Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

And so it's important, especially as Indigenous people, to look at not just our traumas, but our successes and our wins and, like, where we're thriving.

So she's been somebody who introduced me to, like, Leanne Simpson and all these other scholars I follow that taught me about the flux state.

Like, uh, Leroy Little Bear, he's the one who does a Blackfoot's perspective on, uh, quantum physics, which is really cool.

So anyways, she, like, opened all these doors to all these people.

Our book club episodes allowed us to slow down and to spend time with these big ideas over more than one conversation.

We sat down with Leanne Simpson's work, and we talked about land and water and love and refusal and world-making and what it means to imagine an otherwise.

How do we renew ourselves? How do we renew each other? How do we renew our communities? How do we build life that brings forth more life instead of ending it?

We read Sasha LaPointe's book, and the community truly came alive.