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iMessaging Flesh, Friendship, and Futurities<\/h1>\n
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Emily Coon and Nicole Land<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/strong>: This article enacts our ongoing collaborative experiments utilizing \u201ciMessaging\u201d on iPhone as a practice of critical relationality toward building our Indigenous-settler millennial academic friendship. Holding written text alongside our iMessage conversations, we confront three threads that continually interject in our exchanges: (1) what happens with our fleshy bodies when we connect with iMessage; (2) how our co-created, but uncommon, iMessage-body exchanges are an experiment with potential modes of Indigenous-settler academic friendship; (3) and how our iMessaging practice makes real the academic futures that we hope, and need, to contribute to. Together, we grapple with how the iMessaged space we create in our friendship might enable us to be attentive to the disjunctures between Indigenous knowledges and feminist science studies. We wonder how we might think of iMessage as a mode of friendship that is potentially capable of challenging settler-colonial normativities and temporalities of academic relating, while also calling us to attend to the complexities of our bodied lifeworlds as we iMessage our (digital) flesh, futurities, and friendship as young, emerging scholars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong>: Cet article est la repr\u00e9sentation des exp\u00e9riences collaboratives que nous sommes en train de mener en utilisant la messagerie \u00e9lectronique sur iPhones comme une pratique relationnelle critique visant \u00e0 construire notre amiti\u00e9 acad\u00e9mique mill\u00e9niale entre Autochtones et colons. En pla\u00e7ant c\u00f4te \u00e0 c\u00f4te les textes \u00e9crits et nos conversations sur messageries, nous sommes confront\u00e9s \u00e0 trois fils directeurs qui r\u00e9apparaissent continuellement dans nos \u00e9changes: 1) ce qui se passe dans notre corps de chair lorsque nous nous connectons par messagerie; 2) comment ces \u00e9changes entre corps et messages, cr\u00e9\u00e9s ensemble, mais s\u00e9par\u00e9s, constituent une exp\u00e9rience de modes potentiels d\u2019amiti\u00e9 acad\u00e9mique entre Autochtones et colons; 3) et comment nos pratiques d\u2019\u00e9changes par messagerie \u00e9lectronique concr\u00e9tisent les avenirs acad\u00e9miques que nous esp\u00e9rons et auxquels nous avons besoin de contribuer. Ensemble, nous nous effor\u00e7ons de comprendre comment l\u2019espace \u00e9lectronique que nous cr\u00e9ons dans nos amiti\u00e9s pourrait nous permettre d\u2019\u00eatre plus attentifs aux disjonctions entre les savoirs indig\u00e8nes et les \u00e9tudes des sciences f\u00e9ministes. Nous nous interrogeons sur la mani\u00e8re dont nous pourrions concevoir la messagerie \u00e9lectronique comme un mode d\u2019amiti\u00e9 potentiellement capable de remettre en question les normalit\u00e9s relationnelles entre Autochtones et colons, ainsi que celles du monde acad\u00e9mique, tout en tenant compte des complexit\u00e9s de notre vie corporelle lorsque nous \u00e9changeons \u00e9lectroniquement nos chairs, nos visions du futur et nos amiti\u00e9s en tant que jeunes scientifiques en d\u00e9but de carri\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a> 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\u2019keha:ka Master\u2019s 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 early-childhood 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.<\/p>\n

As two female graduate students, born in 1990 and 1989, we proudly assert our allegiances to the \u201cmillennial\u201d generational and negotiate our cross-country friendship\u2013and the collaborative and contested conversations between our ontologically divergent research\u2013over our iPhones\u2019 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 \u201csend\u201d key, we feel, differently, the legacies of abstraction, erasure, and resource extraction that literally craft our iPhones. In the same instant, we take seriously the importance of iMessage as a tool of friendship as we work together, and apart, to nurture our mode of Indigenous-settler friendship in the academy.<\/p>\n

Our feminist academic passion project has become reconfiguring how our iPhones function as a (de)colonial technoscience in our Indigenous-settler friendship. In our daily interactions with academia, mainstream Canadian popular culture, and the millennial-authored blogs we encounter on our Twitter feeds, we notice how our iPhones can be complicit in neoliberal narratives of anthropocentric progress, Euro-Western exceptionalism, and the maintenance of colonial heteropatriarchal notions of difference that both obscure difference in favour of multicultural diversity and cleave open the oppressive power of difference as a problem of access, platform, and publicity in a digital world with limited space (contrast Eve Tuck\u2019s [@tuckeve], an Alaska Native feminist scholar with 2962 Twitter followers with Justin Trudeau\u2019s [@JustinTrudeau], the Canadian Prime Minister with 2.4 million followers; January 2018). Disguised in a flashy rose-gold finish, we follow the aluminum in our iPhones as it travels from stolen Land brimming with resurgent ancestral memories of care-fully tended soil, through violent politics of resource extraction rooted in ongoing settler colonialism that is then justified through the iPhone\u2019s complicity in narratives of human progress. As we clutch our iPhones, we know that while Euro-Western science and technology, rooted in unquestionable facts, continue to be used against Indigenous peoples\u2013providing scientific justifications for Residential Schools, blood quantum logics of identity, and forced sterilizations\u2013Indigenous peoples have been practicing their own complex forms of scientific knowledge and technology. Adjacent to, but divergent from, these differently lived sciences, feminist science studies scholars chisel at the hegemonic ontological foundations of universalized Euro-Western Science, tracing how Science inserts itself as a technique of governance made real in fleshed possibilities for life (see Haraway, Simians, cyborgs, and women<\/em>; Harding, Science and social inequality<\/em>; Landecker, Culturing life<\/em>; Roy and Subramaniam, Matter in the shadows<\/em>; Whitt, Science, colonialism, and Indigenous peoples<\/em>; Willey, Undoing monogamy<\/em>). Understanding science as embedded in specific social and historical contexts, we can understand how this knowledge serves to marginalize, silence, and erase groups of people (see Sanabria, \u201cCirculating ignorance\u201d; Subramaniam, Ghost stories for Darwin<\/em>). Embracing the relationship we have generated with our iPhones and iMessaging conversations, we activate the ironic potential of utilizing this colonial item as the very thing we have used to disrupt settler colonialism and tend to our resurgent forms of allyship and solidarity.<\/p>\n

Grape Twizzlers inaugurated our friendship, when Nicole offered Emily a snack during a multi-day childhood studies symposium on children\u2019s multispecies relations within colonized worlds. We exchanged contact information and began iMessaging to support one another through a stressful mid-semester paper season. Our ongoing friendship owes to this institutional academic space where we were introduced, having both begun graduate programs at the same university two weeks earlier. Our friendship thus also began with iMessage, as we both hold iPhones and have laboured to craft a friendship intertwined with emoji, blue conversation bubbles, and touchscreen-typed words. As our Indigenous-settler friendship evolves, we care for different threads of our friendship differently: we pull at the \u201cacademic\u201d threads of our constant collaborations as we trace how our scholarly projects converse and diverge. We tug at frictions, wondering how we might maintain the tension in our friendship\u2013the uneven consequences, the differently risky labour, and the work of forging female millennial Indigenous-settler bonds that might cultivate futures. We carry our iPhones every day, tending to the words we share with one another, just as we critically trace how this technology affects our work together. Importantly, we do not wish to foreground iMessage\u2013the patented and monetized technological interface that enables our digital conversations\u2013as a magical or exceptional participant in our friendship. Our iMessaging is situated, rooted in Emily\u2019s practices of carrying her iPhone SE in her well-loved crossbody bag and Nicole\u2019s habit of popping her chipped iPhone 8 in her sports bra. In a world where our friendship evolved with a different platform, perhaps text messaging, WhatsApp, or Facebook Messenger might have also cared for our friendship.<\/p>\n

