Reading As Resistance: Patty Krawec

Reading As Resistance: Patty Krawec

From Sounds of SAND by Science and Nonduality

March 12, 2026 · 54 min

About this episode

Patty Krawec discusses the importance of kinship, land, and communal reading as acts of resistance.

Patty Krawec is Ojibwe Anishinaabe, a retired social worker, and author of Becoming Kin and her new book Bad Indians Book Club . In this conversation she explores kinship beyond blood, land as ancestor, and why reading together — slowly, in community — might be one of the most quietly radical things we can do right now. Topics 00:00 Introduction 00:56 Meeting Patty Krawec 02:00 Land Lineage Roots 04:17 Becoming Kin Origins 06:43 Bad Indians Book Club 10:12 Reindigenizing The Future 14:55 Reclaiming The Word 20:28 Reading Together Power 25:06 Attention In The Feed 25:27 Relearning Deep Reading 26:10 Notebook Trick for Focus 26:54 Building a Genre Mosaic 29:00 Indigenous Horror and Futures 31:53 Read Widely Use Libraries 32:18 Curated Lists and Book Browsing 34:26 Bookstore Serendipity 36:30 AI Pushes Us Offline 38:18 Books as Time Alchemy 41:58 Ghost the System Together 44:10 Deep Time Reading Lineage 47:14 New Projects and Ojibwe Stories 49:59 Thanks and Farewell Resources a thousand worlds Medicine for the Resistance   Why We Are Both Oppressed and Oppressor: Patty Krawec   Becoming Kin Bad Indians Book Club       The Eternal Song   Support the…

People in this episode

Host: Science and Nonduality

Guest: Patty Krawec

Topics covered

  • kinship
  • reading
  • community
  • Indigenous culture
  • land
  • radicalism

Keywords

  • Ojibwe
  • Anishinaabe
  • social work
  • reading together
  • reindigenizing
  • deep reading
  • Indigenous horror
  • book clubs

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Becoming Kin, Bad Indians Book Club

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