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MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsClose Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Part 2This week: our return to the realm of IZ, the personification of critical Indigenous studies as imagined by MEDIA INDIGENA regular Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies), a character she embodied in her keynote at “Of the Land and Water: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Ways of Being,” hosted earlier this year in Whitehorse by the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. And in this back half of the adventures of IZ (missed the first half? catch it here), we hear her thoughts about a pair of close encounters: the first, “IZ Speaks Back,” a virtual...2024-06-031h 18MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsA Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt. 1On this week’s program: a plethora of pretendianism! So much, in fact, it’s going to take two whole episodes to fit it all in. And here in part one, we take our deepest dive yet into the ultimate underpinnings of pretendianism—the political imperatives of whiteness. Driving the insatiable settler urge to possess every last thing, fueling the desire to assume and consume imagined Indigenous 'identities.' Indeed, such self-serving self-Indigenization is very much a byproduct of the colonial imagination, a contorted construct which privileges the individual over the collective, the racial over the relational, and possession over pe...2024-03-2456 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsClose Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Pt. 1This 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 Indigeno...2024-03-091h 06
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky PooleEthnic Identity Fraud: In Conversation with Dr. Kim TallbearThis week on ILL REPUTE! Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling welcome their very first guest! Dr. Kim Tallbear is a Native scholar who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA, and has become the defacto expert on self-indigenization, more commonly known as race shifting, ethnic fraud, or pretendianism. We talk with Dr. Tallbear about what indigenous ethnic fraud is, why it's perpetrated so easily and frequently, what the fraudsters get out of it, and what we can do to disrupt it. Find Dr. Tallbear: https://kimtallbear.substack.com/ https://mediaindigena.com/podcast/...2024-03-041h 31
The Petty Herbalist Podcastmullein said "speak up!" (indigenous kinship & sexual abundance): sex as medicineIsss a beautiful day babes,
So happy to be with you today, sharing another episode in our “Sex as Medicine” series! Today we are continuing the conversation of being open with your sexuality and what you do with that freedom, We believe that you can speak up, say it with your breast(s) if you will and we believe that Mullein can be your plant ally to do so. We shout out our Auntie Dr. Kim Tall-Bear and her giving us an indigenous framework and language for the kinship and relationship building we already do... in Karina and...2024-01-2147 min
UnsettleClose Encounters of the Colonial KindThis essay was originally published in the special issue “Settler Science, Alien Contact, and Searches for Intelligence,” of American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ), Vol. 45, No. 1 (2021), 157-167. You may wish to cite that essay instead of this Substack post in your own writing. Content warning: ProfanityIntroductory NoteMuch of this essay is written in the voice of IZ, a character I introduced in the book chapter, “Dear Indigenous Studies, It’s Not Me, It’s You: Why I Left and What Needs to Change.” IZ represents the evolving field that began as American...2023-06-0441 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsShould we distinguish between 'pretendians' and 'descendians'?This week: our second, long-overdue MINI INDIGENA of the season features regulars Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College) and Kim TallBear (professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta) as they join host/producer Rick Harp to discuss: • Why we don’t necessarily love the idea of a First Nations person as Canada’s next top cop • How a few Winnipeggers ain't lovin' some newly-proposed Indigenous names for city streets • Why Kim hates the idea of “Native heritage” as used by settlers • Monthly Pa...2023-03-1129 min
Warrior LifeKim TallBear On PretendiansToday we hear from Dr. Kim TallBear, an Indigenous Professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and CRC in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society.
She is an internationally renowned author and expert on issues related to Native identities, colonial concepts of race, and the ways in which science and tech interacts with our conceptions of society. She talks to use about the growing problem of pretendians.
You can follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/KimTallBear
Her UofA website at https://kimtallbear.com
Or her substack "Unsettle" at https://kimtallbear.substack.com
You can also buy her book "...2022-11-1849 min
UnsettleA Sharpening of the Already PresentIntroductory note: I gave this text as a short talk on October 8, 2022 for the EarthLab’s Playing with Fire: A Hot Symposium at University of California, Santa Cruz. This text is also an excerpt from a full-length talk and chapter-in-process that will likely be in my next book.Yesterday, October 10, a friend bought us tickets to the Indigenous Peoples’ Day sunrise ceremony at Alcatraz. While on the island, listening to the morning prayers and commentary, watching dancers, and listening to drums, I thought about the ideas presented in this piece—ideas about whose apocalypse we confront now, and wh...2022-10-1223 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsA Saskatchewan university trades one extreme for the other over Indigenous identityOur tenth 'MINI' INDIGENA of the season runs the gamut as usual, with MEDIA INDIGENA regulars Ken Williams (assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama) and Kim TallBear (U of A professor in the Faculty of Native Studies) joining host/producer Rick Harp Saturday, June 11 via the Callin app to discuss... • Riffing off “an African sense of western gender discourses” (as detailed in the book The Invention of Women by Oyeronke Oyewumi), Kim wants to know what Rick and Ken’s dating dealbreakers are; • Ken delves into the story of Cree/Métis schola...2022-06-1327 min
For The WildDr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Kim TallBear originally aired in February of 2020. Intimacy and sexuality is the soil that gives rise to creativity, pleasure and regeneration of new life. As mainstream understandings of sex, marriage, and family shift, Dr. Kim TallBear highlights how the colonial project of nation-building disrupted the vitality of Indigenous kinship by imposing heteronormative monogamous marriage and the nuclear family structure. How have these constraints bred hyper-sexualized, paradoxical and fetishized beliefs that degrade relationships, wellbeing of communities and the land? Dr. Kim TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta...2022-04-271h 01
Art Supply Posse138: Savannah TallbearSavannah Tallbear chats with Kim about her indigenous abstract painting, and what makes it contemporary.
Find Savannah on social media. Search for @bearswillkillyou or Savannah Tallbear.
