Ep. 37: The Queer Wedding and the Revolution

In this deeply personal episode, Dr. Candace Manitopyes returns to the Relentless Indigenous Woman Podcast with honesty, gratitude, and renewal. She shares the story of her wedding to her sweetheart, Alex Manitopyes, a ceremony rooted in intimacy, cedar medicine, and Cree traditions. She reflects on how love, rest, and joy have reshaped her relationship with activism, creativity, and resistance.After stepping away from social media during their honeymoon, Candace speaks candidly about what it means to reclaim energy in an age of constant reaction. She unpacks how consumption often replaces creation, and how sustainable resistance begins with choosing to build, not just respond. Through reflections on fascism, education as rebellion, and the importance of channeling rage into regeneration, she invites listeners to pause, reflect, and discover their own gifts to offer the world.Candace also shares exciting news about the new season of the podcast, featuring conversations with brilliant Indigenous voices—including Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Kent Monkman, Tanya Talaga, Ma-Nee Chacaby, and many more. She introduces her re-imagined Relentless Indigenous Woman Patreon community as a space for collective learning, reciprocity, and transformation.This episode feels like a breath of fresh air. A reminder that rest us part of resistance, and that the revolution begins in how we care for ourselves and each other.-Relentless ReflectionsWhere is your energy going, toward reaction or regeneration?What gift has Creator placed in you that the world needs right now?Relentless ActionsSet digital boundaries to reclaim your creative energy. Try a 1-hour timer on social media this week. Notice how it feels to consume less and create more, whether that’s journaling, finding a new hobby, making art, teaching, or resting intentionally.Take one feeling (anger, grief, or hope) and channel it into something tangible. Write a poem, support a mutual aid fund, plant seeds, teach a friend about decolonial solidarity, etc. Transmute what overwhelms you into what sustains you. Relentless ResourcesBook: Braiding Sweetgrass by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer Essay: Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly (or the audiobook) Send Us a Text with Your Thoughts or Questions!Join the RIW Patreon Community RIW WebsiteMusic Produced by Award-Winning Anishnaabe DJ Boogey the Beat