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10:00am CDT

A War Where All Wars Fit

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

Linda Quiquivix and Mohamed Abdou will lead a workshop discussion about the difference between the world of the above and the world of the below, or anti-colonial resistance vs. a path towards liberation for all, in Palestine, Abya Yala, and beyond. Participants will engage with questions from the facilitators about how organizers can build spiritual, ethical and political relationships across disparate communities and movements beyond identity reductionism, in light of false choices & new devastating threats in an era of perpetual crisis.

Speakers

Ashanti Alston

Mohamed Abdou

Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa... Read More →

Linda Quiquivix

Dr. Linda Quiquivix is a geographer, popular educator, writer, and translator of Maya-Mam roots raised by Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers and Jaguars. She organizes with Occupied Chumash and Tongva lands toward a world where many worlds fit. She is author and illustrator of Palestine... Read More →

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Indigenous Liberation

1:00pm CDT

A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." —Antonio Gramsci. We live in a time of monsters, and the unique perspective of Indigenous horror can teach us how to respond to them without becoming monsters ourselves.

Speakers

Robyn Bourgeois

Robyn Bourgeois is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Women's and Gender studies at Brock University. She is a Cree woman and currently the Vice Provost of Indigenous Engagement at Brock University.

Patty Krawec

Patty Krawec is a public thinker and writer, the author of Becoming Kin and the upcoming Bad Indians Book Club which examines how Indigeous and subaltern writers can help us imagine better worlds.

Kali Simmons

Kali Simmons is an Assistant Professor of English and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Conneticut. She is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and examines the representation of Indigenous people in contemporary horror.

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Indigenous Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

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What happens when an entire people are systematically dehumanized, their histories erased, and their identities weaponized against them? Anti-Kashmiri racism operates at the intersection of imperialism, settler-colonialisms, anti-Asian, anti-Muslim, and anti-Indigenous racism, portraying Kashmiris as perpetual threats and incapable of self-rule. This talk unpacks how such narratives legitimize genocidal settler-colonial violence, land dispossession, and cultural erasure, drawing parallels with global anti-Indigenous struggles. By critically examining the rhetoric and policies that sustain an ongoing genocide, we will explore ways to advocate for justice for a free Kashmiri future.

Speakers

Binish Ahmed

Binish Ahmed (she/her) is an Asian Indigenous Kashmiri cis-woman, educator, artist, researcher, writer, an organizer. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, she now lives in Tkaronto, the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt treaty territory. Her work centers on decolonizing research methods, governance... Read More →

Sponsors

Kashmir Gulposh

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
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Indigenous Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Why Is Sex a “Thing”? Making Relations against Settler-Colonialism

Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT

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In this talk, Dr. Kim TallBear explains how the very ideas of sex and nature cut networked relations into manageable objects or “things” that help maintain colonial domination. She draws on the insights of critical Indigenous and sexuality studies to offer alternative ways of thinking and doing intimacy.

Speakers

Kim TallBear

Kim TallBear (she/her) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a Dakota nation in present-day South Dakota. She is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She earned a B.A... Read More →

Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA

Indigenous Liberation