Imagining Indigenous Futures

Name: Imagining Indigenous Futures
Start: 2025-03-27T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-27T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60610

Schedule

Thu Mar 27 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60610 | Chicago, IL

This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Please register below.
In this edition of “Conversations at the Newberry,” authors Darcie Little Badger and Joshua Whitehead discuss Indigenous approaches to Sci-Fi and Futurism.
This event is part of programming connected with our free exhibition, "Native Pop!," running March 20 through June 19, 2025. The “Conversations at the Newberry” series is generously supported by Sue and Melvin Gray.
Speakers
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, "Elatsoe," was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. "Elatsoe" also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, "A Snake Falls to Earth," received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Darcie draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave unforgettable tales of monsters, magic, and family.
Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently a PhD candidate, lecturer, and Killam scholar at the University of Calgary where he studies Indigenous literatures and cultures with a focus on gender and sexuality. 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 and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. Whitehead recently published Making Love with the Land (Knopf Canada 2024), which explores the intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a nêhiyaw lens. Currently, Whitehead is premiering his newly edited anthology, Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. You can 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.
Cost and Registration
This program is free and open to all. Advance registration required.
Registration opens February 1.
Learn more and register: https://www.newberry.org/calendar/imagining-indigenous-futures