Photograph of Innu poet Joséphine Bacon, on the left, and Quebecois poet Denise Desautels, on the right, participating to the reading event Pour mémoires – écrivaines pour la liberté, which took place on 15 November 2018 at the Salon du Livre de Montréal. This reading was organised by the Quebecois Centre’s Women Writers Committee whose members read texts from the following women writers who had been, or still were, persecuted: Maya Angelou; Joséphine Bacon; Angye Gaona; Yara El-Ghadban; Hala Mohammad; Susana Romano Sued; Ceija Stojka; and Liu Xia.