Month: August 2020

Recommendations from the Live Work Well Team

For our last Reading, Watching and Listening blog post, we wanted to share some recommendations from the Live Work Well team! Reading is one of the best solutions to a rainy day, cancelled plans or an opportunity to learn something new. Books expose you to new worlds, help with self-improvement and improves your understanding of various topics. We hope that over the last few months, these reading, watching and listening lists have provided you with some insight, comfort and escape from daily challenges. Enjoy!

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“All My Relations” Indigenous ways of knowing Reading, Watching, Listening List

Indigenous tradition and culture have been passed down for generations through storytelling and artwork. With this reading, watching, listening list, we seek to bring attention to the unique experiences of Indigenous people that are often overlooked and undervalued. These authors and artists imaginatively engage their readers and viewers with the ways in which colonization, residential schools, and settler policies/practices have influenced their lives, culture, traditions and future. We hope you find something on this list that will inspire and challenge you. Enjoy!

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Integrating Care and Livelihoods Reading, Watching, Listening List

ntegrating care in our lives requires us to consider our families, friends, livelihoods and living environments. With this list, we explore the ways in which care can bind individuals and communities together, especially when facing the unknown during times such as these. By telling their experiences, these authors, artists and activists describe what it means to give and receive care, through exploring complex social relationships.

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Displacement, Emergence and Change Reading List

Everyone deserves to live a life free from poverty and a chance to thrive. Billions of people around the world don’t have enough money to pay for food, housing, clean water, access to health care or education. In this reading, watching, and listening list, the authors and creators illustrate the many challenges people face as a result of capitalism, colonialism, inequality and poverty. This list provides many great resources on social movements, recognizing and resisting settler colonialism, homelessness and housing precarities. Readers will gain a deeper insight to the importance of understanding how communities respond to displacement to ensure families, livelihoods and living environments thrive.

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