The Serviceberry - An Economy of Gifts and Abundance Dryads poetic voice

poetic voice

“I like to begin working with clichés

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thereby making its ‘unspeakable’ nature a mechanism for holding inequality and systems of domination in place

” considers everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our entrenched relations to natural worlds as “resources

The Serviceberry - An Economy of Gifts and Abundance Dryads poetic voiceAs indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms