Post Performance / Conversation Action

What better way to perform a refusal than to host a discussion not as heroes in isolation but rather as partners, co-conspirators or equals? To open this event by pointing to the work that was being done by Native women artists as an anti-colonial and matrilineal action on an elevated stage made sense as an effort to shift power dynamics. Post Performance / Conversation Action centered Indigenous women as vital presences from traditional territories across Turtle Island.

Keywords: anti colonial ; community building ; conversation ; empowerment ; Indigenous women ; matrilineal ; mono myth ; performance art ; relations ; traditional storytelling