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Transgender, Two-Spirit and Nonbinary Indigenous Literatures: An Introduction
Get PDFThe guest editors' introduction to the Summer 2021 special issue. 
Seeing but not Perceiving – Inattentional Blindness as a Cause of Missed Cues in the General Practice (GP) Consultation
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It is well known that healthcare professionals, including GPs, frequently fail to respond to cues made by their patients. A possible explanation for this behaviour is that the phenomenon of IB could lead to a failure to observe the cue, rather than a deliberate choice to ignore it. This study sought to explore that possibility, and to consider whether GP trainees are more susceptible to IB than GP trainers.
Aim
A pre-recorded video of a simulated consultation was used, where the patient gave two significant cues which were not picked up by the doctor in the video. The aim was to compare the rates with which both trainee GPs and GP trainers observed these missed cues.
Methods
The research was a case study involving two groups of participants - GP trainees and GP trainers from a localised GP Training Scheme. Actors were used to record a video of a pre-defined GP consultation involving a patient affected by headaches, who gave two significant cues which were not responded to in the video. Participants observed the video while being asked to focus on the diagnosis and management of the patient’s headaches, following which they completed a questionnaire, including questions about the cues.
Results
Cues were missed by 24-53% of participants, suggesting a high rate of IB within the GP consultation. Unexpected findings included the recording by some participants of false observations from the video. There was no significant difference between trainers and trainees in the rates of IB.
Conclusions
IB appears to be a real and significant phenomenon within the GP consultation, and is likely to have important implications for patient care. More research is needed to confirm these findings, establish IB rates as a cause of missed cues among healthcare professionals and evaluate possible interventions to reduce susceptibility to IB
Hunger for Culture: Navigating Indigenous Theater
Get PDFThe 2016 world premiere of Larissa FastHorse’s play Urban Rez, which Cornerstone Theater Company produced, presented a community-based theater experience in Los Angeles County (Tongva and Tataviam homelands). In this essay, our three co-authors utilize the concept of being a guest on Tongva land as a methodology to demonstrate Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans representation within Indigenous theater. Through the work of the playwright, cast, and crew, the Urban Rez narrative asserted self-representation in opposition to settler imaginaries through community-based participatory storytelling. Urban Rez represented a pivot in the current American Theater landscape and a continuation of Indigenous theater legacies. Our essay offers a cross-collaboration between three performers from Urban Rez that represent a wide breadth of academic experiences, performance backgrounds, and community organizing to discuss queer, Two-Spirt, and trans experiences. The co-authors discuss the legacy of counter-narratives in Native theater, demonstrate sovereignty in the play, and utilize queer theory to understand an Indigenous queer experience on stage better. We provide a reflexive co-authorship to assert relationality in the face of heteropatriarchy and contend with our hunger for culture. The co-authors recognize the Urban Rez experience as one of the first major Indigenous theater productions in Los Angeles that included queer, Two-Spirit, and transgender characters that rejected justifying representation from a deficit narrative
Indigenous Anthropocenes in Poetry: Re-mapping Creek Homelands in Jennifer Elise Foerster’s Bright Raft in the Afterweather
Get PDFMuscogee (Creek) poet Jennifer Elise Foerster’s poetry begins to answer a call for a cultural climate change. Foerster released her second collection of poetry Bright Raft in the Afterweather in 2018. She blends time, weaving past, present, and future (in no particular order) to convey a catastrophic future mirrored by difficult, but resilient Creek pasts and presents. In this collection, Foerster also amplifies an Indigenous-specific notion of the Anthropocene. I argue that by recognizing Indigenous scientific literacies that include both human and nonhuman agency, Foerster utilizes this moment of the Anthropocene to re-map Creek lands, histories, and futures. Further, I recognize Foerster’s Anthropocene poetics as a symbiocene, a balance between human and nonhuman, and a poetics that seeks to heal, not just express and promote survival. This also brings healing to Creek peoples since colonial Anthropocene narratives largely ignore the devastating impacts that the settler-created Anthropocene brought for Indigenous peoples since first contact
“The Future That Haunts Us Now”: Oblique Cli-Fi and Indigenous Futurity
Get PDFThis article assesses how recent literary depictions of Indigenous futurity coincide with grassroots activism that has been ongoing for generations and that is finding new iterations in current movements for climate justice and against settler colonial resource extraction. Such actions espouse interdependent, reciprocal relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. Stories illuminate and reinforce these relationships; one recent novel to exemplify this role of narrative is Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God. Despite what seems a harrowing dismantling of biological reproduction and species evolution in the novel, Ojibwe characters find renewed purpose as adapting to the situation revivifies traditional practices. Although rampant environmental devastation threatens lifeways and bonds of reciprocity, Erdrich demonstrates how those responsibilities were never predicated upon fixed, unchanging environments but instead dynamically respond to them as characters seek right relationships with other beings. Future Home can be read alongside other postapocalyptic Indigenous novels (e.g., Cherie Dimaline’s Marrow Thieves) as “oblique cli-fi”: novels whose catastrophes are not figured as climate change, but whose readers cannot help but consider them in its light, given the pervasive framing of climate change as catastrophe. However, in the drive to read Future Home as cli-fi, readers should not lose sight of its singular nature as a departure from Erdrich’s “standard” literary fiction, not to mention the novel’s political message as a response to the 2016 U.S. election and its calls for reproductive justice and land restoration. Future Home received mixed critical reviews, but as one of the most experimental and speculative works in Erdrich’s oeuvre, it should be celebrated as an example of transmotion that flouts American literary expectations while imagining Indigenous futurity
Interview with Prof LJB Hayes, Head of Kent Law School: KLR Editorial Board interviews
No full textInterview with Professor LJB Hayes, Head of Kent Law School
“No one will touch your body unless you say so” : Normativity and Bodily Autonomy in Australian Aboriginal Writing
Get PDFThis piece will use literary accounts of Australian Indigenous trans experience to problematise the epistemological centrality of normativity in white and settler understandings of queer and trans identity. It will look at the poetic work of the writer Ellen van Neerven (Yugambeh Mununjali), who identifies as trans and non-binary, alongside the oral history text of sistergirl Brie Ngala Curtis (Arrente, Luritja, and Warlpiri) from Alice Springs. These authors provide representations of Indigenous trans and non-binary experience in which bodily autonomy is respected and normalised within the Indigenous community. In these recently published stories, gender is marked onto Indigenous bodies with intention, collaboration, and mutual agreement, demonstrating a nuanced and communal relationship with gendered embodiment in which everyone participates.
 
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