Author of Bad Indians Book Club
In a 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 the book Bad Indians Book Club.
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.
A Different Drummer Books will be on site with books for sale and signing after the talk.
Patty Krawec (Anishinaabe/Ukrainian) is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation and the author of Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future and Bad Indians Book Club, with articles published in numerous periodicals. Her work centers on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices. She posts essays with some regularity on her blog thousandworlds.ca
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