otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk: Métis in Space
Hosted by Chelsea Vowel and Molly Swain, Métis in Space is an Indigenous feminist science fiction podcast that brings into conversation critiques of mainstream portrayals of Indigenous people with anti-colonial futurities and imaginings.
A two-time Parsec Award nominee, Métis in Space has been invited to record in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Montréal, and has been featured in/on Bitch Magazine, THIS Magazine, CBC, Buzzfeed, Canadian Dimensions, Women at Warp, A Tribe Called Geek, and Treyf: A Debatably Jewish Podcast, among others. Métis in Space is part of the Indian and Cowboy Media Network, and can be found at metisinspace.com or through purveyors of fine podcasts everywhere.
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“Giving my children Cree names is a powerful act of reclamation.” CBC. November 4, 2018.
“Joking about stealing my baby isn’t funny.” Today’s Parent, republished in Chatelaine. October 26, 2017.
“Why Indigenous languages should be taught alongside French and English.” Chatelaine, republished in Maclean’s. November 15, 2017.
“Blanket Statement.” Invited feature article. Canadian Art Summer 2017 issue, Kinship.
“Exposing five myths about Indigenous peoples.” University of Alberta New Trail Spring 2017, May 24, 2017.
“Indigenous resistance has reached a tipping point.” Canadaland. May 16, 2017.
“Coming Together: Canada’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission so far.” Alberta Views Magazine, Special Issue Looking Beyond the Indian Act. December 1, 2016.
“White Settler Antipathy and the Daniels Decision.” With Darryl Leroux. TOPIA, Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. Number 26, Fall 2016. 30-42.
“What it means to move back home when you’re Métis.” TVO. May 16, 2016.
“What a landmark ruling means – and doesn’t – for Métis, non-status Indians.” CBC Analysis. April 16, 2016.
“Scott Gilmore and the ‘Imaginary Indian’”. Canadaland Commons. January 29, 2016.
“Debunking the myth that Canadian schools teach enough about indigenous people.” CBC Opinion. December 23, 2015.
“Disturbing trend in debate on inquiry into missing, murdered aboriginal women.” CBC Opinion. April 29, 2014.
“Indigenous and Two-Spirited people: our work is decolonization.” GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine Spring 2014 issue, Women’s Work.
“Our Children, Our Education.” Equinox Summit: Learning 2030. November 1, 2013.
April 6, 2019. Keynote. Law For the Apocalypse: Order out of Chaos Kinship Out of Fracture. Indigenous/Settler conference. Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey.
February 13, 2019. Talk back panelist with Molly Swain, Tracy Bear, and Jodi Calahoo-Stonehouse, Michael Redhead Champagne Keynote. Indigenous Masculinity. First Peoples’ House, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta.
February 13, 2019. Speaker. Impacts of Colonialism. Lunch and Learn Series. Indigenous Healthy, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta.
January 16, 2019. Book Talk with Julie Rak, Hannah McGregor, Marilyn Dumont, CJ Bogie, and Nikki Reimer. CanLit: No Appeal. Refuse: CanLit in Ruins book launch. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta.
January 16, 2019. Speaker with Hannah McGregor. Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Canadian Literature Centre Brown Bag Lunch Reading and live podcast. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta.
November 23, 2018. Panelist with Shannon Dea, Peter Ives, Anver Saloojee, and Rinaldo Walcott. The Myth of Academic Freedom: For the ‘Most’ Human Only. Within and against Academic Freedom Symposium. Women and Gender Studies Institute. Toronto, Ontario.
November 21, 2018. Speaker. Law For the Apocalypse: Order out of Chaos Kinship Out of Fracture. Indigenous Scholars Lecture Series. Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. Windsor, Ontario.
September 14, 2018. Keynote. Publishers as Power Brokers. Book Publishers Association of Alberta Conference and Annual General Meeting. Calgary, Alberta.
September 7, 2018. Live Podcast with Molly Swain. Métis In Space: Three Indigenous Shorts. Exploring the New R&R: Resistance and Resilience of Indigenous Women’s Symposium. Indigenous Women and Youth Resilience Project, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta.
June 2018. Keynote. Own Voices: What About The White People? Association of Canadian Publishers Annual General Meeting. Montréal, Québec.
April 2018. Book talk. I Thought You Came From an Oral Culture? A Super Tradish Book Talk. Reconciliation In Solidarity Edmonton (RISE). Edmonton, Alberta.
April 2018. Invited talk. The Keys to the Kingdom: Now accepting Crown Lands and Cottages. Thinking Big About Alberta, Progress Summit. Broadbent Institute. Edmonton, Alberta.
March 2018. Keynote. Stories That Reveal, Stories that Conceal: Pushing Back Against Settler Myth-making. Think Indigenous: Celebrate the Métis. University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
February 2018. Panelist with Laura Madokoro, Barrington Walker, moderator Allan Downey. The Myth of Indigenous Taxation. Fairness and Inequality: “Race”. Who Pays for Canada: Taxes and Fairness. Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. McGill University. Montréal, Québec.
