Ep.9 – Assessing Syphilis Rapid Testing in Inner-City Winnipeg using Indigenous Approaches Artwork

Indigenous Sexual Futures

Imagine talking about sexuality like we talk about food! It’s time to bring conversations of healthy sexuality to the kitchen table and be the future that our ancestors envisioned. It’s not just about sex; it is about the expansiveness of sexuality that encompass our understanding of the world, our relationships to land and water, and solving health issues that affect our communities. Indigenous Sexual Futures are stories of hope, truth, reclamation, strength, survivance and thrivance. Let’s feast while we imagine a new future that builds on the strength of Indigenous Knowledges on sexuality and embraces wholeness and health in our communities.

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Ep.9 – Assessing Syphilis Rapid Testing in Inner-City Winnipeg using Indigenous Approaches

December 04, 2024 • Hosted by Doris Peltier - Community Engagement Coordinator

In Episode 9, Doris invites Melissa Morris, 2-Spirit/Indigiqueer Community-based researcher, along with Dr. John Schellenberg, Assistant Professor in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at UofM to the table to talk about their research on assessing Syphilis rapid-testing diagnostic needs in community. Doris asked them to talk about their research approach in terms of how they combined basic science methods with Indigenous methods in their research. How do you deliver a project titled, Needs assessment for STBBI screening and other diagnostic services in Indigenous and non-Indigenous community settings: Experiences, preferences, and deal-breakers to community for it to be palatable and understood was the starting question, and off they went to tell the story of their research. A key point that John underscored was that quite often in research, Knowledge Translation is often relegated to the end when he believes that it should be at the front of your research, particularly in basic science. This episode also commemorates World AIDS Day 2024 and Indigenous AIDS Awareness week and highlights the tremendous gains in both scientific and Indigenous HIV research. Exciting!!! We hope that you will enjoy this episode.

We would like to acknowledge the following for their contributions towards Episode 9 of Indigenous Sexual Futures

Special Guest(s)

John Schellenberg
Melissa Morris - Métis

Host Storyteller/Producer

Doris Peltier

Technical Producer

Paula Burrows - Jupiter Productions

ISF Theme Music and Creative Sound

Cozmic Cat, Classic Roots, Elder Gayle Pruden

Indigenous Knowledge Advisory

Feast Centre Council of Elders and Gathering Lodge Committee

Executive Producer

Feast Centre - Randall Jackson

Feast Centre Staff

Will Gooding (National Director), Doris Peltier (Community Engagement Coordinator), Freddy Monasterio (Research Coordinator), Jordan Carrier (Research Assistant), Justin McDonald (Research Assistant), Sabina Rajkumar (Research Assistant) & Catherine Booker (Finance, part-time)

Podcast Branding Design

Compassion Creative

Podcast Web Development

Jordan Carrier

We acknowledge our funders:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Indigenous Sexual Futures is produced on the ancestral lands of the Mississauga and Haudenosaunee nations within the lands protected by the “Dish with One Spoon” wampum. We acknowledge the ancestors of this territory, and we also acknowledge the lands and territories of all our guests.