Building beautiful bridges: Indigenous womxn artists using social networking sites to address violence
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2022
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Folsom, Jennifer J., author
Wolfgang, J. David, advisor
Arthur, Tori Omega, committee member
Champ, Joseph G., committee member
Jacobs, Peter, committee member
Moore, Emily L., committee member
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Using Indigenous aesthetics, critical technocultural discourse analysis, and Indigenous storyworks, this study explores how Indigenous womxn's art practices challenge settler-colonizing visual and media representations of Indigenous peoples that feed violence against womxn, girls and two-spirits; and in the digital realm, how sharing their art-stories is testimony to the unique voices of Indigenous womxn's leadership. A critical technocultural discourse analysis of in-depth interviews and social networking site (SNS) posts reveals underlying settler-colonial discourses. Through their art-storytelling, artist-participants use technocultural discourses of generosity, collaboration/reciprocity, calling in/calling out, creating and respecting boundaries and fierceness to shift dominating discourses. In a real sense they are building bridges between on and offline realms, strengthening community networks, and bringing together past, present and future to prevent violence.
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#mmiwg2s
Indigenous art
social media
critical technocultural discourse analysis
#mmiw
Indigenous storyworks