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daanis @daanis.ca · 22/04/2026

Corn soup. and don't @ me with how I just haven't had it made well. It's the hominy I can't stand. This isn't an Anishinaabe dish, but since I live in Niagara and this soup is basically everywhere it counts.

A bowl seen from above. Corn soup with shredded ham, potatoes, kidney beans, and hominy.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 20/04/2026

Trying something for paid subscribers. every week or so I'll brain dump about a tarot spread, what story the cards are telling me. Paid subscribers can send in questions and I'll see what story the cards tell about it. Not a tarot reading, more like a writing prompt. subscribe at thousandworlds.ca

tarot time: a surreal experiment. thousandworlds.ca Image is a black and white of a mountain range with cloudy sky. a face hovers abover the landscape and reflects it.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 17/04/2026

When liberation theology emerged from Catholic priests in Latin America, the US government encouraged churches to send missionaries to counter what they saw as communism from the Catholic Church. I grew up reading about the courage of men like Nate Saint and Jim Elliot, not Romero.

A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that does not unsettle, a word of God that does not get under anyone's skin, a word of God that does not touch the real sin of society in which it is being proclaimed - what gospel is that? Saint Oscar Romero, April 16, 1978

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daanis @daanis.ca · 05/02/2026

The pacific ocean from our hotel in the Galapagos. It is huge. Half the globe. Thinking about the skill and knowledge of Pasifika mariners who navigated this long before Magellan.

Blue ocean. Blue sky. Thin clouds. Beach.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 31/01/2026

Gordon is getting to get some sleep. He's a Havanese, as in Havana Cuba, and although his roots are aristocratic he dreams of Cuba Libre. Click the link for Hands Off Cuba resources. share.google/cc54hRE6z8gk...

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daanis @daanis.ca · 30/01/2026

We're on our way to Ecuador and Gordon is at home with one of our kids. He misses us just like we all miss democracy. See you soon Gordon! Max will take good care of you.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 29/01/2026

Gordon is getting tired of waking up to this bullshit. He had been dreaming of a world without borders and the cops who police them. Probably because he fell asleep listening to his human read Border & Rule. You can get a free ebook from @haymarketbooks.org right now along with some others.

Havanese puppy, face only looking straight at the camera on a fluffy blanket

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daanis @daanis.ca · 28/01/2026

Gordon is a country dog who loves a Kubota tractor in part because it's his favorite color: NDP orange. Upon careful reflection, Gordon has decided to endorse @avilewis.ca for the NDP leadership.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 27/01/2026

How Gordon sleeps knowing he would never rat out a comrade.

Small havanese puppy stretched out asleep on the floor

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daanis @daanis.ca · 26/01/2026

Gordon loves snow and hates ICE, including all their border defending friends. Be like Gordon.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 25/01/2026

Daily Gordon with his chew stick. Come for the puppy photos. Stay for the political ranting.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 20/01/2026

This is Gordon. Our 10 week old havanese puppy. He doesn't bite. He gives pointy kisses.

Light brown puppy looking straight at the camera

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daanis @daanis.ca · 24/11/2025

King's books, many of which i have read and enjoyed, are conspicuously absent from Bad Indians Book Club. In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.

Thomas King, an older man with Grey hair looks at the camera. "Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King is not part Cherokee"

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daanis @daanis.ca · 12/11/2025

Guess what Halifax, coming back at the end of the month! Doing a thing with King Books. Will post the date and time once it's confirmed but likely the 26th. I'll be in Sackville on the 24th, Fredericton on the 25th, and Elsipogtog on the 26th (noon). Whirlwind tour of the east coast!

