Building off last week’s episode on decolonial feminism, this week we speak with Anishnaabe author, Patty Krawec about her forthcoming book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. Krawec challenges settler Christians to start “unforgetting” the parts of our history that we have historically ignored and to take up our responsibilities as kin as we seek to imagine a future for the Canadian Church that honours all our relations.

Patty Krawec is an Anishnaabe-Ukranian writer and speaker addressing anti-racist and decolonial possibilities in labour, education, and faith-based organizations. Patty has been published in Sojourners Magazine as well as the online publications Rampant and Midnight Sun. Her book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future releases on September 27, 2022. It is now available for pre-order. Current projects include the popular Medicine for the Resistance podcast. Ambe: A Year of Indigenous Reading that featured panel discussions that streamed to twitch.tv where viewers participate in the chatroom. Read more on her substack pattykrawec.substack.com where she writes essays reflecting on the books she is reading and how they can help us see the world and our place in it differently.

Further Reading and Resources:

Bradford, Tolly, and Chelsea Horton, eds. Mixed Blessings: Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada. Vancouver ; Toronto: UBC Press, 2016.

Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Deloria, Vine. God Is Red. 30th Anniversary Edition. Golden, Colo: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003.

TRC Calls to Action

Krawec, Patty. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. S.l.: Broadleaf Books, 2022.

Krawec, Patty. “Christians Romanticize Wandering Yet Rendered My People Homeless.” Sojourners, February 25, 2020.