links: decolonial relations
Web pages & blogs with content on sexual sovereignty & decolonizing relationships
A Halfbreed's Reasoning, a blog by Samantha Nock (Cree-Métis), co-founder of the Policy Scholars Forum, Canada's first student run policy think-tank at the University of British Columbia, http://halfbreedsreasoning.wordpress.com/
As Us, A Space for Women of the World on-line literary journal. Decolonial Love Issue (#4) (Oct. 25, 2014). At About Us the editors write "As/Us is a space to showcase the creative literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established women writers from around the world. We are interested in publishing works by underrepresented writers particularly Indigenous women and women of color. We are open to works that span a variety of topics – work that challenges conventions and aesthetics either on a narrative or formal level, work with purpose, vision, and something at stake." Information on Submissions here. Follow them on Twitter @AsUsJournal.
Ke Kaupu Hehi Ale is a collective weekly blog written by eleven people, many of whom are indigenous "who believe in the power of stories and shared struggle. We do what we can in the streets or at the capitol or on the land or in the sea, but after, we talk story, we support each other with our words and our thoughts...We can’t always stand with you on the land you are fighting for, but we hope our voices do carry." "Some baby steps towards a decolonial love story" by Aiko Yamashiro (May 11, 2015) is a particularly fitting blog post to be highlighted here: https://hehiale.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/some-baby-steps-toward-a-decolonial-love-story/.
Kim TallBear. On Sense of Place with Minelle Mahtani, Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver, February 23, 2016. Interview on "Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities."
Native Youth Sexual Health Network, "an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada." Critical Poly is impressed and moved by the knowledge production, advocacy, activism, and events that NYSHN organizes and is involved in. I look forward to learning more about what they do. You should too. Check out their web page! Follow them on Twitter @NYSHN.
Nakinisowin is a blog by Billie-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree Nation). Belcourt is finishing a BA in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. His August 20, 2015 blog post On 'Moving too Fast,' or Decolonial Speed argues for the decolonial power of falling in love "too quickly," or moving "too fast" into a relationship. I had not considered this theoretical insight before--which I see as one more small antidote to compulsory monogamy (although Belcourt himself identifies as monogamous) and its rigid structures for what true and legitimate loving relations are supposed to look like. Though a very young indigenous scholar, Belcourt can theorize: Indigeneity is meant to self-destruct, not to love or be loved. What kinds of worlds, then, are possible if we were to move fast, if we were to fall hard? In sum: I want forms of love in which lifes quickly fold into each other – sometimes lopsidedly – but nonetheless gestating a something that could help us endure, together. And, even in the event of separation, we might know how to love, better, next time. Thank you Bill-Ray Belcourt for your work to decolonize love.
Nitâcimowin, a blog by Kirsten Lindquist (Cree-Métis), grad student in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria on DECOLONIZING LOVE! http://nitacimowin.wordpress.com/, follower her on Twitter @lindkirs.
Pillow Talks Undressing Indigenous Bodies and Sexualities podcast on SoundCloud with host Tashina Makokis. You can also follow her on Pillow Talks @IndigenousPT.
As Us, A Space for Women of the World on-line literary journal. Decolonial Love Issue (#4) (Oct. 25, 2014). At About Us the editors write "As/Us is a space to showcase the creative literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established women writers from around the world. We are interested in publishing works by underrepresented writers particularly Indigenous women and women of color. We are open to works that span a variety of topics – work that challenges conventions and aesthetics either on a narrative or formal level, work with purpose, vision, and something at stake." Information on Submissions here. Follow them on Twitter @AsUsJournal.
Ke Kaupu Hehi Ale is a collective weekly blog written by eleven people, many of whom are indigenous "who believe in the power of stories and shared struggle. We do what we can in the streets or at the capitol or on the land or in the sea, but after, we talk story, we support each other with our words and our thoughts...We can’t always stand with you on the land you are fighting for, but we hope our voices do carry." "Some baby steps towards a decolonial love story" by Aiko Yamashiro (May 11, 2015) is a particularly fitting blog post to be highlighted here: https://hehiale.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/some-baby-steps-toward-a-decolonial-love-story/.
Kim TallBear. On Sense of Place with Minelle Mahtani, Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver, February 23, 2016. Interview on "Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities."
Native Youth Sexual Health Network, "an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada." Critical Poly is impressed and moved by the knowledge production, advocacy, activism, and events that NYSHN organizes and is involved in. I look forward to learning more about what they do. You should too. Check out their web page! Follow them on Twitter @NYSHN.
Nakinisowin is a blog by Billie-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree Nation). Belcourt is finishing a BA in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. His August 20, 2015 blog post On 'Moving too Fast,' or Decolonial Speed argues for the decolonial power of falling in love "too quickly," or moving "too fast" into a relationship. I had not considered this theoretical insight before--which I see as one more small antidote to compulsory monogamy (although Belcourt himself identifies as monogamous) and its rigid structures for what true and legitimate loving relations are supposed to look like. Though a very young indigenous scholar, Belcourt can theorize: Indigeneity is meant to self-destruct, not to love or be loved. What kinds of worlds, then, are possible if we were to move fast, if we were to fall hard? In sum: I want forms of love in which lifes quickly fold into each other – sometimes lopsidedly – but nonetheless gestating a something that could help us endure, together. And, even in the event of separation, we might know how to love, better, next time. Thank you Bill-Ray Belcourt for your work to decolonize love.
Nitâcimowin, a blog by Kirsten Lindquist (Cree-Métis), grad student in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria on DECOLONIZING LOVE! http://nitacimowin.wordpress.com/, follower her on Twitter @lindkirs.
Pillow Talks Undressing Indigenous Bodies and Sexualities podcast on SoundCloud with host Tashina Makokis. You can also follow her on Pillow Talks @IndigenousPT.
