Join editor Max Haiven and scholar, poet and activist El Jones in conversation about literary activism to celebrate the launch of The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers.
5:30 pm, Friday October 11
At The Trident cafe, 1256 Hollis St.
Free and open to all.
The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more. Amazon’s sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a utopia of cheap consumer convenience. But its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions to create a future that will exclude them. What happens when those workers reclaim the radical imagination and their power to tell their own stories? The World After Amazon can be ordered in print or read or downloaded online for free, and is also available as a podcast and audiobook.
El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor, community advocate, and activist. Her work focuses on social justice issues such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax
Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. He is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).