Zintkala Woihanbla (Sonhos de Pássaros): deriva e outras performances decoloniais para sobreviver a e abolir a prisão

Authors

  • Tria Blu Wakpa UCLA
  • George Blue Bird

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/14145731033920200112

Keywords:

Native American, Settler Colonialism, Prison, Performance, Abolition, Anthropocentrism, Coping

Abstract

Pesquisas muitas vezes negligenciaram como os nativos americanos, que estão desproporcionalmente presos, desenvolveram táticas para lidar com a prisão a longo prazo. Com base nas correspondências e conversas entre os autores, este ensaio apresenta performances decoloniais praticadas por George Blue Bird, em condições de violência carcerária, para sobreviver a e abolir a prisão. Estas táticas de enfrentamento são: 1. alimentar conexões com mais-que-humanos; 2. deriva, termo adotado por Blue Bird para imaginar, viajar e habitar outros reinos; e 3. ativar a liberdade e o futuro. Em última análise, concentramo-nos no que estas táticas e epistemologias Lakota oferecem ao movimento de abolição da prisão.

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Author Biographies

Tria Blu Wakpa, UCLA

Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa is a professor at UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance since 2018. Her research and teaching combines community-based, Indigenous, and feminist methodologies with critical race theories to examine the politics and practices of dance and other movement practices in educational and carceral institutions for Indigenous peoples

George Blue Bird

An Oglala Lakota elder, is a writer, artist, and activist. He currently serves as President of the Native American Council of Tribes at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, where he has been imprisoned for the last thirty-six years without the possibility of parole.

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BLU WAKPA, Tria; BLUE BIRD, George. Zintkala Woihanbla (Sonhos de Pássaros): deriva e outras performances decoloniais para sobreviver a e abolir a prisão: . Urdimento: Revista de Estudos em Artes Cênicas, Florianópolis, v. 3, n. 39, p. 1–35, 2020. DOI: 10.5965/14145731033920200112. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/18882. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 3 No. 39 (2020): Artes da cena atrás das grades

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