at A Different Booklist and New College Toronto for these events:
🔹THURS: Dr. Jarol Boan launches THE MEDICINE CHEST
🔹FRI: DISCUSSION - 'STRENGTH OF SOLIDARITY - S. AFRICA, PALESTINE, AND THE POLITICS OF THE PRESENT.' Details below. All are welcome.📚

📚🚀💉APR 18: All are welcome to join Prof. of Medicine, Dr. Jarol Boan for the launch of her new book, THE MEDICINE CHEST, 6pm at A Different Booklist. From the perspective of an empathetic settler physician, Jarol will discuss the barriers facing Indigenous people in healthcare.📚

#ASECS24 I love that ASECS Office is now the kind of conference that honors and hosts poet NourbeSe Philip Thank you to A Different Booklist for providing copies of Zong! & other wonderful books

📚🚀🎉The success of a launch is all about the energy, Marjorie noted. And see, 👇🏿we all know that it's the family, community, and their gestures of support that make the energy. All the best, Marjorie, as you establish a centre to support those in situations of domestic abuse!📚

📚🚀✒️The Signing. Author Marjorie signs a copy of her book for friend Owen, who was her classmate back in their school days in Jamaica. To purchase a signed copy of THE SILENT VOICES, VOL. 1:adifferentbooklist.com/item/pk8NTVPDn… #ReadDifferently #BookLaunchesTO #CaribbeanVoices #DebutNovel 📚

📚🚀🎉The Interview. Delving into the book, Marjorie reveals that character Monique vows to not be like her mother who was abused by her husband. In so doing, she becomes the abuser like her dad. Marjorie discusses too the forms of abuse - including financial - that men suffer.📚

📚🚀🎉Marjorie discusses her message in THE SILENT VOICES: Children are the future, so it's essential that they are brought up in stable, nurturing environments. Domestic violence disrupts the stability needed in the home for children to grow healthily and flourish in society.📚

📚🚀👏🏿An amazing turnout this Easter weekend to champion Marjorie and her new book, THE SILENT VOICES, whose main message - without overlooking #VAW - is that domestic violence does not discriminate in terms of gender. Men sometimes are victims. Congratulations, Marjorie!📚

📚🚀🎉Author Marjorie V. Marshall - looking stunning - on arrival this #EasterWeekend for the launch of her debut novel, THE SILENT VOICES, VOL 1! Celebrate with us at @adfrntbooklist.👏🏿 #LocalAuthors #Fiction #BookLaunchesTO 📚

📚🚀🐣TOMORROW! Looking to discover new voices in literature this Easter weekend? Then, please, join us at 2pm for the launch of THE SILENT VOICES, by M. V. Marshall. It portrays the implications that domestic abuse has on victims, their families and society. Free to attend.📚