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A reminder of our TRC workshop with Dian Million tomorrow:
Friday March 18, 2016
10:30 am – 1:30 pm
Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House
University of Victoria, Lekwungen Territory
10:30 am– 11:30 am: Keynote: Dr. Dian Million
"Practicing 'Decolonial Love': Damages, Relations, Truth and Telling"
Taking seriously Leanne Simpson's beautiful and challenging admonition to practice 'Decolonial Love", I ask what are the practices of love for our selves in the midst of so much state violence. Looking at a bigger picture of two nations states where Indigenous women are murdered or go missing daily, where our families still lose large numbers of children to state and provincial social welfare systems, and our youth to prisons what is this love we summon? One of the recent TRC recommendations is that Canada hold a truth and telling on the conditions that kill so many Native women. I argue that the larger state attacks on our... families and communities should never be disaggregated from such a "telling." Our own regenerative practices of Indigenous culture and resistance are expressions of our self-love but never in isolation, alone. I challenge all Canadian citizens to come forward and say what their own practices of truth and love are for Indigenous lives and places in the face of an ongoing genocide practiced in their name.
11:30 am – 1:30 pm: Lunch, discussion with graphic recording
Two great events on Monday, March 21:
Special Burton Commemorative Lecture:
Children of Denial
With Elder Larry Grant, Musqueam NationDuring his talk, Elder Larry Grant will reflect on his challenges growing up of Musqueam and Chinese ancestry. His lecture willdiscuss how self-respect, identity,and human rights have been denied to Indigenous children through government legislation,and how social issues such as these continue to exist today. He will also speak about his quest to find his father’s relatives in China. The official trailer for All Our Father’s Relations, a documentary film to be released this summer will be screened.
March 21, 2016 | 7 pmHSD Building, Room A240, UVicFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLICSponsored by UVIC History, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Indigenous Studies, Social Justice Studies, the Neil Burton Commemorative Fund, and VP Academic Community Building Fund.
Margo Matwychuk
Director, Social Justice Studies
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