MEDIA INDIGENA 292
Added 2022-06-12 22:07:14 +0000 UTCDealbreakers and types / MI 292
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Our tenth 'MINI' INDIGENA of the season runs the gamut as usual, with MEDIA INDIGENA regulars Ken Williams (assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama) and Kim TallBear (U of A professor in the Faculty of Native Studies) joining host/producer Rick Harp Saturday, June 11 via the Callin app to discuss...
• Riffing off “an African sense of western gender discourses” (as detailed in the book The Invention of Women by Oyeronke Oyewumi), Kim wants to know what Rick and Ken’s dating dealbreakers are;
• Ken delves into the story of Cree/Métis scholar Réal Carrière, who told CBC he was rejected for a job by higher-ups at the University of Saskatchewan over a lack of documentation;
• Boardgaming nerd Rick shares news sent his way about Ezhishin, the “first-ever conference on Native North American typography” set for this November;
• Patreon supporter Mark asks us to discuss Bill 96, the new Quebec language law which will effectively require English-schooled students “of Kanien’kehá:ka, Cree, Inuit and Algonquin ancestry … to master two colonial languages to attain a college degree”
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Comments
No comment on a deal-breaker, but I would like to offer a comment on Bill 96. Is it racist and/or White Supremacist? Of course. Is it *more* racist and/or White Supremacist than the Canadian Constitution and the Canadian Charter of "Rights and Freedoms"? In my mind the answer is *NO*. I am of the opinion that most of the opposition to Bill 96 is anti-French bigotry from British loyalists. Any non-Indigenous person complaining should instead be working to make the Canadian Constitution and Charter less racist before pointing fingers at Quebec. I have similar thoughts about Quebec's Bill 21. If there were clear exceptions for Indigenous worldviews, it would be a clearly anti-Colonial bill given the ongoing harm that Christianity and other foreign Abrahamic Supremacist worldviews have brought to this continent.
Russell McOrmond
2022-07-10 17:13:53 +0000 UTCGlad you like it! We have been experimenting with different tracks for the MINIs; contemplating doing a survey of patrons to see their most/least favourites!
Rick Harp
2022-06-15 16:28:20 +0000 UTCThe new intro music is EVERYTHING <3
Dorothy H
2022-06-15 16:24:01 +0000 UTC
