Indigenous and People of Color Writing Panels Organized by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
"In a Place of Bones: Indigenous Place-Based Writing"
Date & Location:
Friday, April 9, 2010, 4:30pm-5:45pm, Session F224
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level, Room 207
Panelists:
Deborah A. Miranda, Chip Livingston, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui, Elaine Chukan Brown, & Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
Description:
Indigenous poets, novelists, nonfiction writers, and editors from North America, the Pacific, and Latinoámerica examine the ways place shapes and guides our writing. From the South to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears to the missions of California and coasts of Alaska, and from the edge of the U.S.-México frontera to the encroached-upon, urbanized spaces of NYC and Hawai'i, we will discuss the connections between Nations and narration, our bodies (of work) and the lands from which we are born.
This panel is a diverse multigenerational and multinational gathering of womanist and queer Native writers of Esselen/Chumash, Mvskoke, Kanien'kehaka/Onodowaga/Puerto Rican, Kanaka Maoli, Aleut/Inupiat, and Xicano/Rarámuri heritage. This panel will be of interest to Indigenous, queer, womanist, and other audiences of color, as well as other writers and editors seeking to help dislodge the Eurocentrism prevalent in the growing number of place-based writing journals available today.
"Decolonial Poetics: Womanist, Indigenous, and Queer Poets of Color on the Art of Decolonization"
Date & Location:
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 9am-10:15am, Session R117
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level, Rooms 301/302
Panelists:
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Susan Deer Cloud, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Ching-In Chen, & Tamiko Beyer
Description:
As poets of color, many of us see art playing a vital role in the decolonization of our bodies, cultures, and landbases. In what ways do we use writing as an act of re-creation, as means, alongside other forms of activism, organizing, and spirituality, by which to undo centuries of white supremacist, capitalist, and heteropatriarchal intrusions into the workings of our communities? How does poetry serve to decolonize our lives, and how must we decolonize our poetic traditions in order to live?
Weaving together important conversations in radical arts traditions in Indigenous, womanist, and queer people of color communities, this assemblage of writers will discuss the ways we engage in poetic decolonization. From issues of form, genre, and content to multilinguality, orality, and voice; narrativity and performance to gender, sexuality, race, and class; allusions and the specificity and multiplicity of audience to issues of the erotic, we will show and share the craft(s) of our creation.
(More information HERE.)
"In a Place of Bones: Indigenous Place-Based Writing"
Date & Location:
Friday, April 9, 2010, 4:30pm-5:45pm, Session F224
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level, Room 207
Panelists:
Deborah A. Miranda, Chip Livingston, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui, Elaine Chukan Brown, & Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
Description:
Indigenous poets, novelists, nonfiction writers, and editors from North America, the Pacific, and Latinoámerica examine the ways place shapes and guides our writing. From the South to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears to the missions of California and coasts of Alaska, and from the edge of the U.S.-México frontera to the encroached-upon, urbanized spaces of NYC and Hawai'i, we will discuss the connections between Nations and narration, our bodies (of work) and the lands from which we are born.
This panel is a diverse multigenerational and multinational gathering of womanist and queer Native writers of Esselen/Chumash, Mvskoke, Kanien'kehaka/Onodowaga/Puerto Rican, Kanaka Maoli, Aleut/Inupiat, and Xicano/Rarámuri heritage. This panel will be of interest to Indigenous, queer, womanist, and other audiences of color, as well as other writers and editors seeking to help dislodge the Eurocentrism prevalent in the growing number of place-based writing journals available today.
"Decolonial Poetics: Womanist, Indigenous, and Queer Poets of Color on the Art of Decolonization"
Date & Location:
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 9am-10:15am, Session R117
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level, Rooms 301/302
Panelists:
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Susan Deer Cloud, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Ching-In Chen, & Tamiko Beyer
Description:
As poets of color, many of us see art playing a vital role in the decolonization of our bodies, cultures, and landbases. In what ways do we use writing as an act of re-creation, as means, alongside other forms of activism, organizing, and spirituality, by which to undo centuries of white supremacist, capitalist, and heteropatriarchal intrusions into the workings of our communities? How does poetry serve to decolonize our lives, and how must we decolonize our poetic traditions in order to live?
Weaving together important conversations in radical arts traditions in Indigenous, womanist, and queer people of color communities, this assemblage of writers will discuss the ways we engage in poetic decolonization. From issues of form, genre, and content to multilinguality, orality, and voice; narrativity and performance to gender, sexuality, race, and class; allusions and the specificity and multiplicity of audience to issues of the erotic, we will show and share the craft(s) of our creation.
(More information HERE.)
