About Espace de la Diversité

Fighting against racism through books

Our mission

EDLD seeks to amplify diverse voices, highlighting the experiences of readers and writers from various backgrounds who share a passion for words, and a strong desire to rethink our relationship to the other. As a space for the reflection and sharing of ideas, our mandate is to redefine the meaning of the word together, by fighting against racism, discrimination, and xenophobia through books. To break down the boundaries dividing cultures, communities, languages and literatures; to view diversity as a fundamental value to what it means to be human.

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Our interactive digital platform

Espace de la diversité, in conjunctions with its partners from the publishing industry, is launching an innovative digital platform that aims to transform the Canadian literary ecosystem, making it more inclusive of works by indigenous authors, diverse cultures, and marginalized communities. This dynamic, user-friendly platform will benefit all players of the book industry (booksellers, librarians, publishers, distributors, critics, creators), as well as teachers and readers.

The aim:

To help these players deepen their understanding, improve their approaches, and integrate practices that are more respectful and better suited to the realities and needs of these authors, and to the specificities of a diverse, complex, and rich literary corpus that remains systematically under-represented in the literary ecosystem.

Tools and resources:

Information and context about under-represented bodies of literature to better understand and appreciate them
Reading guides on diverse literary works by minority authors from Quebec and Canada
Video and audio recordings of events and meetings with the authors
Video and audio recordings of our workshops

Through this engaging platform, we aim to empower more readers, teachers, and members of the Canadian book industry to learn about indigenous, minority and culturally diverse literatures; to combat indifference, or the fear of approaching such works that don’t fit into the agreed-upon frameworks of what Canadian and Quebecois literature could be.

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