Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro Indigenous Futures

Engage: Indigenous, Black and Afro Indigenous Futures

Book Launch and conversation with Joy James and Dian Million, Stephanie Lumsden, and Margaux Kristjansson.
Books will be available for purchase; co-benefitting Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity & Blackbird.
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Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College, is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes with Pluto include Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons and ENGAGE: Indigenous, Black, Afro-Indigenous Futures.
Stephanie Lumsden (she/her) is a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She earned her PhD in Gender Studies at UCLA in 2023. Her research examines the relationship between Indigenous dispossession and the development of the carceral settler state in northwestern California. Stephanie is currently a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History department at UC Santa Cruz. In fall 2025, Stephanie will be joining the Native American Studies department at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor. She is also currently serving on the California Indian Studies and Scholars Association (CISSA) Council of Leadership.
Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights. Her current research and writing has centered on the effect/affect of racial capitalism/ settler colonialism on Indigenous family and community health and the call for abolition in North American Indigenous communities.
Informed by two generations of Indigenous Feminist scholarship and activism, Million seeks to illuminate the ways in which Indigenous life reorganizes and resurges, making intentional relationships and kin in the face of colonial violence.

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