- March 20, 2014
Please join Novel Ideal Bookstore and University of Manitoba Press for the Kingston launch of Masculindians. The event features Janice C. Hill Kanonhsyonni, Daniel David Moses and Sam McKegney.
When: Thursday, March 20, 7:00 pm
Where: Novel Idea Bookstore (156 Princess Street), Kingston
Cost: FREE
About the Readers
Sam McKegney is the author of Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School and numerous articles on Indigenous and Canadian literatures. He is an associate professor of English and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University.
Janice C. Hill Kanonhsyonni (Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation) has worked in the field of Indigenous education for more than twenty-five years in such diverse roles as coordinator of adult education programming and principal at the Ohahase Education Centre, as adjunct faculty member and co-director of the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program at Queen’s University, and as academic dean of First Nations Technical Institute in Tyendinaga. She is currently the director of Four Directions Aboriginal Students’ Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.
Daniel David Moses (Delaware) grew up on a farm on Six Nations land along the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He currently teaches in the Department of Drama at Queen’s University in Kingston. Moses’ books of poetry include Delicate Bodies (Nightwood Editions, 1992) and A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems (Exile Editions, 2012).
About the Book
Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401, McKegney and his participants tackled crucial questions about masculine self-worth and how to foster balanced and empowered gender relations.
Masculindians captures twenty of these conversations in a volume that is intensely personal, yet speaks across generations, geography, and gender boundaries. As varied as their speakers, the discussions range from culture, history, and world view to gender theory, artistic representations, and activist interventions. They speak of possibility and strength, of beauty and vulnerability. They speak of sensuality, eroticism, and warriorhood, and of the corrosive influence of shame, racism, and violence. Firmly grounding Indigenous continuance in sacred landscapes, interpersonal reciprocity, and relations with other-than-human kin, these conversations honour and embolden the generative potential of healthy Indigenous masculinities.
