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Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Mind Spread Out on the Ground | Alicia Elliott
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In her raw, unflinching memoir . . . she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community . . . A searing cry. --New York Times Book Review The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political. A national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America, and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds.
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janeycanuck
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This is so informative and insightful and heartbreaking and moving and inspiring but I don‘t think the narrator had the gravitas to pull off the often-difficult subject matter.

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Robotswithpersonality
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As much a memoir as a collection of essays that centres struggles of Indigenous people with problems (mental health concerns, poverty, trauma, violence) with systemic causes: racism, colonialism, via the powerful medium of lived experience, bolstered by additional readings/research. Also interrogates writing and photography through an intersectional lens. Innovative participatory essay format for last essay encourages deeper reflection. 1/2

Robotswithpersonality 2/2 Makes for grim but important reading that pulls you in.
⚠️SA, disordered eating, mental health concerns, institutionalization, suicidal ideation, misogyny, spousal abuse, child abuse
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Robotswithpersonality
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Currently choking...

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Robotswithpersonality
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Language = as "a way of seeing the world".
I like.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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This author takes each subject, serious and well known as it may be, and expounds it into a multi-layered essay that makes you look at each subject in a way you might not have before, make new connections you might not have before…. All through the lens of the history of colonialism, racism, indigenous, female, etc.

The best essay collection I‘ve read in a very long time. Definitely a #MustRead

#SheSaid

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Chelsea.Poole
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Another #blameitonlitsy read courtesy of the #shesaid group. The title hooked me, as I hadn‘t about this one prior to seeing all the posts about it. Then I realized I was going to have to read it as I‘m a sucker for essay collections. The essays vary and feature experiences from Elliott‘s childhood with a mentally ill mother in a mixed-race family. She writes about the continued impact of colonization and generational trauma. Great audio!

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ncsufoxes
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This was a #shesaid book selection. There was a lot of difficult subject matter covered in the book (colonialism, racism, abuse, mental illness, sexual assault,…) but so well written. I loved Elliott‘s writing style & she definitely made me think deeper about the subjects in her essays. #bookspin book

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 10mo
SamAnne Wasn‘t able to get to this one yet but I have it checked out from the library! 10mo
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vlwelser
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Every single one of these essays was well written and made me think of things in a different way. Not sure who suggested this for #SheSaid but props to whomever you are.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 10mo
vlwelser @Riveted_Reader_Melissa hi - are you ok over there? I sent you a message in the group chat about the next schedule a couple of days ago. Now just following up in my own feed to make sure you're doing ok. (F the schedule). Let me know if you need anything. 🤗😘 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser Yes, definitely start it. And yes, I‘m ok, but I am so sick 😂. I‘ve been to urgent care already, got an appointment with my regular doctor tomorrow… but I have a persistent bug that will not go away. Worse yet, reading and phone scrolling is giving me a headache & making me nauseous ….which is just not fair. I should be able to read while sick 😂. But please start reading, I‘ll get over the hump & catch-up soon. 10mo
vlwelser @Riveted_Reader_Melissa that is definitely no bueno. Take care of yourself and don't worry about this stuff. We'll get caught up later even if we have to skip something or push everything back or whatever. Sending you good vibes for a speedy recovery. 10mo
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TheKidUpstairs
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This was a fantastic essay collection. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, Elliott connects her personal experiences within wider historical, sociological, and even entertainment context. Mental illness, colonialism, intergenerational trauma, gentrification, sexual assault, and the relationships between abusers and victims are all explored in sharp, engaging prose. It forces you to confront the issues and your biases, and get uncomfortable 👇

TheKidUpstairs This has been on my TBR since it came out and I'm incredibly thankful to #SheSaid for the push to finally read it! @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 10mo
ReadingRachael This was such a excellent collection. I really enjoyed getting to hear her at an author chat with fellow author Kai Cheng Thom at “Word On The Street” in Toronto. 10mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Sorry for the very late posting #SheSaid!

