MEDIA INDIGENA 342
Added 2024-03-09 03:32:29 +0000 UTCClose Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Pt. 1 👽 MI 342
On this week’s Indigenous round table:
“Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind.” That’s the title of a talk given by our very own Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies) at “Of the Land and Water: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Ways of Being,” hosted earlier this year in Whitehorse, YK by the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning.
And although rooted in her by-now familiar terrains of sexuality and science, Kim’s monologue was a bit of a departure from what we’re used to here on the podcast: delivered in the fictionalized voice of ‘IZ,’ she’s the personification of an Indigenous-driven movement of ‘unapologetic intellectual promiscuity,’ or what IZ herself calls “critical polydisciplinamorous engagement.”
An adaptation of her 2023 Substack post by the same name (itself a reprint of a 2021 essay), Kim’s keynote so aroused our curiosity, we had to have her flesh out the body of thought behind it. In the first of this two-part discussion, she walks MI host/producer Rick Harp and MI audio editor Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas through ‘IZ Speaks Back’ and ‘IZ Confesses,’ which together make up the first half of her talk.
Links consulted/referenced this episode:
- Indigenous sexualities, genders highlighted at Whitehorse event series Yukon News
- “Settler Sexuality” Parts 1 & 2 MEDIA INDIGENA 112 & 113
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