Burn Your Pity and Bury Your Judgement: Reading Helen Knott’s IN MY OWN MOCCASINS

C Lou Hamilton
5 min readDec 8, 2020

What does it mean to read and write about a book that wasn’t written for you?

This is the question on my mind as I read and write about Helen Knott’s In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (2019).

A woman of Dane Zaa, Cree, Métis and mixed European descent from northern British Columbia, Knott…

--

--

C Lou Hamilton

Author of VEGANISM, SEX AND POLITICS (2019), editor, translator, animal lover, passionate vegan, queer fem/inist 🍏 peninfist.substack.com