what kinsale’s reading

A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY BY BILLY-RAY BELCOURT

Dr. Amanda Tachine teaches us that when we enter certain institutions, we may liken the experience to “going into battle” with monsters that we have known since our creation, that have only taken on new forms. Professor Belcourt writes beautifully and heartwrenchingly about the bodily effects of the systems he survives in the present while reflecting on whom & what grounds him, brings him strength, and ignites joy.

“The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.”

NATIVE GUARD BY NATASHA TRETHEWAY

What happens when we induce a national forgetting? Whose histories haunt America?

THEORY OF WATER

Renowned scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson provides a thorough and rousing account of Anishinaabe maps to a better future, grounded in teachings about water and resistance to colonization.