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Join us for the launch of Patty Krawec's BAD INDIANS BOOK CLUB! In conversation with Seán Carson Kinsella and Joy Henderson.Join us for the launch of Patty Krawec's Bad Indians Book Club ! In conversation with Seán Carson Kinsella and Joy Henderson.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit?
Patty Krawec doesn’t want to be a “Good Indian.” When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec gave them a list. This list then exploded into a book club, then into a podcast about a year of Indigenous reading, and then, ultimately, into this book.
Drawing on conversations with readers and authors, Bad Indians Book Club delves into writing about history, science, and gender, and into memoirs and fiction, all by “Bad Indians” and those like them, whose refusal of the dominant narrative of the wemitigoozhiwag (European settlers) opens up new possibilities for identity and existence.
Introducing each chapter with flash fiction about a shapeshifting Deer Woman, who is on her own journey to decide who she is, Krawec leads us into a place of wisdom and medicine where stories of and by marginalized writers help us imagine a thousand worlds waiting to be born.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast, and she is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay rent for living on Indigenous land. As a social worker, Patty focused on supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence and child abuse and was an active union member throughout her career. Her current work and writing, focusing on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices, has been published in Sojourners , Rampant Magazine , Midnight Sun , Yellowhead Institute , Indiginews , Religion News Service , and Broadview . Krawec’s first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022.
ABOUT THE PANEL
Joy Henderson is a Queer, Afro-Indigenous (Lakota) woman and community educator. She grew up in Regent Park, which has instilled much of her values around community organizing and social justice. She occupies her time in graduate school and as a single parent. She brings lived experience of Afro-Indigeneity, which she combines with her deep roots of community health, wellbeing and care. She works in collaboration with the Indigenous Wellness team at TAIBU community health center to provide culturally based, community mental health programming for the Afro-Indigenous community.
Seán Carson Kinsella (nêhi(th/y)aw/otipêmisiwak/Nakawé/Irish & Indigequeer/ayaahkwêw/crip) was born in Toronto, on Treaty 13 lands and grew up in Williams Treaty territory and currently resides between The Danforth area of Toronto and sagetewedehgehwam (Trent River) on Michi Saagig territory. They are a sought speaker, storyteller, and smutty poet with several published book chapters and award-winning zines of sexy poetry and have been featured since the beginning at Glad Day’s infamous Smut Peddlers Reading series since 2019. They have been previously featured at Naked Heart and the Toronto International Festival of Authors and most recently have poems featured in ARC Poetry Magazine Fall issue No. 201 “Disability Desirability and Feels Zine: Issue 23 “Disability”.
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