Reading As Resistance: Patty Krawec

Patty Krawec is Ojibwe Anishinaabe, a retired social worker, and author of Becoming Kin and her new book Bad Indians Book Club. In this conversation she explores kinship beyond blood, land as ancestor, and why reading together — slowly, in community — might be one of the most quietly radical things we can do right now.

Topics

• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:56 Meeting Patty Krawec
• 02:00 Land Lineage Roots
• 04:17 Becoming Kin Origins
• 06:43 Bad Indians Book Club
• 10:12 Reindigenizing The Future
• 14:55 Reclaiming The Word
• 20:28 Reading Together Power
• 25:06 Attention In The Feed
• 25:27 Relearning Deep Reading
• 26:10 Notebook Trick for Focus
• 26:54 Building a Genre Mosaic
• 29:00 Indigenous Horror and Futures
• 31:53 Read Widely Use Libraries
• 32:18 Curated Lists and Book Browsing
• 34:26 Bookstore Serendipity
• 36:30 AI Pushes Us Offline
• 38:18 Books as Time Alchemy
• 41:58 Ghost the System Together
• 44:10 Deep Time Reading Lineage
• 47:14 New Projects and Ojibwe Stories
• 49:59 Thanks and Farewell
  
  

Resources

• a thousand worlds
• Medicine for the Resistance 
• Why We Are Both Oppressed and Oppressor: Patty Krawec

 

• Becoming Kin
• Bad Indians Book Club

 

 

 

• The Eternal Song

 

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