2022-04-1932 min
Politics of PleasurePoly is as Poly DoesWe’re talking about non-monogamy and polyamory this week! It’s time to decolonize our relationships and start thinking outside the box of monogamy created by Western imperialism. We reference the brilliant work of Indigenous scholar Dr. Kim TallBear to guide our conversation. There’s also a lot going on in the political world this week sooo…*sucks teeth, rolls eyes* we have to address the crusty white men that run our planet or whatever, but don’t worry we still get some good laughs in.Pleasure Center Starts at 1:34:34Support UsSupport our show w...2022-03-101h 50
UnsettleLove in the Promiscuous StyleThis post is based on a talk I gave for the Sexuality Education Resource Centre (SERC) Manitoba virtual Valentine’s Day Soirée, February 14, 2021. It was a ticketed event and 100% of proceeds went to benefit youth sex education and programming. It was originally posted on this Substack in text only on March 1, 2021. I re-post it today, February 14, 2022 in both text and audio. If you are normally annoyed by Valentine’s Day, this piece that knocks the fetishized (monogamous) couple, romantic, and sexual love off its pedestal—portraying it as simply one among many ways of important relating—may appeal to...2022-02-1555 min
UnsettleTell Me a Story: Genomics vs. Indigenous Origin NarrativesThis essay was previously published in GeneWatch (Vol. 26, no. 4, August - October 2013). It is now difficult to find online. I’ve linked to the available PDF of the original publication. I first published the essay when I was an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. This essay answers a misguided question that I am often asked when I speak to non-Indigenous audiences about the politics of science: “Do you believe in science or Indigenous origin stories?” On April 13, 2005 the Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB) issued a press release opposing the Genographic Project...2022-02-0817 min
UnsettlePrairie Relations 100sIn October 2013, in my first year of polyamory practice, I began writing a blog, The Critical Polyamorist. Posts began as personal reflections of the pleasurable, challenging, and eye-opening experiences of openly practicing consensual non-monogamy (CNM). I aimed to think through the personal challenge of this new way of relating by engaging in self-reflexive analysis combined with research in polyamory, sexualities, race, and Indigenous Studies literatures. Through blogging, I pondered personal, cultural, and structural challenges that settler-colonialism presents to pursuing CNM. I lived in Austin, Texas back in 2013. I have broadened my lens to include both the US and Canada af...2022-02-0230 min
UnsettleBeyond Indigenous Performance to Life and Land BackEverything within a settler colonial society strains to destroy or assimilate the Native in order to disappear them from the land - this is how a society can have multiple simultaneous and conflicting messages about Indigenous peoples, such as all Indians are dead, located in faraway reservations, that contemporary Indigenous people are less indigenous than prior generations, and that all Americans are a “little bit Indian.” These desires to erase - to let time do its thing and wait for the older form of living to die out, or to even help speed things along (euthanize) because the death of p...2022-01-2739 min
Warrior LifeIndigenous Identity FraudEpisode 116 of Warrior Life Podcast is a special panel conversation with Indigenous experts Dr. Winona Wheeler (Fisher River Cree Nation), Dr. Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) and Dr. Veldon Coburn (Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation) on the issue of Indigenous identity fraud.
It is important to note that this discussion around Indigenous identity fraud does not refer to Indigenous peoples who were disconnected from their families, communities and Nations from residential schools, 60's scoop forced adoptions, foster care crisis, sex and race discrimination in the Indian Act's registration provisions, incarceration or any of the other colonial tools of forced assimilation and...2021-11-221h 02
COVIDCallsEP #377 - 11.16.2021 - Pandemic Science and Indigenious Peoples w/Kim TallbearToday I welcome Kim Tallbear, author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science.
Kim TallBear is a Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. Dr. TallBear is the author of the book Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Building on her research on the role of science in settler colonialism, TallBear also studies the roles of the overlapping ideas of “sexuality” and “nat...2021-11-171h 14
UnsettleGaudy Drapes and the Comfort of SnowplowsI woke up this morning full-on sobbing. Bright sun fingers poking into my Edmonton bedroom with its blood red blinds and red fabric wall hangings from Indonesia, Cambodia, and a small gold silk one from China, all gathered in travel or living abroad. I was surrounded by velvet accent pillows in shades of green and red, along with a pearly white throw and a white duvet with watercolour red, green, and gold flowers to brighten it all up. Before opening my eyes, I had been in my great-grandmother’s living room in her little house in...2021-10-2710 min
UnsettleFive Hypotheses about Covid-19Content warning: Swears and acceptance of Covid-19 as an ongoing relation in human existence. I am both an academic and everyday anthropologist of settler society, including mostly, but not only white people. White settler supremacy conditions the societal structures and narratives we all navigate and live with. All of us, “settler” or not, are potentially complicit in upholding settler supremacy, and we can all explicitly or implicitly challenge its narratives and norms. This post is a reflection on the ways that diverse inhabitants in my fields of observation, mostly the US and increasingly Cana...2021-10-1843 min
UnsettleIndigenous “Race Shifting” Red FlagsTerminology note: Terms are always politically, geographically, and temporally contextual. You will notice me move between terms, especially when I refer to situations in the US vs. Canada. Between these two settler states, some terminology overlaps and some is quite different. My apologies if any terms used (e.g. “tribe” or “Native”) hurt your ears. Terms that make people cringe in some places, are widely accepted in others. In fact, even the most up-to-date “politically correct” term, “Indigenous,” is disliked for a variety of legitimate reasons by some. Language is a minefield; best to learn the map.I do media...2021-09-1041 min
The Red Nation PodcastDr. Kim TallBear - "Making Love and Relations: Beyond Settler Sexualities" (2016)In this talk, Dr. Kim TallBear (@KimTallBear) discusses the politics of Indigenous kinship in relation to settler constructs of marriage and monogamy. Dr. TallBear is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota and an Associate Professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Link to the talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEPy6UAp2U02021-08-2354 min
UnsettleCouple-centricity, Polyamory and ColonialismNew Introduction for Readers and ListenersMy Critical Polyamorist blog that I began writing in 2013 is largely dormant now. I could no longer keep my nonmonogamy analyses separate from everything else I am thinking and writing about. Thus, I will occasionally migrate content from the Critical Polyamorist to here with the added benefit of Substack’s audio/podcast option. All of the work that I do, be it interrogating certain genomic and other scientific activities, interrogating compulsory monogamy and marriage, or interrogating assumptions about "nature," is really about interrogating the violently imposed worldviews and structures of...2021-08-1519 min
UnsettleHotels, Ghosts, Characters & ColonizersNote: This post is a write-up of initial observations as both a “CMC Mom” and an Indigenous anthropologist of all things settler during a few days in Leadville, Colorado.I like this little town, to my surprise. I am here because my daughter just enrolled in Colorado Mountain College (CMC). I liked it even more when I checked out of the historic Old West hotel after my first night here. That hotel was recently bought by new owners and, by the sounds of it, is in the process of being bougied up. Disclaimer: the quirky loca...2021-08-1014 min
Open Deeply Podcast15. Dr. Kim Tallbear: From Colonial Chaos to Eco-Sexual Bliss - Ep. 15Dr. Kim TallBear, Professor of Native Studies, author, and regular international media commentor on issues related to Indigenous peoples, science, sexualities, and non-monogamy joins us again for her second episode on Open Deeply. In this episode, she gives us a preview of her upcoming book tentatively called, “Disrupting Sex and Nature” that will discuss non-monogamy and eco-sexuality along with how both sex and nature have been controlled and managed by science, religious thinkers, and the state.”
