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Rehearsals for living / Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

ISBN: 9781039000674
ISBN: 1039000673
Physical Description: vii, 328 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Vintage Canada, 2023.
Copyright: &copy;2022

Maynard, Robyn, (author.). Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971- (author.).

Summary:

When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters--a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. These letters soon grew into a powerful exchange about where we go from here. Rehearsals for Living is a captivating and visionary work--part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and reiterating the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment, Maynard and Simpson create something new: an urgent demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up other ways of ordering earthly life.