Women Do This Every Day | 
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Allen is one of the key figures, who built a dub poetry scene in Canada. In the introduction to this collection she wrote: "The first generation of dub poets wrote of police brutality, of dashed immigrants' dreams, of hard work and little pay, of the opression of Black women at the hands of Black men, of the need to nurture and fight back. We made art part and parcel of political work." Themes which still resonate.