A few other fascinating topics include a discussion on indigenous kinksters, indigenous feminists, and the medicine people who lead plant medicine journeys. Dr. TallBear also e...2021-08-0955 min
UnsettlePost-Covid, perimenopausal polyamoristNote: Tonight’s post is an effort to write something not involving research and peer review, a goal I had when starting Unsettle. I wanted to use this platform to get ideas down on the e-page more quickly.————Much has shifted since March of 2020 in my polyamorist practice. Back then I was in one relaxed, long-distance relationship, two on-again, off-again relationships with partners in Edmonton and Calgary, and my one steady and deeply attached relationship with my main partner in Edmonton. He and I celebrated our three-year anniversary in April of this year. Our relationship just seems...2021-07-2908 min
Open Deeply PodcastDr. Kim TallBear: Critical Polyamorist & Dakota Queen - Ep 14Dr. Kim TallBear, Professor of Native Studies, author, and regular international media commentor on issues related to Indigenous peoples, science, sexualities, and non-monogamy weaves wisdom throughout her amazing life story on this episode of Open Deeply. As a small child, Kim knew she was a queen, but the intergenerational impact of settler colonization created many hurdles for herself and her Dakota indigenous relatives. Poverty, sexual abuse, and chaos all impacted her childhood as is tragically the case for so many North American Indigenous children. However, she funneled her consequent anger to break free, creating a new reality for herself. This...2021-07-261h 08
UnsettleWhat the Hell’s Wrong with You?White Bullies Story #1In the past six months, I’ve been thinking of an incident that probably happened in the summer of 1979. I was about 10 years old. I am pretty sure it was my summer before sixth-grade. I simultaneously laugh out loud and am filled with embarrassment when I think of that day. My mom dropped us four kids off at Lake Phalen in St. Paul, Minnesota where we lived—and where I am this month, visiting family. She probably went to work or ran errands. If I was ten, then my sisters were nine and...2021-07-2430 min
UnsettleWe are not your dead ancestorsThis essay was given in an earlier iteration as a keynote at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) on June 9, 2021. Slight changes were made for word count and clarity.Some of you will know my anthropology of science work represented in my book Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science that challenged twenty-first-century racial science and disputed genetic definitions of “Native American” identity. More recently, I bring my critiques of genetics, race, and whiteness to bear on a related problem. To put it bluntly, we are in the middle not only...2021-06-1441 min
UnsettleYes, Your Pleasure! Yes, Self-Love! And Don't Forget, Settler Sex is a StructureThis talk text was originally posted on The Critical Polyamorist, my largely dormant blog. This platform is mostly for new writing, but I will occasionally migrate previously published work to this site. I’ve edited this post for Substack length restrictions. Portions of this 2018 talk were later published in “Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sex and Family” (TallBear in Clarke and Haraway 2018) and in “Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming” (TallBear 2019). Keynote lecture given at the Second Annual International Solo Polyamory Conference (SoloPolyCon18), Seattle, WA, USA, April 14, 2018During the weekend of April 7-8, 2018, I attended Converge Con ...2021-05-2234 min
UnsettlePlaying Indian Constitutes a Structural Form of Colonial Theft, and It Must be TackledThis is the audio version of the Unsettle post by the same title. Thanks for listening. Relevant websiteshttps://muckrack.com/jacqueline-keelerMedia Indigena. “Contemplating the Consequences of Colonial Cosplay,” Part 1, episode 245. February 24, 2021. Media Indigena. “Creating Culpability for Consequences Colonial Cosplay,” Part 2, episode 246. February 27, 2021. . SourcesTara Bahrampour. “Elizabeth Warren’s Refusal to Take a DNA Test to Prove Native American Ancestry was Probably a Smart Move.” The Washington Post. March 14, 2018.Joanne Barker et. al. “Open Letter from Indigenous Women Scholars Regarding Discussions of A...2021-05-1034 min
UnsettleLydia in the Doorway of HomeThis is a test. I’m going to experiment with also orating some of the Unsettle posts. Both to diversify formats in the interest of diverse readers/listeners, and also because I write to be spoken and I speak a piece as I write. It makes sense to offer both formats. Notes[1] K. TallBear. “Ghosts on the Road.” South Dakota Review, Spring 2000 (Vol. 38): 9-10.[2] K. TallBear. “A Nomad’s Sleep.” In Florene Belmore and Eric Ostrowidzki, eds. Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples. Penticton, BC: Theytus Books, Fall 2001 (Vol. XII): 175.[3...2021-05-0826 min
GES Center Lectures, NC State UniversityKim TallBear on Indigenous STS, Governance, and DecolonizationGenetic Engineering and Society Center
GES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM (via Zoom) NC State University | http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium
GES Mediasite - See videos, full abstracts, speaker bios, and slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite
Twitter - https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU
Like traditional Science and Technology Studies, the new field of Indigenous STS studies the cultures, politics, and histories of non-Indigenous science and technology efforts. In addition, it studies Indigenous-led science and technology, including knowledges classified as “traditional.” Indigenous STS refuses the purported divide between scientific and Indigenous knowledges, yet it does not conf...2021-03-111h 29
Immediatism336 Kim TallBear: The Polyamorist That Wants to Destroy Sex, by Montserrat Madariaga-CaroThe full interview (English) (Spanish)
Pterodactilo podcast
Kim Tallbear's blog, The Critical Polyamorist
Immediatism.com
My other podcast, PointingTexts.org
Feedback and requests to Cory@Immediatism.com2021-03-1128 min
Haymarket Books LiveIndigenous Resistance Against Oil Pipelines During a Pandemic (6-3-20)Join us for a conversation between Nick Estes and Kim Tallbear on indigenous resistance in the context of the global pandemic.
