Two Excerpts:
Still Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
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*By Dr. Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
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*I came to Indigenous feminism not only because of pain*
*but also to make sense of the world around me*
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Except: The past decade has seen a growing body of research that focuses on
various aspects of Indigenous peoples’ politics. However, few studies
openly engage with Indigenous feminism(s). Although important, these
contributions turn away from the everyday realities confronting Indigenous
women including violence, exclusion and unequal access to resources and,
instead, emphasize forms of political actions directed at larger systems of
domination.
Indigenous feminist scholars note that colonialism was and continues to be
a gendered process, which has had powerful yet distinctive effects on
Indigenous men, women and LGTBQ people. These scholars argue that gendered,
sexualized violence, discrimination, and unequal access to natural and
material resources are relationally produced and naturalized through
social, legal and political processes. They also question the tendency to
uncritically emphasize the needs and aspirations of a homogeneous
collectivity as it reproduces the naturalization of violence against
Indigenous women and LGTBQ2-S individuals. Indigenous feminism
simultaneously aligns with and often contests Indigenous self-determination
and Indigenous women’s activism embedded in this paradox.
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On International Women’s Day, I Remember Rosemary Brown
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*By Dr. Linda Trimble*
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March 8, 2016
Excerpt: On International Women’s Day, I remember the bravery and
achievements of the late Rosemary Brown
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Black woman to be elected to a Canadian legislature and the first Canadian
woman to run for the leadership of a national political party. Her
memoir, *Being
Brown* <http://www.amazon.ca/Being-
to move and inspire me.
Consider Brown’s reflections on her first speech as an elected
representative of the people:
*“When I spoke, I could feel the presence of women–Black women, Native
women, slaves, immigrant women, poor women, old women and young women. I
could feel their support, encouragement and hope envelop me, sending a
surge of energy through me, empowering my words and my voice.”*
In these recollections, Rosemary Brown clearly articulated and supported
the vision underpinning the electoral project for women: the goal of
electing more, and more diverse, women to Canada’s parliament, legislatures
and municipal councils. Brown’s vision of authentic and empowered
representation by and for women is reflected in the 2016 theme for
International Women’s Day, “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for gender
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*Malinda S. Smith, PhD <http://ualberta.academia.edu/
Political Science, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H4
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