THE END OF THIS WORLD BOOK READING WITH ANGELE ALOOK
Date & Time
Thursday May 18, 7PM (Doors open at 6:30PM)
Location
Another Story Bookshop
315 Roncesvalles Ave
Toronto, ON
Accessibility
This event includes ASL interpretation. This venue is wheelchair accessible but does not have wheelchair accessible washrooms. For questions, please email programming@mayworks.ca
We invite you to attend a book reading from The End of This World with co-author Angele Alook.
The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. Drawing on their work in Indigenous activism and the labour movement, the authors of The End of this World: Climate Justice in So-called Canada show that a ‘just transition’ from fossil fuels cannot succeed without the dismantling of settler capitalism in Canada. Their vision is decolonial, liberatory, and transformative.
Angele Alook has extensively researched Indigenous participation in the labour force of the oil and gas industry in Alberta, and looked at the gendered impacts of this work. She has also researched how members of Bigstone Cree Nation are keeping land-based economies and knowledge alive even as resource industries severely encroach on their territories. The End of This World promises that the next world is within reach and worth fighting for.
Join us and receive a copy of the “Canada, Stop Arming Saudi Arabia” Zine by Sonali Menezes made in collaboration with Labour Against the Arms Trade and the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. *Limited supply of free zines
Refreshments served! All Mayworks Festival events are free.
Angele Alook grew up in her Nation of Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, then, like many Indigenous peoples seeking an education, she left to study, eventually completing a PhD in sociology at York University in Toronto. After working as a researcher for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), she is now back at York as an assistant professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Angele has extensively researched Indigenous school-to-work transitions and Indigenous participation in the labour force of the oil and gas industry in Alberta, including the gendered impacts of the work and the industry. And she has researched how members of her Nation are keeping land-based economies and knowledge alive, including hunting, trapping, berry-picking, and more, even as resource industries severely encroach on their territories.