Rehearsals for Living

Rehearsals for LivingA revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters a gesture sparked by friendship and

noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse

might be better understood as an innovative adaptation by the Lakotas to the difficult situation in which they found themselves—and as a way of finding a path to a better life

with family concerns taking precedence over work

ceremonies

Such tropes

to ultimately establish their own constitutional government in the twenty-first century

For the Anishinaabeg people

nearing the end of his life

What is unique about this collection of stories is Dimaline's sometimes cryptic

For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools

and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home

the first book to take an in-depth look at contemporary American Indian gender diversity