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Water Protectors at Standing Rock, drawing from long traditions of resistance, used Indigenous sovereignty and mutual aid networks based on kinship as bulwarks against oil pipelines, state violence, and environmental colonialism. These two elements have helped shield Indigenous nations from the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the fossil fuel industry exploits the crisis to expand pipeline projects renewed struggle is more vital than ever.
Join Nick Estes and Kim Tallbear for a virtual teach-in on what lessons today’s activists can learn from these t...2021-03-021h 36
Champagne SharksCS 339: Media Indigena pt 1
This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 2 is available to all paid subscribers over at www.patreon.com/posts/46426299. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the entire archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, detailed show notes for certain episodes, and our newsletter.
This episode is hosted by Trevor. Today we have Rick Harp and Kim Tallbear on the show. Rick Harp is a founder and president of the INDIGENA Creative Group, with 15 years-plus media experience in journalism and communication. A host/producer with the...2021-01-2954 min
Warrior LifeKim TallBear on Native Identity and RelationsIn Episode 83, we talk to Dr. Kim TallBear - a citizen of the Sissteon-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota - about Native identity and the importance of relationships in determining belonging. She also shares with us her insights about some of the more infamous cases of settlers making false or exaggerated claims to Native identity.
Here's the link to her website where you can learn more about her expertise and her many publications:
https://www.kimtallbear.com/
Her amazing book: Native America DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
https://amzn.to/39AkRDY
There is no video version...2021-01-221h 10
KZSC Santa CruzEp 1: Kim TallBear and Jessica Kolopenuk on Indigenous Lead Techno-scientific InnovationWelcome to the Pandemicene podcast! Today we welcome you to a conversation with Kim TallBear and Jessica Kolopenuk, two Indigenous scholars at the University of Alberta, Canada. We talk about their Indigenous STS research training program, their upcoming open access class on Indigenous peoples and pandemics, what a “productive embrace of crisis” looks like,and how understanding our relations as kin on earth might help us learn how to live better together on stolen land. Show notes can be found here.2021-01-1126 min
Strippers and SagesDr. Kim Tallbear on Decolonizing Sexuality through Critical PolyamoryDr. Kim TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment. She is also a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow and the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Building on her research on the role of technoscience in settler colonialism, TallBear examines the overlapping ideas of “sexuality” and “nature” in the colonization of Indigenous peoples. She is a regular commentator in US, Canadian, and UK media outlets on issues related to Indigenous peoples, science, technolo...2020-10-2000 min
The Red Nation PodcastThe end of US empire? w/ Kim TallBearDakota scholar Kim TallBear talks about the end of US empire and what that means for Indigenous people. She is a regular panelist for the podcast Media Indigena and writes for the Critical Polyamorist. Support: patreon.com/therednation2020-08-311h 04MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsTalkin’ Tech, Dabblin’ in DataOn this episode’s collected, connected conversations (the sixth in our summer-long series): we get down with data and tight with tech, tackling topics that range from social media to social services. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): • Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta • Ken Williams, assistant professor, University of Alberta department of drama • Karyn Pugliese, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Ryerson University • Lisa Girbav, broadcaster and podcaster • Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical...2020-08-151h 16
BedPost Confessions137: Kim Tallbear "A Little Sex on the Prairie"Producer of our sister show Tipi Confessions, Dr. Kim Tallbear writes about the subject of non monogamy and how it intersects with Indigenous politics and sexualities. Kim will share some of her 100 word vignettes that for fun we are calling “A Little Sex on the Prairie. Kim TallBear is a former Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas. She is now a faculty member in Native Studies at the University of Alberta and is a regular commentator in US, Canadian, and UK media outlets on topics related to Indigenous peoples, science, and sexuality.2020-08-0700 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsFrom self-medication to self-determination: a deep dive into drugsOn this episode’s collected, connected conversations (the fifth in our summer-long series): navigating the harms and hopes associated with drugs. From alcohol to opioids, taxes to testing, you could say we’ve explored our fair share of substances on this show. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): • Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta • Tim Fontaine, head honcho at satirical news site Walking Eagle News • Solomon Israel, cannabis industry reporter • Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department o...2020-08-071h 13MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsIndigeneity & Inauthenticity in the ArtsOn this week’s collage of collected, connected conversations (the fourth in our summer series): appropriation and authenticity. The second half of our extended foray into the arts, our topics range from tacky souvenirs to the endless parade of Settlers pining to play Indian, as we question the images of Indigenous people: who gets to make and profit by them, as well as what is and isn’t considered ‘authentic.’ Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): • Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta's Department of Drama • Brock Pitawanakwat, York University A...2020-07-311h 08MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsIndigenous (Mis-)Representation in the ArtsOn this week’s collected, connected conversations (the third in our summer series), the arts take centre stage. A stage so wide, it’ll take two acts to cover it all. For our first act, we look at representation and misrepresentation, be it on-screen, on stage, or on the page. From gatekeepers to white fragility, it ain’t easy trying to be Indigenous in this industry. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): • Cutcha Risling Baldy, Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. • Candis Callison, Associate...2020-07-231h 08MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsConfronting Canada’s GenocideOnce again this year, we at MEDIA INDIGENA have dug deep into our archives to bring you a summer-long series of collected, connected conversations, on a variety of topics: from drugs to data, the arts to activism. We begin with a subject some argue has always been at the heart of the Canadian project: genocide. Once dismissed outright as an object of any serious consideration in this country, there is today a compelling case to be made that Canada's past and present actions merit the label of genocide. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):2020-07-071h 16
Inappropriate Questions“Are you full Native?”Many Indigenous people get asked how much Indigenous ancestry they have. But identity isn’t all about fractions. Harv and Elena talk to Falen Johnson from The Secret Life of Canada about her identity journey and her “therapy play.” Actress Kaniehtiio Horn discusses how she navigates Hollywood stereotypes and what makes her feel connected to her people. Dr. Kim TallBear tells us why DNA alone doesn’t make someone Indigenous.
