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Kim TallBear

@kimtallbear.bsky.social
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Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/SAN kimtallbear.substack.com; www.youtube.com/@ktallbear

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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A 'mini'-series that's anything but: 5+ HOURS of conversations curated from MEDIA INDIGENA's vault of episodes (now 381 + counting)! Loved that I got to revisit + reframe rich dialogues w/ @kimtallbear.bsky.social @trinaroache.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @maxliboiron.bsky.social + others
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Assistant Professor, LGBTQIA+ History The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Dept of History at Brown University invite applicants. All geographic and temporal specialties will be considered. Global South-related research of particular interest. apply.interfolio.com/191648
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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just watched @kimtallbear.bsky.social give such a good talk at the @umanitoba.bsky.social , if you ever get the chance to go see her talk do it!!
A stage featuring @kimtallbear and the intro slide to her talk called "The Indian's Death to Make Settler "Indigenous' Life"Professor Kim TallBear and  Dr. Angie Bruce  Vice-President (Indigenous) of the University of Manitoba sitting on a stage for a post talk chat and Q&A
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sold out? Wow ok then!
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Position open at UC Berkeley. Some good people in this department. I hope UCB is learning to check the claims to Indigenous affiliation of applicants. And obviously, California tribal people (from actual tribes, not 501(c)3's) should be prioritized.
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Assistant Professor- Indigeneities/Indigenous Feminisms From a Humanities Perspective – Department of Gender and Women's Studies
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lovingly hosted, produced + edited by yours truly, this Indigenous climate fight retrospective includes the insights of: @irinaceric.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social @trinaroache.bsky.social @kimtallbear.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @karynpugliese.bsky.social
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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Indigenous people are always the gauge of authenticity [such that] we end up being used as sort of a [settler] narrative device... to spin their dominant stories about the way that the world works, with very little attention to the way that we would story the world” @kimtallbear.bsky.social 👇
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
regarding frauds who speak on behalf of Indigenous peoples at the UN level: "Because the U.N. system relies heavily on NGO credentials and self-identification, it inadvertently creates a pathway to undeserved international legitimacy." This happens in Canada with 'environmental' research grants too
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
By Tristan Ahtone. Incisive quotes by Kyle Whyte on governance, representational & financial harm done to actual tribes from groups posing as tribes. Many people, including actual NDNs, uplift self-indigenizers and their tall tales as demonstrated in this lengthy article. #Pretendianism
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The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.
How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.
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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Feat. voices of @kimtallbear.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @reganboychuk.bsky.social @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @northendmc.bsky.social + more!!
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 28/05/2026
Strib finally publishes the story on MPD wildly overspending to do nothing during the ICE siege: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... You can compare this version to the one that was pulled: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... (ht @roblevine82.bsky.social)
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Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime
The MPD prioritized preventing large-scale civil unrest over responding to calls from residents concerned about unlawful force by ICE, and racked up huge OT costs doing it.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
FULBRIGHT OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDING: Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Scholarship, McMaster University Indigenous Studies Department McMaster Indigenous Research Institute
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Research Chairs - All Disciplines
Award 271429-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPEN Awards to be taken up in the  2027-2028 Academic Year...
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Important development in Vermont in the resistance to #pretendianism
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Amid Backlash, Burlington City Council Rejects Abenaki Gift | Seven Days
The 11-1 vote came after councilors heard overwhelmingly from people who believe the four tribes recognized by the state of Vermont are illegitimate.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I'm watching now. Nick Estes just started. Great beginning to this event. A nice antidote to tiresome liberal American historians who see trump and this moment as some kind of aberration within an otherwise redeemable US American project.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Tomorrow at 1pm CT. Zoom registration available. Featuring my University of Minnesota American Indian Studies colleague, Nick Estes.
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Operation Metro Surge, State Violence, and Resistance at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus
This panel examines Operation Metro Surge’s impact on UMN, highlighting faculty and student resistance to state violence, racial profiling, and the defense of vulnerable groups.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal ‘the US is continuing to use Shannon Airport to facilitate its deportation operations’. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal
Man arrived in the central American country on Friday as part of a group of 22 deportees
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Paul Robbins @earthfutures.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Most major online systems we use every day are underwritten by unremunerated labor on which Capital has taken a free ride for decades. When that ends, more than security is thrown into dissaray. The political economy of the internet goes upside down. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
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Opinion | It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Happy to answer questions about the program. #SINGCanada2026
Applications are due
Sunday April 19th!

