Please join Inspired Word Cafe and Dr. Astrida Neimanis and Michael V. Smith (Co-Directors of the Biodiversities of Gender project) for a writing workshop facilitated by visiting author Joshua Whitehead.
Joshua Whitehead
Biodiversities of Gender investigates the intersections of gender, climate crisis, and place, with a particular grounding here on Syilx lands, in Kelowna, BC. Fostering a sense of abundance, BOG encourages creative process as an opening to more dynamic considerations around gender and climate equity. Overall, BOG will meaningfully contribute to a safer local community where new gender, climate and anticolonial cultural abundance can flourish through research-creation.
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. He is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and English at the University of Calgary on Treaty 7 territory. He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, and the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. His book of non-fiction, Making Love with the Land released in Spring 2022. Follow him on Twitter or Instagram at: @JWhitehead204.
Joshua prefers to write about Indigeneity, and more specifically, 2SQ (Two-Spirit, queer Indigeneity). His poetic style is usually lyrical, experimental, and intertextual, he likes to use repetition and anaphora to help structure his poems, along with a multitude of voices to help his speakers sing.
Please come with pen and paper!
Where: ORL Downtown Library Classroom 1 Upstairs
When: March 7th, 2025 from 12-2pm
Cost: Free
What: More details TBA!
To register to attend, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/1UW1JNZtBffQYAym6