Our webcomic this week is by Rhael McGregor, available on our Instagram @IQ_Podcast.
Take a listen to The Secret Life of Canada’s episode about the Indian Act here: https://ww...2020-06-3036 min
Earth MattersFrom #NoDAPL to #BlackLivesMatter and beyond"Police violence is an environmental justice issue...Abolition should be a demand of environmental justice." - Nick Estes. This week we bring you an edited extract from a wide-ranging discussion between Indigenous academics Kim TallBear and Nick Estes, who locate the current uprising in the United States within a larger context of capitalism and colonialism, and a long history of resistance. Guests: Kim TallBear; Nick Estes. Links:Indigenous Resistance Against Oil Pipelines During a Pandemic [video] The Red Nation 'Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science' by Kim TallBear. 'Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the...2020-06-1400 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsNAISA INDIGENATHIS WEEK: NAISA INDIGENA. And just who or what is a “NAISA”? It’s the Native American Indigenous Studies Association. Or as they put it, a “professional organization for scholars, graduate students, independent researchers, and community members interested in all aspects of Indigenous Studies.” Many of whom gather every year to share and discuss their scholarship. And this year, that included us! And then, just like that, COVID-19 took out NAISA 2020. What’s a roundtable to do? Well, lemons do make for great lemonade, so get ready for some bittersweetness as we stage a roundtable about the roundtable. Joining ho...2020-06-131h 23MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsThe 'Looting' of AmericaTHIS WEEK: The ‘Looting’ of America. As if a pandemic wasn’t enough to contend with, disturbing video came out on social media this week of blatant police brutality against a black resident of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, video that has sparked outrage in streets across the US. Outrage met with tear gas, smoke bombs and rubber bullets. Meanwhile, as can happen in such highly-charged, volatile situations, property has been damaged, even destroyed. People vs. property: guess how the media weighed harms carried out against both in their coverage—or how well their stories convey the role and function policing...2020-05-301h 02MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsThe Battle O' ButterTHIS WEEK: Butter blowback. With next to no fanfare, the makers of Land O’ Lakes butter have stripped their packaging of a decades-old iconic Indian maiden. Prompting pouts a-plenty from some Settlers who found the switch distasteful—a butter backlash that spread across social media. But, no surprise, #NativeTwitter was more than ready with a flurry of counter-memes. Joining host/producer Rick Harp to share some of their favorites, plus discuss some of the ambivalent history behind the box, are roundtable regulars Candis Callison, associate professor in the School of Journalism at UBC, and Kim TallBear, associate professor in the...2020-04-3047 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsPolitics and public health in a pandemicPatient privacy, public protection: they can feel at odds in this era of coronavirus. And yet, when it comes to the impacts of the virus on black and brown people, some say there’s not enough information being captured and communicated. But could knowing who is infected risk stigma in turn? Tackling these thorny questions and more with host/producer Rick Harp this week are Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC, as well as Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at...2020-04-2754 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsThe Rotten Roots of Academia in AmericaTHIS WEEK: Post-secondary plunder. Cornell, MIT, Rutgers—can you guess what these prestigious U.S. centers of higher learning have in common? Well, together with scores of schools just like them, they all owe their existence and persistence to the systematic theft of Indigenous lands. Dating back to the late 1800s, this heartless campaign of dispossession has just been documented in agonizing detail by an Indigenous-led team of journalists at High Country News. Back at the roundtable with host/producer Rick Harp to discuss the report's findings are Candis Callison, associate professor in the School of Journalism at...2020-04-0952 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe Structure of Racism with Dr Kim TallbearDr. Kim Tallbear joins us again to talk about the structure of racism and how our actions and thoughts either support or dismantle the settler/colonial project. The conversation references the work of Dr. Ibram X Kendi and his books Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be Anti-Racist. Links to the interviews we reference are below.Whiteness has always been about hierarchies, binaries like savage vs. civilized, and has marked those binaries visibly through race. But what we think of as whiteness is morphing to include groups that it hasn't included before. It is evolving and morphing...2020-03-2352 min
PterocastPterocast Episode #12 Dr. Kim TallBear: "Settler colonialism doesn't only hurt indigenous peoples."In this interview, conducted by Monserrat Madariaga, Dr. Kim TallBear talks about new avenues for critical and creative academic research, how polyamory can help deconstruct compulsory monogamy in settler-colonial states. She also discussed the ideas of indigenous belonging, questioned the assumptions of ancestry in DNA tests and much more."Dr. Kim TallBear is author of "Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science" (2013) and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She studies the racial politics of “gene talk” in science and popular culture. A former environmental planner, she...2020-03-1837 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsBoosting Canadian Corporate Culpability for Human Rights AbuseWhen a company in one country is linked to human rights abuses in another, should they be held responsible for that abuse back home? According to Canada’s Supreme Court, yes! Which means a Canadian mining company operating in northeast Africa could stand trial for alleged violations of human-rights in the state of Eritrea. In this episode, host/producer Rick Harp is joined by Candis Callison, associate professor in UBC's Graduate School of Journalism, and Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, as they dig deep into what broadening li...2020-03-1146 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsPondering Political Pundits' Push Back on 'Protectors'This week: Choosing our words carefully. When discussing those who oppose resource extraction, how important is it to call them protectors rather than protesters? And when it comes to the members of a dominant society horny for such extraction, how vital is it that they be called Settlers? Judging by the dust these debates still kick up, a lot! And wouldn’t you know it, among those kicking was our own Candis Callison, associate professor in the School of Journalism at UBC. Also at the roundtable this week with host/producer Rick Harp is Kim TallBear, associate professor in th...2020-02-241h 00MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsAnother paramilitary push against Wet'suwet'en camps in BCTHIS WEEK: Wet'suwet'en Redux. It’s an ever-changing story, yet all-too-reminiscent of other Indigenous struggles—and that’s just in supposedly pro-UNDRIP British Columbia. With #ShutCanadaDown solidarity rallies and blockades going up in different parts of Canada and beyond, we look at how police actions this time around compare to last year’s RCMP raid of the anti-pipeline, pro-sovereignty encampments in ancestral Wet'suwet'en territory. Joining host/producer Rick Harp this week are Candis Callison, associate professor in the School of Journalism at UBC, and Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alber...2020-02-101h 03
