Boundaries and Power in The Journey Home/Te Haerenga Kainga
Lauren Schellenberg,
University of Manitoba

In her book The Journey Home/Te Haerenga Kainga, Cathie Dunsford explores several issues that have created debate and contention within the feminist academic community. Her novel tells the story of the heroine, Cowrie, a native of Aotearoa New Zealand who travels to San Francisco, USA, for her studies. Her journey is filled with challenges that represent those that are

Learning to Listen

from sessions at THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA, WINNIPEG, CANADA

When I first read The Journey Home/Te Haerenga Kainga I was desperate to read work by lesbians from Aotearoa New Zealand and was afraid it might be a pale imitation of North American (or British) tales of lesbian subjectivity. After all, coming from the Antipodes had to have an impact on a lesbian’s experience and knowledge of the world, but what gets

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Anderson, Kim.  A Recognition of Being:  Reconstructing Native Womanhood.  Toronto:  Second Story Press, 2000. 

Bell, David and Joanne Hollows, “Mobile Homes.” Space and Culture 10:23 (2007): 22-39.

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QUEENS UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA

Possibilities for Indigenous Feminism in
Cathie Dunsford’s The Journey Home

Sarah Sahagian, Queen’s University

In my experience as a Women’s Studies student, we talk a lot about what feminism is or means in our classes.  What is feminism, we debate? What does it mean when we claim to be feminists, we wonder? How should we express what our feminism is, we ask?  Recently, I found a potential answer in Dunsford’s book, The Journey

QUEENS UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA

Dancing with Audre Lorde: Positive Obsession, Knowledge, and Some Explosions Inspired by
Cathie Dunsford’s The Journey Home Te Haerenga Kainga

Katherine McKittrick, Queen’s University

In 2003, when the Department of Women’s Studies at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Canada, asked me to teach an upper year seminar course titled ‘Aboriginal Women,’ I anxiously said ‘yes.’  I was anxious for a few reasons:  I worried (and continue