Anti-Racism Reads: See No Stranger

Join us for the next installment of Anti-Racism Reads, which will feature a discussion of Valerie Kaur’s See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love.  

Books are available for purchase at W Store, Words Worth Books, or to borrow from our libraries, KPL or WPL.

Please note: While we are no longer able to offer complimentary hard copies, we remain committed to ensuring access to these texts and will work to provide digital or alternative formats to support meaningful engagement with this critical initiative. If you have questions about accessing materials, please contact Jermal Jones.

Event details:

Date: Tuesday May 13, 2025

Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Location: Dana Porter Library, Learning Lab (Rm 323)

Facilitator: Jermal Jones

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About the book  

How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation.
 
Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey—as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world; as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11; as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantanamo Bay; as an activist working with communities recovering from xenophobic attacks; and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with police violence and sexual assault.

Drawing from the wisdom of sages, scientists and activists, Kaur reclaims love as an active, public and revolutionary force that creates new possibilities for ourselves, our communities and our world. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love helps us imagine new ways of being with each other—and with ourselves—so that together we can begin to build the world we want to see.

Source: Penguin Random House

About the facilitator   

Jermal Alleyne Jones (MEd) is the associate director, EDIA, at the University of Waterloo Libraries and co-founder of Next Gen Men (NGM), a team of staff and volunteers empowering boys (and men) to change the way they see, think and act about masculinity. He is also a second-year PhD student in the Recreation and Leisure Aging, Health and Wellbeing program, where he studies the intersections between race (Black), ethnicity, gender (men) and ag(e)ing from an interdisciplinary lens. Jermal will also be teaching PACS 314: Restorative Justice and Transformative Education this spring at Conrad Grebel University College.