Event Date: Friday, February 10, 2023
A Short History of the Blockade: Beavers, World-making and Generative Refusal
Friday February 10, 2023 * 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
In “A Short History of the Blockade,” Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening our understanding of Indigenous resistance as both a negation and an affirmation.
Part of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2022-23 Speakers Series
This talk is made possible by funding from GSWS and the Social Science Student Donation Fund