The PEI community is invited to join the PEI Community Reads book club in reading and discussing the national best-seller, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, by award-winning author, journalist, and activist, Desmond Cole.

Every month we read a couple of chapters, learn, and discuss them together using an intersectional and antiracist lens. We invite you to read and reflect on race, injustice, history, and a better future.

PEI Community Reads was launched in February 2021. The group meets virtually, once a month, via Zoom.

On Tuesday, December 21st at 6 pm, we will be discussing chapters “uncontrolled movement (september)” and “women of exceptional merit (october).”

Follow our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/PEICOMMUNITYREADS) for updates and further information.

We are pleased to announce that we will host a special virtual event featuring Desmond Cole on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Details will be announced at a later date.

PEI Community Reads is a joint initiative of the UPEI Robertson Library, the UPEI International Student Office, the UPEI Student Union, the Prince Edward Island Public Library Service, Charlottetown Rotary Club, the Rotaract Club of UPEI, and the Black Cultural Society of PEI.

For anyone needing a copy of the book, PEI Public Libraries & UPEI Robertson Library have copies of the book to borrow should you have a library card. Bookmark has offered 15% off the book purchase to those joining PEI Community Reads.

Everyone is welcome to join!