About
What might it mean to build movements from a place of yearning? What forms of action become possible when we privilege stories of desire, connection, freedom, culture and joy over the stories of damage told about, but never for our communities?
Bringing together four Indigenous writers from the stolen lands of Canada and Australia, this panel explores yearning as a creative and political force. Against narratives that define Indigenous lives through loss and harm, the panel takes up Unangax̂ scholar Eve Tuck’s practice of research by desire: asking us to attend to what people want, imagine, make and move towards. This conversation will consider writing and artmaking as acts of connection, sustained by language, culture, community and possibility, exploring how desire might become a form of urgency, resistance and collective movement.
The panel’s ripples extend across generations, geographies and forms: from cultural reclamation and radical joy to queerness, intimacy and the transformative possibilities of creative practice. Through conversation and readings from their work, the writers will explore the ways yearning can unsettle inherited narratives and open pathways towards other futures.
Featuring Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller Joshua Whitehead, Bardi Jawi poet Bebe Oliver, Bundjalung and Wiradjuri poet Evelyn Araluen, and Mohawk writer and editor Alicia Elliott, the panel is facilitated by Anishinaabe educator and artist Quill Christie-Peters.
Together, they ask: What do we become when we create space for yearning?
Published by University of Queensland Press
Published by House of Anansi Press
Published by Magabala Books
Dates & Times
Tickets
Under 30 $79
Under 30 $79
Under 30 $39
Excludes Masterclasses.
Under 30 $29
5-Day Festival Pass includes Barbara Kingsolver and East West Street: A Song of Good & Evil .
2-Day Weekend and 1-Day Passes do not include Winter Garden Theatre events.
Venue
Emmanuel College Chapel, Room 319
