How should we think about what has been called 鈥渢he evil of banality鈥� as we respond to climate catastrophe? Can repair be a way to think about approaches to this problem? Join us to discuss!
Speakers:
Laura Hall was raised in N鈥橲wakamok, raised by a Mohawk mom and white-settler father. Dr. Hall鈥檚 research focuses on environmental sustainability, settler colonialism, and (ending) gendered violence as a central aspect of decolonization. Some of Laura鈥檚 current work focuses on settler colonialism, gender, disability, and sexuality in horror and science-fiction.
Alexis Shotwell is a professor at 杏吧原创 University, on unceded Algonquin land. Her academic work addresses impurity, environmental justice, racial formation, disability, unspeakable and unspoken knowledge, sexuality, gender, and political transformation. Her political work focuses on queer liberation, Indigenous solidarity, and feminist community education.聽 She also gives workshops on reducing suffering in our writing and teaching practices. She is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project (), and the author of聽Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding聽补苍诲听Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times.
Resource List
Theorizing repair and relation:
Katherine McKittrick, ed.聽, 2014.
Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, ed.聽, 2007.
Eli Clare, , 2017.
Elisabeth Spelman, , 2003.
Thinking about repair within settler colonialism:
Patrick Wolfe, “” Journal of Genocide Research, 2006.
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “” Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2012.
Drew Haydon Taylor, , 2019.
To-Dos:
One idea that emerged from our conversation was the possibility of organizing a teach-in to specifically discuss and think through the practice of the land acknowledgement.