Social Justice @UBC Lecture/Lunch
 
Wednesday Oct. 9, 12-1pm
Jack Bell Building, 2080 West Mall, Room 028 Directions to Office 038, Jack Bell Building: http://bit.ly/R5WyjE
Lunch Provided on RSVP wynn.archibald@ubc.ca
 
Dr. Dory Nason, Assistant Professor, Department of English & First Nations Studies Program, UBC
 
Dr. Dory Nason (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the 
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She currently holds a joint appointment with the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of 
English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. At UBC, Dr. Nason teaches Indigenous Literature and Criticism; 
Indigenous Theory and Research Methods; and Indigenous Feminisms. Dr. Nason recently received the 2013 UBC Killam Teaching Prize 
for recognition of excellence in teaching. She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Red Feminist Criticism: Indigenous 
Women, Activism and Cultural Production
 
Not Your Pocahontas:  Activism, Indigenous Women and Violence in Tailfeathers: A Red Girl's Reasoning and Bloodland
 
In this paper, I discuss two recent short films, Bloodland and A Red Girl's Reasoning, by Vancouver-based Blood/ S=E1mi filmmaker 
Elle-M=E1ij=E1 Tailfeathers.  Tailfeathers, a self-identified Indigenous feminist, creates films that address violence against 
Indigenous women in relation to ongoing forms of settler colonialism.  Her choice of experimental and genre filmmaking thwart 
conventional expectations of Indigenous women in film, and raise interesting questions about activism through independent 
filmmaking outside of documentary.
 

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