Join Gina Starblanket for the Winnipeg launch of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition (Fernwood Publishing). Featuring a conversation hosted by Mylène Yannick Gamache followed by a book signing.
The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and can streamed at: https://youtube.com/live/_9Vr9TtU1JI
The third edition of this iconic collection features Indigenous feminist voices from across generations and locations, including many exciting new contributors. Curated by award-winning scholar Gina Starblanket, this edition reflects and celebrates Indigenous feminism’s intergenerational longevity through the changing landscape of anti-colonial struggle and theory.
Dr. Gina Starblanket is an associate professor in the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. She is Cree/Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4. Dr. Starblanket studies Indigenous–settler political relations with a specific focus on Indigenous politics in the prairies, the politics of treaty implementation and Indigenous movements towards social and political transformation. She is the author of important sole and co-authored interventions theorizing relational responsibilities to the land, including Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial and the fifth edition of Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Mylène Yannick Gamache is a Franco-Métis Assistant Professor, cross-appointed in Indigenous Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. Red River Métis by her mother line with Carrière relations in St. Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba, and Beauchemin relations in St. Vital and Îles-des-Chênes, Manitoba, she is a member of l’Union Nationale Métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba and an MMF citizen. Her work has been published in Australian Feminist Studies, The Oxford Literary Review, Feminist Review, and English Studies in Canada.