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Author:
Sasha taqwsÌÉblu LaPointe
Publisher:
Counterpoint
Date:
March 8, 2022
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home.
What The Reviewers Say
... illuminates the stories and experiences of Indigenous women from the Pacific Northwest for a 21st-century audience. Red Paint offers a poetic narrative of trauma and healing through ancestral rites and punk rock, both of which prove to be potent medicine during LaPointe’s excavation of family legacy and matrilineal power.
In writing this book, LaPointe has given her audience a precious gift: a searing, fine-grained portrait of how centuries of cumulative historical trauma and neglect conspire to make it easy for indigenous girls to, quite simply, vanish into thin air.
... a vulnerable and luminous debut set against the backdrop of Coast Salish ancestral land.
LaPointe delivers a cutting, artful thrashing of settler colonialism and a sensitive exploration of ways of healing and forging space for community and connection through storytelling.
