Trauma and traumatic events can sever our ability to feel safe building relationships. How can kinship, especially with land, water and non human life, inform the spaces in which we grow and thrive? This conversation will meander between struggle as a tool, everyday actions folks can take and how protecting the land and water through kinship can be a process for reconnection and reclamation.
Danielle Boissoneau (@onedeelikeme) is Anishnaabe kwe, writer, public speaker, and working towards food sovereignty and liberation for Indigenous peoples.
How to Tune In
By following DWS on Instagram (@DWS_EndViolence), you will get a notification when we start the live chat. The video is published to our reels, so folks can watch it later too. No Instagram account or smartphone? No problem! You can watch on Instagram’s desktop site by visiting DWS’ Instagram page - https://www.instagram.com/dws_endviolence/.
Check Out All Three Live Chats!
December 4th, 1pm YST/3pm EST - Lies We’re Taught About Stalking with Julie S. Lalonde
December 6th, 1pm YST/3pm EST - Kinship as Creative Action with Danielle Boissoneau
December 8th, 1pm YST/3pm EST - Ending Fatphobia to End Violence with Kira-Lynn Ferderber from Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Sarasota (@sparcc_sarasota)
During 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence - November 25 to December 10 - we call on everyone to take action to end violence.
Check out all of the 16 Days of Activism events here: