I finished reading Making Space for Indigenous Feminism.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

I finished reading Making Space for Indigenous Feminism. I learned a lot. A couple of articles were too academia-ese for me to enjoy, but most were excellent and readable. I'll share some of my favorite quotes as I work through them, writing them in my reading journal.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

I read about:
The racist and sexist nature of the various iterations of the Indian Act in Canada.
The carceral nature of mental health “care” for Indigenous people, and the harmful nature of white people’s “care” in general for Indigenous people.
The Kafkaesque nature of the child care system, wherein an Indigenous girl is considered vulnerable and in need of protection, until the moment she grows into an Indigenous adult, considered a threat to the next generation of Indigenous girls.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

Insights from the chapter On Black and Indigenous Relationality, a conversation between Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Gina Starblanket.
Robyn: “Grassroots groupings that … came and went without impacting legislation or making headlines – nonetheless were not failed at all. They seeded these possible future timelines… where suddenly we have huge amounts of the population in Chicago and across North America saying maybe we could defund the police.”

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

Leanne: “We never quite get it right because it is work that is beyond us … I think of these things as rehearsals. In rehearsal, we don’t have to be perfect … I love it when I read something to an audience and think to myself, ‘Wow, I no longer think exactly like that, that was a moment in time.’ It means I’ve transformed and grown."