On non-human
futures,
instruments,
and stories:

a conversation between
Kite and
Michelle Lee Brown
Monday, November 22nd, 2021
November 22, 2021
PST: 10 AM - 11:30 PM
EST: 1 PM - 2:30 PM
Eventbrite:
https://bit.ly/3n9NMqj

Discomfortingly Consensual SF: The Txitxardin Project’s
Unsettling Genealogies of Intimacy
Michelle Lee Brown
Michelle Lee Brown centers relational commitments –
as complex as they can be - to human and nonhuman
kin and roots her teaching and research in BIPoC
feminist theory and praxis. She is Euskalduna from
Lapurdi, Euskal Herria, but grew up nourished by
Mashpee Wampanoag lands and waters.
She is part of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial
Intelligence Working Group, and the new Assistant
Professor for Indigenous Knowledge, Data
Sovereignty, and Decolonization in the Digital
Technology

Nonhuman
Futures
Kite

and Culture Program at Washington State
University, part of a University system-wide
cluster hire initiative in Racism and Social
Inequality in the Americas. Her doctoral
dissertation was successfully defended in
September 2020 in the areas of Indigenous
Politics and Futures Studies from the Political
Science Department at the University of
Hawai’i at Mānoa, titled (Re)Coding
Survivance: Relation-Oriented Ontologies of
Indigenous Digital Media.

Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer,
concerned with contemporary Lakota ontologies through researchcreation, computational media, and performance practice.