Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-315) and index.

When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson began writing each other letters -- a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into an exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is part debate, part dialogue, part familial correspondence between two writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. The authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a demand for a different way forward, and a call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life.