#leanne simpson

[garadinervi]

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Islands of Decolonial Love. Stories and Songs, ARP Books, Winnipeg, 2013 [AK Press, Chico, CA]

Plus: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Nick Ferrio, Islands of Decolonial Love, (Digital album), ARP Books, 2013

Nick Ferrio: dobro Tara Williamson: piano and vocals Sarah Decarlo: keyboard Melody Mckiver: viola A Tribe Called Red: instrumental from “woodcarver” Sean Conway: guitar Leanne Simpson: vocals Cris Derksen: 'War Cry', movement I and II

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Queer books?? fuck yeah. Indigenous Queer books for Indigenous Heritage Month??!? even better.

[90s-2000s-barbie]

1999 Billboard Music Awards

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Coyote Ugly (2000, David McNally)

17/04/2024

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In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation.

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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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If you go out into a part of the bush you haven’t been before with an Elder, the Elder will often get you to stop on the trail and look back.  This is done so that if you get lost or separated, you’ll know the way back home. By “looking back” the hope is that one learns to recognize features of the specific and intricate features of the landscape. The path looks completely different on the way home because there is a different set of visual cues.  “Looking back” is something that is done to keep us safe and independent and literally connected to the landscape. Our Ancestors were very astute at reading landscapes.  So let’s recognize the value of this technique and apply this technique to the Canadian political landscape.   Let’s stop and take a look around and focus on those visual cues, not what settler governments are saying, but the evidence of what they’ve done.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (2012). Aambe! Maajaadaa! (What #IdleNoMore Means to Me)

[garadinervi]

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, f​(​l​)​ight, (Cassette, Digital album), RPM/003, RPM Records, 2016

All lyrics written by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Musicians Nick Ferrio: guitars, dobro, steel guitar, vocals Leanne Simpson: vocals, percussion Cris Derksen: cello, vocals Ansley Simpson: guitar, vocals Tara Williamson: piano, vocals Jonas Bonnetta: synths, piano, percussion, vocals James Bunton: drums, piano, bass, percussion, synths Rebecca MacLeod: viola, violin Josh Daignault: bass field recordings of The Gut, the sugar bush and winnowing wild rice

Cover Art: sab meynert

Lyrics published in This Accident of Being Lost, House of Anansi Press, Toronto, 2017

Written and recorded in Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg territory

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I pity the country,

I pity the state

And the mind of a man

Who thrives on hate

Small are the lives

Of cheats and of liars

Of Bigoted newspress

Fascist town criers

Deception annoys me

Deception destroys me

The Bill of rights throws me

Jails they all know me

Frustrated are churchmen

The saving-of-soul men

The Tinker the tailor

The Colonial governor

They rape and they beat me

They're seeking to draw me

Away from the roundness

Of this life

Silly Civil Servants

They thrive off my body

Their trip is with power

Back bacon and welfare

Police they arrest me

Materialists detest me

Pollution it chokes me

Movies they joke me

Politicians exploit me

City life it jades me

Hudson's Bay fleeces me

Hunting laws freak me

Government is bumbling

Revolution is rumbling

To be ruled in impunity

Is tradition continuity

I pity the country

I pity the state

And the mind of a man

Who thrives on hate

I pity this country

[poems-from-around-the-world]

The Oldest Tree in the World - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Canada

[hiddenramen]

people are so deranged about jared padalecki and for lich rally no reason. everyone acts like jared is a monstrous narcissistic insane man and jensen just tolerates him when quite frankly jensen is actively somewhat of a douche and jared’s most severe crime is like. being occasionally socially awkward lmfao 

[nathanialhowe]

state of the world + capitalism + ppls resentment of one another and thus their inability to even try to form communities is really getting me down on this wednesday morning