In our practice of iMessaging Indigenous-settler millennial academic friendship, we confront three threads that continually interject in our conversations: (1) what happens with our fleshy bodies when we connect with iMessage; (2) how our co-created, but uncommon, iMessage-body exchanges are an experiment with potential modes of Indigenous-settler academic friendship; (3) and how our iMessaging practice makes real the academic futures that we hope, and need, to contribute to. As a response, we trace the rhythms of our iMessage friendship and we imagine what, and how, our academic bodies are capable of creating with iMessage: how might theorizing through gifs and memes create degrees of relationality that lend space for us to put our theoretical loyalties, from Indigenous feminisms (see Arvin, Tuck, and Morrill, \u201cDecolonizing feminism\u201d; Goeman and Denetdale, \u201cNative feminisms\u201d; Simpson, \u201cAnger, resentment & love\u201d) to feminist science studies (see Roy, \u201cSomatic matters\u201d; Warin, \u201cMaterial feminism, obesity science, and the limits of discursive critique\u201d; Wilson, Gut feminism<\/em>; Willey, Undoing monogamy<\/em>) into conversation, while colonial technosciences concurrently contribute to the ongoing marginalization of Indigenous bodies in academia? How can the iMessaged space, open and closed, in our friendship enable us to be attentive to the disjunctures between Indigenous knowledges and feminist science studies, and to return continually to these tensions to move with their uncertain potentialities? Can we think of iMessage as a mode of friendship that is potentially capable of challenging settler-colonial normativities and temporalities1<\/sup><\/a> of academic relating, while attending to the complexities of our bodied lifeworlds as we iMessage our (digital) flesh, futurities, and friendship?<\/p>\n

Over three days, we combed through our histories of iMessaging, layering upon what we know in our bodies to be generative conversations and articulations of how iMessaging is an experiment in critical relationality. In what follows, please find traces of both our iMessages and our individual academic writing practices. We write with formal bodies of text and iMessages as we thread flesh through our emojis and trace the contours of our bodied tensions through digital conversation. At points we claim our writing with our names, while in other moments we write together as we toggle between responding to one another and developing our theorizing independently. We invite a reading of our iMessages alongside our paragraphs of text, but we also offer a formatting experiment that allows for an uneven attention to either aspect of our iMessaged\/written performance. Our iMessage conversations are dotted with Emily\u2019s grey message blocks and Nicole\u2019s blue blocks. Embracing iMessage as a form of colonial technology that cares for our conversations, we work towards a millennial theorization and visualization of friendship and solidarity in academia. Together, and apart, we experiment with how iMessaging is, and might be, productive of co-creative, relational, propulsive provocations for exploring the futurities of (our) Indigenous-settler (millennial) friendship(s) in academia.<\/p>\n

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iMessaging (Not\/Digital) Flesh<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

iMessage (Re)mapping Bodies<\/h3>\n

Emily<\/em><\/p>\n

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I have coupled the praxis of (re)mapping from Seneca scholar Mishuana Goeman (Mark my Words<\/em>) with a Drum-work methodology to explore and expand the ways urban bodies engage with their identities, kinship relationships, and the land. Locating my work in Kingston, Ontario is significant, as this is a city saturated in settler-colonial permanence: a place where (Sir) John A. MacDonald is toasted each year on his birthday, tours of Kingston Penitentiary are eagerly anticipated and quickly sold out, and Indigenous culture, representation, and peoples are erased. Being Indigenous in this city is not easy. Within settler-colonial logic, Indigenous bodies are dissected into manageable cuts of (non)belongingness. Our bodies and lands are rendered into empty spaces, easily mapped with settler notions of power and crisscrossed with binaries of inclusion\/exclusion.<\/p>\n

Can the fragmented-temporal-shifting snapshots of contemporary Indigenous identities shared though digital iMessaging bodies begin to ease the clutches of settler colonialism? My remapping of Drum-work methodology fights to leave vibrational traces that smudge dividing lines of racism, layering decolonial relationalities over settler spatialities to rupture colonialism and allow Indigenous stories to (re)emerge. iMessaging, configured as digital flesh, has become a pocket of resurgent potentiality in my research\u2013recording drumming-laughing-singing voices, capturing fuzzy pictures of drumsticks connecting with deer hide, and sending those moments to the phones of community members and friends with whom we walk this land. Thinking with bodies differently\u2013human bodies, Drum bodies, land bodies, iPhone bodies\u2013matters as we work together to generate a resurgent practice of community that can flourish in the shadows of limestone walls and blossom in the barren wastelands of impoverished neighbourhoods, shattering the damaging narratives and stereotypes being told about us and re-writing those stories with our contemporary iMessaging bodies.<\/p>\n

iMessage Muscles<\/h3>\n

Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thumbs are my favourite digit, the anatomical articulation point that most captures my attention: my thumb can circumduct, rotating around its base, sketching tiny circles into the air; it cradles the corners of my iPhone in its pudgy muscle bellies; it abducts and adducts as I touch my pinky finger and bounce my thumb back across my palm; it taps out letters and emojis, leaving smudged greasy thumb prints across my iPhone screen; my extensor pollicis longus tendon pulls my thumb upwards as I type words I care for deeply; and it fatigues as marathon iMessaging sessions gain momentum. I often watch how my thumbs move across space\u2013become displaced\u2013when Emily and I iMessage, and I debate often what the movement that ceases in this displacement entails (see Manning, \u201cWondering the world directly\u201d)? How are my thumbs doing (with) this movement: how<\/em> are iMessaging muscles? My muscles are never abstract and they refuse to be representational, and my digits are entangled with the digitalism(s) of my iPhone. To say that my muscles make movements that become translated into words that another purposeful muscle contraction then beams off to Emily seems not just inadequate but incorrect. Following Manning\u2019s Relationscapes<\/em>, I wonder how thumb-iMessage \u201cmovement is always in the infinity of a crossroads between a where and a how, and never a who\u201d (167): how does iMessage do muscles? How does iMessage do with, or demand different things from, my muscles, Emily\u2019s muscles, or with our muscles (and bicep emojis) of Indigenous-settler academic friendship?<\/p>\n

Hannah Landecker writes of \u201cfat knowledges\u201d (\u201cPostindustrial Metabolism\u201d 498) as a mode for tracing the epistemological effects of adipose tissue while attending to how fat knowledges generate possibilities for life (as opposed to debating what causes adipose tissue\/metabolisms that then necessitate inquiry). In my research, I borrow fat knowledges into physiological knowledge(s), speculating how physiologies generate propositions with early-childhood education pedagogies. I trace how physiological knowledges might collaborate with my iMessaging thumbs, with our iMessaged Indigenous-settler academic friendship. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A muscle-anatomy physiological knowledge makes my thumb muscles perceptible as parcels of contractile proteins that produce contractile force. Contractile proteins that are made knowable as actin and myosin layer upon one another to form myofibrils, which are knitted together to compose muscle fibres (see Krans, \u201cThe sliding filament theory of muscle contraction\u201d; McArdle, Katch, & Katch, Essentials of exercise physiology<\/em>). With this physiological knowledge, these active muscle fibres are fashioned together to compose a muscle belly. Within a muscle, actin and myosin myofilaments meet and enact a crossbridge, as myosin slides actin along the length of the actin filament to generate motion. This actin-myosin crossbridging entails a sliding of filaments, a coordinated but asynchronous bridging tediously enacted across a multitude of bridges and through many muscle fibres to propel my thumbs. Actin-myosin crossbridging: my thumb muscles are a cascade, a torrent of collective force that participates in my iMessaged words to Emily. With physiological knowledges of aerobic metabolism and adenosine triphosphate energy molecules, I wonder iMessage as a space \u201cwhere the messy grooves of our organs present openings without clear endings\u201d (Roy, \u201cSomatic Matters\u201d para. 3): when I beam Emily a citation that I am captured by, what are my thumb muscles entangled with? How am I accountable to the shared, gathered, and fleeting electron energies and non-Nicole moving thumb muscles that iMessage collaborates with\u2013to my iMessaged coextensiveness? I marvel at how the collective contractions of my thumbs against my iPhone, of our thumbs against different iPhones, disrupt Euro-Western narratives of bounded human skeletons or of flesh that can be contained, controlled, and commodified.<\/p>\n

