Join us on Friday, July 26th at noon PT to hear Rebecca Hogue present, Stories that Fight, Stories that Heal: Indigenous Women Writing for a Nuclear Free Pacific. This is a free, virtual presentation.

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In this presentation, Rebecca Hogue will re-envision Cold War politics and peace activism by centering Pacific women's storytelling. Between 1946-1996, the US, UK, and France detonated over 300 nuclear weapons in the Pacific. Since those detonations began, Indigenous women have organized in protest of the irradiation of their land, sea, air, and bodies. With attention to women's writing from the 1970s to the present, Rebecca will show how Pacific women have challenged imperial rhetoric of the Pacific as sexualized fantasy or militarized space and instead transformed it into a place of trans-Indigenous women’s care work and healing.

The Nuclear Waste Scholar Series is funded through a Public Participation Grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology.