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Robyn Maynard

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Robyn Maynard

@policingblack

Policing Black Lives (Fernwood/Duke 2025) Rehearsals for Living (Knopf/Haymarket, 2022), Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario

Joined June 2016

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Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
May 21, 2025
revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub/ @DukePress) now available for pre-order! ft. two new chapters, a new preface and an updated conclusion, as well as updates throughout the text. Pre-order (see QR code), for US version, 30% off with author code E26MYRD
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Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Sep 26, 2022
Fascism is here, globally, and on the rise— they know it, so it is important that we know it.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Aug 24, 2020
Police cannot be reformed. Solidarity with all who are grieving and raging today.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Nov 3, 2022
Avg. rent in the city is 2500/month, which is 30K/year. Avg. CUPE Ed worker salary is 39K/year. Remember who to be mad at if schools are closed due to a strike: blame falls squarely on the man denying early childhood educators and custodians the right to basic decent living.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
May 6, 2022
the police cannot be "decolonized"or "reimagined" out of their primary function: the maintenance of racial/social/gendered/abled /economic inequality. recognizing this is is empowering, not depressing. it means we can use our energy building something better (many somethings!)
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Jul 18, 2022
the climate crisis is a product of the ecocidal and genocidal projects of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Jun 29, 2022
it is still sinking in so only now sharing this news, but as of July 1, I am joining the University of Toronto-Scarborough as Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, w/ a graduate appointment at WGSI downtown.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Jul 5, 2020
We need to fight for a world without CEOs and billionaires, not more Black CEOs and billionaires.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Apr 16, 2021
Why choose massive increases to policing when you could have chosen paid sick days?
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Jul 16, 2021
My five year old just asked me “what is the difference between racism and capitalism?” so he is doing great.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Jun 14, 2020
No. Black and Indigenous struggles are interlocking and interconnected. All of us stand to gain from the growing mvmt to #DefundThePolice. No to this analysis that pits us against one another as we organize collectively for abolition, decolonization and a police free world.
Toronto Star
@TorontoStar
Jun 13, 2020
The work doesn’t end with tackling anti-Black racism. Indigenous peoples have long suffered overt racism and insidious bias from individuals and institutions — including the police — throughout Canada. We have to do better. #Editorial torstar.co/2fC350A6lkH
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Jul 20, 2022
Climate catastrophe was born not from 'mankind' but from the slave plantation, the settler town, the prison, the reservation[...]solutions being forwarded by those in power are more of the same—the border wall, the immigration detention centre, the refugee camp, the open-pit mine
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
May 28, 2020
Police abolition, prison abolition now more urgent than ever.
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack
Jun 9, 2022
"So scary are the consequences of a collapse of white privilege that many Americans have flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength" - Toni Morrison