Keynote Information

Indigenous Feminisms: Theories, Methods, Politics
Andrea Smith and Renya Ramirez

Keynote and Book Signing, Thursday, November 11

Renya Ramirez is the author of Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond and numerous articles on transnationalism, Native feminisms, and gender and cultural citizenship.

Her most recent published works include:
With Kia Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, and Lok Siu. "Introduction," Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture. Palgrave/Macmillan (2009), "Tribal Nation and Gender: The Activism of Cecelia Fire Thunder and Sarah Deer," Gendered Citizenships. Palgrave/Macmillan (2009), "Nacionalismo Tribal y Sexism: Reflexiones desde las Mujueres Native Americanos de Estados Unidos." Desacatos: Revista de Antropologia Social. Septiembre-Deciembre 2009, no. 31: 35-51. (2009), and "Race, Gender, and Tribal Nation: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging." Meridians Journal Vol. 7, no. 2: 22-40. (2007)

She currently teaches American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Andrea Smith is a co-founder of INCITE! Women Of Color Against Violence, a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing; and the Boarding School Healing Project, a coalition of several organizations around the country, seeks to document Native boarding school abuses so that Native communities can begin healing from boarding school abuses and demand justice.

She is the author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide and Native Americans And The Christian Right: The Gendered Politics Of Unlikely Alliances. She is also editor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and The Color Of Violence.

She currently teaches in media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside.