Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Kim TallBear originally aired in February of 2020. Intimacy and sexuality is the soil that gives rise to creativity, pleasure and regeneration of new life. As mainstream understandings of sex, marriage, and family shift, Dr. Kim TallBear highlights how the colonial project of nation-building disrupted the vitality of Indigenous kinship by imposing heteronormative monogamous marriage and the nuclear family structure. How have these constraints bred hyper-sexualized, paradoxical and fetishized beliefs that degrade relationships, wellbeing of communities and the land? Dr. Kim TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment. By unraveling the doctrines of scarcity and separation, we are challenged to shatter pervasive beliefs of boundaries, binaries, and scarcity within our relations. Music by M83, Frazey Ford & FRASE. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show

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0:48.6	Welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young. Today I'm speaking with the doctor
0:54.4	Kim Talber, an associate professor in the faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta,
1:00.8	and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment.
1:06.4	She is also a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow and the author of Native American DNA,
1:13.1	Tribal Belonging, and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Talber earned her PhD from the
1:19.6	University of California Santa Cruz History of Consciousness Program, a master's in City Planning
1:26.2	from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BA in Community Planning from the University
1:32.4	of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a regular commentator in US, Canadian, and UK media outlets on issues
1:40.8	related to Indigenous Peoples, Science, and Technology. Building on her research on the role of
1:47.4	Technoscience in Settler Colonialism, Dr. Talber also studies the colonization of Indigenous
1:53.8	Sexuality. I think a lot about how making small practical changes can help us think in more
2:01.2	generous and expansive ways about who we might relate to. She co-produces with two other Indigenous
2:09.2	women, the Edmonton-based storytelling show, Teapican Fessions. She is a citizen of the
2:16.1	Sicitin-Wapatin-Oyete. She was raised on another Dakota reservation that of the Flanjou-Santisu
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