“Playful, pissed-off, and ferociously funny, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes irresistible love stories in the jaws of genocide. A genius shape=shifter and defiant genre-detonator, there is quite simply no one like her.”
— Naomi Klein

BOOKS

Books
This Accident of Being Lost
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Islands of Decolonial Love
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Dancing on Our Turtle's Back
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The Winter We Danced
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The Gift is in the Making
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This is an Honour Song
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Lighting the Eighth Fire
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WRITING

Featured
This Accident of Being Lost: The Video
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This Accident of Being Lost: The Video
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The third video from my album f(l)light is the title track from my newly released book of short stories and poetry of the same name and is directed by Amos Scott (Dene).

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Land & Reconciliation: Having the Right Conversations
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Land & Reconciliation: Having the Right Conversations
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Read Leanne's piece in the inaugural issue of Peterborough's new arts & cultural magazine Electric City.

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The Misery of Settler Colonialism: Roundtable on Glen Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks and Audra Simpson's Mohawk Interruptus
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The Misery of Settler Colonialism: Roundtable on Glen Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks and Audra Simpson's Mohawk Interruptus
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Let’s use the intelligence of RSWM and MI to create a future that never has to ask how do I live free, because they’ve never known anything else.

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The Powerful Legacy of the Rotiskenrakéh:te - Those That Carry the Burden of Peace
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The Powerful Legacy of the Rotiskenrakéh:te - Those That Carry the Burden of Peace
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Five years ago, my family and I were invited to attend the twenty-year commemoration of the “Oka Crisis” in Kanehsatà:ke.

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Indict the System: Indigenous & Black Connected Resistance
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Indict the System: Indigenous & Black Connected Resistance
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Like many others on Tuesday night, I watched the live stream of Missouri Prosecutor Robert McCulloch delivering what was clearly a public relations campaign, justifying the grand jury’s decision not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the murder of 18 year old Michael Brown. 

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