Through reference to the new, third edition of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Publishing, 2024), Dr. Gina Starblanket explores the diverse ways that Indigenous feminist analyses have historically worked to identify and challenge colonialism and heteropatriarchy within Canadian legal and political systems. The ways in which they are engaging new sites, actors, and approaches as they work towards expansive modes of transformation and relationship-building within Indigenous and settler communities.

Gina Starblanket is Cree and Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory. She is principal investigator of the SSHRC-funded Prairie Relationality Network, co-author of Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial (ARP: 2020), and co-editor of Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada (OUP: 2019). Gina’s research focuses on Indigenous political life and takes up questions relating to decolonization, gender, Indigenous feminism, treaty implementation, and relationality.

The event will take place from 12:30pm – 1:30pm  on Friday, November 8. Participants may attend via Zoom or in person in the Fasken Martineau Classroom, Room 122 at Allard Hall – 1822 East Mall, Vancouver BC.

There is no registration process for in-person attendees. To register for the Zoom link, click here