Show Notes
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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