Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal’s First Haitian Street Gang by Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland (2023) Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 170 pp.

Sacha Alfonzo V. is an undergraduate student majoring in sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Her ongoing research seeks to amplify silenced voices, carve out space for counter-narratives, and examine the intricate connections between creative expression and social justice. She has worked, in collaboration, on multiple public dissemination projects centred around prisoner-produced publications, poetry, and art. She is grateful to live, work, and study on the traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan People.