A review by gillyanaire
The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole

5.0

I've been a Desmond Cole fan since 2012 when I moved to Toronto. His urgent and affecting journalism and prose is essential reading for all Torontonians, Canadians, and human beings. The care Cole takes to name the influential activists and thinkers (especially Black and Indigenous women) who've fought tirelessly for the basic human rights of BIPOC communities is inspiring and major. I plan to revisit my notes and research their work. He continuously demonstrates the mountain of work we (white people) need to do to decolonize our minds and institutions. I also found his constant acknowledgement of the indigenous land that I've settled on momentous in contextualizing his writing and 2017, a year of Black resistance and power. You will devour this critical and powerful book. Can't wait for what Cole has in store in the years to come.