Dr. Jennifer Brant
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Kanien’kehá:ka | Matriarchal & Indigenous Feminisms | Assistant Professor | Teaching Indigenous Literatures in Tkaronto
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Happy to share my latest article naming colonial violence in education. Many thanks to
@CI_Editors
Anonymous reviewers and colleagues who offered generous feedback, especially to the students, communities & theorists who inspire my work
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If you don't support 1492 Landback Lane, Mi'kmaw fishing rights, or the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs who dispute the Coastal GasLink pipeline, you should not be engaging in land acknowledgements.
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U of T is hiring an Assistant Prof - Indigenous Epistemologies and Writing - Dream Position!
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“This is Indigenous People’s month. Do not ask us for more labour. Read those reports” We’re tired!
@gindaanis
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Happy to share this piece that I co-wrote with Kayla Webber 💕Hood-in-g the ivory tower: Centring Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous feminist solidarities
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It has been a long time since I finished a book in two days. My cousin gifted me this gem in honour of my father. From The Ashes is one of those heartbreakingly powerful and beautifully written memoirs. I will carry this one with me.
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In beautiful Winnipeg today. I finally started reading
@policingblack
and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "Rehearsals for Living" on flight and just want to sit with it all day "If our histories are intimately intertwined with one another's, so too are our futures" 🔥💞
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Honoured and humbled to share this article. It was accepted in August 2021 and published today. bell hooks and Lee Maracle have both passed since but I hope this article presents the profound ways they shaped and continue to shape my writing.
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This evening a student commented that my genealogical memoir assignment in my Indigenous Maternal Theory class (and the flexibility I offer) was like free therapy. This is the best compliment ☺️
#decolonial
feminist praxis
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Thank you
@OISEUofT
for tweeting. Looking forward to this conversation tomorrow at X University Pow Wow
Sept. 23: Join OISE's
@Brant_Jenn
for a session on talking to your children about residential schools. Parents will learn about the residential school system in Canada and gain tools for attending to the idea that truth must come before reconciliation.
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Like other 'superficial' forms of reconciliation, without action, these acknowledgements become continually meaningless.
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So honoured to dreamweave and call upon our foremothers with
@WhitneeGarrett
@Megan_Scribe
@Nxumalo71
Kayla Webber & rosalind hampton 💕💕💕 Who are we dreamweaving with today 🔥🔥🔥
#NAISA2023
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Had an amazing time at
#AERA23
visiting dear colleagues and friends. This week was transformational in many ways. Beyond academic sessions I learned more about what it means to foster community safety and truly embody what it means to show up and care for one another.
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“I pick up the volumes of books cradling the text of this language.
I feel the sandpapering this language once was and re-watch as my
body.
smoothes the rough edges as the words journey through me” (Maracle 2013, 19). Prayers as Lee Maracle makes her journey home!
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A lovely, powerful and moving evening at
@policingblack
and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s book launch. Honoured to attend with
@CI_Editors
writing fellows and meet M. NourbeSe Philip 💕🔥
#CIWF22
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Honoured to be invited as a visiting scholar at the University of Manitoba this Summer! Looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues and friends in Winnipeg!!!
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Happy to share this article I wrote on the rollout of the First Voices course.
First Voices: New Grade 11 English courses can support reconciliation and resurgence by centring Indigenous literatures via
@ConversationCA
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#SearchTheLandfill
A week of Solidarity Demonstrations ending tonight at 6pm in Niagara Falls. Calling on our local MPs to support the demand for the search.
@VBadawey
@Tony_Baldinelli
@Wayne_Gates
@L__Ip
#MMIW
#MMIWGT2S
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So honoured to attend this amazing and beautiful session
#AERA23
Presidential Session 🔥💕
@AERADivisionG
@licholopezlopez
@Nxumalo71
@Barrero_Di
@OISEUofT
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Hard to believe it has been 10 years since my dad passed. My younger self knew Toronto as street patrol, Council Fire and Na-Me-Res and the Eaton Ctr., now I’m at U of T and wishing my dad was still around - so much knowledge I only wished I had asked more 😔
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It’s hard to believe that this is my last week in Winnipeg. Love teaching in this space
@UM_Education
@Frank_Deer
@janzen_m
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It's syllabus time again! Encouraging students to order their books from Black and Indigenous owned bookstores.
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Happy to share this short piece from OISE's Indigenous Literatures Lab - authored alongside my amazing doctoral students!!!
@OISEUofT
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Excellent piece written by
@Frank_Deer
To revitalize Indigenous communities, the Residential School settlement must prioritize language education via
@ConversationCA
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Excited to announce this Call for Papers: Home(place): Honouring, (Re)membering and (Re)storying the process of Matriarchal Worlding as Kinship - and honoured to dreamwork with an amazing team
@WhitneeGarrett
and
@Qui_Dorian
. We look forward to your submissions!
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4 Years after the National Public Inquiry into
#MMIWGT2S
and the 231 Calls to Justice, a young Indigenous woman has taken it upon herself to find her mother's remains & Canada remains silent
#searchthelandfill
#JusticeforMorganHarris
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I believe we come to our most brilliant ideas by being in community. This is why I often ask “who are we dreaming with?” If seeds were planted at
#NAISA2023
, consider being in good relation and honouring ethical citational practices. Who is the source of your inspiration 💕
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Sending Strength and Prayers to Lee Maracle! Her writing has moved me in so many ways since a young undergrad student. I've carried her words like a torch. Last week I read her poem "I'm Home Again" as an opening for a presentation and form of land acknowledgment.
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First AERA session as a discussant! Honoured to participate in a beautiful session on Indigenous Survivance!
#DivisionG
#AERA2022
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It was an honour to share and be part of this beautifully organized event at the
@UM_Education
Nya:wehn
@Frank_Deer
,
@janzen_m
and other UofM friends for the lovely welcome!
"a big part of indigenous maternal methodology is really about transforming the research landscape, and so using material that helps participants to share their story"
@brant_jenn
lecture is underway with Q&A session starting now!
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@gindaanis
And birthing mothers are removed from the ceremony of birth to be confronted with a harsh biomedical environment, racism, coerced sterilization, birth alerts etc.
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Just completed session 4 of my Indigenous methodologies class
@UM_Education
. Loving this course and the opportunity to engage with folx such as L.T. Smith, Sean Wilson and Margaret Kovach. Today we drew on the prompts offered by
@django_paris
to frame positionality statements.
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Amazing conversations and meeting beautiful new colleagues at
#CIWF22
@mildredboveda
@gabriellewrren
@l_cavanaugh
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Checking out of
#AERA23
Everything is suddenly so quiet and feeling a little lonely but my heart is definitely full 💕and the introvert in me is socially exhausted. Time to rest & reflect!
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Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas and Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine: Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol 50, No 2
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Many thanks to the Spencer Foundation for the support!
5/12: Jennifer Brant of the University of Toronto on "Reconciliatory Education: Examining the New "First Voices" Course"
@brant_jenn
@UofT
@researchuoft
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Congratulations to these fabulous scholars for receiving the 2023 Emerging Scholar Award!!! Especially to my dear colleague
@Nxumalo71
I am really excited to announce that I have been selected to receive the 2023 Emerging Scholar Award from the Comparative & International Education Society African Diaspora SIG!
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Delighted to announce that Curriculum Inquiry's special issue, Toward a Pedagogy of Solidarity, has been published. Nya:when and many thanks to all of the contributors and
@CI_Editors
. Please see the free access editorial below.
We are thrilled to announce the release of our most recent special issue, Toward a Pedagogy of Solidarity, edited by EIC
@rubengaztambide
faculty editor
@brant_jenn
and guest editor Dr. C. Desai.
