Join us at Hive Mind Books in Bushwick as authors Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Mahdi Sabbagh discuss Leanne's new book, Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
How can we find liberations and transformation through our relationship to water?
Water is the most abundant element on our planet and vital to our existence. What would it mean if we truly listened to it? What if we truly lived with and alongside it? How might a new theory of water help us form a radical rethinking of relationships between beings and forces in the world today? How might it help us consider paths for liberation and justice for trans and queer people?
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson talks with writer, architect, and urbanist Mahdi Sabbagh about our multi-layered relationship with water and how we might reimagine water, in all its forms, as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world.
This conversation is free and open to the public. After the talk, the authors will sign copies of their books. We ask that books signed at Hive Mind Books events be purchased from Hive Mind Books. Thank you for supporting a queer independent bookstore!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and artist who is widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and teaches at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning in Denendeh. She is also the author of eight acclaimed books, including the nonfiction A Short History of the Blockade; the novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies,; and the novel This Accident of Being Lost. Her collaboration with Robyn Maynard, Rehearsals for Living, was a national bestseller and shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.
Mahdi Sabbagh is a writer, architect, and urbanist from Jerusalem. He is a co-curator of PalFest, the Palestine Festival of Literature. His work has been published in the Journal of Public Culture, Jerusalem Quarterly, Architecture of the Territory, Open Gaza, The Funambulist, Arab Urbanism, and PLATFORM. He is a 2023 Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands.
