# Event Details - **Event Name**: Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us for the launch of The Practicing Refusal Collective's THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON.About this EventAnother Story, CRC in Black Studies in the Humanities at York U, the Department of English at U of T, and Alchemy by Knopf present the launch of The Practicing Refusal Collective's Thinking From Black: A Lexicon.With readings by Andrea Davis, Sheba Wiafe, Marcelle-Anne Fletcher, Ronald Cummings, Abdi Osman, Amber Rose Johnson, William C Anderson, Rinaldo Walcott, Ola Mohammed, Christina Sharpe, Canisia Lubrin, Courtnay McFarlane, Beverly Bain, and Juanita Stephen.About the book:Thinking from Black: A LexiconHere is an essential book of fierce, radical visions, full of language for changing the world.Here is a stunning book that imagines words as much as it defines them, from "anarchy" to "world," "dreams" to "fire," "literature" to "theory," "breath" to "rage" to "tender."Here is a timely book that enters the world at a critical moment, enlivening languge as a space for living.Here are 77 contributors from four continents and one archipelago - from Paris to Johannesburg, New York to Salvador, Bahia to London, Toronto to Kingston to Nairobi.Here are prominent Black intellectuals and artists with offerings serious and playful, poetic, academic and musical, making language come alive in the face of violence and fascism.Here is Thinking from Black. A work to be read with other people, as it was created. A book to live with, and think and act with, in the world.“A monumental reflection in time, through blackness into light.” —Steve McQueen, artist and filmmaker“Thinking from black: A Lexicon performs the unworlding needed for alternate futures. The collection emancipates and facilitates meaning-making away from a colonist orientation toward a globalizing storytelling that sets new frequencies, and logics without outcome. In a moment of great cultural, political, and social uncertainty, Thinking from Black curates, animates, demonstrates how we can language our way to new beginnings. This collection is a necessary inspiration not to be refused.” —Claudia RankineThe Practicing Refusal Collective is an international Black feminist forum of artists and scholars dedicated to initiating dialogues on blackness, anti-black violence and black futurity in the twenty-first century. Formed in 2015 by Professors Tina Campt and Saidiya Hartman, the Collective comprises sixteen members from multiple disciplines of the humanities, including two Columbia faculty, four Barnard faculty, and ten additional members from nine universities in the US and Canada. In 2018, the Collective launched an ambitious program of transnational conversations under the title The Sojourner Project. The Project expands the conversations begun by the Collective by creating dialogues in a range of sites in Africa and its diasporas with local artists, activists, scholars and thinkers working to develop their own strategies for addressing black precarity, fungibility, and anti-black violence. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/toronto/launch-of-thinking-from-black-a-lexicon/100001997087224649 - **Event Categories**: art, business, literary-art, live-music, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Toronto - **state**: ON - **country**: Canada - **location**: Innis Town Hall - **lat**: 43.6655722 - **long**: -79.39958469999999 - **full address**: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/943e0708bc0e7986468fababd1f43f346c92cfa03ca77b25189f2cdf85c3d8ff-rimg-w1200-h600-dce8e8e8-gmir.jpg?v=1787618171 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON being held? - **A:** Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON takes place on Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Canada. - **Q**: Who is organizing Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON? - **A:** Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON is organized by Another Story Bookshop. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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