7 Top queer books like Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei…

"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."

-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."

-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

If you liked the queer plot in Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

By: Richard Wagamese

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger … read more

Similar categories in Richard Wagamese's Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations book and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

  • poetry
  • canada
  • audiobook

2. Roughing It in the Bush

By: Susanna Moodie , Michael Peterman

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A thorough "Backgrounds" section includes images, a map, contemporary reviews ofRoughing It, and le… read more

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3. Half-Breed

By: Maria Campbell

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more

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4. Birdie

By: Tracey Lindberg

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Monkey Beachmeets Green Grass, Running Watermeets The Beachcombersin this wise and funny novel by a… read more

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5. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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6. Rehearsals for Living

By: Robyn Maynard

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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7. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

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  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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8. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

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  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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9. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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10. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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11. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

12. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more

Similar categories in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies book and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."

-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

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13. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"

-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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14. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • queer
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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15. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • queer
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16. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

By: Brandi Morin

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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17. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • queer
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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18. Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories

By: Norma Dunning

4.03

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner of Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Drawing on both lived experience … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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19. Stray Dogs: Stories

By: Rawi Hage

3.25

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the no… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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20. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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21. Tilly and the Crazy Eights

By: Monique Gray Smith

4.01

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road tri… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

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4.28

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Tanya Tagaq

3.91

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Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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Noor Naga

3.92

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Catherine Leroux

3.32

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3.95

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Suzette Mayr

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