UW Public Lectures: Building Scyborgs: An Evening on Decolonization

Join scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang as he shares stories about
decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future and speculative somewheres.
How do we bend our own complicity in colonial institutions to forward Indigenous, Black,
queer, and Other futures locally and globally? Come ready to consider your own scyborg
powers and plans.

K. Wayne Yang writes about decolonization and everyday epic organizing, often with his
frequent collaborator, Eve Tuck, and sometimes for an avatar called la paperson.
Drs. Tuck and Yang wrote “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” and they edit the book
series, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education. Writings by la paperson
include the book, A Third University is Possible. Currently, he and Eve Tuck are
convening the Land Relationships Super Collective with several Indigenous, Black, and
people of color led community organizations engaged in land-based projects. Dr. Yang
is also Provost of Muir College and Professor in ethnic studies at UC San Diego, where
he co-founded the Indigenous Futures Institute and ‘Black Like Water’.