Cover of Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds. burgundy background. Painting of a young native woman staring at the camera with a furrowed brow.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 08/10/2025

Poetry tells a story through images that evoke feelings and emotions. I'm honoured to be moderating this online panel of Indigenous poets for the Victoria Festival of Authors on October 18. tickets are on sale, hope to see you in the crowd. victoriafestivalofauthors.ca

green background. October 18th 3:30pm - 4:45pm. Poetry as story. Voice as ceremony. Photographs of four people, one man wearing a hat, one non binary with a messy bun, one with short blonde hair, and the last with long black/grey hair. Victoria Festival of Authors.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 02/10/2025

Update. I did manage to get to three bookstores which is a great way to see a city on an overcast drizzly day. And ducked into a decent Ramen spot for lunch during the worst of it. Signed these at Iron Dog Books on E Hastings

A bookstore shelf with copies of Bad Indians Book Club and Becoming Kin facing outward

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daanis @daanis.ca · 01/10/2025

Back in Vancouver bitches. Who's going to be at Massy Books tomorrow night?

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daanis @daanis.ca · 30/09/2025

Got to spend some time with Sarah Augustine. If you haven't read her books, do yourself a favor and plug her name into the search engine of your favorite bookstore. It was Sarah who said "They never asked what good news WE had for THEM."

Two dark haired women smiling and leaning into each other

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daanis @daanis.ca · 22/09/2025

If you're in Niagara and you missed the book launch last week, I'll be at the Lincoln Public Library on September 29th from 6:30 - 7:30. Read a little, answer some questions, it will be fun! I love libraries and am always happy to show up at one. lppl.ca/event/author...

cover of Bad Indians Book Club: burgundy background, painting of a young native woman in a hide dress staring ahead.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 17/09/2025

I didn't know that Little Golden Books published horror for children but this one looks pretty good.

A Little Golden Book children's book with a kitten, a pup, and a rabbit doing kitchen chores. The title says, "The humans are dead. We are the humans now."

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daanis @daanis.ca · 14/09/2025

And if you're in Vancouver, on October 2 I'll be talking about Indigenous Geographies and what separates Land Back from modern ethnostates with @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social

yellow background. Cover of bad indians book club, burgundy with a painting of a young woman looking straight ahead. pictures of Patty (Indigenous woman with long dark hair, smiling at somebody off camera) and Deondre (Afro-Ojibwe man in a ribbon shirt smiling at the camera). Sponsored by Massy Books and Goose Lane. October 2 at 7pm. Massy Books 229 East Georgia St. Vancouver

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daanis @daanis.ca · 14/09/2025

omg, what's going on. is that a BOX OF BOOKS?!!!! Yes it is. Only two more sleeps until release day. #booksky #BadIndiansBookClub #Indigenous

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10/09/2025

"Bad Indians don’t play along when you expect them to think and act in a certain way... Bad Indians, when given the chance, offer revelatory ways of thinking about a world you assumed you understood." An interview, and review, in Foreword Magazine. mailchi.mp/forewordrevi...

Burgundy background. Painting of an Indigenous woman with long dark hair looks seriously straight ahead. Join the Bad Indians Book Club, and read radically.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 02/09/2025

In one of the short stories that I wrote for BIBC, a character wears this Live, Laugh, Lurk t-shirt designed by @johnniejae.bsky.social You can own one too. I had a hard time choosing which t-shirt to use but this one was perfect. official-johnnie-jae.myspreadshop.com/live.+laugh....

a white man stands facing the camera. He wears a t-shirt with a walking silhouette of Sabe, Sasquatch, against a multicoloured background. Text says live, laugh, lurk.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 02/09/2025

Do you love the cover art? I sure do. That's a painting of Wanada Parker by J. NiCole Hatfield and you can find more of her work here. There's lots for sale, from paintings to prints to totebags and more. www.nahmiahpiahart.com

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daanis @daanis.ca · 02/09/2025

Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds is on the 2025 fall list for the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association! I love independent booksellers. If you want to organize an in person or virtual event lmk and I'll get you a pdf copy. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/09...

burgundy background. cover of Bad Indians Book Club. September 16, 2025 across the front. The cover is a young woman with long dark hair in a hide dress. She looks straight ahead. Launching soon with in person and virtual events St. Catharines, Toronto, Vancouver, Peterborough

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daanis @daanis.ca · 01/09/2025

That's a common theme in many reviews, it's unlike anything they've read before, hard to categorize. I like to think of it as a manifesto.

burgundy background, a young woman with long dark hair looks directly at the viewer. Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds. Patty Krawec

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daanis @daanis.ca · 01/09/2025

Bad Indians Book Club is #1 in New Releases: Turtle Island Biographies on Amazon.com. It's in a lot of categories, none of which I have any control over. It's also #6 in New Releases: General Books and Reading, and #5 in New Releases: Indigenous Peoples Studies.

screenshot of New Releases in Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island Biographies. #1 Bad Indians Book Club, #2 Lessons in Hope, #3 A Steady Brightness of Being

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daanis @daanis.ca · 05/08/2025

A started review in Booklist, which means the editors felt it is "outstanding in its genre." But what is its genre? I have no idea. Part memoir, part lit crit, some decolonial studies. I like to think of it as a manifesto. Reading to change the world. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

Burgundy background. A young woman, painted, stares at the camera. Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the edge of a thousand worlds. Patty Krawec

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daanis @daanis.ca · 11/07/2025

Bad Indians Book Club will be out in just over two months, September 16. One way to get an advance copy is to have me on your podcast. Another way is to get your local bookstore interested in a virtual event ahead of release day. The first rule of Bad Indians Book Club: Always Carry A Book

Bad Indians Book Club cover - deep fuschia with gold brown background, young woman looking straight ahead. Pre-Order Now

blue background: I want you to feel what is at stake in a world of book bans and alternative facts, to grasp the value of listening to those who are pushed to the edges and the communities we build there.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 24/06/2025

The problem isn't Netanyahu or Trump. They don't act alone, and things have been bad for a long time. In Isreal's case, about 75 years. A few hundred more for the US.

Headline from Al Jazeera dated October 24 2024: kamala Harris said Iran is greatest adversary of US. Democratic presidential candidate says preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of her top priorities.

User Lumpy Louise posted this June 21, 2025 saying: i know some of you Libs are already thinking it but no the dems wanted this war too.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13/06/2025

Omg she's even more beautiful in person. Bad Indians Book Club releases on Sep 16. Lmk if you want to talk about it on your podcast!

Cover of Bad Indians Book Club. Burgundy background, painting of a young native woman looking intently intently at the camera.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10/04/2025

It is not lost on me that on this now deleted tweet (posted this morning at 10am) the x looks a lot like a cross.

Black background. Tweet from US Immigration. If it crosses the US border illegally, it's our job to stop it. People, money, products, ideas. ICE.gov. an orange x on the bottom left

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daanis @daanis.ca · 10/02/2025

When I convened the panels for a podcast series about books, we had little inkling of the storm to come. The current storm is one in a long history of US attacks on dissent through regulation of free speech, which includes your right to hear and read. Can't think of a better time to publish this.

painting of Wanada Parker, a native woman looking seriously at the camera. Burgundy and light brown background. Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the edge of a thousand worlds. By Patty Krawec. Foreword by Omar El Akkad.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 06/02/2025

This one. Because cats

Mustard yellow backpack with little cats on the bottom half

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daanis @daanis.ca · 06/02/2025

I'm in a coffee shop drinking golden milk (ginger and tumeric) made with oat milk. Portland is changing me. I feel a compulsion to get a wool cap and a Fjällräven backpack

White mug with yellow/orange milk. Book laid open beside. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

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daanis @daanis.ca · 30/01/2025

Planning my book launch in Sep and we're thinking about curating an art exhibit that also tells marginalized stories. People get headsets and walk around the exhibit, listening to me read, before an interview or something. Which is to say I'm down to collaborate in your town with your artists.

