Indigenous Illuminated

June 20, 2023

Love After the End dreams of Two Spirit and Indigiqueer utopias

Coming into a discussion about Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, I was not expecting to hear about a human and an AI rat falling in love.

Elena Massing

June 2, 2022

Beads that connect: Indigenous UBC students and their beadwork

Even before the start of the pandemic, Indigenous students have been using traditional Indigenous beadwork to enrich their lives. But since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, beadwork has become an even stronger healing art.

Shane Atienza

May 20, 2022

Your Voice is Power: Where computer science and social justice hit the right notes

Alongside the fundamentals of computer science and entrepreneurship, the curriculum educates students on Indigenous history, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, and encourages them to “use their voice in a powerful way.”

Kaila Johnson

December 2, 2021

Book Review: UBC student Nicola l. Campbell's Spíləx̣m is a new kind of memoir

Don’t let the poetry deter you, Campbell’s work is easy to understand and uses imagery to immediately paint a vivid backdrop.

Lauren Kasowski

November 25, 2021

Zee Zee Theatre is back with Virtual Humanity: Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Futures this winter

“The only way for us to build a positive future is to come from a place of knowledge and understanding,” said Jordy Matheson.

Sarah Ong

November 18, 2021

UBC Professor McIvor’s new book Standoff challenges us to ‘sit in our discomfort’

McIvor advises readers to “be open to setting aside and questioning some of [their] assumed knowledge about the law” before engaging with this book.

Jasmine Cadeliña Manango

October 5, 2021

Dr. Raven Sinclair delves into the realities of the Canadian residential school and child welfare system

The ‘Indigenous child removal system’ is a term coined by Sinclair to describe the relationship between the residential school system and the child welfare system.

Jasmine Cadeliña Manango

July 12, 2021

Decolonizing starts with education. X̱wi7x̱wa Librarians are here to help.

From decolonial research to digitizing records, X̱wi7x̱wa Library amplifies voices which have historically been silenced.

Tova Gaster

June 21, 2021

Michelle Good's Five Little Indians: Building community

As a Cree lawyer, poet and writer, Good’s representation of residential school survivors and intergenerational survivors in her novel, Five Little Indians, comes from lived experience.

Tianne Jensen-DesJardins

June 14, 2021

Salmonberry Stories: Protect the people, protect the land

“When you give, there is something that returns to you,” Dr. Ryan said.

Z. Aazadeh Raja

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