Rehearsals for living / Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maynard, Robyn, author.

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Abolitionist papers series

The abolitionist papers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maynard, Robyn--Correspondence.

Maynard, Robyn.

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971---Correspondence.

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake.

Authors, Canadian--Correspondence.

Authors, Canadian.

Social history--21st century.

Social history.

Social movements--History--21st century.

Social movements.

Genre:

History.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

328 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2022.

Summary:

"A 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 solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One On Letter Writing, Commune, and the End of (This) World

pt. Two Making Freedom in Forgotten Places

pt. Three A Summer of Revolt

pt. Four One Hundred Forms of Homespace

pt. Five "We Are Peoples of the Lands, of More Lands Than Could Ever Be Counted"

pt. Six Rehearsals for Living / areyousurethatyoureallywanttobewell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-315) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Maynard, Robyn. Rehearsals for living.

ISBN:

9781642597363

1642597368

9781642596892

1642596892

OCLC:

1267753215