Simpson is the author of seven books, including Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for fiction, and was listed among the Globe & Mail's best books of 2020. The online event, hosted on Eventbrite at 7 p.m. Renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg author, musician, and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will speak as part of Mount Allison's 2021-22 Faculty of Arts Speakers Series. She says, “Radical requires us to critically and thoroughly look at the roots of the settler colonial present- capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness.Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to speak in Faculty of Arts Speakers Series Nov. Betasamosake Simpson provides guidance for those of us on the broader left.
That we can forge relationships, be with each other, and live for much more than what neo-liberal capitalism tells us life is about. As We Have Always Done gives us a glimmer of hope. The world we live in right now feels cold and unwelcoming. She explores the importance of the land as pedagogy, two spiritedness, extractivism, and the need for an anti-capitalism analysis and fight back plan. In this book, a number of ideas and aspects of Betasamosake Simpson’s culture are introduced. She asks, “I am asking myself, what does it mean to write with Indigenous theory? What does it mean to prioritize being with each other, being with the work, being with the possibilities, more than they prioritize the gymnastics of trying to get it right in a structure built on wrongness?” She offers hope and a vision of what alternatives could look like in a world that seems bent on unapologetic destruction.
As Simon Moya-Smith, the culture editor at the Indian Country Media Network describes the book, “She provides a pure, Indigenous lens-a lens that the white man tried to kill and bury.”īetasamosake Simpson provides that lens with a thorough analysis of history and injustice and a deep reflection into her culture and what’s possible to learn from this.
It is essentially a guide, a guide for a better world, one where we wrestle with and then resist the colonialist nature of our current reality. This book is an in-depth look into indigenous resistance and what is possible when that resistance embraces indigenous culture. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
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