Black feminist writer and scholar Robyn Maynard will deliver a Jennifer Keck Memorial Lecture for Social Justice at Laurentian University this week.

The free event, hosted by the School of Social Work and Black Lives Matter Sudbury, goes Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Fraser Auditorium.

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Maynard is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto-Scarborough in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies. Her writing on borders, policing, abolition and Black feminism is taught in universities across Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

Her 2017 book Policing Black Lives earned widespread praise and won the Errol Sharpe Book Prize. Rehearsals for Living, co-authored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award for literary non-fictio

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