I live on the traditional lands of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. I think it's a little pathetic that I can't spell, from memory, the names of the Indigenous nations that live(d) in this region. I'm working on that. In early June I attended the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, an annual meeting of various disciplinary academic associations. Although I attend Congress regularly, I have rarely have attended sessions hosted by non-philosophy associations … [Read more...]
On having status
For professional and personal reasons, this week I've been thinking about what it means to have status within a political community. It just so happens that events in my personal biography have corresponded with two days calling for attention to status in various respects: Wednesday was World Refugee Day, and yesterday was National Indigenous People's Day in Canada. (I'm celebrating the latter belatedly by attending the Faculty Association's Reading Circle on Indigeneity and the University … [Read more...]
Reading Indigenous Writes by Chelsea Vowel
Preamble Below, I have re-blogged a post I wrote for the University of Waterloo Faculty Association's blog. It's the first in a series of posts from faculty members about books we've been reading relating to Indigenization. When we were divvying up books to read, I jumped at the chance to read Vowel's non-fiction, as I am a huge fan of the Métis in Space podcast, which she co-hosts with Molly Swain. Between the time I wrote this post and its publication, I've also had the pleasure of … [Read more...]