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The first 'residential school' in Canada the "Mush Hole" was founded in 1828 and began operating in 1831. This was a place my grandmother was forced to attend. When we read that these institutions ran for over a century we need to note that they ran for at least 165 years.
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Thank you
@heysciencesam
and
@UofT
for hosting me on 3Q's at the U to talk about Indigenous community responses to Covid-19
In episode four of 3Qs at the U,
@heysciencesam
speaks with
#UofT
's
@brant_jenn
from
@OISEUofT
, about the history of structural inequities faced by Indigenous peoples & the contrasting responses to
#COVID19
at governmental & local levels.
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Thank you
@OISEUofT
for publishing this write-up and providing a virtual space for me to share my work.
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Next week!!! Looking forward to this and visiting my wonderful colleagues in Winnipeg. The event is hybrid for those who wish to attend virtually.
Join us on May 17 as we welcome
@brant_jenn
who will be contributing to our faculty’s journey toward reconciliation with the following event organized by Associate Dean Indigenous Education
@Frank_Deer
Register to attend on Zoom
#UManitoba
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Sharing again now that my article has a home in Hypatia 38(1): Finding Homeplace within Indigenous Literatures: Honoring the Genealogical Legacies of bell hooks and Lee Maracle
Many thanks to the generous reviewers and colleagues who supported my writing.
Honoured and humbled to share this article. It was accepted in August 2021 and published today. bell hooks and Lee Maracle have both passed since but I hope this article presents the profound ways they shaped and continue to shape my writing.
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Preparing for
@NAISA2023
& reflecting on this talk when Dr. Fikile Nxumalo
@Nxumalo71
and I hosted Dr. Tiffany King
@LethaboKing
as a visiting scholar and then everything moved to a new virtual world. Looking forward to continuing to dreamweave at NAISA
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I hope the lovely students in my Indigenous literatures course will remember me - not as the Prof who couldn’t figure out Zoom technology but as the Prof who offered a Zoom link for those who wanted to attend virtually during a Pandemic.
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bell hooks Wasn't Afraid to Burn It All Down and Begin Again - TIME
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Another wonderful and soul inspiring week at the 2023 Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellowship
@CI_Editors
💕 It is always such an honour to learn and think with this wonderful group and grow our community as new fellows join us each year.
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As always I turn to our literatures for healing. Today is a day to hold space and reflect, to honour and remember our
#MMIWGT2S
. In IndianLand, Lesley Belleau calls for justice: "How does a country endure...? How can a conscience persist here?"
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An exciting opportunity at Carleton University - Assistant Professor in Critical Indigenous Studies
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Thank you
@UofTCities
! Honoured and excited to work alongside Drs.
@Nxumalo71
and Rosalind Hampton
@OISEUofT
The
#SofC
is thrilled to support 13 projects as part of the inaugural Anti-Black Racism/Black Lives and Anti-Indigenous Racism/Indigenous Lives Funding Initiative!
Learn more about these amazing projects and the teams behind them at the link below:
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We're hiring a Coordinator of Indigenous Education! Come join us at the Indigenous Education Network at OISE University of Toronto. Please share this wonderful opportunity!!!
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Re-sharing now that Carrie Bourassa has been removed from the editorial team. via
@pressbooks
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As I grade final student projects and creative pieces, I am just in awe of the way students have engaged with the work of
@justicedanielh
So powerful and such a joy to teach Indigenous Literatures!
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I'm very excited to share my very own New Pub Alert post. My work on the development of the Gidayaamin program and the experiences of Indigenous women in higher education has now been published in CJHE
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Powerful talk this evening! “We belong to a network of people thinking liberation. Our intellectual and geographical borders are porous and not patrolled in the ways that nation states would have them patrolled” Dionne Brand
@OISEUofT
@blacklikewho
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My son made the lacrosse 🥍 hall of fame 😊 Or it’s just a Junior B feature!!! Proud lax mom!!!
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A beautiful Sunday morning for reading Kindred and writing reflections in my NAISA journal 💕
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Another fabulous Indigenous Literature feature! I also had to get a photo of the display at the entrance. Westminster Bookstore
in Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Q&A time!
@WhitneeGarrett
reminding us of
@tuckeve
decolonial feminist approach to moderating
@ebaans_
@Megan_Scribe
💕🔥
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Failure to
#searchthelandfill
= complicity in the ongoing genocide against Indigenous peoples in Canada.
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It was so nice to see the new Indigenous learning space at U of M! Beautiful space with the Winnipeg sun shining in!
Today, we hosted and event in the new indigenous learning space at
@UM_Education
at
@umanitoba
! Nia:wen
@brant_jenn
for coming out!
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#CultivatingFutures
Nya:when to the conference organizers for putting together this beautiful conference. It was an honour to present alongside my wonderful colleagues!!!
@Nxumalo71
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OISE is hiring! Come Join Us! Assistant Professor in Indigenous Queer / Two Spirit Studies in Education and an Assistant Professor in Asian and Asian Diaspora Studies in Education
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"Resistance is brave work; it is proud work. What is the university doing to ensure that years from now this work will not be centered on risk but on celebration?!"
@DRABC14
#OISEBlackConvo
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How To Talk To Kids About The National Day For Truth And Reconciliation | CBC Parents
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751 unmarked graves found at the Marieval Residential School in Saskatchewan. 751 beautiful spirits! Canada this is Genocide! Call it what it is!!!
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So grateful for the space that Drs.
@Nxumalo71
&
@licholopezlopez
have created! Honoured to be part of this collective 💕🔥
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When my youngest was still a little one graduating kindergarten! Pics taken at the Indigenous Friendship Ctr grad celebration for all ages
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In June 2023 CBC released a report card to showcase how many of the 231 Calls for Justice had been fulfilled 4 years after the release of the national public inquiry into MMIWGT2S Reclaiming Power and Place
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My eldest son Jayden receiving an academic award 8 years ago today and now just finished his first year of University.
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Just dropped my son off to school and saw the “Every Child Matters” flag come down. Shouldn’t it stay up all year? The searches for unmarked graves are still happening!
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I didn’t think I would then but I do miss the days I had to bring my children to every presentation 💕
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Dear colleagues, we are excited to see submissions for: Home(place): Honouring, (Re)membering and (Re)storying the process of Matriarchal Worlding as Kinship Please note that the correct email address for submissions is: homeplacebook
@gmail
.com
@WhitneeGarrett
,
@Qui_Dorian
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Opinion: No, those who defend the Wet’suwet’en territory are not criminals /via
@globeandmail
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As
@tuckeve
expressed we need "to have more historically accurate and comprehensive discussions of the beautiful way that Indigenous families and communities raise their children. Beautiful ways that Indigenous families and communities learn from land and water."
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This article offers only a sample of many necessary changes.
Two Indigenous scholars -
@brant_jenn
&
@tuckeve
- read a grade 8 history textbook chapter on residential schools. This is what they would change. via
@torontostar
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Please share this wonderful opportunity. OISE is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Queer / Two Spirit Studies in Education Application deadline - March 15
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Brock University is hiring for a Tenure Track Assistant Prof in Indigenous Literatures 💕🔥
🔴We are Hiring: Assistant Professor, Probationary Tenure Track, Indigenous Literatures of Turtle Island‼️
Check out
@BrockUniversity
Career's page here for more details on this position:
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The amazing Nikki!!! 💕Q & A: Why this Indigenous woman is teaching Ontario students the Anishinaabemowin language | CBC News
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The timelessness of Lee Maracle’s writing 💕 Ravensong 💕
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I appreciate the anniversary email from Taylor and Francis ☺️ 1 year ago Hood-in-g the ivory tower: Centring Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous feminist solidarities was published with
@tandfonline
.
#AcademicTwitter
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