For this semester’s last Noons for Now we will be exploring Bailey’s chapbook: “Kin on Kampus”. A beginner’s introduction to learning our tree kins’ Anishinaabemowin, English and scientific names. The chapbook includes a quick guide on how to identify a tree in winter and a tour of some trees you can find on campus! An amalgamation of western and Indigenous knowledge; the intention of the chapbook is to promote relationships between humans and non-humans and settlers and Indigenous Peoples. Even as the world becomes ever more chaotic and divided, there are still plenty of opportunities to protect and love each other.
Speaker: Bailey Wagner is a settler on Algonquin Land and an interdisciplinary student at Carleton in Environmental Engineering with a minor in Environment and Climate Humanities (EACH). Currently, they conduct research on climate change adaptation. They have passions for anti-colonial research, disability politics, queering science and curating kinship with all peoples through art.
Actions
- Asking consent of the more-than-human life around us. Example: asking a tree if we can take its picture.
- Visiting with trees as if they are our own old friends.
- Integrating pronouns and properly naming the more-than-human life around us.
- Citizen science or self training and learning about the more-than-human life around us.
- Mediation of Traditional Indigenous Knowledges and Western Scientific Knowledge
- Witnessing, “seeing,” and engaging
Resource List
The following is a list of resources recommended by attendees at our event.
Bailey Wagner’s Zine and Footnotes
- Zine: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bbJ4jjSaWdWlQDol6VnEPVsSkA4UB2CW/view
- Footnotes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rJ687ZXBL39dJ2-wAgqqCUGkbzUa_xI0/view
BIPOC/ Indigenous Perspectives
- Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Pollution is Colonialism. Max Liboiren
- “Fossil Fuels and Fossil Kin: An Environmental Kin Study of Weaponised Fossil Kin and Alberta’s So-Called “Energy Resources Heritage.” Zoe Todd
- “The Rideau Canal in Fall: Understanding Ontology and Epistemology with Indigenous Ways of Knowing.” Zoe Todd
- Attending to Environment as Kin Studies. Z Todd, A Kanngieser
- “Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans. Decolonization.” Vanessa Watts
Other Resources
- Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, Lucy Lippard.
- Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick