Upcoming Event

Queering the Stone: Writing Apocalypse

Please join the Indigenous Faculty Council  and Interdisicplinary Studies at Carleton for the annual Madeleine Kētēskwew Dion Stout Lecture. The 2025/2026 MDS Lecture features the dynamic Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw, author and scholar,  Dr. Joshua Whitehead.  Have some light refreshments and enjoy Dr.Whitehead’s thoughts on “Queering the Stone: Writing Apocalypse,”  on Thursday April 16, 7 pm in Teraanga Commons Room 270-272

About Speaker

Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies (Treaty 7).

He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018) which was long listed for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and Canada Reads 2021.

Whitehead is the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, which won the Lambda Award in 2021.

Whitehead’s latest book Making Love with the Land was published in 2022 with Knopf Canada, exploring the intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a nêhiyaw lens. The book was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction.

You can also find his work published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write, and Red Rising Magazine.

Light refreshments after the lecture | Open to all.

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The inaugural lecture was given by Madeleine Kētēskwew Dion Stout herself in 2019. Madeleine Kētēskwew Dion Stout is a nehiyaw/Cree person from Kehewin First Nation in Alberta. From 1989-1993, Madeleine Kētēskwew Dion Stout was the founding Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education (CACE) and from 1993-2001 was the first Indigenous professor within the School of Canadian Studies (formerly named the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies) at Carleton University. Dion Stout left an indelible mark on Indigenous communities, the Carleton community, and Canadian society more generally.