Kim "TallBear" = Taking getting a BA in BS to a whole new level.

"For this conversation with Marcelo Garzo Montalvo, Professor Kim TallBear will discuss how her work in Indigenous STS recently expanded to a new focus on decolonial and Indigenous sexualities. Building on lessons learned with geneticists about how race categories get settled, TallBear is working on a book that interrogates settler-colonial commitments to settlement in place, within disciplines, and within monogamous, state-sanctioned marriage. As she writes in “Disrupting Settlement, Sex, and Nature — and Indigenous Logic of Relaitonality”: Indigenous peoples—post-apocalyptic for centuries—have been disciplined by the state according to a monogamist, heteronormative, marriage-focused, nuclear family ideal that is central to the colonial project. Settler sexualities and their unsustainable kin forms do not only harm humans, but they harm the earth.” TallBear considers how expansive indigenous concepts of kin, including with other-than-humans, can serve as a provocation for moving into more sustainable and just relations. Both of our speakers would like this event to be a conversation format. Come prepared with questions to contribute to this important and timely discussion with a leading scholar in the field! "