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June 3, 2024 78 mins

This week: our return to the realm of IZ, the personification of critical Indigenous studies as imagined by MEDIA INDIGENA regular Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies), a character she embodied in her keynote at "Of the Land and Water: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Ways of Being," hosted earlier this year in Whitehorse by the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning.

And in this back half of the adventures of IZ (missed the first half? catch it here), we hear her thoughts about a pair of close encounters: the first, "IZ Speaks Back," a virtual date with a tiny troop of technophiles hoping to hear some extraterrestrial intel ; the other, "IZ Confesses," a slick if surreal soirée celebrating racial diversity in science.

Making space once again for Kim's other worldly explorations, host/producer Rick Harp along with audio producer and MI editor, Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas.

CREDITS: ♬ 'Futuristic Sci-fi Arpeggio,' 'Nebula Soundscape' and 'Space Journey Through Nebulae and Galaxy' by UNIVERSFIELD (CC BY-SA 4.0); 'Shit September' by Gagmesharkoff (CC BY 4.0); 'Your Choice' by Audio Hero via ZapSplat.com; 'at the whale game' by Jean Toba (CC BY-SA 4.0); our program intro/xtro theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.

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