Land and Indigenous Feminist Resurgences

In this Feminist Centre for Racial Justice episode, Lydia Ayame Hiraide speaks with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about Indigenous feminist resurgence across Turtle Island. The conversation addresses Indigenous resistance to settler domination through land, transnational movement organizing, solidarity, and creative strategies for resurgence.

Simpson’s work has long joined politics, story, song, land-based education, and sovereign imagination. The episode is therefore more than an interview with an important thinker. It is an entry point into an Indigenous feminist method in which theory is generated through place, language, kinship, story, and action rather than detached abstraction.

For FemRes, this resource strengthens a thread that feminist aggregators often underrepresent: gender justice cannot be separated from land justice and anti-colonial struggle. It also clarifies that resurgence is not a simple return to the past, but a rebuilding of lifeways, political relations, and collective imagination under ongoing colonial conditions.

The episode pairs well with Simpson’s books, her work with Robyn Maynard in “Rehearsals for Living,” and scholarship on Indigenous feminism. It helps listeners understand academic theory, movement organizing, and artistic practice within the same network of relations.