Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

Dillon points out that science fiction as a genre “emerged in the mid-nineteenth-century context of evolutionary theory and anthropology profoundly intertwined with colonial ideology” (2012, 2). These themes are exhaustively explored in whitestream science fiction, exposing particular settler colonial anxieties and aspirations that tend to erase or

Your intersectional score was a like a reverse credit score; the higher the number, the greater financial risk you were to global stability, were you to be compensated for your suffering.

That’s the thing about fiction: it allows us to imagine otherwise, and sometimes what we are imagining isn’t pretty, or even something we’d ever want to see happen in real life. We can write things that seem really negative, but that contain so much hope, it cannot be contained.

These explorations expand this work beyond creative writing; I am “imagining otherwise” in order find a way to “act otherwise” (Voth 2018).

Grace Dillon first coined the term “Indigenous futurisms” in 2003, seeking to describe a movement of art, literature, games, and other forms of media which express Indigenous perspectives on the future, present, and past. More specifically, she argues that all forms of Indigenous futurisms “involve discovering how personally one is affected by colo

As Walidah Imarisha puts it, “whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction” (2015, 3).

And what were they to one another? Five strangers, now co-workers, who were also roommates and among a tiny percentage of humans left awake on Earth.

Kinscapes, as defined by Métis scholar Brenda Macdougall, are “a network of family relationships knit together in a certain place and time” (Oosthoek 2017, Macdougall 2010). Kinscapes are governed and constituted by wâhkôhtowin, a complex series of relationships not only between humans, but also with nonhuman kin and all of creation.

A whole industry arose to protect the empty properties of those who were able to go into hibernation; heaven forfend that the unhoused have any opportunity to change their situation.