Medicine for the Resistance

It's Indigenous art if Indigenous artists make it.

Olivia Shortt joins us to talk about her project with Face the Music and the Jack Quartet in New York City, creating Indigenous space in a new environment. She talks about the impact that the quarantine has had one her work, and how it has made her think about creative ways to accomplish her goals.

We also talk about the overwhelming elitism of the arts and how difficult it can be as Black and Indigenous women to be in these places.

Transcript is available here: http://daanis.ca/2020/04/19/making-space-for-indigenous-art/

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Colonialism is a total regime, it is not a system or a way of thinking. It is a regime that articulates itself differently on different bodies but it has the same goal. The subjugation of those at the edges.

Dr. Tamari Kitossa joins us to talk about the construction of the Black male, about criminology as a tool of colonialism, and how patriarchy is used to control all of us, not only women.

Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fndnreni-KG28xZVVpPQ1YYGlAiPCVCt/view?usp=sharing

Dr. Kitossa has provided copies of these articles for you to read

Odyssey: Home to a place within
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ao0JleJ1WEWEPTgtSgP2q8VmH1_mC57/view?usp=sharing


Rethinking the discourse of ghetto youth, gangs, and violence

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eLP5yEN1M_mhX_qNA4VWtAdQtULbzq3k/view?usp=sharing

Authoritarian Criminology and the Racial Profiling detabe in Canada
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1elpFMVEszwrm3fecDW79y1Ldwvr1CLVD/view?usp=sharing

Same difference: Biocentric Imperialism and the assault on Indigenous culture and hunting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BStGwcjkryuQ46CDj1MtRtWU3UKwaAqJ/view?usp=sharing

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What does it mean to complete a PhD without citing any white men? Is it as simple as pulling books off of your bookshelf or is there more to it than that. Of course there is.

We are joined with PhD student Hana Burgess and, drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, we talk about expanding our ideas of relationality. How do we live as good relatives moving through science and tech and how these new spaces fit into our worlds and aspirations as global Indigenous people.

transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfbTCHn_P-7gL8yK3rC9ONQjgfL2TPjc/view?usp=sharing

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Dr. 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, but always maintaining hierarchies, privileging some at the expense of others.

Ibram X Kendi and Angela Davis: https://www.cityarts.net/event/angela-davis-ibram-x-kendi/

Ibram X Kendi interview in Yes magazine: https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/10/25/racist-policy-antiracism-resist

Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-hGFnsHCyfCNqhKUbBHDJPfyqcO9h7z/view?usp=sharing

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Every September in Canada we recognize Orange Shirt Day, a day set aside to consider the impact that residential schools had on Indigenous communities and we talk about the victims. But what about those who ran the schools? Who worked there?

And what about the contemporary systems that we find ourselves in as both victims and workers.

Well first you need to convince people that there actually are systems and we can't bootstrap ourselves out as individuals.

Ken Williams, @feralplaywright on Twitter, joins us for a wide ranging discussion about systems.

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World Literature Professor and Romance Novelist Piper Huguley joins us again to talk books. We talk Shakespeare, Ibsen, dePIzon, and Federici. We talk about the ways in which books can open us up to new ideas and ways of thinking about things, and how far back the roots of feminism really go. And I suggest a book project for somebody if they want to take it on. Just mention me in the acknowledgements, ok?

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Angela Gray joins us again to talk about becoming Black. She was adopted by a white family and grew up outside Toronto in a largely white community, later moving to Vancouver as an adult. Angela talks about learning to see herself as a Black woman and what that meant for her, and her anticipation of going home to Jamaica.

Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dGRAFF4v_h7Rt5-Hxx8vikyR2FkI4ZCb/view?usp=sharing

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When people with one way of seeing the world encounter another group, they can't make sense of what they are seeing because it doesn't fit into their narrative, so what they see becomes altered to fit their ideas of how the world works.

Although there have always been historians and archeologists who have challenged these stereotypes, alternative views on history are coming more common, more accepted, and the fact is that Indigenous civilizations throughout what is now the colonized west had a much different way of living and organizing themselves. Our past really is a radical archive of possibilities.

We reference this article throughout our conversation with Lewis Borck.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2018/10/09/indigenous-people-invented-the-so-called-american-dream/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20yes%2Fmost-recent-articles%20%28YES%21%20Magazine%20Most%20Recent%20Articles%29

Transcript is available here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e6Hg8y2pePQjpgN8ShtL-Ro5eDMi-X1Q/view?usp=sharing

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What are you doing to impact the world?

A homework question launched Aisha Francis into interrogating her own life, what was present and what was missing in order to support the families impacted by the incarceration of one of their own. From the structural racism that results in the unreasonable numbers of BIPOC In jails, to disrupted grief, to what prison abolition would really take.

We are all impacted by the jail time of Black and Indigenous people. What can we do about it.

You can find Project FIBI here: https://www.restorefibi.com/about/

Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wUDRMNrPYbC7jbc0utEnQOVua7lBHMWX/view?usp=sharing

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Living in diaspora is hard, Black, Jewish, and Indigenous people find themselves living far from the land that made them. For how many generations can we continue to hold onto our identity before we become somebody who was descended from .. somebody with an approved ethnic identity that no longer challenges the state.

Preserving that so that our children grow up knowing who they are, sometimes means making hard decisions to stay alive. Sometimes it means holding onto things in secret so that there is something for those who do survive.

But a reset is coming.

Listen to Daniel Delgado, a Quechua Jewish writer talk about his Authentic Indigenous Identity.

Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_p8_8Pz4uvZLXf6J6rWVJ-dwd_X8m-L6/view?usp=sharing

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