The book “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism” was published in September 2021 (you can download a couple of sample chapters here).
This book is an educational experiment full of dancing stories, metaphors, allegories, creative maps, and exercises that ask you to sit at the limits of our modern desires and imagination.
GTDF has organized a series of 6 sessions in February and March 2022 for readings and Q&As with the author according to the table below.
| Dates | Chapters |
| February 3, 8:30-10 am PST | Preface + Prep work |
| February 10, 8:30-10 am PST | Chapters 1 & 2 |
| February 17, 8:30-10 am PST | Chapters 3 & 4 |
| February 24, 8:30-10 am PST | Chapters 5 & 6 |
| March 3, 8:30-10 am PST | Chapters 7 & 8 |
| March 10, 8:30-10 am PST | Chapters 9 & 10 |
The sessions are free of charge, but we encourage reciprocity commitments towards the Last Warning campaign and the Shinah House initiative, both Indigenous-led initiatives that seek to protect and restore the health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities and their territories.
Please complete this form to receive the zoom link for the sessions.
“Beyond a mere critique of modernity, this [Hospicing Modernity] is a book written for us as people who struggle with the everyday manifestations of modern power. Clear, creative, and cogent, the work offers cutting-edge philosophy at the same time that it furnishes usable guidance for how to cope with the coming perils of colonialism and capitalism. It’s a book for the future, yet written to meet us where we are at right now as individuals living with trauma and facing ethical dilemmas about what it means to take meaningful actions under conditions of complexity.”
— KYLE WHYTE, PhD, George Willis Pack Professor of Environment
and Sustainability at the University of Michigan
“Asking the question ‘What if racism, colonialism, and all other forms of toxic and contagious divisions are preventable social diseases?’, Hospicing Modernity invites its reader to dare and educate themselves by undergoing a process of self-unmaking. Drawing on and moving beyond traditions of radical pedagogy, such as those inspired by Paulo Freire, the author has created a powerful tool for uncovering, undoing, and recovering from the deadly ways in which modernity also lives and dies as humans experience it subjectively.”
— DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA, PhD, professor at the University of British Columbia Social Justice Institute and author of Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures 
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I am sooooo excited about participating in this program that I can hardly contain myself as I read the last chapters of Hospicing Modernity.
Talk about turning the other cheek to see all sides of a given situation. Reading this book ignited a deep burning and recognition that this book, at this time , was meant for me.
What a powerful and MUCH needed conversation in the land of organizational leadership theories…HUMBLED and GRATEFUL! Thank you 🙏🏾
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Thank you for this continuing, challenging, essential body of work.
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Really looking forward to learning from this.
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Thank you for this beauty, so needed. Looking forward to Feb & March meetings 🤎
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Hello,
Is there any way that these zoom sessions will be recorded for accessing later? I am unable to attend T/TH /F zoom sessions.
Thank you.
Martha
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We will record part of the sessions and will also book another series at another time slot next.
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Will a recording of this be available if that time doesn’t work for some of us? Thanks!
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We will record parts of the session and make the recordings available on this page.
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