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Summer Read & Chat
August 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Looking for a Summer Read? Consider reading Other Side of the Game, a screenplay by Amanda Parris. The script is available to download until July 31 with a Queen’s NetID from the following link: https://www.queensu.ca/studentexperience/queensreads
Download, read, contemplate and then attend the community chat on Thursday August 26 to talk about the themes in the book! If you would like to participate in some conversation about the book in advance, join our event page on Facebook!
In the 1970s Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she’s committed enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering where he’s been, when a police officer stops them.
In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their voices and demanding to be heard.
In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their voices and demanding to be heard.