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Introduction: Storywork in Indigenous Digital Environments
Full text linkThis is the Introduction to the Transmotion special issue on Indigenous social media and digital environments
REVIEW ESSAY: ‘Āina Hānau/Birth Land (Brandy Nālani McDougall) and Ask the Brindled (No‘u Revilla)
No full textManaging Poor Performance: Top Tips for Managers in Leading the Self, Others and with Context.
Full text linkEffectively addressing poor performance in the workplace is essential for organisational leadership, as it directly impacts efficiency, productivity, and employee development. When an employee fails to meet expectations, it not only affects team confidence but also undermines overall organisational success. Hence, effective management of poor performance is essential for maintaining a healthy work environment and achieving business goals. A variety of causes involved in poor performance in the workplace such as lack of knowledge or awareness, lack of skill or ability, lack of motivation and lack of resources, obstacles and personal issues (Marr, 2024; MTCT, 2024; The Peak performance centre, 2024).
Managers need to explore the root causes of poor performance before taking steps to address it. This understanding can help in developing effective strategies to support employees in improving their performance (Marr, 2024).
This paper explores a common case scenario of an underperformer, the reflective observations of the team in managing this person and Top Tips for managers supporting underperformers in the workplace
How Can a Growing Use of Clare's Law Help Us Meet Human Rights Obligations to Victims of Domestic Abuse?
Full text linkThe Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (the DVDS, or 'Clare's Law') sees police forces warn members of the public, as 'applicants', about their possibly abusive partners. There were more than 25,000 more applications under 'Clare's Law', overall, in the year to March 2023 than in the year to March 2020 for England and Wales (namely, 45,344 applications compared to 20,147 – more than doubling the use of the Scheme in just three years). Disclosures also jumped from 8,715 in the year to March 2020, to 17,438 in the year to March 2021 (again a doubling of the use of disclosures). These statistics aside, the task of trying to establish how effective the DVDS is at protecting victims is still unfinished. This article seeks to establish whether, and if so, how the DVDS contributes to compliance with developing human rights law standards – drawing on a body of European and domestic case law and policy. From a feminist legal perspective, however, there remains a key issue that, however many more DVDS applications and disclosures are made in England and Wales year-on-year, and aside from the unknown efficacy of those disclosures in preventing domestic abuse, there has been a disturbing trend toward serious failures to protect victims from violence against women and girls, seen in decreasing prosecutions for domestic abuse, and specifically domestic abuse-related rape, in the same time frame
Digital and Environmental Erotics: Reflections on the 42nd American Indian Workshop
Full text linkThe 2021 American Indian Workshop, conducted online due to the pandemic, highlighted the challenges and opportunities of virtual academic conferences. Centered on the theme of the erotic, as conceptualized by Audre Lorde, the conference grappled with maintaining meaningful engagement in a digital format. Key concerns included the environmental impact of traditional conferences, with a focus on reducing academia's carbon footprint. This shift to online events was driven by the urgent need for sustainability, especially relevant to Indigenous Studies given the disproportionate effects of global heating on Indigenous communities. The conference also addressed inclusivity issues, challenging the traditional conference model's accessibility for various groups, including those facing financial, physical, and social barriers.
The conference employed innovative formats to enhance online interaction, such as shorter presentations and randomized discussion groups, fostering deeper engagement and collaboration among participants. Keynote speeches by Indigenous academics on themes like two-spirit connections and sexual liberation were especially impactful. This experience underscored the potential for virtual conferences to offer a more inclusive, environmentally sustainable alternative to traditional academic gatherings. The success of this online event serves as a model for reimagining academic conferences in ways that prioritize environmental responsibility and inclusivity
“In the world we want many worlds to fit": a Xicanx Land Acknowledgement as Trans-Indigenous Storytelling Praxis
Full text linkIn theory, land acknowledgments engage with Indigenous ways of relating through place-based relationship formations, but in practice, rote declarations expressing appreciation for unceded territories are rarely followed with the repatriation of lands and resources to Indigenous Peoples. The purpose of this essay is to explore the radical potential of land acknowledgements for trans-Indigenous social justice worldmaking in the institutional context with which I am most familiar — the neoliberal university. As the popularity of land acknowledgments grows beyond sites of knowledge production, it is necessary to adapt this form of storytelling to the multitude of contexts that students, alum, and colleagues will navigate throughout their lives. The core of this essay examines the ways in which the Zapatista communiques model the transformative potential of land acknowledgments to intervene in capitalist ways of relationship building. My literary analysis examines the storied genealogies that inform Zapatismo to demonstrate how storytelling teaches place-based Indigenous values, which can be applied to other localized contexts to further the process of decolonization. This method of crafting land acknowledgments from place-based storied genealogies will inform my own Xicanx land acknowledgement as a narrative of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples. While many of us share Indigenous ancestry, we cannot claim to represent the sovereign Indigenous nations from which we have been displaced. Instead, my Xicanx land acknowledgment demonstrates how displacement informs our storied genealogies and invites us to intervene in colonial metanarratives rather than perpetuate Indigenous erasure and disenfranchisement by engaging in ethnic fraud and misappropriation. 
REVIEW ESSAY: “It’s About Time!”: Reflections on Wes Studi and the Current Zeitgeist of Indigenous Mainstream Cinema
Full text linkCherokee actor Wes Studi was recognised with an Academy Honorary Award in 2019. To date, he is the first and only Native American actor to be decorated with the highest achievement available in the film industry. This review discusses the career that he paved for himself at a time when Indigenous erasure, stereotyping, and racist portrayals were still prominent, and how the progress of this career correlates with a shift towards positive changes for Indigenous representation and the current zeitgeist moment for Indigenous mainstream cinema
W(h)ere There’s a Wolf, There’s a Way: Lupine Masculinities in Mongrels and Where the Dead Sit Talking
Full text linkThis essay places the lyconthropic representations in Stephen Graham Jones’ (Blackfeet) Mongrels (2016) in conversation with those (and the more broadly lupine) in Brandon Hobson’s (Cherokee) novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking (2018). Both novels wield their lupine imagery (of werewolves and wolves) as devices to interrogate the tensions and overlaps between a series of dichotomies triangulated through their respective constructions of masculinity, notably: the (masculine) wild and the (feminine) domestic; solitude and community; and motion and stasis. Ultimately, WDST puts forth a protagonist who is more ambivalent to the (feminized) domestic sphere and who cultivates various feminine elements of himself, while generally opting out of the social elements of community. Mongrels, however, offers a protagonist who initially denies his responsibilities to community, which he sees as antithetical to the masculine wolf he longs to be, and, rather, akin to the feminine human he maligns.
 
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