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Kaitlin B. Curtice is an award-winning author, poet, and public speaker.
Known for: Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
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Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
Living Resistance is a deeply reflective and practical book about how to resist the forces that fragment us without losing our humanity in the process. Kaitlin B. Curtice argues that resistance is not only public activism or political opposition; it is also a daily spiritual practice rooted in identity, memory, community, rest, and relationship with the earth. Drawing from Indigenous wisdom, personal storytelling, and contemplative insight, she shows that wholeness is not something we achieve through perfection, but something we remember and nurture through intentional living. What makes this book especially meaningful is its insistence that healing and justice belong together. Curtice invites readers to confront systems of oppression while also tending to the inner life, honoring grief, and cultivating belonging. Her vision of resistance is gentle but not passive, spiritual but not detached, and personal without ignoring structural harm. As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, an author, poet, and speaker on spirituality and decolonization, Curtice writes with moral clarity and lived authority. Living Resistance matters because it offers a humane path toward integrity in a world shaped by disconnection, burnout, and injustice.
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Returning to Identity Is Resistance
One of the quietest forms of resistance is refusing to live as a stranger to yourself. Curtice begins with identity because colonizing systems often work by severing people from memory, ancestry, land, language, and story. When that severing happens, people can become easier to control, easier to sh...
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Belonging Cannot Be Earned
Many people spend their lives trying to deserve a place they already possess. Curtice challenges the modern, colonized idea that belonging is conditional, scarce, and granted only to those who perform correctly. In competitive, hierarchical cultures, belonging is often treated like a reward for prod...
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Self-Awareness Fuels Honest Resistance
Resistance that ignores the inner life can become reactive, performative, or destructive. Curtice emphasizes self-awareness as a necessary foundation for meaningful change. If we do not understand our fears, habits, wounds, and assumptions, then even our attempts to pursue justice can replicate harm...
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Spiritual Practice Sustains Courage
Without spiritual grounding, resistance can burn hot and collapse quickly. Curtice presents spirituality not as escape from the world, but as the source of strength needed to stay present within it. In her vision, spiritual practice helps people resist despair, reconnect with meaning, and act from r...
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The Earth Teaches Us Connection
A disconnected relationship with the earth often mirrors a disconnected relationship with ourselves and each other. Curtice insists that resistance must include renewed intimacy with the natural world because colonial and consumer cultures train people to treat land as property, resource, or backdro...
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Naming Oppression Breaks Its Spell
What remains unnamed often continues unchallenged. Curtice argues that wholeness cannot be pursued honestly without confronting the systems that deform individual and collective life. Racism, colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and other forms of domination are not abstract theorie...
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About Kaitlin B. Curtice
Kaitlin B. Curtice is an award-winning author, poet, and public speaker. As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, she writes and speaks on spirituality, decolonization, and intersectional identity, weaving together Indigenous traditions and contemporary faith perspectives.
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