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daanis @daanis.ca · 10h

Us but not you. A we that creates safe spaces by excluding the oppressive others.

You can listen to Bad Indians Book Club, the podcast, wherever you get your podcasts or read the transcript at the link below.

www.thousandworlds.ca/niinwi/

Niinwi

I never understood how foreigners could come and tell us where to die and where to live. Where to be buried and how to breed. - Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth This episode originally took place in May when...

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Ash(es to ashes) 💀 @ashrowan.design · 5h

My birthday is on Friday! 🥳 Should you feel so inclined, here are a few of my local favorites you can donate to in celebration:

• Friends of Great Salt Lake: www.fogsl.org
• Hawkwatch Int'l: hawkwatch.org/donate/
• Genderbands: www.genderbands.org/donate
• KRCL community radio: krcl.org

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daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

I feel that "need to get organized" very deeply LOL Just looking at my October calendar makes me cry a little bit.

daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

It was one of those brain-stopping moments when I came across it in his book. And for obvious reasons it appealed greatly to me LOL

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daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

It's part of their By the Lake Book Club. No details yet but I just got the invite this morning.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

every day. because people need to eat every day.

MARAH FROM 🇵🇸 @mummarah.bsky.social · 6h

Please help me feed my little daughter and family🙏

I cry out every day for help so my baby won’t cry for milk or food💔

My health is very bad, I have anemia and a constant terrible headache for days😭

Despite all this, I keep fighting to help my family
gofund.me/5f09e35e9

@mommunism.bsky.social 🙏😭

A tired woman wearing glasses, a white headscarf, and a purple sweater takes a selfie inside a fragile tent made of tarps. Her face reflects exhaustion and strength as she struggles to survive and care for her family in harsh conditions.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

Order your copy of Bad Indians Book Club today to get free shipping from bookshop.org AND support Birchbark Books while you're at it (affiliate link that supports BBB)

bookshop.org/a/84905/9781...

Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

bookshop.org

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daanis @daanis.ca · 8h

Pretendian criteria reminds me of band council. Does this person qualify for on-reserve housing?

If no, pretendian.

If yes it's all good, unless you don't like them which raises the the second criteria: "but do they live there?"

If no, not authentic.

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 8h

Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) was just named as a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant!

www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 9h

looks like I'll be back in March! more details on that to come but Humber College is having me in for a public event.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 9h

thanks as always for the mention!

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daanis @daanis.ca · 9h

If you're in Winnipeg October 16-19, your girl is doing a restorying workshop at the Algonquian Conference. There is free registration if you are unaffiliated, ie. having no org to pay your fees, and it looks interesting af.

algonquianconference.atlas-ling.ca/eng/conferen...

57th Algonquian Conference (2025) |

algonquianconference.atlas-ling.ca

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daanis @daanis.ca · 9h

Can't make it to this, but I saw there's something on the 25th and now I can't find it!

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 9d

Toronto book launch Oct 23! with brilliant co-thinkers, David Chariandy, Andrea J. Ritchie and Desmond Cole , grab a ticket here! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-relau...

Book Relaunch | Policing Black Lives: Revised & Expanded Edition

Celebrate the launch of the extended and revised edition of Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10h

Much later I would read Klee Benally's book No Spiritual Surrender and encountered the idea of "hostile spaces" as a counterpoint to "safe spaces." These are spaces that are safe because they are hostile to oppressive ideologies, an us that excludes the violent others who mean us harm.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10h

I didn't want to just focus on mothers but I didn't want to ignore it either so I started thinking about caretaking and the reproductive labour that goes far beyond physical reproduction.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10h

This conversation formed the backbone for the chapter on gender and was originally called Refusing the Patriarchy. It was a challenge to think of a topic in May, which was when we had this panel

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10h

Niinwi

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daanis @daanis.ca · 11h

Poetry tells a story through images that evoke feelings and emotions. I'm honoured to be moderating this online panel of Indigenous poets for the Victoria Festival of Authors on October 18.

tickets are on sale, hope to see you in the crowd.

victoriafestivalofauthors.ca

green background. October 18th 3:30pm - 4:45pm. Poetry as story. Voice as ceremony. Photographs of four people, one man wearing a hat, one non binary with a messy bun, one with short blonde hair, and the last with long black/grey hair. Victoria Festival of Authors.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13h

And @daanis.ca also has a new one out!!!!

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Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

bookshop.org

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daanis @daanis.ca · 23h

It was last week!

Always game to come back tho.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 1d

If you're in Boston!

And I've got bookplates I can sign and send to any bookstores that want to do a virtual Q&A.

inSpirit Book Shop @shopinspirit.bsky.social · 3d

New on our shelves: Bad Indians Book Club—in this powerful reframing, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit? shopinspirit.org

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MARAH FROM 🇵🇸 @mummarah.bsky.social · 2d

If you see this, please Repost🙏

I haven’t received any donations for 3 days, and our situation is getting worse💔

I swear we don’t even have a drop of water. The water truck asks for at least $100 to come and fill tank😭😭

We’re crying out for help today
gofund.me/285783dc3

@mommunism.bsky.social😩🙏

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daanis @daanis.ca · 1d

Our support should be as persistent as their hope.

M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 1d

I’m Motaz from Gaza & this’s my new account

I’m exhausted from this life
We haven’t received any donations for 3 days💔
& our situation is much worse than before😭

It’s been so long since we had real food or clean water,

We’re pleading for your help🙏🏻
🔗 gofund.me/8d6ac6d27

✅ @mommunism.bsky.social

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daanis @daanis.ca · 5d

The flotillas bring hope, but also lots because they can't get through. Do what you can. I know there's a lot, but pick one and help them. I've spoken with Marah. She's a real person.

MARAH FROM 🇵🇸 @mummarah.bsky.social · 5d

Writing to you with trembling hands😭

from exhaustion, illness, fear and hunger💔

My family and I cry out daily for food, clothes and medicine!

We have a daughter & can no longer afford even the basics due to soaring prices

I'm very tired, please help😢
gofund.me/4f7d97b85

@mommunism.bsky.social🙏

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daanis @daanis.ca · 6d

Update. I did manage to get to three bookstores which is a great way to see a city on an overcast drizzly day. And ducked into a decent Ramen spot for lunch during the worst of it. Signed these at Iron Dog Books on E Hastings

A bookstore shelf with copies of Bad Indians Book Club and Becoming Kin facing outward

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