Another Story Bookshop, Page Two Books, and Indgenous Literatures Lab present the Toronto launch of Ally Is A Verb by Rose LeMay, featuring a conversation with Tanya Talaga. ABOUT ALLY IS A VERB Your next step on the journey of reconciliation starts here.
What can you do to be a better ally for your Indigenous colleagues, community members, and friends? By actively listening to the history and current lived experiences of Indigenous peoples, you can take steps to address the inequities they continue to face. Author Rose LeMay notes that if you continually educate yourself, you will see many opportunities to be an ally.
This insightful book suggests how to enter the field of reconciliation in a good way, in your community and your workplace. You will learn:
-more about the true history shared by Indigenous peoples and colonial governments
-why reconciliation is mostly the responsibility of non-Indigenous people
-approaches to intervene when you see racism happening
-better ways to respond to emotions that come up when doing the work of an ally
-how to be an active team player for equity and inclusion
LeMay describes key principles to promote reconciliation, deepen your practice of allyship, and contribute to meaningful change. ABOUT ROSE LEMAY Rose LeMay is a speaker, trainer, and coach on reconciliation—and an unrelenting champion for the inclusion and well-being of Indigenous peoples. As a facilitator and trainer in cultural competence and anti-racism, she has supported thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to deepen their understanding and capacity for reconciliation. As a keynote speaker, she can take people through difficult topics of racism and reconciliation to find common ground and hope for the future. LeMay has over twenty years of experience in policy and program development in health and mental health systems in government and the non-profit sector. She is an alumnus of the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference, a Certified First Nations Health Manager, certified in Prosci Change Management, and a 2021 Global Pluralism finalist. LeMay is from Taku River Tlingit First Nation in northern British Columbia. ABOUT TANYA TALAGA TANYA TALAGA is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. She is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award. A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the novel was also CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer. She is also the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.

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