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iMessaging (Indigenous-settler) Friendship<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

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We hold our friendship between our bodies but we cannot write about friendship without centering the friendships that circle our understanding of what friendship demands. We have many millennial female academic friendship citations that escape citationality, both because we live them and because we witness friendships lived on Twitter and in articles written by scholars we have never met. How might we cite friendships that unknowingly build up our friendship? We take great inspiration from Billy-Ray Belcourt and Maura Roberts\u2019 conversations on caring for friendship kin capable of weathering the messes of settler colonialism (\u201cMaking Friends\u201d); from Zoe Todd (@ZoeSTodd) and Erica Violet Lee\u2019s (@EricaVioletLee) Twitter storms of building Indigenous feminist friendship; from the heartbreakingly tough and necessary writing of Naomi Sayers (@kwetoday) and Sarah Hunt (@thesarahhunt) as they both celebrate and fight for the lives of Indigenous sex workers, trans folk, and Two Spirit youth who face unimaginable violence and stigma in this country; and from Susan Blight (@Blightboo) and Melody Mckiver (@m_melody) swapping resurgent Nish words over Twitter and considering Anishinaabeg governance over Snapchat voice changer. We are learning to write our Indigenous-settler friendship into words from Cathy Richardson and Vicki Reynolds (\u201cHere we are, amazingly alive\u201d), from Elicia Loiselle, Sandrina de Finney, Nishad Khanna, and Rebecca Corcoran (\u201cWe need to talk about it!\u201d<\/em>), and from Te Kawehau Hoskins and Alison Jones (\u201cLessons in fluid encounters\u201d).<\/p>\n

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Keeping Sweetgrass iMessage Tensions<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Emily<\/em><\/p>\n

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Keeping the tension in our friendship immediately brings an image of a taut rope to mind: frayed pieces entangled and twisted together, a back and forth exchange of energy, ideas, and margaritas. Nicole at one end and me at the other.<\/p>\n

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To echo the words of Billy-Ray Belcourt (\u201cMaking Friends\u201d), doing decolonizing work feels selfish\u2013centring my Indigenous body, my Haudenosaunee knowledge systems, my expansive kinship networks, and the land in spaces where that intellect is rendered worthless, mythical, and irrelevant in favour of white bodies and reconciliation rhetoric\u2014and endlessly exhausting. Every breath I take is an act of resistance, refusal, survival\u2013my body constantly coiled with the tension of existing in a world where I should not. Keeping the tension is a chore I have no choice but to perform everyday: vacuum the carpet, dust the shelves, scour \u201chonourary\u201d appropriation, mop up settler tears. Yet I know how to walk and talk as a functional Canadian because Indian bodies have been assimilated to do so. Doing decolonization work and bringing my decolonizing self into this iMessaging friendship means learning how to navigate the complex anxiety of calling out \u201csettler moves to innocence\u201d (Tuck and Yang, \u201cDecolonization is not a metaphor\u201d), unapologetically carving out space for ancestral ontologies (see Simpson, Dancing on our turtle\u2019s back<\/em> and \u201cLand as pedagogy\u201d; Watts, \u201cIndigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans\u201d), and tentatively-carefully-determinedly pressing send on iMessages that transform an easy, romanticized friendship into a productively complex one that nurtures the tension of expanding our comradery as Indigenous and settler friends.<\/p>\n