For The WildDr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance /157Dr. TallBear and Ayana confront western science’s continued appropriation of Indigenous sexuality, ancestry, and creation while unearthing our universal desires for love and belonging. Support the show2020-02-051h 03MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs'The Power Was With Us: Idle No More' (Pt. 1)This week, the emergence of Idle No More, the Indigenous-led movement that’s arguably changed Canada forever. Now its arrival on the Canadian political scene is the subject of a major APTN National News retrospective docuseries, co-directed and co-produced by Rick Harp and Tim Fontaine. Entitled “The Power Was With Us: Idle No More,” the first of the two-part series is now available exclusively on LUMI—the streaming service of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (aptnlumi.ca). Joining Rick with their reflections are Candis Callison, associate professor in the School of Journalism at UBC and now with...2020-01-3044 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsWhy Indians aren’t tripping over Trump’s ‘Indian Country’ tweetIf you’re active on Twitter maybe you’ve seen it—the fuss some have kicked up over Donald Trump’s recent use of the phrase “Indian Country” in a tweet. But look carefully among those the most fussed: what you won’t find are many, if any, “Indians.” On this week’s Indigenous roundtable, we climb into this cross-cultural chasm of criticism, and discuss why even those ever-vigilant #NativeTwitter types feel there’s way bigger fish to fry. Joining host/producer Rick Harp for the final show of the decade are Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School...2019-12-3138 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsPutting an Indigenous Frame on Stock PhotographyOn this week’s Indigenous roundtable: Taking control, taking stock. How a First Nation in Ontario decided the only way they’re going to find images of Indigenous people that don’t rely on stereotypes is to make their own catalogue of stock photography. Joining host/producer Rick Harp to discuss how literally owning your own depictions is key to cultural self-determination are Kim TallBear (University of Alberta associate professor of Native Studies) and Candis Callison (Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism). CREDITS: This episode of the podcast was edited by Anya Zoledziowski; hosted...2019-12-2431 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsIs Repatriation Really 'Reconciliation'?This week: Bringing blood home. Over a half-century after their removal, a large cluster of blood samples from Indigenous islanders in Australia have been returned to whence they came. The result of direct negotiations with the affected community, the move has been held up as historic for the country. But if Australia’s on the bleeding edge of repatriation, what about the rest of the world? From skin to saliva, blood to bones, do we even know how much Indigenous material has been banked across the globe? And should we put repatriation under the banner of reconciliation? Jo...2019-11-2952 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsGrading "Indian Control of Indian Education" in North AmericaThis week, class dismissed—or should we say class denied? A North Carolina advisory board has rejected a proposed Native charter school on the grounds its curriculum would be too radical. Of course, that’s all in the eyes of the beholder, but with funding all in the hands of the state, could this be a textbook case of education discrimination? And nearly a half century after the 1970s rallying cry “Indian Control of Indian Education,” how close is anyone to realizing that vision? Joining host/producer Rick Harp on the roundtable this week are Ken Williams, an assis...2019-11-1840 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsIs the Green Movement Still Too White?This week, grousing over Greta. Even though millions recently took to the streets as part of world-wide Climate Strikes, the media still seems to reserve most of its spotlight for the teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. And yet, not everyone’s a fan: from Maxime Bernier to Vladimir Putin, she seems to irk white cis male politicians in particular. But the idolatry of Thunberg has also received pushback from parts of Native Twitter, frustrated at how she seemingly gets all the accolades while Indigenous youth and youth of colour toil in relative obscurity. On this week's live-audience ed...2019-10-0845 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsDissecting the Debate on Indigenous AffairsWho’da thunk it? For once, we at MEDIA INDIGENA are happy to be wrong—right out of the gate at the first leaders debate, Indigenous issues are on the radar of Canada’s federal election. But will they continue to enjoy that spotlight? And among those leaders who did take part in that first to-and-fro, who got it right and who got it left when it comes to 'Indigenous affairs'? Sharing their thoughts this week with host/producer Rick Harp are Kim TallBear, associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, and Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC...2019-09-181h 05MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsDeodorizing DiorFrom the second it hit social media, the new ad campaign for the House of Dior’s so-called 'Sauvage' cologne kicked up a stink. In fact, as soon as Native Twitter got wind of the new video—starring the notorious Johnny Depp—the blowback was fast, furious and less than fragrant. In our return to all-new episodes, we try to make 'scents' of why Indian Country’s collective nose is so out of joint. Back at the roundtable are Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism and Kim TallBear, Associate Professor of Native Studies at the U...2019-09-0835 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsThe serious business of self-IndigenizationOn this week’s collected, connected conversations—the last in our Summer Series—the serious business of self-Indigenization. On its face, Indigenous identity would seem like it would be simple to understand who is and who isn’t First Nations, Inuit or Metis. That is, if you choose to look past the colonial elephant in the room. And yet, complicated and confusing as colonialism can make the identification process, it all comes down to knowing not only who claims which Nation or People—but which People or Nation claims them. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appeara...2019-08-281h 10
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceNative American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallbearPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Author: Kim Tallbear Narrator: Donna Postel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 27, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful—and problematic—scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set...2019-08-2730 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceNative American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallbearPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392594to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2019
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Genres: Social Science
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful—and problematic—scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of c...2019-08-2710h 11
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Title: Native American DNA
Author: Kim TallBear
Narrator: Donna Postel
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Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
Release date: 08-27-19
