Today we bring you an ep on #IndigenousFuturisms, #optimism in First Nations #storytelling, & 🧡#Ochrepunk🧡 with special guest, Matthew Ngamurarri Heffernan 🖤💛❤️

Matt is a Luritja man, software #developer, creative #technologist, #playwright, #poet, and #cybernetics PhD student 💻✍️🎭 He’s a developer at #Indigemoji & creator of sci-fi play #TheRobotDog 🤖🐕

Press play for a yarn about Matt’s work on the #JeddaTest (inspired by the #BechdelTest, focused on Indigenous rep), his play, and #Solarpunk ☀️

Unfortunately, I found out about this event after it was over. But I'm bookmarking the host and will keep an eye out for future conferences!

#IndigenousFuturisms #Seattle - 2025!

Saturday, November 15, 2025
12:00 PM 8:00 PM
North Seattle College (map)

"Join the #IndigenousFuturistsSociety and their community partners for Seattle’s first indigenous futurisms experience!

"This event will take place at North Seattle college and will include workshops, panels and interactive experiences featuring indigenous youth, adults, and elders from our communities.

"Event Description: indigenous futurisms - Seattle is envisioned as an intragenerational, multi-sensory experience that brings together a #community dedicated to imagining and building a brighter future, rejecting #dystopia. The event will feature workshops, panels, and showcases, cumulating in a community celebration! It aims to explore Indigenous Futurism and #Solarpunk concepts, focusing on how we can use social imagination to create a better world and the skills we need to develop now to achieve it.

"Key Components:
- Immersive World Experience: Walk through the multi-sensory worlds, with food, inspired-outfits
- Workshops: Led by and for Indigenous folks, covering various skills and topics.
- Panels: Discussions on Indigenous Futurism, Solarpunk, and related themes.
- Showcases: Presentations of current projects and initiatives.
- Dance Party: A celebratory conclusion to the event."

Source:
https://www.indigenousfuturists.org/events-2-1

#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousPeople #Futurism #DreamingTheFuture #Technology #TraditionalKnowledge

#Decolonizing #ScienceFiction And Imagining Futures: An #IndigenousFuturisms Roundtable

By: Rebecca Roanhorse, Elizabeth LaPensee, Johnnie Jae, Darcie Little Badger, 30 January 2017

Johnnie Jae: "As a writer, Indigenous Futurism comes as naturally as breathing. It is in every story and article that we write because we have always understood the role that the past, present, and future play in every aspect of our realities. Unlike mainstream science fiction, where futurism is typically violent and values the advancement of technology over both nature and human beings, Indigenous sci-fi is the polar opposite. We imagine worlds where the advancement of #technology doesn’t disrupt or destroy #ecosystems or the balance of power between humans and nature. Even in stories where we are exploring alien worlds, we think about how we can co-exist with the life forms indigenous to that world. We think about the ways our cultures, languages, and everything that makes us who we are can be preserved and how they can evolve in these new worlds. As Elizabeth has mentioned, alternate realities are a huge part of our sci-fi because even if we’re not writers or artists, we all imagine how differently the world would be without certain events like #colonization."

Read more:
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/decolonizing-science-fiction-and-imagining-futures-an-indigenous-futurisms-roundtable/

#SolarPunkSunday #DecolonizingFuturisms #Decolonize #Nature #HarmonyWithNature #Science #Balance #Futurisms

Self-portrait (2023).

#art #digitalart #SketchbookApp #Indigenous #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #NDNart #IndigenousFuturisms #Anishinaabe #SelfPortrait

"Call for Emerging Writers
Imagining #IndigenousFuturisms
10th Annual #ScienceFiction #Writing #Contest
$1,000 Award
Deadline: November 1, 2019"

https://twitter.com/odaminowin/status/1095438669639495680