
Abolition, Care & Indigenous Liberation: Dian Million & Stephanie Lumsden
Thu, May 5th, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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This conversation between Dian Million and Stephanie Lumsden will explore Indigenous resistance to the carceral state, care, poetics, and the necessity of abolition for Indigenous liberation.
Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights, along with several enduring poems and articles: “There is a River in Me: Theory From Life,” “Intense Dreaming: Theories, Narratives and Our Search for Home,” and “Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History.” Million centers her work on the effect/affect of racial capitalism/settler colonialism on Indigenous family and community health in North America informed by two generations of Indigenous Feminist scholarship and activism. Million seeks to illuminate the ways in which Indigenous life reorganizes and resurges, making intentional life and kin in the face of colonial violence
Stephanie Lumsden is a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies from Portland State University in 2011 and her Master’s degree in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis in 2014. She earned her second Master’s degree in Gender Studies in 2018. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Gender Studies department at UCLA and a recipient of the Ford dissertation fellowship. Her dissertation project examines the relationship between ongoing Indigenous dispossession and carceral statecraft in northwestern California. Stephanie is the recipient of the 2022 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship.
policing nations lecture series: decolonization and abolition is a two-part event series that explores the connections between Indigenous and Black liberation, decolonization, and abolition of the carceral state – extending the work of the AMST 401 Policing Nations into a series of public conversations. These events are sponsored by the Mellon Just Futures Initiative and the American Studies Program at Williams College
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