Dr. KimÌýTallBear

  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta

Kim TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment. She is building a research hub in Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society. Follow them at and . TallBear is author ofÌýNative American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).ÌýHer Indigenous STS work recently turned to also address decolonial and Indigenous sexualities. She founded a University of Alberta arts-based research lab and co-produces the sexy storytelling show,ÌýTipi Confessions, sparked by the popular Austin, TexasÌýshow, Bedpost Confessions. Building on lessons learned with geneticists about how race categories get settled, TallBear is working on a book that interrogates settler-colonial commitments to settlement in place, within disciplines, and within monogamous, state-sanctioned marriage.ÌýShe is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She tweets and .

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