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Alex Wilson

Alex Wilson

Cree scholar and professor at University of Saskatchewan; first First Nations woman to earn doctorate from Harvard; pioneering researcher on two-spirit identity and land-based Indigenous education

Jun 17, 2026

24:01
Yeah.
24:01
You know, my friend Kalani Young, she's a Native Hawaiian Kanakamale activist and scholar and, we always have really great conversations and we were talking about queering and what queering means.
24:17
And she says that queering is transforming poison into medicine.
24:23
I always quote her on that because I just feel like that's so apropos and just makes sense because what you're just talking about now is like, those are all the toxins of colonization, the pollution.
24:35
And often it is our bodies.
24:38
It's often up to us as queer people to kind of digest all that and spit it out, spit it out.
24:44
And often the spitting out is like absolutely gorgeous the way that people are able to do that.
29:47
What are ways that you have been leaning into joy lately? I

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