February 2018. Invited speaker. Books That Matter: Indigenous Writes with Chelsea Vowel. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University. Montréal, Québec.
February 2018. Speaker and workshop. Betraying Reconciliation: Indigenization or Pacification. Students’ Society of McGill University, McGill University. Montréal, Québec.
February 2018. Community Conversation with Lindsay Nixon, Robyn Maynard, and Sasha Simons. Undoing Harm: Surviving White Supremacy in Quebec by Taking Care of Each Other. Black and Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance. Montréal, Québec.
February 2018. Author talk with Billy-Ray Belcourt. Indigenous Writes. Making Meaning Symposium. Edmonton, Alberta.
January 2018. Invited speaker. Law and the Irreconcilable Indian. Indigenous Speaker series, Indigenous Affairs, University of Ottawa. Ottawa, Ontario.
January 2018. Invited speaker. The “Act” of Reconciliation: From Farce to Future. Meeting of Elementary Principles, Calgary Board of Education. Calgary, Alberta.
November 2017. Panelist with Idil Abdillahi, Nicholas Galanin, Kyle Mays, Shay Akil McClean, Eve Tuck, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Cherie Dimaline, Fikile Nxumalo, Zoe Samudzi, Mistinguette Smith. Getting Elsewhere on Selfsame Land. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario.
October 2017. Truth and History with Chelsea Vowel and Bev Sellars. Ottawa International Writers Festival. Ottawa, Ontario.
October 2017. Keynote. The “Act” of Reconciliation: from Farce to Future. Combined Honours Degree in Indigenous Studies Launch Event, School of Indigenous Studies, Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario.
October 2017. Saturday Night Showcase: Timely and Tasty Indigenous Voices. Panel discussion with Billy-Ray Belcourt, Dawn Dumont, Witi Ihimaera, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Wordfest. Calgary, Alberta.
October 2017. Culture Wars: The Indians Strike Back. In conversation with Joshua Whitehead. Wordfest. Calgary, Alberta.
October 2017. Live Podcast with Molly Swain, Dr. John W. Hepburn, Erin Bow, and Dr. Eric Bibeau, introduced by The Honorable Kirsty Duncan. Tomorrowland: Pushing the Frontiers of Science and Innovation. National Research Council Canada, Generation Energy: Moving Canada Forward Conference. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
March 2017. Podcasting workshop with Molly Swain. Podcasting 101: From Conception to Distribution. Intersections of Queer Symposium. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta.
March 2017. Invited speaker. Troubling Territorial Acknowledgements: QTBIPOC Kinscapes. Queer and Trans Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour Rally. Pride Week, Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta.
February 2017. Indigenization in the Time of Pipelines. Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series, University of Winnipeg.
November 2016. Book Launch with Beatrice Mosionier. Indigenous Writes and April Raintree. McNally Robinson. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
October 2016. Keynote. Reconciliation in the Time of Pipelines. Social Justice and Anti-racist Anti-oppressive Forum on Education (SAFE). University of Regina. Regina, Saskatchewan.
April 2016. Roundtable discussion with Dr. Marie Wilson, Erica Lee, and Sean Carleton. (Re)Thinking Reconciliation. Indigenous Studies and The Peace Studies Initiative, Faculty of Arts, Mount Royal University. Calgary, Alberta.
September 2015. Moderator of panel with Bridget Tolley, Dawn Harvard, and Tanya Lalonde. Living Histories, Activist Futures. Resisting Gendered and State Violence: Indigenous Women’s Activism. Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, McGill University. Montréal, Québec.
November 2014. Invited speaker. Integrating Indigenous History and Culture in the Classroom. Québec Provincial Association of Teachers Annual Convention. Montréal, Québec.
September 2014. Invited moderator and panelist with Naomi Sayers, Jessica Danforth, Erin Konsmo. wâniskâtân nîtisânitik: Indigenous Feminist and Two-Spirit Resistance on Turtle Island. Concordia University. Montréal, Québec.
September 2014. Invited speaker. kinêhiyawiwinaw nêhiyawêwin: Why language is Vital to Indigenous Resurgence. wâniskâtân nîtisânitik: Indigenous Feminist and Two-Spirit Resistance on Turtle Island. Concordia University. Montréal, Québec.
September 2014. Parliament Hill Press Conference with Stephen Kakfwi, Mary Simon, Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, Ovide Mercredi, Rt. Hon. Paul Martin. Launch of Canadians for a New Partnership. Parliament Hill Press Gallery. Ottawa, Ontario.
April 2014. Invited panelist with Floyd Favel, Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer, Karl Hele, Anik Sioui, Emilie Monnet, and M.J. Thompson. Roundtable Discussion: Attawapiskat is No Exception (play). Concordia University. Montréal, Québec.
March 2014. Invited reading. A Problem So Big it Needs Other People: No reading after the internet. SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. Montréal, Québec.
March 2014. Invited speaker. Niigaan: in Conversation, The First Nations Education Act. Ottawa, Ontario.
December 2013. Invited speaker. Red Talks: Replacing the Indian Act – Indigenous Future in Canada and Beyond. University of Regina. Regina, Saskatchewan.
