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2 Crees in a Pod: 3 Crees in a Pod with Guest Host Raven Sinclair
This podcast highlights Indigenous ways of being and social work practice. Dr. Raven Sinclair interviews the two hosts of 2 Crees in a Pod on their experiences of grief. They highlight the fact that many Indigenous people have complex grief, but they frame this grief as resilience. They talk about grief as a journey back…
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2 Crees in a Pod: Embracing my two-spirit Journey with Prestin-Thotin-awasis
This podcast offers insights into what some two-spirit folks who are transitioning may go through when their identity does not only intersect with being two-spirit, but by being Indigenous, having trauma/inter-generational trauma, and healing from a cultural genocide and ongoing colonization. It begins by discussing the sacred role of two-spirit people in Indigenous communities pre-contact…
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2 Crees in a Pod: Indigenous Social Work and Laughter with Dr. Raven Sinclair
This podcast answers two important questions. The first topic of discussion is unpacking what Indigenous social work is. Dr. Raven Sinclair discusses her process of defining Indigenous practices and the definition itself. She then shifts focus to talk about how we teach and talk about decolonizing education when we are working in colonial systems.
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Addiction Practice Pod: Culture-Centered Indigenous Harm Reduction: Mitigating the Impacts of Colonialism
The ongoing impacts of colonization continue to affect the health and wellness of Indigenous peoples, as is evident in the disproportionate rates of toxic drug poisonings and deaths experienced by Indigenous people compared to non-Indigenous people. Acknowledging and reducing the harms of colonialism, while emphasizing and building upon the strengths and ongoing resistance of Indigenous…
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Addiction Practice Pod: Indigenous Perspectives on Health and Wellness, Substance Use, and Harm Reduction
Nearly five British Columbians are dying every day of an overdose, but Indigenous peoples in our region face disproportionate harms. If you’re Indigenous, you are four times more likely to die of an overdose than the rest of the population. In this episode, family physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Robert Fox and journalist David…
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All My Relations Podcast: Beyond Blood Quantum
In this episode, Matika and Adrienne discuss blood, enrollment, law, genetics, and belonging with Charlotte Logan (Akwesasne Mohawk), a genetic researcher debunking blood quantum theory; Gabe Galanda (Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, descending from the Nomlaki and Concow Tribes), a prolific attorney fighting disenrollment cases; Tommy Miller (Colville), attorney and author of law review…
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All My Relations Podcast: Indigenous Motherhood: Birth is Ceremony
Matika Wilbur, Desi Small-Rodriguez and Adrienne Keene invite special guest Temryss Lane to unpack the ceremonies associated with birthing, coming of age ceremonies, reclaiming one’s sexuality, and how colonization disrupted the sacredness of being a woman and mother.
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All My Relations Podcast: Indigiqueer
This podcast episode collaborates with Joshua and Billy, two Indigenous writers and scholars, to unpack what it means to be a queer Indigenous person and how colonization has catalyzed the disruption of two-spirited identities and made asserting one’s voice and being comfortable in their identity unsafe.
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All My Relations Podcast: Native Children Belong in Native Homes
Matika Wilbur, Desi Small-Rodriguez and Adrienne Keene invite special guests Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) and Kendra Potter (Lummi) to the podcast to have a vulnerable and open conversation about the film Kendra was a part of, which shed light on her experiences being separated from her culture, community, and identity as an adoptee. In doing…
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All My Relations Podcast: Protect Indigenous Women
This episode welcomes special guests Mary Kathryn Nagle, who is Cherokee and a playwright and lawyer with Pipestem Law, a firm dedicated to legal advocacy for the safety of Native women and tribal sovereignty, as well as Abigail Echohawk (Pawnee), the Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and a leader in the movement to…
Land Acknowledgement
The UBC School of Social Work acknowledges that we are situated on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) People.