I unexpectedly spent my day at the emergency vet and just got home. But everyone is on the mend now…

….. so how about this great book!

staci.reads "Sontag, in snapshots" had some real truth bombs! "Women's bodies can be posed and prodded and digitally manipulated until they look nothing like the real woman...That's all fine. But if a woman puts on makeup, takes a picture of herself, for herself, adds the filter or 2 and posts it on Instagram, men comment that this is why you can't trust women ⬇️ 10mo
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staci.reads ...that all men should take women swimming on the 1st date to see how they really look under all the makeup and photoshop." Double standards are so common, there is no awareness! This section had me examining my own unconscious bias about selfies ? 10mo
staci.reads I also really appreciated her commentary on the hypocrisy in publishing that she refers to as autobiography assumption. The idea that a woman writing realistic fiction is really "thinly veiled autobiography, and therefore less skillful - as though there is no talent that goes into crafting fiction so convincing that readers are sure the writer had to experience everything in its pages herself." 10mo
staci.reads Two truths and a lie - Wow! The part about reality TV and the trump administration is epic. I've never really drawn that straight line between people's obsession with reality television and the popularity of Trump and other shock jockeys. I mean indirectly, yes, but directly, not so much. I think my blame was laying more in the area of misinformation and peoples willingness to fall for it because of social media. 10mo
KathyWheeler @staci.reads This has always bothered me. Women authors can‘t win. I was glad she called this out. 10mo
vlwelser These essays were all really great. I liked all of them. The one about reality tv was especially interesting. Applying Sontag's essay to the modern world was an interesting exercise. 10mo
vlwelser Is there a schedule for Great Circle? Are we starting next week? 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads I really loved these last few essays too. The one about photographs, I agree… excellent. Have you seen the documentary “Pretty Baby” about Brook Shields….it talks about how she was poked & prodded to get this child to be the sexy woman they wanted (by men). Definitely worth a watch. 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Singout I want to say you recommended this book for us, if I‘m remembering correctly. Thank you 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler Yes, that was another great essay! 10mo
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staci.reads
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I gave this one ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! It was a wonderful collection of essays that covered many difficult societal issues, all through the lens of a Native North American woman. Powerful and important. #SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m so glad you liked it! 10mo
NatalieR Beautiful flowers! 💐 10mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid

Thank you to whoever nominated this one, each essay is so good… and I should be reading them slower and absorbing each of them, and yet I find myself rushing through to the next.

How‘s everyone else making out with this one?

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I really liked the intentional forgetting, or as I think of it…letting go because dwelling or remembering only hurts yourself and why torture yourself, and the one about her mother and how much your views change as you get older. (edited) 10mo
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vlwelser 💯 I also love her voice. She's a great writer. She makes me think about things and feel stuff even if I haven't had direct experience with her exact situation. 10mo
staci.reads I'm finally caught up on the reading. I too am really enjoying her voice and the way the essays are connected. She takes her personal stories, whether about poverty, biracialness, mental health, etc, and connects them to the larger societal picture with statistics and history. It's the mix of sociology and memoir that is making this one so good. 10mo
staci.reads "On forbidden rooms..." was really a gut punch. I was especially moved by her discussion of performative pain and the expectations of society for us to hurt in very specific ways in order to be "believed." 10mo
staci.reads And her connections to the biblical Doubting Thomas took my breath away: "and the only way to even attempt to convince them otherwise is to let them stick their fingers in your bloody wounds. Give them details you'd rather not relive. Let them see. Let them feel. Let them taste. Your comfort, consent and mental health didn't matter before. Why should they matter now? You want them to believe you, don't you? Don't you?" I mean, wow. 10mo
KathyWheeler @staci.reads That section was almost painful to read; probably because it‘s so true. 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads Yes… even when it comes to disability I‘ve noticed that… disability must be blindness with a white cane or in a wheelchair. If you don‘t look like either of those types, you can‘t really be disabled and must be faking for attention, a parking spot, whatever. Weirdest thing…. But similar, if you don‘t fit the mode of the viewers expectation, you must be lying. 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads yes…such a great analogy on her part. 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler It made me think back to our earlier book. Know My Name…oh, you were blacked out when it happened, then how to you know it happened, how do you know you didn‘t want it….uhhh she was unconscious behind a dumpster when others passed by and pulled her attacker off her still and unconscious body 🤷‍♀️… but hey, you don‘t remember, so it‘s all good. Humans really are twisted when you think about some of the logic used in these thoughts (edited) 10mo
KathyWheeler @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘ve been reading Know My Name off and on for awhile now. I keep putting it down because I get so angry. 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler It‘s another good one, and I‘m glad I read it with a group so we could vent together. Otherwise yes, you have to keep putting it down again and again. 10mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid

Happy Mother‘s Day to all the mom‘s & surrogate mom‘s out there!

I‘m out with my mom today, so please start discussing whenever you get time today!

vlwelser I love this author's voice. I never thought I'd appreciate an essay about head lice that's really about poverty and racism but she pulls it off somehow. They're all good but that stuck out especially. 10mo
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MallenNC @vlwelser That essay stood out to me too. She‘s a good writer for sure. I also appreciate getting introduced to another Canadian author. As an American I have not read much by author from our neighbors (until #SheSaid that is) 10mo
vlwelser @MallenNC I love that so many of these Canadian authors I had never heard of ended up on the list. I grew up on the other side of the river from Ontario so I'm strangely familiar with a lot of the places some of them mention. 10mo
Singout I‘m not reading along this time, because I‘ve read it before, but (I think) she does get into times in her life when she moves to the States in the interests of avoiding Canadian forms of oppression. If I remember correctly, she also gets into how arbitrarily Canada and the United States are divided with no recognition of traditional Indigenous nations and cultures. 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser I liked that one too and her voice is so good. I also really liked the Dark Matter compared to racism and how it‘s invisible but pulls at everything! Such a great analogy! 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I also thought her food desert essay was one of the best I‘ve read pulling in many parts of that issue, then tied it into the health issues, and blame issues, and generational health issues. She seems to manage to cover so much ground, so well in each essay. (edited) 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @MallenNC same here. Lots of Canadian authors that I never would have read otherwise. 10mo
vlwelser Yes. The dark matter compared against racism was also brilliant. I might be reading these too early in the week. My brain struggles to think of anything brilliant to say by Sunday. 10mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser Yes! I read them early too because they are so good…. But yet, maybe that‘s a bad idea for both of us. 10mo
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KathyWheeler
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I read the tagged book for #SheSaid; I enjoyed it so much that I finished it quite early. Elliott covers topics from generational trauma to genocide to abuse to the roles that nations play in mental illnesses among marginalized people — all through the lens of her own life. I‘d listen to it again. I went from one book about poverty & mental illness to another with Don‘t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. #audiowalk

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I‘m listening to this for #SheSaid. It‘s been a very quick read, and Elliott has a compelling voice. I have the afternoon off, and it‘s raining; therefore, I‘ve been forced to go to bed and read. 😄 #audiowalk

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid! I hope you are having a nice weekend and Spring or Fall is treating you well.

Discussion starts below for our new book!

