In Anishnaabemowin daanis is the stem for daughter, it doesn’t exist as a word independently. It needs a prefix to denote relationship in order to make sense.

We don’t exist independently. We live in layers of relationships, among ancestors and descendants in a web that stretches far beyond our senses. But how do we live as good relatives? What does it mean to say, all my relations. This is the question that drives me. The question that provokes my podcast, my writing, my activism. That question became a book. How do we unforget the past and reimagine a future? How do we become kin.

I read a lot of books and my newsletter is where I write about the books I’m reading and what happens when the ideas from one book collide with the ideas in another. I’ve just started a series on traditional Anishinaabe stories, what they make me think about and how they connect with other things I’m reading. And beginning in January 2025 paid subscribers can come to a monthly creative writing workshop on zoom!

If you sign up for the newsletter you’ll also get book news because yeah, I did sign a contract for a second book. It happens. Ghost offers a nice platform so you can sign up and get the emails as well as go back and read things you’ve missed. Paid subscribers do get some excerpts and reflections, but most of the content is free. And of course, you can always find me on blue sky!

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