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OGEMA : I AM WOMAN

Lee Maracle, Author Lecture

Discussion Questions

Do you think humor is a useful in interrogating themes of colonial violence?

Lucy Hache and Reba DeGuevara

How can incorporating traditional (and often sacred) traditional Indigenous legends and the beings from these stories (Raven, two headed serpent, etc.) into contemporary pieces play a decolonizing role. What are some of the issues that can arise from this?

biography

Reba Witnessing

Track Tramp: Shes

Got Her Hand On A

Hot Rail!

Red Top Tramp: Shes Got

To Blow Off Steam From

A Hot Situation

Reviews

Lee Maracle is an Aboriginal Canadian* writer. Through her novels, poetry, drama, performance art and storytelling, she exposes and explores the experience of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Her work re-imagines centuries-old myth and tradition for future generations, and reflects her antipathy toward sexism, racism and white cultural domination.

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Lucy Witnessing

Rough and Ready: Her Twin

guns Cocked She Comes Down

Hard On A Gang Of Outlaws Fixin'

To Excite An Uprising

"Hot Texas Tail: She Puts the Squeeze On Her Captives - Until She Gets Whats Coming To Her"

  • Centers Matriarchal Modes of Seeing and Being
  • Make Indigenous Women's Accomplishments Visible
  • Focus on positive and constructive counteractions against gendered colonial violence
  • Challenge what we know about Indigenous Women's Roles
  • Curated by Léa Toulouse

The artists' works speak through and beyond colonial history and language with reference to the idea of ‘resurgence’ posited by Leanne Simpson in Dancing on our Turtle’s Back. An integral part of resurgence are creation stories—stories that make up a significant part of the framework of Indigenous identity. According to Simpson, we are taught to insert ourselves into the story, as the artists do by capturing their own depictions of Indigeneity. The term resurgence as defined by Simpson serves to enrich the definition of the matriarch as it pertains to Indigenous people. This exhibition will establish the role of Indigenous women in decolonization as first and foremost self-determined, as well as raise questions surrounding decolonial theories and traditions in the contemporary contexts of both art and politics, using the act of creation as a political performance.

I Am Woman

Memory Serves

"When Writing this book, I felt like I was breathing every word." - Lee Maracle

- I Am Woman took two weeks to write.

-Mojica's Mining the body for organic text

"Memory serves. Once we understood order, narural order. First comes the crying, and then comes the laughter. Babies cry for months at birth. Babies' tears are their first language. This language was understood by grandmothers who were proud of their grandchildren's capacity to create language of the original voice creation gave us – crying." -Lee Maracle in Memory Serves

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