The I'm going to be here. Hi there this is Melanie Yazzi co-host of Red Power Hour welcome back to the

Red Nation podcast we're taking a bit of a break this week from recording

original podcasts and so what I'd like to share with you today

is a lecture from Professor Kim Tallbear.

Kim Tallbear is a Dakota intellectual,

trained in anthropology, but does incredible work on feminist and queer politics

in relationship to indigenous social movements

in North America and notions of kinship

and caretaking in this talk which is titled

Making Love and Relations beyond settler sexualities. Dr Tallbarer, you know, talks

a lot about caretaking from an indigenous perspective and how a notion of expansive caretaking which is something that the Red Nation and myself also have written about extensively in the 2019 statement that we released called

queer indigenous feminism does not discriminate.

That indigenous notions of caretaking and kinship aren't attached to

heteroormative or heterosexual coupling or even a notion of heterosexual

motherhood and that motherhood itself wasn't attached to a particular type of

gendered identity or particular type of body. Relations were care taken and

continue to be care taken in indigenous contexts by a number of different relatives.

It doesn't matter what their gender identity is. And so she takes this

notion of indigenous caretaking, what I've often called expansive caretaking and relationality,

and she applies it to a critique of settler sexuality, right?

A type of settler sexuality that depends upon monogamous marriage, binary gender, and

heterosexuality.

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