Violence, relation and beauty in Toni Jensen’s “Women in the Fracklands”
Violence, relation and beauty in Toni Jensen’s “Women in the Fracklands”

Summary/Abstract: Through a close reading of Métis US writer Toni Jensen’s “Women in the Fracklands”, a stand-alone chapter in her memoir-in-essays Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land (2020),this article aims at making a culture-specific and narrative-focused contribution to the currenttheory of resilience. It does so by emphasizing Jensen’s denouncing of violence against Indige-nous bodies and lands – particularly women in and around fracking sites – and her articula-tion of the Indigenous value of relationality as the embodiment of lands, bodies and language.The resulting account of resilience is both individual and communal; simultaneously basedon the connection to place and history and focused on the present and the future; affirmingsovereignty and becoming a decolonial tool of visibilization and empowerment.

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