I Dream Library x Vancouver Art Gallery
YOUNG ACTIVIST READING ROOM
Remembering As Repair
Curated in response to the Exhibit Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment
June 11, 2022 - January 8, 2023 | VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
The Young Activist Reading Room is curated to connect students of all ages with themes of access, relationship to land, and identity in Canada. You will find literary selections confronting the representation of popular subjects of white Canadian women artists in the modern moment: landscape, colonized people, and the feminine. How can we re/consider the layers of power at play on each colourful canvas? This room offers a moment to rest, and encourages remembering as repair.
MAKERS IN THIS SPACE
BIPOC, Canadian, Women, Makers
Danielle Murrell Cox | Rashelle Campbell | Anna de Courcy | Taylor Lee Koble | Debbie I-Ching Sun
Rashelle Campbell
Rashelle is a Nehiyaw Iskwew multidisciplinary designer and textile artist who values playfulness as a means of exemplifying a more diverse standard of beauty, which sings into her designs. Her work is refined yet has a 90's pop edge and her love for colours is within everything she creates. Rashelle's designs empower imperfections where each piece she produces is never the same and she embraces thoughtful-slow work. Each design and colour palette are from moments of nostalgia. She hopes with each piece she produces, it will bring you back to joyful childhood memories.
Danielle Murrell Cox
KIDLiT SELECTIONS
Picture Books
I Sang You Down from the Stars
Equity Topics: Indigenous Black Motherhood
Africville
Equity Topics: Canadian Black History | Black communities in Canada | displacement | Nova Scotia
A Day with Yayah
Equity Topics: Indigenous family | gathering | land
Malaika’s Winter Carnival
Equity Topics: Canadian Black History | Caribbean migration | Quebéc | immigration | Blended Family
The Boy & The Bindi
Equity Topics: South Asian | mother + child relationship
Black Women Who Dared
Equity Topics: Canadian Black History: The Coloured Women's Club | Jackie Shane | Sylvia Estes Stark | The Hour a Day Study Club | Rosa Pryor | Sherona Hall | The Black Cross Nurses | Mary Miles Bibb | Chloe Cooley | Blockorama.
Naomi’s Road
Equity Topics: Japanese Internment in British Columbia
Stand Like a Cedar
Equity Topics: Indigenous | family | travel | gathering | land
Up Home
Equity Topics: Canadian BLack history | community | family | Nova Scotia
We Dream Medicine Dreams
Equity Topics: Indigenous healing | intergenerational wisdom | Grandfather + granddaughter | family
Yes! No! A First Conversation About Consent
Equity Topics: Consent
Dear Black Girls
Equity Topics: Self and community love | Black, femme & proud
Bedtime in Nunatsiavut
Equity Topics: Inuuk | family | mother + child
Still This Love Goes On
Shi-shi-etko
Equity Topics: residential school | Indigenous family | land
they, she, he easy as ABC
Equity Topics: gender identity | pronouns
Missing Nimâmâ
Equity Topics: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - MMIW | Indigenous family
Alego
Equity Topics: Inuit Story | Kinngait, Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory)
Oscar Lives Next Door
Equity topics: Canadian Black history | community | music | Little Burgundy, Montréal
Wallpaper
Equity topics: moving | shyness | imagination | wordless book
We All Play
Equity Topics: Indigenous land | Animals | Childhood learning | Languages - English + Cree
The Paper Boat
Equity Topics: Vietnam to Canada | Refugees | Displacement | Colonialism | Resettlement | Wordless Book
MIDDLE GRADE SELECTIONS
Graphic Novels & Novels
Aggie & Mudgie
Equity Topics: residential school | 1920’s Canada | Kaska Dena
Borders
Equity Topics: Indigenous sovereignty | access to land | borders | family
Surviving the City - series
Equity Topics: Indigenous youth | sexuality | family + community | reservation + city
Obasan
Equity Topics: Japanese internment | displacement | family | racism | British Columbia | World War 2
YOUNG ADULT +
POETRY + NOVELS + ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION + EXHIBITION BOOKS
Our Work is Everywhere
Equity Topics: BIPOC | queer, trans identity & representation
Jan Wade: Soul Power
even this page is white
Equity topics: racism | systemic white supremacy | queer and trans identity | accountability
Itsuka
Reparations for Japanese Canadians
Scarborough
Equity Topics: childhood | resilience | poverty | racism | queer identity | East Toronto
In My Own Moccasins
Black Writers Matter
Policing Black Lives
How She Read
Equity Topics: intersectional sexism and anti-Black racism | childhood literacy | art | education
A Place Called No Homeland
I Am Woman: A Native perspective on sociology and feminism
Dear Current Occupant
Beyond Survival
Brown Girl in the Ring
Equity Topics: Afro-futurism | Toronto | Caribbean Canadian family | pregnancy | substance dependence
We Have Always Been Here
Equity Topics: Queer | Islam | immigration | arranged marriage | family
Spíləx̣m: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence
Disappearing Moon Cafe
Equity Topics: Chinese immigration to Canada | racism | sexism | systemic oppression | lateral violence | generational trauma
Black Matters
Poetry, photography
Lorraine O’Grady, Writing in Space
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
Hard-Shell®
Archivist and designer Joshua P. Matthews’ collection of outerwear as protection in urban environments
Small Revolutions with Joshua P. Matthews
The NY-Based Cyclist and Writer on Biking Everywhere
and the Outlaw Aspect of the Outdoors
published by ssense.com | Interview: Sydney Allen-Ash | Photography: Christopher Currence
Para Ti / For You
Photographer Norma Ibarra’s Focus on Indigenous women & femme skateboarders
Nations Skate Youth Book
Equity Topics: Indigenous youth mentorship, community building, intergenerational healing, and joy through skateboarding, music, art, and travel across Turtle Island
