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Design Justice Philadelphia Node Reading Group: Braiding Sweetgrass (7pm EDT/EST)

Please join the Design Justice Philadelphia Node as we collectively read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. We’ll meet every other Monday evening at 7 pm EDT/EST starting on June 28th.

In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer creates “a braid of stories meant to heal our relationship with the world,” weaving together indigenous and scientific knowledge. We hope you can join our discussion on ways of knowing.

Meeting Details:

Monday evenings from June 28 - October 18, 2021
7:00 PM EDT/EST

Meet us on Jitsi to join the reading group:
https://meet.jit.si/DesignJusticePhillyNode

Reading group schedule:

  1. June 28 - Preface + Planting Sweetgrass (~62 pages)

  2. July 12 - Tending Sweetgrass (58 pages)

  3. July 26 - Picking Sweetgrass 1 (84 total pages, divided into two)

  4. August 9 - Picking Sweetgrass 2

  5. August 23 - Braiding Sweetgrass 1 (100 total pages)

  6. September 6 - Braiding Sweetgrass 2

  7. September 20 - Burning Sweetgrass 1 (83 total pages)

  8. October 4 - Burning Sweetgrass 2

  9. October 18 - Wrap up