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THE MIX IN TORONTO THIS WEEK: Ichimaru, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Fatoumata Diawara, Jon Blak & Jean-Luc Godard
From Geisha to Diva: The Kimonos of Ichimaru opens today at the Textile Museum, tomorrow evening is Anishinaabe writer / activist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson launch of “Islands of Decolonial Love”, Friday Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara will be performing at Koerner Hall, Saturday Home: Photographs of Jon Blak opens at The Gladstone Hotel and finally the French connection – the films of Jean-Luc Godard are being featured at TIFF this week until mid-February.
Get all the details here on MIXED BAG MAG's latest post!
Image of Fatoumata Diawara at Luminato 2012 by Leah Snyder for MIXED BAG MAG.
Our survival is dependent upon our ability to read the political landscape… My first mother, the Land, is the teacher here.. ...she teaches me to come at this from a place of honour strength and dignity. ...because if you go out into the bush from a place of weakness- with anxiety, fear… you don't come home… In knowing every detail in knowing how Anishinaabek governance works. In being grounded in who I am and in being intimately connected with every grain of sand in my territory.... I will not beg, because I am not a victim…
Leanne Simpson in a talk on Dancing on Our Turtle's Back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28u7BOx0_9k
Companion website to the book Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson, featuring music by Nick Ferrio, Tara Williamson, Sarah Decarlo, Melody Mckiver, A Tribe Called Red, Sean Conway, Leanne Simpson, and Cris Derksen.
Image by Gregg Deal In the mid 1990s I moved to Miâgmaâgi to go to graduate school. I was expecting to learn about juvenile Atlantic salmon on the Miramichi River. I was naive and misguided. Fortun...
So we are faced with a choice. We can continue to show the photos of the three hunting rifles and the burnt out cop cars on every mainstream media outlet ad nauseam and paint the Mi’kmaq with every racist stereotype we know, or we can dig deeper. We can seek out the image of strong, calm Mi’kmaq women and children armed with drums and feathers and ask ourselves what would motivate mothers, grandmothers, aunties, sisters and daughters to stand up and say enough is enough. We can learn about the 400 years these people and their ancestors have spent resisting dispossession and erasure. We can learn about how they began their reconciliation process in the mid 1700s when they forged Peace and Friendship treaties. We can learn about why they chose to put their bodies on the land to protect their lands and waters against fracking because setting the willfully ignorant and racists aside, sane, intelligent people should be standing with them.
Our bodies should be on the land so that our grandchildren have something left to stand upon.