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Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
A brilliant blend of personal anecdotes, traditional teachings, and insights from the works of other thinkers/artists.
Nibi (water) and other relatives hold great wisdom for "living, organizing and making new worlds beyond the ones we've inherited from colonialism and racial capitalism."
Water represents the cyclical renewal of life, the interconnectedness and interdependency of all life forms, and our need for reciprocity and mutual caretaking.
From Nibi we can learn to be resilient, adaptive, transformative, persistent, decentralized, internationalist, and more.
What stood out to me in particular was the Anishinaabeg teaching of mino-bimaadiziwin, translated as "continuous rebirth" by Winona LaDuke and described by the author as "living life, individually, communally and globally, in a way that brings forth more life, not just human life but all life."
We have to figure out how to fit into and contribute to the natural world as it exists, in a way that keeps everything in balance and ensures continuous renewal.
Nibi (water) and other relatives hold great wisdom for "living, organizing and making new worlds beyond the ones we've inherited from colonialism and racial capitalism."
Water represents the cyclical renewal of life, the interconnectedness and interdependency of all life forms, and our need for reciprocity and mutual caretaking.
From Nibi we can learn to be resilient, adaptive, transformative, persistent, decentralized, internationalist, and more.
What stood out to me in particular was the Anishinaabeg teaching of mino-bimaadiziwin, translated as "continuous rebirth" by Winona LaDuke and described by the author as "living life, individually, communally and globally, in a way that brings forth more life, not just human life but all life."
We have to figure out how to fit into and contribute to the natural world as it exists, in a way that keeps everything in balance and ensures continuous renewal.
"Our fight is our critique." (anticolonial resistance as embodied critique of capitalism and other oppressive systems introduced by Euro invaders.)
"When the colonizers came, they were always lost because they refused to live in the network of the living."
"When you arrive, you make bonds." (sintering)
"What can I give, or give up, to promote more life?"
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Racism, Grief, Colonisation
Minor: Ableism, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic