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and learn to give our own gifts in return

Stories of resilience

Laura walked an astonishing 30 kilometers from her home to a British outpost to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon

Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen Toys & Games and extension activitiesLillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, detailed documenting of everyday life as political praxis. Make the World New brings together some of the highlights of Lillian Allen's work in a single