11th Annual New Feminist Research Lecture
The focus of the talk by Dr. Emily Snyder (PhD) is how Indigenous people accused of HIV non-disclosure are represented in Canadian news
Settler News Narratives of HIV Non-disclosure: Deconstructing Representations of Indigeneity, Sexuality, and Law
Presented by Dr. Emily Snyder (PhD), Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Date: March 8, 2021
Time: 4 pm
Location: Online
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About the talk
The focus of this talk is on how Indigenous people accused of HIV non-disclosure are represented in Canadian news. Dominant discourses used in this news coverage contribute to HIV stigma and to reproducing settler colonialism. Dr. Snyder will consider how public discourse about Indigeneity, HIV, and law could be radically different if Indigenous feminist and queer legal ethics were centered and if the complex issues that shape the HIV crisis were regularly and meaningfully accounted for.
Speaker's bio
Dr. Emily Snyder (PhD) is an assistant professor in Indigenous Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research and teaching are in the areas of gender, sexuality, and law, with a focus on Indigenous feminist legal studies, critical legal education, the criminalization of HIV, and legal aesthetics. She is a white settler originally from Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory (southern Ontario).