Queer Indigenous Futurity and Kinship: Thrivance Circuitry, ‘Settler’ Violence, and Anti-Blackness

Dr. Andrew Jolivétte

Stevenson 101
9:30 AM

Dr. Jolivétte, professor and senior specialist in Native American and Indigenous Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will examine the ways in which queer Indigenous peoples across the United States, Australia, Canada and Latin America enact various forms of kinship and cultural self determination to combat settler violence, anti-Blackness, and Western notions of citizenship and queerness by documenting queer Indigenous thrivance. Dr. Jolivétte, the former tribal historian for the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, is an internationally recognized researcher, educator, writer/poet, speaker, socio-cultural critic, and an aspiring chef. Born and raised in San Francisco, Jolivette is a Creole of Opelousa, Atakapa-Ishak, French, African, Irish, Italian, and Spanish descent. As a national speaker he has connected with thousands of college students, educators, government employees and private and non-profit sector organizations over the past decade across the United States, Canada, the Netherlands and Australia.