Making Love with the Apocalypse: Oji-Cree Epistemologies and Indigiqueer Futurisms
A talk in the Feminist Futurities Speaker Series by author Dr. Joshua Whitehead (PhD)
Date: Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Neatby-Timlin Theatre (Arts Building Room 241), 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
About this event
Joshua Whitehead will explore Anishinaabeg and nêhiyawak epistemologies regarding creation stories and cosmologies in relation to his newly completed novel, The Stonewailers. Through his research into bagonegiizhig (Anishinaabeg for “holes in the sky”) and pâkwan kîsik (nêhiyawewin for “hole in the sky”), he attempts to situate the non-human, primarily stars, starbodies, and star people as its own epistemological knowledge while also translating it into creative writing and Indigiqueer colonization. Whitehead asks: where does Indigiqueer joy exist in ishkwakiiwan (apocalypse)? Does the end ever really end? Are genre and forms a colonial border that hinders Indigenous writing? And what knowledge might our kin, the stone, hold for us regarding Two-Spirit and Indigenous futurity?
This event is part of the Feminist Futurities Speaker Series hosted by the University of Saskatchewan Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies Program.
Info: jade.dacosta@usask.ca
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