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation...2019-08-2710h 09MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsConversations on the Climate CrisisOn this week’s collected, connected conversations (number eight in our Summer Series): comprehending and combating Climate Change. And as our current crisis continues to heat up the planet, it’s also lit a fire under MEDIA INDIGENA. That’s partly because we know that climate change disproportionately impacts Indigenous peoples—despite Indigenous knowledges offering critical clues to how to help combat imminent climate disaster. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): Russ Diabo, publisher/editor of the First Nations Strategic Bulletin; Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism, and Kim TallBear, associate...2019-08-191h 07MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsRemaking the Indigenous Family (Pt. 1)On this episode’s collected, connected conversations (the sixth in this Summer Series): Part One of “Re-making the Indigenous Family.” Said to be among society’s most sacrosanct institutions, 'The Family' is a core site and source of social reproduction. But is the Settler family form the only way to organize human relations? Does it matter that this dominant, mainstream form differs from those of Indigenous peoples? The answers to these questions are critical, for they are at the heart of why Canada’s child and family welfare systems have failed Indigenous children and families. And yet, as you’ll hear in t...2019-08-051h 03MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsAn Indigenous Chronicle of ChristianityOn this week’s collected, connected conversations (the fifth of our summertime shows): how core concepts of Christianity continue to inspire and infuse the laws, attitudes and actions of supposedly secular Settler states toward Indigenous peoples. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): Kim TallBear, associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism; Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s Department of Drama and Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University; Lakota activist and communications professional Taté...2019-07-2859 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsReckoning with ReconcilationOn this week’s collected, connected conversations (the fourth in our Summer Series shows): reckoning with Reconciliation. But what is 'Reconciliation'? How should it happen? Questions that arise time and time again on our podcast. Questions that are essential to confront for any Settler colonial state like Canada—or at least would be if Canada was serious about moving away from a foundation built upon Indigenous dispossession, disjuncture and dislocation. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): Anishinaabe comedian, writer, media maker & community activator Ryan McMahon; Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of A...2019-07-211h 13MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsPutting Science under an Indigenous microscopeOn this week’s collected, connected conversations (the third in our Summer Series), we head to the lab to put Science under the microscope. From archaeology to genetics to the ethics of biological research, Indigenous people are commonly subjects of study. Studies that often get us wrong or worse, just flat-out deny the worth of our own forms of inquiry and knowledge. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): Kim TallBear, associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism; plus, Lakota activist and...2019-07-131h 05MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsHow Mainstream Media Misrepresent Indigenous PeoplesThis week’s collected, connected conversations, the second in our Summer Series, feature a focus on the media. From blatant double-standards, to persistent narratives of First Nations ‘failure,’ to victim-blaming, Canadian media has long misrepresented Indigenous peoples, which is why we've so often reported on the reporters. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): Kim TallBear, associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism; Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s Department of Drama and Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indig...2019-07-051h 07MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsConfronting History, Unmaking HeroesGiven how all of our Summer Series shows dig deep into our archives, perhaps it’s only fitting that our first episode of the season explores history and heroes. Although, as you’ll hear, what constitutes the latter is certainly in the eye of the beholder. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): Kisha Supernant, anthropological archaeologist and associate professor at the University of Alberta; Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s Department of Drama and Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University; Lakota activist and communications professional Taté Walker...2019-06-2750 min
All My Relations PodcastDecolonizing SexJoin us for a second discussion with Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Dr. Kim Tallbear on All My Relations. We'll explore Kim's “life project” of critical polyamory, her journey through feminism, her processes of writing in, with, and for community, and Kim treats us with some of her poetry, the “Critical polyamorist 100s”.AMR so far has explored our relationships between community, land, food, and kin. Now we have a chance to dive into what it means to be in good relation with other humans (on a sexual and non sexual level), while maintaining and balancing our resp...2019-03-1943 min
All My Relations PodcastCan a DNA test make me Native American?Can a DNA test make me Native American? As direct-to-consumer ancestry DNA tests gain popularity and narratives of “discovering” or “proving” Native American ancestry through DNA swirl through the media—what does that mean for Indigenous nations? On this episode we talk with the amazing, badass, super cool Dr. Kim Tallbear (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA. We talk about the concept of “Native DNA,” the problems of ancestry DNA tests, challenges in these areas for Native communities moving forward, Elizabeth Warren, the politics of research in Indigenous communities, and offer potential alter...2019-03-121h 10
Medicine for the ResistanceGender and Sexuality: Karen LawfordKaren Lawford, who wrote the course we discussed earlier with Veldon Coburn, joins us to talk about developing the course. Karen got a degree in Chemistry and natural sciences before studying to be a midwife, and then studying the government policies around midwifery itself. As always, the conversation meanders through the honeycomb world and ties together previous conversations with Kim Tallbear, Daniel Heath Justice, and Jonathan Ferrier. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com2019-01-2159 min
Medicine for the ResistanceTWIWF: Making métis in eastern Canada with Darryl LerouxDr. Darryl Leroux of St. Mary's University joins us to talk about his research of a movement in eastern Canada that is self-indigenizing in order to gain access to social and political spaces, often based on a single ancestor from the 1600's. Additional information on his research is in the links below:https://maisonneuve.org/article/2018/11/1/self-made-metis/https://smu.ca/academics/departments/sjcs-faculty-staff-darryl-leroux.htmlFor more information you can also see the research of previous guest Dr. Kim Tallbearhttp://kimtallbear.com/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is-no-dna-test-to-prove-youre-native-american/...2018-11-191h 10
Medicine for the ResistanceReconstructing sexuality with Dr. Kim Tallbear. Gender and Sexuality series.Dr. Kim Tallbear joins M4R and challenges us to consider what it means to live out the words of Aileen Morton Robinson: Be less possessive, and do something every single day to undermine the colonizer. Join us for a conversation about thinking beyond identity to what it means to live in good relation with all our relatives. The language of identity is necessary to address inequity but shifting the lens to consider what it means to live in good relationship allows us to move beyond these silos into living together. If we want to talk about decolonizing...2018-10-2957 min
Breakdances With WolvesEp. 82 - Dr. Kim TallBear - A Sex Episode! CopyWe had Dr. Kim on a few weeks ago, and the convo was dope but it was definitely focused more on the academic side of her work. This time, she's getting comfortable and opening up all kinds of interesting topics. It's gettin' hot in hurr!2018-09-0500 min
SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything HumanIs Your DNA You?What does your DNA have to do with who you are? On a journey for answers, SAPIENS hosts Chip Colwell, Jen Shannon, and Esteban Gómez take consumer DNA tests and confront murky, interconnected issues of identity and heredity. Their guides include science journalist Carl Zimmer and anthropologists Deborah Bolnick and Kim TallBear.
