MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs
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This week: 'Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind,' 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.
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 / 2021 essay by the same name, 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.
CREDITS: ♬ 'A Moment' by Mr Smith (CC BY 4.0); 'Cryin' in my Beer' by Jason Shaw (CC BY 4.0); 'As Time Passes' (via ZapSplat.com); a sample of 'Staying’s Worse Than Leaving' by Sunny Sweeney; our program intro/xtro theme is 'nesting' by birocratic. SFX: 'Deep Space Vibrations Ambience Loop' by rhodesmas; 'Ambient space 4' by DylanTheFish.
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Farewell to Fish Farms? Pt 2 (ep 241)
Farewell to Fish Farms? Pt I (ep 240)
Back to Basics with David Suzuki: Pt 2 (ep 239)
Back to Basics with David Suzuki: Pt 1 (ep 238)
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Pandemic Pandering Over Immunizing Indians (ep 236)
Banking While Brown In B.C. (ep 235)
One last stand against northern dams (ep 234)
Eve of Election, Twilight of Empire? Part II (ep 233)
Eve of Election, Twilight of Empire? Part I (ep 232)
The Undead Indians Haunting Canada's Dreams (ep 231)
The Supreme Court case you've likely heard zero about (but ought to) ep 230
Justice for Joyce Echaquan (ep 229)
Apoplexy in Alberta over Native Nomenclature (ep 228)
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