Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, artist, and musician who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, story, and song—revealing a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity. The new album Theory of Ice is the result of an ongoing practice in the poetics of language reclamation and the aesthetics of relationship. Leanne is joined on the album by primary collaborators, Ansley Simpson and Nick Ferrio, producer Jonas Bonetta (Evening Hymns), and producer Jim Bryson; John K. Samson (The Weakerthans) contributes featured vocals to Surface Tension. Working for two decades as an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices, Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada and the United States and has twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba, and teaches at the Dechinta Centre for Research & Learning in Denendeh.  Leanne is the author of This Accident of Being Lost; As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance; Islands of Decolonial Love; and the recent novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies.  Leanne has previously released the albums Noopiming Sessions, f(l)ight, and Islands of Decolonial Love.