Carl Zimmer has authored 13 books about science, including his latest work She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, which traces the history of heredity:
Deborah Bolnick is an incoming associate professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include anthropological geneti...2018-08-1439 min
Multiamory – Life on the SwingsetMA 181: Kim Tallbear – MultiamoryWe're extra excited to speak to Professor Kim Tallbear. Dr. Tallbear is the author of The Critical Polyamorist blog, as well as several books, articles, and talks on settler sexuality, Indigenous peoples, technology, and relationships. We dig into the details of what settler sexuality is, how it influences our relationships, and the many different ways in which we create extended support networks of kin. You can find more of Kim's work at CriticalPolyamorist.com and TipiConfessions.com.
If you want to support our show, the best way is to become one of our patrons at www.p...2018-07-2456 minLife on the SwingsetMA 181: Kim Tallbear – MultiamoryWe're extra excited to speak to Professor Kim Tallbear. Dr. Tallbear is the author of The Critical Polyamorist blog, as well as several books, articles, and talks on settler sexuality, Indigenous peoples, technology, and relationships. We dig into the details of what settler sexuality is, how it influences our relationships, and the many different ways in which we create extended support networks of kin. You can find more of Kim's work at CriticalPolyamorist.com and TipiConfessions.com.
If you want to support our show, the best way is to become one of our patrons at www.p...2018-07-2456 min
Life on the SwingsetMA 181: Kim Tallbear – MultiamoryWe're extra excited to speak to Professor Kim Tallbear. Dr. Tallbear is the author of The Critical Polyamorist blog, as well as several books, articles, and talks on settler sexuality, Indigenous peoples, technology, and relationships. We dig into the details of what settler sexuality is, how it influences our relationships, and the many different ways in which we create extended support networks of kin. You can find more of Kim's work at CriticalPolyamorist.com and TipiConfessions.com.
If you want to support our show, the best way is to become one of our patrons at www.p...2018-07-2456 min
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern RelationshipsKim TallbearWe're extra excited to speak to Professor Kim Tallbear. Dr. Tallbear is the author of The Critical Polyamorist blog, as well as several books, articles, and talks on settler sexuality, Indigenous peoples, technology, and relationships. We dig into the details of what settler sexuality is, how it influences our relationships, and the many different ways in which we create extended support networks of kin. You can find more of Kim's work at CriticalPolyamorist.com and TipiConfessions.com. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to...2018-07-2455 min
Embrace The VoidEV - 049 Opportunity vs. Outcome with Cory JohnstonToday we're joined with Cory Johnston host of the Brainstorm Podcast talking about the equality of opportunity vs. the equality of outcome.Opening InvocationEvan MathewsHero of the WeekDr. Kim TallBearHer podcast mediaINDIGENA2018-06-2846 minMEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsA Second Slide into Settler SexualitySaddle up for our Settler sexuality sequel! Building on last week’s exploration of how Settler norms impact Indigenous notions of intimacy and interpersonal connections, we more explicitly discuss the erotically infused insights of Mohawk/Tuscarora writer, poet and broadcaster Janet Rogers. Insights she shared with our own Kim TallBear (associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta) at ConvergeCon, the annual conference working to build sex positive communities. Joining host Rick Harp to reflect on Kim and Janet's dialogue is Candis Callison, associate professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism. // Our theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.2018-05-051h 10MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairsSettler Sexuality's Slippery SlopeOn this week's roundtable: Settler Sexuality. A subject at the heart of two recent talks by our own Kim Tallbear (one at the sex-positive communities event ConvergeCon, the other at SoloPolyCon), we thought we'd use it as an opportunity to take a longer look at an often troubling and taboo topic. In particular, we discuss the insights of her keynote — "Yes, Your Pleasure! Yes, Self-love! And Don’t Forget, Settler Sex Is A Structure" — at the 2nd Annual Solo Polyamory Conference in Seattle, Washington. An associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, Kim discussed her wo...2018-04-2757 min
BedPost ConfessionsBedPost Confessions Episode 116Taking the BedPost Confessions format to indigenous communities in Canada, Dr. Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) created Tipi Confessions. Kim's "Critical Polyamorist 100s" read at a Vancouver Tipi Confessions is simultaneously an indigenous feminist critique and an erotically charged account of polyamory. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2018-02-0100 min
Feral VisionsDr. Kim TallBear on Moving Beyond Settler Sexualities (FV ep. 4)How did our ancestors practice relationships and sexuality prior to colonization? Learn from Dr. Kim TallBear about moving beyond settler colonial sexualities! What's a decolonial approach to the settler institution of monogamy? These are some of the topics we delve into.
Here are some of the resources Dr. TallBear mentions:
The Critical Polyamorist http://www.criticalpolyamorist.com
Indian Dr. David Shorter http://frequencies.ssrc.org/2012/01/03/indian/
Native Youth Sexual Health Network http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com
Tipi Confessions https://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/
Indian Love Poems Tenille Campbell http://workingitouttogether.com/content/indianlovepoems-the-tease/
Virago Nation https://www.viragonation.ca
What word...2017-11-1646 min