Episode 211: Indigenous Futurisms
From TV and film to novels and video games, the artistic movement of Indigenous Futurisms has been gaining momentum and breaking cultural barriers. I talk with professor and author Grace Dillon, filmmaker Danis Goulet, fiction wrtier Stephen Graham Jones, and visual artist Virgil Ortiz about what defines a work of indigenous futurism and why telling stories about werewolves, spirits, A.I., and time travelers can be an act of resistance.
Indigenous Futurisms transcriptMUSIC LISTNight Music by Kevin MacLeodDrone Thistle by Blue Dot SessionsFootsteps on AldenNascency by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen