Patty Krawec - Becoming Kin

An invitation and a challenge to become better relatives to one another at this critical moment in human and planetary history. Generous and wise, Becoming Kin is a rare book designed to be put to immediate and practical use.

Naomi Klein, New York Timesbestselling author and professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia

Becoming Kin is a powerful invitation into unlearning and learning. Krawec offers an essential vision for our relationships with the earth, the land, and each other.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

A must-read for those working toward understanding and dismantling colonization. Patty Krawec reminds us what it means to come home to ourselves, this earth, and one another, and invites us to ask the beautiful, difficult questions that will help us reclaim that belonging.

Kaitlin Curtice, author of Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

Krawec holds space for Indigenous kin in a broad senseand Black displanted peopleand offers us a needed treatise on how to think. I will be reading and rereading this book for years to come, and I know it will inform my work as a Black feminist scientist.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Generous but also demanding, in the best way possible. A wonderful expression of how we can become better kin, with the world and with ourselves.

Jesse Wente, author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance, arts journalist, and director of Canadas Indigenous Screen Office

Patty Krawec has written a passionate and profound meditation on lineage, community, and systemic erasure. Grand in scope and depth of research, yet intimate in the telling, this book is an education for the soul.

Omar El Akkad, Giller Prizewinning author of What Strange Paradise and American War

Crucial for understanding both colonization and Indigeneity, Becoming Kin is part history, part memoir, and part inspiration, lighting a path forward based on successful race relations, peace, and understanding.

Keri Leigh Merritt, historian and writer

Becoming Kin is stunning; both in its indictment of colonial violence and especially in its painstakingly brilliant and beautiful articulation of another world and the reorganization of our relations beyond the nation-state, colonialism, and oppression. This book is a rigorous yet generous invitation to learn, to imagine, to dream, to actto become kin.

Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism and Undoing Border Imperialism

Our interconnectedness with natureand each otheris central to Indigenous teachings. Patty Krawec draws from Indigenous wisdom, history, and personal insight to reveal a path forward. Incisive and beautifully written, this book is a vital guide to coming together in greater kinship.

Ziya Tong, science broadcaster and author of The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World

Becoming Kin is a brilliant work of critical analysis woven into a tapestry of autobiographical reflections. Krawec deconstructs settler colonialism through a personal lens and invites readers to travel with her on a journey of myth, reflection, and healing.

Lee Francis IV, CEO and publisher of Red Planet Books and Comics

Becoming Kin speaks powerful truths about our collective histories of violence; it not only encourages but also provides next steps for us to do better, now that we know better.

Dr. Robyn Bourgeois, acting vice provost for Indigenous engagement, Brock University

A brilliant, generous booka must-read for anyone who wants to show up for a world of possibility rather than doom. Patty Krawec beckons us into perceiving our interconnections, with a powerful recentering of how we tell stories and histories for transformed futures.

Alexis Shotwell, author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

Becoming Kin is an act of hospitality. Krawec is a compelling storyteller, and this book is a powerful offering of hope and redemption in the journey of becoming kin.

Michael Krause, teaching pastor at Southridge Community