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.
Indigenous Sexual Futures
EP.10: Indigenous Eroticism, Body Sovereignty, Sexuality and Landback
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In Episode 10, Doris invites Dr. Savage Bear, (Nêhiyawiskwew) to the Indigenous Sexual Futures table to unpack for us, the expansiveness of Indigenous eroticism that goes beyond just talking about sex and sexuality. If you have you ever wondered how Indigenous eroticisms connects to the land, #Landback and sovereignty and so much more, then you will have to listen to this episode where Savage unpacks it all for us. Savage Bear is a citizen of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation. As well as serving as the Director for the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute, she is an Assistant Professor within the Indigenous Studies Department, and the National Director of Walls to Bridges. Bear won the Governor General Gold Medal for her outstanding 2016 PhD dissertation. In 2023 Bear was appointed to the Order of Canada for her exemplary achievement and positive impacts for transformative change in the areas of Indigenous rights, prison education and academic leadership.
Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the following for their contributions towards Episode 10 of Indigenous Sexual Futures
Special Guest
Dr. Savage Bear - Nêhiyawiskwew
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), Sabina Rajkumar (Research Assistant) & Catherine Booker (Finance, part-time)
Podcast Branding Design
Compassion Creative
Podcast Web Development
Will Gooding, Doris Peltier
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.
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