Past Event

Feminist Futures in A Time of Pandemic: Loneliness and the Affective Life of Settler Colonialism

A conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt

Join us for a conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt about his newest book, A History of My Brief Body, and his engagement with queer affect theory and critical race theory in his previous books This Wound Is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms.  We will explore Belcourt’s provocative notion that “loneliness is endemic to the affective life of settler colonialism.”  The event is hosted by Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, in conjunction with her course on Queer Public Feelings in A Time of Pandemic.

Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation and Assistant Prof of Creating Writing at the University of British Columbia.  A 2016 Rhodes Scholar, he holds a M.St. in Women’s Studies from Oxford University. A 2018 P.E. Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Alberta. He is the author of This Wound is a World (Frontenac House 2017), winner of the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field (House of Anansi Press 2019), and A History of My Brief Body (Hamish Hamilton 2020).

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