November 2013. Invited panelist with Ellen Gabriel, and C. Monge. Supporting Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination: Building a Solidarity City. Concordia University. Montréal, Québec.
November 2013. Invited panelist with Kahtehróni:ni Iris Stacey, Leith Mahkewa, Manon Tremblay, Louise Halfe. Spoken Word Festival: Indigenous Languages, Heritage and Spirit. The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. MAI. Montréal, Québec.
July 2013. Invited plenary speaker. Miyo-wîcêhtowin: Renewing the Relationship between and Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. IB World Student Conference. University of McGill. Montréal, Québec.
June 2013. Panelist with Waubgeshig Rice, Ed Bianchi, John Borrows, Verna McGregor, and Shiri Pasternak. Niigaan: An Evening of Conversation. Ottawa, Ontario.
June 2013. Talk. What Do We Want? Niigaan: An Evening of Conversation. Ottawa, Ontario.
June 2013. Invited speaker. From Termination to Reconciliation: How Canadians can Help Renew the Treaty Relationship. Amnesty International Annual General Meeting. St. Paul’s University. Ottawa, Ontario.
March 2013. APTN National News and Current Affairs Live Town Hall: Political Fairness and Economic Equality in Canada. Discussion with Lawrence Nayally, Ryan McMahon, Raven Hart-Bellecourt, Leo Baskatwang. In Focus, APTN. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
March 2013. Panelist with Ellen Gabriel, Naomi Klein, Art Manuel, and Carla Robinson. Nation to Nation Now: Building a New Relationship. University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario.
March 2013. Panelist with Shaina Agabyani, Aaron Barcant, and Khelsilem. Closing panel: Culture and Race, Languages of Resistance. Study in Action. Concordia University. Montréal, Québec.
March 2013. Invited speaker. Aboriginal Law Students Association Speaker’s Series: Water Law and Indigenous People. University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. Edmonton, Alberta.
January 2013. Invited panelist. Idle No More: Bill C45, Indigenous Law and Misconceptions. McGill Indigenous Student Alliance. McGill University. Montréal, Québec.
January 2013. Invited panelist. Idle No More Teach-in. Idle No More QC. Montréal, Québec.
December 2012. Invited speaker. Idle No More Manif. Montréal, Québec.
April 11, 2012. Invited singer. KANATA Journal Launch. University of McGill. Montréal, Québec.
October 6, 2011. Invited singer. Soirée Art-Culture Autochtone. Cercle des Premières Nations de l’UQAM. L’Escalier. Montréal, Québec.
September 9, 2011. Invited singer. Aboriginal Awareness Week: Rhythm Nights. The Yellow Door. Montréal, Québec.
June 21, 2011. Invited singer. Aboriginal Day Celebration: Re-Opening of Native Friendship Centre of Montréal. Montréal, Québec.
May 3, 2010. Invited singer. Missing Justice Benefit Show. Montréal, Québec.
“No Appeal.” Poem. Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Edited Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker. Book*hug, Spring/summer 2018.
“Dirty Wings”. On Spec. #107 vol 28 no 4. Spring 2018.
“White Settler Antipathy and the Daniels Decision.” With Darryl Leroux. TOPIA, Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. Number 26, Fall 2016. 30-42.
“Indigenous reconciliation becomes a distraction for the Liberals.” Ottawa Citizen. Print/Online. September 29, 2016.
“Nü Moccasin Telegraph interview: Métis in Space.” Kimiwan Zine, takwâkin 2014. Indigenous Futurisms issue. Fall 2014.
“Canada, It’s Time. We Need to Fix This in Our Generation.” Invited book chapter. The Winter We Danced: Voices From the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, ARP Books, 2014. 129-132.
“Idle No More: Where Do We Go From Here?” Invited book chapter. The Winter We Danced: Voices From the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, ARP Books, 2014. 307-313.
“There’s a Good Reason the Natives are Restless”, Selected book chapter. The Best of Rabble.ca Edition 2014: The Year of Living Consciously.
“Everything You Need to Know About Elsipogtog.”, Selected book chapter. The Best of Rabble.ca Edition 2013: Red Squares, White Feathers.
“The reports of our cultural deaths have always been greatly exaggerated.” FUSE Magazine 35-3 Summer 2013, Survival and Survivalists. 12-17.
“Calling all our superheroes: success, sacrifice and Indigenous education.” Briarpatch Magazine May/June 2013, 40th Anniversary Special Edition.
“The often ignored facts about Elsipogtog.” The Toronto Star, November 14, 2013.
“Idle No More only sounds vague. Let’s talk specifics.” The Globe and Mail, January 9, 2013.
“Assimilation is not the answer to the Aboriginal ‘problem’.” special to National Post, The National Post: Full Comment, December 31, 2012.
“No, things are not getting better for Canadian Natives.” special to National Post, The National Post: Full Comment, December 24, 2012.
“Canada, the natives are restless. It’s time to fix this relationship.” special to National Post, The National Post: Full Comment, December 21, 2012.
“The real math behind Attawapiskat’s $90 million.” special to National post, The National Post: Full Comment, December 4, 2011.