Wicazo Sa Review is honored to announce a call for abstracts for a special issue on Indigeneity and Disability: Honoring All Our Relations. We seek articles, stories, essays, artwork, photography and poetry to highlight the important spectrum of diversity across our tribal nations. Indigenous peoples have their own unique worldviews and stories of diverse relations rooted in value systems that have existed since time immemorial. In honoring all our relations, we hold space for Indigenous peoples to re-reframe disability grounded in their experiences, epistemologies and ontologies.

We invite dialogue that explores how Native communities are creating access and nurturing right relations to fight systemic ableism rooted in colonialism. It is time for Native American studies to fully support the development of Critical Indigenous Disability Studies.

This special issue seeks to reframe disability by asking, what are Indigenous perspectives, values, and ancestral knowledges of our diverse relations? How are disabled Indigenous peoples leading, creating and resisting in the face of systemic ableism and profound structural violence? How are Indigenous communities expressing right relations by deepening understandings of belonging, recognizing holistic expressions of being, and solidifying a sense of identity for relations that occupy the intersectional space of disability and Indigeneity? How can we empower movements for Disability Justice in our Native communities committed towards more just futures? 

This special issues aspires to be a place of worldbuilding where all our relations can recognize themselves reflected in this work.

We welcome abstracts from Indigenous communities across Turtle Island and nations of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (the Pacific Ocean).

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words and should outline main arguments. Please include keywords. This special issue is about empowering Indigenous voice, research and communities. All abstracts must be Indigenous-led and include tribal affiliation. Upon acceptance of abstract, authors will be invited to submit their full submission.

Submission: s.yellowhorse@auckland.ac.nz

More information: https://nas.unm.edu/wicazo-sa-review.html