vlwelser This one seems like a pretty quick read. I like her voice. She seems a bit lost at times. But I like that she's honest about it. 11mo
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KathyWheeler @vlwelser I agree that she seems lost but I like how she handles feeling lost. This book is going to be a very quick read. I listened to last week‘s chapter and most of this week‘s today. 11mo
vlwelser @KathyWheeler I like this a lot. We may be reading it alone. 11mo
KathyWheeler @vlwelser it seems like we might, but I‘m glad I‘m reading it. 11mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser & @KathyWheeler I‘m late! But you aren‘t alone. This first section was so good! So much thoughtful & thought provoking things in here. How had I never heard of this author or collection before. One part that is going to definitely stick with me…is even now we are using the articles of Discovery as an excuse to treat people badly and even now the Pope won‘t revoke them. The church turned towards the profit of men, is truly the⤵️ 11mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ most sick & twisted of sins. The Catholic Church has had to rethink and apologize for so much in recent years, how was this most obvious ill, not apologized for and revoked. (edited) 11mo
KathyWheeler @Riveted_Reader_Melissa As a person who was raised Catholic, this really bothers me a lot. 11mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler It bothers me and I wasn‘t raised Catholic, just Christian….and how much this love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, golden rule religion I grew up with was instrumental in providing rationals and “reasons” to ok both slavery and genocide over the centuries is just so disgusting. 11mo
vlwelser Where did you find all these indigenous Canadian memoirs? The other one we read recently was awesome also. And that other Canadian with the stalker. 11mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser My guess… nominated by some of our group members who live in Canada. And I thank them for that. Another one I read with a different group that was also Indigenous from Canada, and I‘d recommend if you are interested…which also goes into continuing issues with the Canadian government and residential schools is 11mo
KathyWheeler @Riveted_Reader_Melissa That book looks interesting and both the audiobook and the ebook are available on Hoopla. I will be reading it. I‘ve loved all the Canadian reads because my parents are Canadian and I like learning more about where they are from. 11mo
vlwelser That looks incredibly interesting. I might actually read it. 11mo
MallenNC I was last getting this one because I didn‘t realize my library had a print copy. I am going to try to catch up from last week. 11mo
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TheKidUpstairs
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"He just gave her his half-baked opinion like a torch and watched as she caught flame."

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LitsyEvents
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Repost for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#SheSaid schedule for May. See original post for details https://litsy.com/p/azRBN2dEanBu

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid

Schedule for our May read is up, please put in your library holds and interlibrary loans. The audiobook is available on Hoopla if your library partners with them, no ebook there though sadly.

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Soubhiville
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Many topics are covered here, but the main one is generational trauma and the long lasting effects of colonialism. Part memoir of surviving abuse and depression, part examination of societies‘ shortcomings.

Raw emotion balances with statistical facts for a well rounded and thoughtful book. I‘ll be thinking about this one for a while.

#doublespin and book 4 for #NonfictionNovember

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 1y
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Nebklvr
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All of the subjects have been covered before, true. Also true, they have never been covered in such a beautiful and thoughtful manner. Will be mulling this over for a long time.

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Nebklvr
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Just starting this beautiful book. It has the best description of depression i have ever read. I am reading so slowly because I keep rereading passages for their beauty and wisdom.

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peanutnine
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This was not what I expected going in but I liked it. Elliott's essays explore how being native has affected so many aspects of her life in ways you might not have imagined, including mental health issues, poverty, and family dynamics. She reveals the depth of racism against indigenous people that still prevails today. A very powerful read.
Major TW: abuse

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“Racism, for many people, seems to occupy space in very much the same way as dark matter: it forms a skeleton of our world, yet remains ultimately invisible, undetectable. This is convenient. If nothing is racist, then nothing needs to be done to address it”

Nebklvr I loved the comparison between racism and dark matter. 3y
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CuriousG
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I'm posting one book per day from the ever growing unread stacks in my personal library. No description or explanation, just books I own and plan to read. #tbr

Day 24

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Augustdana
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I‘m one day late for international women‘s day, but I just want to say that a few years ago I challenged myself to read mostly women. Then I decided to read mostly women of colour, and it‘s been one of the best decisions I‘ve ever made! Here are a few of my recent favs.

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Lindy
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“Things that were stolen can be stolen back.”
I just watched a wonderful webinar, The Colonialism-Depression Link: A Talk with Alicia Elliott.

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Karmapen
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A beautiful and devastating memoir, the first book I read in 2020 and required reading for all non-indigenous Canadians. The title comes from the Mohawk phrase that is closest to the English word for depression, which roughly translates to “a mind spread out on the ground.”

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Cortg
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A book of essays outlining life split between her mother‘s European white culture and her father‘s Native American culture. The essays highlight poverty, mental health, race, and sexual assault just to name a few. Elliott is an excellent writer and incredibly smart. I would have liked if she elaborated on her relationship with her mom, but her essays were very personal and I appreciate what she has to say.

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Cortg
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I had no idea this was a thing, but it doesn‘t surprise me. I had to google it this morning 🧐 Sorry if it offends anyone.

Erinreadsthebooks I bet that google search was really something 😂😂🤣 3y
TrishB You‘ll be getting all sorts of recommendations now! 3y
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Cortg @erinreads Yep! I just scrolled the the search, I didn‘t feel the need to watch the YouTube video 😂 3y
Cortg @TrishB Ugh, I didn‘t think about that! Can‘t wait 😩 3y
SamAnne @mklong yes maybe after Mansfield park! Isn‘t that the one after Northanger? 3y
BGam 🤣🤣🤣 3y
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TheBookDream
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Excellent read. Not easy, she doesn‘t mince words. If you like Roxanne Gay, read this. If you don‘t read it anyways. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Scarathalon2020

Leaving off my team name as it seems insensitive in relation to this book, but the points are: book finished + post = 6 points

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Clwojick Woohoo! 🎉🎃 go team!!! (edited) 3y
Clwojick I guess I didn‘t read the whole post earlier 😅 Went back to remove the team name in my comment. Sorry 😞 3y
TheBookDream @Clwojick oh np! I may be overly cautious here but the team name is definitely unfortunate in relation to this book. 3y
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kwmg40
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Finished my first book for the #SuperSeptember #readathon!

This book is a hard-hitting and thought-provoking collection of essays covering a range of topics (Indigenous issues, poverty, mental illness, racism, sexism and abuse) and explores the connections among them. It's made me re-examine some of my own beliefs about these issues.

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Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 4y
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Well-ReadNeck
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Every essay in this collection is beautifully constructed, raw, and hard hitting. This collection by a Canadian indigenous writer blew my socks off. Not easy reading, but so important. Highly recommended. #ARC #Netgalley

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Bookalong
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5🌟This essay collection is fierce and raw. Elliott's intelligence, pain, and anger for her people is evident throughout. A hard but important book to read. Covering Intergenerational trauma, sexual abuse, racism, mental illness, parenthood, oppression, colonialism and more. She traces Canada's treatment of Indigenous peoples throughout history and interconnects her own families trauma legacy. It was very eye opening, and heartbreaking. #canlit

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Singout
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Excellent collection of essays that pull no punches by Indigenous writer Alicia Elliott. Personal, passionate, systemic analysis about the ongoing impact of residential schooling, mental illness, the skewed treatment of sexually assaulted women by the justice system, and so much more.
#Booked2020 #MillennialAuthor
#nonfiction2020 #somethingaboutrace

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Singout Excellent! Please share your thoughts when you've read it. I didn't really do it justice. 4y
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cleoh
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This was so beautiful and made me so sad. I think it needs to be required reading for all humans.

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ReadingRachael
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Easily one of the best essay collections I have read. Alicia Elliott poignantly explores the lingering effects of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and the crossroads of racism, poverty, mental health, and trauma. She is also an AMAZING writer.

Moray_Reads This sounds great! 5y
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Augustdana
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I‘m about 40 pages in, and it grabbed me from the first paragraph on.

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xicanti
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Alicia Elliott is one hell of a writer. She approaches topics like mental health, anti-Indigenous racism, and familial tension from a personal standpoint and as issues with broader societal causes. Her prose is clear and engaging. She pulls no punches. You should read her.

Lindy I really liked this too. 5y
xicanti @Lindy I‘m hoping to see more from her soon. 5y
Lindy @xicanti Elliott wrote the foreword to 5y
xicanti @Lindy stacked. That contributors list is amazing. 5y
Lindy @xicanti Indeed it is. 👍 5y
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Took my dad out for a belated Father‘s Day breakfast, with many thanks to the two-for-$15.99 coupon on my case of Red Roof Lager. (There‘re also TWO vouchers for free Nips! Salisbury House is the best.) Now I‘m gonna park myself outside and do some Canada Day reading.

I‘m close enough to the end of A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND that I could‘ve finished it yesterday, but I specifically wanted to save a couple essays for Canada Day.

