Abarna Selvarajah is an activist and graduate student at the University of Toronto who shares her insights in her work on the significance of women's voices, her conception of activism as a Tamil woman and being an ally for Palestine.

Resource List

People for Equality and Relief Lanka (PEARL)

- website: https://pearlaction.org/

- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pearl_action/?hl=en

- reading group 2021 interest form: https://forms.gle/gezpfbCK8J5NYQPFA

Toronto Prisoner Rights Project

https://www.torontoprisonersrightsproject.org/

Harsha Walia (Twitter handle): https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia

Book: "Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism" https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1553-border-and-rule

Mariame Kaba

Book: "We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice" https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us

Desmond Cole (Twitter handle): https://twitter.com/DesmondCole

Book: "The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686341

Robyn Maynard (Twitter handle): https://twitter.com/policingblack

Book: "Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present" https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere

PDF copy: https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf