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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 8h

Minneapolis tonight at Birchbark Bizhiw 7 pm. Registeration link below.

Leanne Simpson - Theory of Water

Join us at Birchbark Bizhiw for an evening with Leanne Simpson, as she discusses her most recent text, Theory of Water.

www.eventbrite.com

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 15h

Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.
youtube.com/shorts/TtlDz...
#EndGazaBlockade

🆘 Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.

YouTube video by CanadaBoatGaza

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 1d

NYC tonight friends.

Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 7d

Friends and colleagues,

I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below

Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA

How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...

www.moma.org

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 1d

miigwech @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for this beautiful, vital, helpful commune. pre-order from @akpress.org

cover image of read this when things fall apart featuring a person partislly submerged in watercwiyh trees, waterlilies and a night sky full of constellations.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago: Come visit with Uahikea Mailie and me tonight at Haymarket House.

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 6d

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) will be in the US next week discussing her book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps for the Times Ahead.

Details and RSVP: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/531-th...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson US Tour
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
10/6 Chicago: haymarket house with uahikea maile
10/7 New York: museum of modern art with joseph m. pierce & candice hopkins
10/8 Minneapolis: birchbark bizhiw
10/9 Minneapolis: university of minnesota with nick w. estes

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and member of Alderville First Nation, will discuss "Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead" with Dr. Uahikea Maile, a Kanaka Maoli scholar, organizer, and practitioner from Oʻahu.

Oct. 6th, 6:30pm CDT

Haymarket Presents: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water

YouTube video by Haymarket Books

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 5d

In case you missed it, my collaboration with Palestinian artist and filmmaker Rana Nazzal Hamadeh
who lives between Ramallah and Ottawa on unceded Anishinaabe territory, "White Kites and Sky Blue", from Live Like the Sky, dropping 24/10 @youvechanged.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhN_...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 6d

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) will be in the US next week discussing her book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps for the Times Ahead.

Details and RSVP: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/531-th...

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking of all those big hearted ones who were abducted from the flotilla today. Free Palestine.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords

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Interdependent Study Podcast @interdependentstudy.com · 7d

📚 EPISODE 219! 📚

In today’s episode, we discuss the book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead by @biidaasamose.bsky.social (and published by @haymarketbooks.org).

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You've Changed Records @youvechanged.bsky.social · 7d

Presenting the new single from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson:
White Kites and Sky Blue previews the upcoming album Live Like The Sky with a powerful new video directed, filmed, and edited by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh

@biidaasamose.bsky.social

On tour this November

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

my visit to the early days exhibit at McMichael Gallery was enriched by my recent read of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Theory of Water. Facing the Kleinburg forest sit Rebecca Belmore‘s three aluminum Wave Sound sculptures (Banff, Gros Morne, Pukaskwa national parks) @biidaasamose.bsky.social

three large cast aluminum megaphone-shaped sculptors sit on floor facing out three windows to forested landscape

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 7d

New Single! White Kites And Sky Blue, with video directed by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh. Live Like the Sky drops October 24. Tour in November. 🍉

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 10d

Had the most wonderful day visiting Curve Lake FN with my kid for the Mnoominkewin, learning about wild rice, eating amazing food from Shawn Adler of the Flying Chestnut, getting out on the lake to try harvesting & planting, and hearing sublime talks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social & Winona LaDuke(!!)

Kid throwing mnoomin seeds into the lake from a canoe

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 11d

Minneapolis!

Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a discussion of her new book Theory of Water at Birchbark Bizhiw

Wednesday, October 8th at 7:00 pm

RSVP to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/leanne-sim...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and her book Theory of Water

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 12d

Chicago! Come visit with me & Uahikea Maile at Haymarket House October 6.

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12d

Chicago!

Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Uahikea Maile about water as a catalyst for radical transformation, hosted w/ @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social.

Monday, October 6th at 6:30 pm
@haymarkethouse.bsky.social & online

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in conversation with Uahikea Maile
theory of water: Nishnaabe Maps for teh Times Ahead
Oct. 6th 6:30 pm CT, Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12d

Chicago!

Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Uahikea Maile about water as a catalyst for radical transformation, hosted w/ @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social.

Monday, October 6th at 6:30 pm
@haymarkethouse.bsky.social & online

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19d

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 20d

Theory of Water at Birchbark Bizhiw in Minneapolis, October 8, 2025. Tickets here. www.eventbrite.com/e/leanne-sim...

Leanne Simpson - Theory of Water

Join us at Birchbark Bizhiw for an evening with Leanne Simpson, as she discusses her most recent text, Theory of Water.

www.eventbrite.com

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 20d

Theory of Water in Chicago at Haymarket House with Uahikea Maile, October 6, 2025, tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Register Now – Haymarket Presents: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water – Haymarket House (800 W Buena)

Haymarket Presents: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water – Haymarket House (800 W Buena), Mon Oct 6, 2025 - Join us for the next event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, as Leanne Be...

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 21d

Wish I could be there with you both 🧡

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 22d

TORONTO
im coming to play some songs, supported by Boyhood and Zoon, sat nov.29, 8 pm, tickets are on sale now (also playing shows in Kingston, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Hamilton and Guelph in Nov, www.leannesimpson.ca/shows).

Toronto tickets: sl1nk.com/qtGSm

poster for Live Like the Sky Toronto tour date, Saturday Nov 29 at ALlied Music Centre with Boyhood and Zoom.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 23d

I have a new record coming out October 24th called "Live Like the Sky" and this is the first video by Inuk filmmaker asinnajaq. Filmed in Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet), Inukjuak, Tiotia:ke (Montreal), Pittsburgh & Philadelphia.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Murder of Crows

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 25d

Brooklyn Book Festival, tomorrow, virtual. Indigenous writers come together to discuss creating within a settler-colonial framework, foregrounding ancestral modes of storytelling and thought in support of Indigenous sovereignty. With Chris La Tray, Joseph Le & me.Moderated by Lily Philpott.

Story and Sovereignty - Brooklyn Book Festival

Native and Indigenous writers come together to discuss creating within a settler-colonial framework, foregrounding ancestral modes of storytelling and thought in support of Indigenous sovereignty. Wit...

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 28d

i really loved omar book.

Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social · 28d

Announcing finalists for the 2025 #HilaryWeston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 🏆 Congratulations to:

◢Omar El Akkad

◢Tessa McWatt

◢Vinh Nguyen

◢ @biidaasamose.bsky.social

◢ @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social

$75K winner announced Nov 13 at the #WTAwards bit.ly/4lXZqQk

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