Painting of Wanada Parker, a young Native woman with long dark hair against a burgundy background. Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the edge of a thousand worlds.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 30/01/2025

My friends! We have a cover. Becoming Kin challenged the stories we are told about history. In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine all the stories written from the perspective of "Bad Indians"--marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds.

Painting of a young woman, had toothed down, looking seriously ahead. Vivid colors, deep fuschia and brown. Bad Indians Book Club: reading at the edge of a thousand worlds. Patty Krawec. Foreword by Omar El Akkad

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daanis @daanis.ca · 27/01/2025

Just minding my own business reading Of Living Stone, a collection of essays about the work of Vine Deloria Jr., vibing along with an essay by Gabriel S. Galanda on Indigenous Kinship Renewal and Relational Sovereignty, and what do I see here? Heck.

Billy Grand Jr often said, we don't throw our people away. The pervasive practice of discarding Indigenous kinfolk must end. As Patty Krawec teaches in Becoming Kin, there is an opportunity for Indigenous people to listen "to the stories and to the harm ... to old relationships and memory ... to how things should be" and to make new offerings and agreements that honor "our place in creation and our responsibilities to each other. "

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13/01/2025

I would imagine that any outrage over the idea that the US would lay claim to land already claimed by Canada would sound incredibly awkward if it acknowledged that we still exist.

Image of a man wearing a noose, he looks at somebody off camera. Text:
Canadians being mad that the US wants to claim "their" land. Indigenous people: First time?

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daanis @daanis.ca · 19/12/2024

So much gratitude this year you guys! This month's newsletter features the work of Joni Hill-Squire in Ontario and Susan Brown in Hope BC. Harvesting medicines for elders and housing the unhoused. Your donations make such a different. fish-grape-lcr7.squarespace.com/stories-from...

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daanis @daanis.ca · 16/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the skyline

Beach in foreground, waved sand with tidewater. Horizon is gold and orange up to darkening blue. The sun is sinking into the ocean.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 15/11/2024

Fourth cup of tea today (new fave mug, note the slightly wider bottom to prevent tipping). Let's see if I can finish it while it's still hot. Drinking Throat Coat, which is the bomb.

Blue mug that says "Birchbark Books" on a table. Behind are two books: Solidarity is the Political Version of Love and Blood Red Lines. Both published by Haymarket Books.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 12/02/2024

This poem by Jessica Foster. I saw it a few years ago, asked the bad place I'd anyone knew who wrote it. Turns out Jessica did. I love it.

While you're worried about "bad apples" we're wary of the roots because no healthy tree naturally bears strange fruit

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daanis @daanis.ca · 27/08/2023

Haha. We stayed in one of those on our way out. Serious Overlook vibes. Currently staying at a former Red Roof. It is our second "just off the highway and doesn't look completely murdery" motel.

Red brick hotel with white trim seen from below, it sits on top of a rise. Shrubbery in the front, mist covering the forest behind

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daanis @daanis.ca · 25/08/2023

Spent about 3 hours walking around The House on the Rock and 100% get why @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com set part of American Gods here. If I was stuck between worlds, I would hang out here too.

A carousel in red with hundreds of lights

A series of clown troll things on a red carpeted staircase

A giant whale with mouth agape and two rows of teeth rises from the floor and up three stories

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daanis @daanis.ca · 17/08/2023

Reskeet with a meme that let's us all get to know you a little bit better

Black actor, playing Chidi in The Good Place, seen from the shoulders up, wearing a white pinstriped dress shirt and glasses. He is speaking to a white woman seen from behind, only her blonde hair is visible. Text at the top days "the cop is Indigenous" Chidi responds "okay but that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?"

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daanis @daanis.ca · 17/08/2023

Went on a road trip. Brought books. What am I reading instead?

A copy of "The Phantom of Pine Hill" a Nancy Drew mystery. Cover features a red haired teenager in a 60s era dress and a young man dressed up like an Indian looking up a hill

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