DISE Book Club | "This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories" (Simpson)
Join us for the second book in our series on exploring Indigenous education and the TRC’s Calls to Action for Education: This Accident of Being Lost, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Lori Beavis, Artist-in-Residence, will lead the conversation on this selection and if interested, you are asked to:
- Come to the Art Hive, 1st floor, Education building, on Wednesday, December 5th, from 12-1:30pm, having read This Accident of Being Lost
- Bring your lunch!
"This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting "ARE THEY GETTING IT?"; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew."