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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