With a small group of co-moderators, a cohort of OHMA Students participating in the Workshop course had the opportunity to host a seminar with Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. For three and a half years I’d been poring over her book As We Have Always Done: Indiginous Freedom Through Radical Resistance, and I was finally meeting her in person—well via Zoom. As a student of economics, I had always wanted to ask about integrating politics of decolonization, radical resistance, and black-feminist politics into disciplines like economics or STEM. The following is a meditation on the wisdom that Dr. Simpson shared in our seminar, and the personal strategies I have been cultivating based on that dialogue.
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Image above features the cover art of Leanne Simpson’s books Noompiming: The Cure for White Ladies and As We Have Always Done: Indiginous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. The Noompiming cover features a human figure lying on their side, facing away from the viewer, with a diagonal cut down their bare back. The As We Have Always Done cover features the name of the book in large block print with a blue water-like background and trees at the top of the water.