How do Indigenous voices reinterpret historical land borders & borders in historical thinking through storytelling?
how have colonialism, scientific racism, and hegemonic whiteness influenced understandings of sexuality, love, and desire during the 19th century?
WK 3 - BORDERS
we spoke about borders by diving into Indigenous, Two-Spirit, and Indigiqueer stories. we discussed the violent history of westward expansionism and the colonial creations of 'canada' and 'america.'
we then asked how borders limit both Indigenous lands and Indigenous epistemologies including their cosmovisions, storytelling, gender and sexual diversity.
How do these colonial impositions persist and alter how history is constructed?
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🖋🎨 Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon, “A Star is Born,” AND “The Painter Who Could Not See,” in The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island, Vol. One (Penguin Random House, 2023), 1-23, 97-109.
WK 4 - (B)ORDERS
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📖 C. Riley Snorton, “A Nightmarish Silhouette: Racialization and the Long Exposure of Transition,” in Black on Both Sides, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), 139-175.
📖 Clare Sears, “All that Glitters: Trans-ing California’s Gold Rush Migrations” GLQ 14 2-3: 383-402.
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