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iMessaging Flesh, Friendship, and Futurities

2019; Imaginations is simultaneously published via the University of Alberta's (UofA) Open Journal Systems (OJS) and via WordPress, ho; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17742/image.cr.10.1.3

1918-8439

Emily Coon, Nicole Land,

Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

4,595 kilometers, thousands of iMessaged words, and four years of negotiating graduate-school female friendship in a world of settler-colonial and neoliberal academic politics lay between us, Emily and Nicole.Emily is a Kanien'keha:ka Master's student working within ruptures of urban indigeneities to (re)map colonized lands and bodies, and grounds her work with Indigenous feminisms and resurgent imaginations of Drum-work ceremony; she currently walks along Dish With One Spoon territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.Nicole is a fourth-generation settler PhD student who thinks with fat(s), muscle(s), and movement in earlychildhood education while integrating feminist science studies and post-qualitative education research methodologies; she inhabits the unceded territory of the Coast and Straits Salish peoples.As Indigenous and settler female graduate students, we understand our research and relationships with academia to be profoundly fleshed.We research bodies differently, care-fully interrogating, re-mapping, inhabiting, and re-configuring the gendered and generative, exhausted and unexpected, physiological and frustrating, reluctant and resurgent flesh we encounter in our work and lives.Uteruses, adipose tissue, blood quantum, and top-knotted hair animate our everyday transit within the academy and, as we both anchor our research work in bodies, we marvel at the paradoxical richness of the distance that separates our flesh from meeting in the same room.As two female graduate students, born in 1990 and 1989, we proudly assert our allegiances to the "millennial" generational and negotiate our cross-country friendship-and the collaborative and contested conversations between our ontologically divergent research-over our iPhones' iMessage.Confronting the tensions of Indigenous-settler millennial academic relationships, we beam deeply corporeal experiences digitally, sharing our encounters with bodies through a machine made of neoliberal and colonial technoscience.Each time our thumbs tap the "send" key, we feel, differently, the legacies of abstraction, erasure, and