Brown Girl In The Ring with Rachel A Rosen

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Brown Girl In The Ring with Rachel A Rosen

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This episode CM Lowry is talking with author Rachel A Rosen about Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson in ‘This Book I Read…’

Topics covered include:

• Post-apocalyptic Toronto & Ontario.
• ‘White Flight’, inner city decline, ‘Donut cities’ and gentrification.
• The Afro-Caribbean diaspora, The Jab Jab & Roti Shops.
• The challenges of predicting the future back in the 1990s.

Links to things we discussed:

• Rachel’s latest book Cascades can be found at BumblePuppyPress.ca.
• Octavia Butler, scifi author and black power movement commentator.
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars Trilogy.
• NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.
• The New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson.
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice.
• Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline.
• End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker
• BumblePuppy Press
• NightBeatsEU.ca

Music & Editing by CM Lowry