Upcoming Events

Join Reading at the Intersection Book Club on November 22 (Friday!), 10.00 – 11.00 AM, via Google Meet.

The reading group is conducted monthly by the Institute of Intersectionality Studies’ (IIS). Students, alumni, and early career scholars from all disciplines are welcome!

If you are not part of our group yet, please use this form to sign up: https://form.jotform.com/242824357096059

You will be sent a Google Calendar invite with the link to connect and the pdf of the reading once we’ve received your form.

For our next meeting, we are reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2017). As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1pwt77c

Suggested chapters are: Introduction and Chapter 1 (They are short!)

About the author and the book:

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, story and song—bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity.

In “As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance”, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. She makes clear that the goal of Indigenous resistance can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic, calling for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state.

(Source: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/ There are more books by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on this web site.)