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Tender Readings Podcast, Episode 2
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This podcast originally appeared on graduate student Isobel Carnegie’s Soundcloud.
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Storying the Indigenous Experience
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Samantha Baran’s Medium bog. In their essay “Storying the Prairie West”, Gina Starblanket and Dallas Hunt elucidate Canada’s…
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The Indigenous Parasite: How Settler-Colonialism Dehumanizes Indigeneity
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Samantha Baran’s Medium bog. Indigenous peoples of Canada have long been denied the status of a Canadian citizen.…
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Hub 1: Digital Imaging
We are excited to be in the process of building our first constellations of collaborators around our first Hub: Digital Imaging. While representation alone should not be a final goal of NDN temporalities, media can provide an initial imaginary for NDN futures, one grounded in processes of communal- and self-transformation, defined through accessible modes of…
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Destruction and Healing in Arielle Twist’s Disintegrate/Dissociate
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Shubhneet Sandhu’s Medium bog. Arielle Twist writes an autobiographical collection of poems that explore how sexual violence can…
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The Collective “I” and the LGBT Voice in Twist’s Collection
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Alanna Sabatino’s Medium bog. Author of Disintegrate/Dissociate, Arielle Twist is of Cree descent, specifically Nehiyaw, and identifies as a Two-Spirit,…
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The “Self” and Biography as Decolonial Storytelling in Brandi Bird’s I Am Still Too Much
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Stephanie Rico’s Medium bog. Brandy Bird is a Two-Spirit Saulteaux and Cree poet. Bird grew up on Treaty…
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The Path to Finding Oneself
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Laraib Khan’s Medium bog. When I was buying I Am Still Too Much by Brandi Bird, the title immediately caught…
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The Effects of Settler Colonialism on Indigenous Self Identity, Culture, Family and Land Connection
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Selena Jodha’s Medium bog. Who is Brandi Bird and Where do They Come From? Brandi Bird is Saulteaux…
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An Observation and Analysis of “Disintegrate and Dissociate” by Arielle Twist
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Rachel Gopal’s Medium bog. Biography Arielle Twist is from George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan and currently resides in…
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