For more information and access to the
application form, visit sing-canada.ca.

Email: admin.singcanada@gmail.com
SING Canada (the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in
Genomics) is an all expenses paid (travel, accommodation, meals),
Indigenous-led training program offered to Indigenous students and
community fellows. Our curriculum explores the science and politics of
genomics (the study of DNA and genetic information) through handson
field and lab training, lectures/discussions, and network building.

2026 Workshop
July 12-18th
Montreal, QC
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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Tragic and yet all too common. jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-nuance...
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The “Nuance” of Erasure: How the Met’s Norby Failed NAGPRA & My Dakota Family
In April 2023, Patricia Marroquin Norby, then the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first Curator of Native American Art, took to Hyperallergic to plead for “nuance.” She described repatriation as “labor-i...
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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
depressing af
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“Norby published an op-ed in the Minnesota Star Tribune defending her identity as a private matter, setting her argument framed against the backdrop of the ongoing ICE raids nationwide and the University of Minnesota’s “Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self Indigenization.”
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The Met Touted Her as Its First Native American Curator. Amid Criticism, She Quietly Left.
Patricia Marroquin Norby quietly left her post at the Met Museum citing health reasons. Her detractors have said she has 'no American Indian ancestry.'
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Collating available data from national, tribal and institutional sources indicates that only three to seven per cent of people in the U.S. who assert a public Cherokee identity have any verifiable relationship to living or historical Cherokee communities; 93 to 97 per cent of claimants do not."
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Sovereignty over stereotypes: The data behind false Cherokee identity claims in Canada
Many claims to Cherokee identity are unsubstantiated, and this actively harms Indigenous sovereignty, distorts understandings of Indigeneity and enables appropriation of Indigenous rights and resource...
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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Love that @kimtallbear.bsky.social is using box checking as a term again. Chuck Trimball, Oglala journalist, and I visited about this in the oughts. He wrote an awesome column about it decades ago.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Bluesky is mostly a blow-by-blow account of right wing settlers dismantling the liberal settler civilizational infrastructure, and liberal settlers glimpsing (mostly without realizing it) the beginnings of a destruction endured by first nations to make this culturally evangelical & rapacious state.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
About Cherokee Nation citizen Patti Jo King, pictured: “Taking out the reproductive organs of a 19- to 20-year-old is a big deal...She was not in danger and this was not a surgical emergency. But her fertility was taken away by what could have been treated with antibiotics — even at that time.”
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For Centuries, Native Women Have Been Told to ‘Trust the Doctor.’
Part one of a two-part series examining widespread sterilization of Indigenous people and their century-long fight for reproductive freedom.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Less than one week to go for #HoldingOurGroundUMN, Mar 18-19 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. Register for in-person or online attendance at the link below. We welcome requests from community members for complimentary registrations. Instructions in the link below.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Less than one week to go for #HoldingOurGroundUMN, Mar 18-19 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. Register for in-person or online attendance at the link below. We welcome requests from community members for complimentary registrations. Instructions in the link below.
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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Just watched @kimtallbear.bsky.social and Nick Estes in this excellent discussion. Love the way Dr Tallbear strips away all the crap. www.youtube.com/live/QgaF8yo...
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
YouTube video by The Red Nation
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Join me today for a livestream interview on The Red Nation Podcast. I'll be talking with my @umncla colleague, Professor Nick Estes about our upcoming March 18-19 hybrid symposium at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. #HoldingOurGroundUMN
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
YouTube video by The Red Nation
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Showing Up for Racial Justice Saskatoon - Treaty Six @surjyxe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Good 5-part series from Media Indigena on "Interrogating 'The White Possessive'" featuring Kim TallBear and Candis Callison - podfollow.com/mediaindigen... @mediaindigena.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @kimtallbear.bsky.social
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UMN American Studies @umn-amst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions? Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Register: z.umn.edu/holding-our-ground #HoldingOurGroundUMN @kimtallbear.bsky.social
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry. Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.
standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions? Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Minneapolis + Online. Register: cla.umn.edu/ais/news-eve...
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In my latest article, I write about how ICE raids in Minnesota echo the imprisonment of our ancestors at Fort Snelling, at Bdote, and the execution of the Dakota 38. This isn’t new. The land remembers. So do we. #iceout @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it’s history repeating itself
OPINION: For my tribes, the Dakota and Diné people, seeing federal agents disappear people from their communities isn’t a new crisis. It is a recurring nightmare, Jacqueline Keeler writes.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.
cla.umn.edu
Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.
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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Thanks to @tazhii.bsky.social, @candiscall.bsky.social, @kimtallbear.bsky.social (and of course, @zoestodd.bsky.social) for just the latest in thought-provoking conversations!
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.
cla.umn.edu
Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Info on another alleged self-indigenizer case. #pretendianism
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Timeline of Efforts to Remove Dr. Driskill from OSU Faculty
I created this timeline because I wanted people to be able to learn about the efforts to remove Dr. Driskill from the Oregon State University faculty--a movement that is taking place on multiple...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2026
"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."
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Inside the resistance with Will Stancil
"It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
Rhetoric didn’t kill Renee Good or Alex Pretti. An unaccountable federal police force did.
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🎙️ NEW: Part 4 in our series on 'the White Possessive' dives deeper into @kimtallbear.bsky.social presentation on pretendianism, and why self-indigenization represents the final frontier in settler society's drive to take for itself every last thing 📻 LISTEN NOW: pod.fo/e/3875fa
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 4 (ep 363)
ON THIS EPISODE: part four of 'the White Possessive,' the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'" Based on a ...
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🎙️ NEW AUDIO: In Part 3 in our series on 'the White Possessive,' our roundtable reflects on talk by @olgault.bsky.social about others’ misappropriation + misrepresentation of her personal stories and observations, a case study in "epistemological extractivism" 📻 PLAY👇 pod.fo/e/3827a7
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 3 (ep 362)
ON THIS EPISODE: part three of 'the White Possessive,' the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'" This time ...
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📻 HEAR: Part 2 in our series on 'the White Possessive' features Jennifer Brown's talk on its effects on public health and Indigenous people in Alaska, with reflections by our roundtablers HEAR👇 pod.fo/e/37ae9b
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 2 (ep 361)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part two of 'the White Possessive.' And back in part one, we brought you the basics of this analytical framework as articulated by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, an analysis at the heart...
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
NEW 🎙️ Our return to all-new podcasts opens our series of reflections on “Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration’.” First up, @candiscall.bsky.social on concurrence of Indigenous movements w/the rise of Indigenous people working in media HEAR👇 pod.fo/e/373201
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 1 (ep 360)
ON THIS EPISODE: Interrogating 'the white possessive.' And according to Indigenous scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson, countries like Canada, Australia and the U.S. are best understood as 'white posse...
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
COMING SOON: With our very necessary, very productive hiatus very nearly over, we're very close to releasing the first podcast episode in what'll be an all-new 'mini-series.' Details to come, but here's a clue: it draws a lot on the work of renowned scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson!
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Fascinating settler infighting. A friend recently told me how much white supremacists hate “race traitors.”
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Trump-GOP Panic Over ICE Grows as MAGA Goes Off Rails: “Race Traitor!”
With Republicans admitting ICE is political poison even as MAGA figures demand more brutality, The Contrarian’s Jennifer Rubin explains how Democrats can exploit this moment to split the Trump coaliti...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE List Wiki Public repository of ICE contracts, incidents, and systems. Browse or contribute to open information on ICE activities. Helps people research how ICE operates, who supports it, and document its footprint using verified, open information. #3E #GoodvsEvil #toolkit icelist.is
ICE List
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I interviewed two of the mods of r/Minneapolis about their tireless work this month: “I just wanted a local subreddit to know what was happening in my city, and now all of a sudden, we’ve turned into this de facto hub of information for basically how to fight fascism.” www.wired.com/story/reddit...
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Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE
A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE...
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