I read the first half through in order, and then skimmed the rest because I ran out of time with the library book. I like how the first part carefully moves out of the assumptions of whiteness into the Nishnaabeg ways of thinking/doing. Since you already have experience with that shift, you might want to skim the first half and read the second half in more depth. The first essay where she talks about being part of a research group with Nishnaabeg elders living in Nishnaabeg ways, is powerful and lovely to read. It gave me hope in a deep way. Oh, there *are* humans who know how to live in sustainable, affirming, connected ways, if only colonialist cultures would quit intentionally destroying them.
Also she addresses queerness and its integration into Nishnaabeg life in a way that I think might speak to you, but I didn't come away with a more coherent summary than that.
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Date: 2021-06-20 04:01 am (UTC)Also she addresses queerness and its integration into Nishnaabeg life in a way that I think might speak to you, but I didn't come away with a more coherent summary than that.