Red Paint Audiobook Libro.fm

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Sasha LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home When she was a child her family moved around frequently often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers dangerous places for young Sasha

With little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her beloved greatgrandmothera linguist who helped preserve her Indigenous language of LushootseedSasha throws herself headlong into the world determined to build a better future for herself and her people

Set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Coast Salish ancestral land and imbued with the universal spirit of punk Red Paint is ultimately a story of the ways we learn to find our true selves while fighting for our right to claim a place of our own

Examining what it means to be vulnerable in love and in art Sasha offers up an unblinking reckoning with personal traumas amplified by the collective historical traumas of colonialism and genocide that continue to haunt native peoples Red Paint is an intersectional autobiography of lineage resilience and above all the ability to heal