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A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.0
challenging reflective medium-paced

The description of this book calls it a "meditation," and I would say that's about right. I think if you want like a settled (lol) analytical arc, you aren't really going to find it, but I do think the meditations on what it means to pursue NDN love and joy, in a settler state that demands the death of those things, are powerful and valuable--I think his citations of Muñoz in particular are helpful in imagining towards utopia but also the brevity of those moments, as he encounters again and again reminders of the settler state and the violence and death that enacts upon and extracts from Indigenous communities.

I think I'd like to go back and reread it again, but found it fascinating for now, and a lot to chew on.