![]() When I got to the end, and you talked about Idle No More, which you were a great part of, I realized these are some of the things you had learned or thought through, or come to know as a result of being engaged with Idle No More. This is an edited transcript.ĭionne Brand: Your book As We Have Always Done seems to me a kind of manifesto. Their conversation was moderated by Idil Abdillahi, assistant professor in Ryerson University’s school of social work, and a longtime activist. Simpson and Brand spoke in Toronto last month. ![]() ![]() That idea is also at the centre of this conversation between Simpson and the celebrated poet, novelist, and critic Dionne Brand, whose writings explore the politics of race and resistance. Decolonization, and the role of art and the imagination in this liberatory enterprise, is at the heart of As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press), a book published late last year by the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, artist, and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. ![]()
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