Kim TallBear

@KimTallBear
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Native Studies prof at University of Alberta, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society; https://www.linkedin.com/in/KimTallBear/; hails from US-occupied Dakota lands; SWOyate.
Substackhttps://kimtallbear.substack.com/
Workplacehttps://www.ualberta.ca/native-studies/index.html
Podcasthttps://mediaindigena.libsyn.com/
Research pagehttps://www.IndigenousSTS.com

Wall art in Oaxaca, Mexico.

(Edited to acknowledge the Mexican street artist, Yescka, thank you Mastodon. https://www.instagram.com/yescka_art?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)

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When the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe landed a $19.9 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in January, members were elated. Now, that and many millions more in vital funding for improvements, such as solar panels, are in limbo. https://www.texasobserver.org/climate-funding-freeze-tribes-community-groups/

#Indigenous #environment #energy #politics #USpol #Trump #news

‘It’s Demoralizing’: Trump’s Climate Funding Freeze Has Left Tribes and Community Groups in Limbo

Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.

The Texas Observer

Happy (Un)Valentine’s Day. This post is based on a talk I gave online February 14, 2021, and posted on Substack one year later. If you are normally annoyed by #Valentine’s Day, this piece knocks the fetishized (monogamous) romantic couple off its pedestal. There are many important ways of relating.❤️

https://kimtallbear.substack.com/p/love-in-the-promiscuous-style-026

Love in the Promiscuous Style

Unsettling Settler Love

Unsettle

Yet another prominent academic case of self-indigenization at the University of Texas.

My statement.

https://kimtallbear.substack.com/p/statement-on-the-taaf-self-indigenization?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Statement on the TAAF Self-indigenization Investigation of Anthropologist Circe Sturm

FEBRUARY 13, 2025, SANTA CRUZ, CA, USA

My new op Ed in @techpolicypress

AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades, writes Princeton University sociologist Janet Vertesi:

https://www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled-much-ai-is-just-outsourcing-redux/

Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux | TechPolicy.Press

Janet Vertesi is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University, where she is an expert in the study of science, technology, and organizations.

Tech Policy Press
Canada moves to protect coral reef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’

Discovery was made after First Nations tipped off ecologists about groups of fish gathering in a fjord off British Columbia

The Guardian
"Resurrecting claims of Littlefeather’s Indigeneity is taking its toll on her sisters. Cruz told me this week that the attempt to rehabilitate Littlefeather both abuses her father’s memory and victimizes him yet again. 'Say what you want about me, but my father did his best for his family,” Cruz added. “My parents were wonderful people and gave us a wonderful life.'” #Pretendianism
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sacheen-littlefeather-heritage-fight-takes-a-new-twist
Sacheen Littlefeather Heritage Fight Takes a New Twist

More than 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather made Oscar history, her family is firing back at new claims that she really was Native American after all.

The Daily Beast

These "Posts from En Route" that I post occasionally on my Substack "Unsettle" intend to capture scenes that inform a forthcoming book combining memoir, ethnography, and academic theory to give an account of my path to & through advocating for anti-colonial #Indigenous science and sexualities.

This post is taken from a piece published in the volume He Sapa Woihanble (Living Justice Press, 2011) by the Oak Lake Writers Society (now the Oceti Sakowin Writers Society).
https://kimtallbear.substack.com/p/the-original-posts-from-en-route

The original "Posts from en route"

Oak Lake and Brookings, SD; Atlanta, GA; and Berkeley, CA, USA, July 27, 2010 - September 21, 2010

Unsettle
i and my sweetie, both horror film lovers, are watching tonight the vampire film "only lovers left alive" for our not-Hallmark #valentines night. i highly recommend it. he's a film guy and said he heard it wasn't great. i personally heard one of the most profound nuggets of wisdom i've ever heard in this film that is about an unorthodox relationship. i'm interested to hear what he thinks as someone trained in film. I hope some of you will enjoy it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkeWhokaPPs
Only Lovers Left Alive | Official Trailer HD (2013)

YouTube
Are you weary of Hallmark settler-scripted holidays? Looking for a different take on #valentines day? Please enjoy my essay, Love in the Promiscuous Style: Unsettling Settler Love. Available in both text and audio. Cheers to you today. 🥂 ☕
https://kimtallbear.substack.com/p/love-in-the-promiscuous-style-026#details
Love in the Promiscuous Style

Unsettling Settler Love

Unsettle