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xicanti
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Lunchtime book stack with spicy hummus & carrots. THE GABRIEL HOUNDS didn‘t pass the 50-page test—a major disappointment, given how much I loved my first Mary Stewart—but A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND is excellent so far and I think I might‘ve finally found my way into TO YOUR ETERNITY with volume 3.

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xicanti
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V. serious Friday night book stack.

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Lindy
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A masterful collection of essays by Haudenasaunee writer Alicia Elliott, deftly placing her personal experiences within a greater context, making it easy for readers to grasp the concrete effects of socio-political realities like racism, sexism and colonialism. Her essays also address the complications of loving a parent with mental illness, and another who has abused her. I highly recommend the #audiobook, read by the author. #Indigenous

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Lindy
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Author Alicia Elliott says of her final essay in this collection, Extraction Mentalities: “I initially went into much more detail. But I decided to take that out because as I read to edit it, I started crying. I had to remind myself that I didn‘t have to necessarily bleed on the page, so to speak. Sometimes it‘s enough to talk about how something affected you.”

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Lindy
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#audiogardening & #audiocooking - I‘ve been mostly in the garden this weekend. Cleared the chicory from the veggie bed (and then planted nicer things); boiled the greens in 3 changes of water; made it into pizza; roasted the roots for hot drinks.

Samplergal Looks good! 5y
Lindy @Samplergal Yes, thanks. It was tasty. 😊 5y
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Lindy
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#audiobaking. It‘s dandelion time! Dandelion blossom cake with dandelion jelly in the icing.

RealLifeReading Love how it looks!! 5y
kyraleseberg So pretty! I look forward to making dandelion jelly every spring. 5y
Bibliogeekery Beautiful! 5y
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Avanders Ooooh 😍😍 5y
Chrissyreadit I need these recipes!!!! 5y
Lcsmcat Beautiful! 5y
Lindy @Chrissyreadit I used the one-egg cake recipe from the Joy of Cooking, stirring in a cup of dandelion petals ( no green parts) into the batter at the end. The are lots of dandelion jelly recipes online. @kyraleseberg might share hers. I make mine similar to the description here: https://bonjourparis.com/recipes/dandilions-dont-bite-recipes/ 5y
Megabooks Wow! Looks fantastic! 5y
Fridameetslucy Wait !!! Stop!!! Dandelions could be sweet? I grew up with my grandmother making Horta - bitter dandelion greens made more bitter with fresh lemon juice. 5y
Lindy @Fridameetslucy The yellow petals and pollen taste like honey. 5y
Fridameetslucy @ Lindy you are freaking me out!!! Generations of Greek children have been forced to 1) collect these things from our lawns and 2) eat them with enthusiasm 5y
twohectobooks Oh wow! I‘ve been wanting to attempt dandelion wine for years without success yet. Maybe cake instead!! 5y
Hoopiefoot That‘s beautiful! 5y
Lindy @Fridameetslucy The older leaves are too bitter for me but I love the young ones (best before the plant flowers). I sauté the leaves in olive oil until they are crispy. So delicious! 5y
Lindy @twohectobooks I‘m planning to make dandelion blossom skin salve for the first time. I‘ve got a heap of flowers drying for that project on an old window screen right now. Recipe is here: https://thenerdyfarmwife.com/12-things-to-make-with-dandelion-flowers/ 5y
Lindy @Megabooks Thanks! 5y
Daisey This sounds fascinating! I may have to give it a try. Thanks for sharing. 5y
Lindy @Daisey 😇I‘d love to hear about your experiments. 5y
twohectobooks Where do you get all of your dandelions? 5y
Lindy @twohectobooks My backyard has plenty of dandelions right now. I leave some between my house and the neighbour's side fence on purpose; there are some behind my garage; the ones in my back lawn will get dug out in summer to control their numbers. My front yard is all perennials and shrubs with no dandelions, so that I don't get complaints about my natural garden being unsightly. 5y
erzascarletbookgasm So pretty. I‘ll love to try food made with dandelions! 5y
Kimberlone Wow! 5y
readordierachel That looks lovely and delicious! 5y
Cathythoughts Beautiful 5y
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