Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will be speaking on "A Short History of the Blockade". The talk will draw from her book of the same name, where Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through the future of the beaver- or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening understandings of Indigenous resistance as both a negation and an affirmation.

The talk will be followed by a reception. Please RSVP using the link below.