Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Nov 18, 2024 | breachmedia.ca | Robyn Maynard |Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Over the past year, the world has watched in horror as the first live-streamed genocide has unfolded before our eyes. For those of us who see life as precious, feelings of rage, pathos, overwhelm and powerlessness have been fixtures of witnessing.

Nov 3, 2023 | powells.com | Matika Wilbur |Tanya Talaga |Angela Sterritt |Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate and recognize the history and experiences of Indigenous and Native American people. In today’s edition of Five Book Friday, we’re bringing you some important books that better illustrate the experiences of some Indigenous people here in the United States and Canada. It is important to reflect on the experiences of Native Americans year-round, not just in November.

Oct 14, 2023 | nybooks.com | Zukiswa Wanner |Preti Taneja |Leanne Betasamosake Simpson |Solmaz Sharif

We are writers and artists who have been to Palestine to participate in the Palestine Festival of Literature. We now call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine. We have exercised our privilege as international visitors to move around historic Palestine in ways that most Palestinians are unable to.

Feb 3, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Although disparate at the level of formal organization, political affect, and voice, Miskwagoode and Whitemud Walking conjointly index the “fugitive interventions,” “coded disruptions,” and “visual opacities” that Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Mississauga Nishnaabeg) identifies as characteristic of contemporary Indigenous poetics and politics of refusal and resurgence (200-18).Miskwagoode addresses the ongoing trauma of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, whereas Whitemud Walking focus on...