This Love
with Ziyad Saadi and Tracey Lindberg
Hosted by Jennifer Baker
The brilliance of Indigenous women dances off each page—this story is our story, so carefully woven together into a tapestry that is the spine of our collective beings. I see myself, my family and my life in every sentence.
Jennifer Baker, sits down with Ziyad Saadi and Tracey Lindberg for a conversation on two remarkable books that explore the shape of love in the context of family, tradition and history.
A queer Palestinian refugee plans to come out at his elaborate birthday dinner party in this tragicomic modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Three Parties, by Ziyad Saadi, pays twisted homage to a literary classic, gleefully upends the western coming-out narrative, and sensitively explores the traumas and pressures faced by Palestinian immigrants—all in the span of a single life-changing day.
In her latest book,The Cree Word for Love: Sâkihitowin, a collaboration with artist George Littlechild, bestseller Tracey Lindberg explores love in all its forms. This collaboration which travels, season by season, mirroring the four rounds in ceremony, through the themes of the love within a family, ties of kinship, desire for romantic love and connection, strength in the face of loss and violence, and importance of self-love, as well as, crucially, a deeper exploration of the meaning of “all my relations.” What it could possibly mean to have no Cree word for love?
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