Written in a time when violence against Indigenous women and girls has gained wide public and popular recognition, Firekeeping: anti-colonial approaches to anti-violence activism confronts the way anti-violence work often reproduces, rather than challenges, settler colonial power relations. As an auntie to Indigenous feminist movements to end gender-based and sexualized violence, the author shares firsthand experiences of fostering solutions to violence rooted in Indigenous agency and self-determination. The book moves across diverse spaces in which violence is identified and resisted, from intimate experiences of childhood bullying to collective sites of mobilization as part of feminist and queer anti-violence organizing. In a series of short pieces, the reader is invited to identify and speak back to anti-violence approaches which solely define Indigenous people as victims, instead situating them as leaders, theorists, and essential advocates in movements for justice.

Writing as a professor, feminist activist and Two-Spirit relative, the author looks at on-campus responses to sexualized violence as one of many sites in which we can reorient to Indigenous lands, laws and self-determination. Through identifying principles such as body sovereignty and consensual allyship as core to gender justice, the book fosters new definitions of rape culture and new possibilities for aligning consent culture with anti-colonialism. Speaking to anyone who cares about ending violence in all its forms, Firekeeping is a call to activism which stokes the fires of Indigenous laws?vital for the restoration of self-determination over our bodies and homes in all movements for justice on stolen land, Firekeeping is part of ARP's Semaphore series of short, timely polemics.

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Sarah Hunt / T?ali?ila?ogwa (PhD) is a queer Kwakwaka?wakw activist-scholar who has spent over two decades engaged in collaborative work in pursuit of justice for Indigenous people and communities, centered around community solutions to gendered and sexualized violence. Her writing and advocacy upholds the voices of 2SQ people, women and girls in building alternatives to state injustice systems through local level strategies toward greater safety, care, and self- determination. Sarah / T?ali?ila?ogwa is a Governor General's Gold Medal recipient who has

published dozens of book chapters, journal articles and popular media pieces. She is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Political Ecology.