This friendship is a space I return to again and again, because it stands firm in reminding me of what I am fighting for. It holds space for me to flesh out the resurgent future I am dreaming of and generates space for me to iMessage my way towards a more inclusive reality. iMessage is a place where I do not have to explain why I choose to pick up decolonization while refusing reconciliation; a place where I can complain about being skirt-shamed and then strategize ways to (re)embrace my Indigenous feminisms (see Lee, \u201cSeek spaces of Indigenous Feminist liberation without compromise\u201d; Simpson, Dancing on our turtle\u2019s back<\/em>; Todd, \u201cMoon lodge this way\u201d) in the face of internalized Indian Act traditionalism and misogyny. The friendship negotiated between Indigenous-Emily and settler-Nicole is not afraid to pick up rigid boundary lines and jump rope with them, to utter the raw words of privilege that are often swept under the allyship rug, to expose the painful and resilient realities of co-existing as uneven bodies in this settler-colonial nation-state called Canada.<\/p>\n

While keeping the tension in my social life is masked as an ugly obligation, keeping the tension in this friendship makes it easier to face the tensions that are waiting outside of our iMessaging bubbles. As Erica Violet Lee (\u201cSeek spaces of Indigenous Feminist liberation without compromise\u201d) calls for Indigenous women to find spaces that smell like sweetgrass, nurturing and holding up this friendship smells like sweetgrass. Carrying the sweetness of this iMessaging friendship in my pocket, I am reminded of the challenging generosity we continue to negotiate as we dream, create, and fight our way forwards as Indigenous and settler friends.<\/p>\n

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Keeping Demanding iMessage Tensions<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

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I cannot think the concept of \u201ctension\u201d without \u201cextension\u201d interjecting. I thread back to marathon anatomy study sessions during my undergraduate degree, memorizing quantifications of what muscles can do. I rehearsed my extension definition countless times: moving a limb into extension intensifies the angle between body parts. Anatomy-extension extends as it activates lengthening contraction tension in muscles (see McArdle, Katch, & Katch, Essentials of exercise physiology<\/em>; Unglaub Silverthorn, Human physiology: An integrated approach<\/em>). When I grip my iPhone in my palm and extend my elbow, my hand travels toward my waist, expanding the space between my shoulder and my fingers. When I do extension with our Indigenous-settler friendship, what happens? I think first of exten(d)<\/em>sion; a stretching, a moving into the felt pressure of tension in a muscle belly and in friendship. As a white settler, our friendship moves my body into differently-perceptible tension(s). For me, this is less a question of naming these tensions than it is a question of accountability, of being response-able (Haraway, \u201cAnthropocene\u201d) to the tensions that Emily and I generate together. Our friendship extends the spaces of tension that my settler body can inhabit, generously extending my possibilities for participating in desettlering, anti-neoliberal, inventive politics. In the same pulse, the tensions I can extend into are necessarily limited. I think of Erin Manning\u2019s articulation of an emergent politics, where \u201cit\u2019s the movement of thought pulled forth from the relations of tension that make up the work\u201d (\u201cCreative propositions for thought in motion\u201d, 16). It is how<\/em> the Emily-Nicole friendship extends my\/our tensions that actually create the tensions that Emily and I confront in our Indigenous-settler friendship. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It matters that the space of tension is between us, just as extending my elbow is filled with different potential than when I extend my knee. This is our extension<\/em>, one that I have to make tense because our tension demands accountability. This tension, our relational space of co-created, uneven, nourishing tension, needs to be cared for because it is what we have in (un)common. We are generating a collective but un-shareable node of tension, a Emily-Nicole tension, where the tension demands that I can only ever strain against a small fraction of the messes of ongoing settler colonialism. I know that there is an unimaginable mass of tensions that my body being on this stolen land engenders\u2013for Emily, for myself, for all of the people and lives that I might never meet\u2013but that to keep the tension demands that I make the tension perceptible and trace how I make tensions matter.<\/p>\n

My ethic of caring for tension echoes Isabelle Stengers, who argues that those who are embedded within a delimited genealogy of knowledge must never \u201cconsider that problems \u2018are\u2019 transversal, but see that connections are something that must be created \u2026 this is the only way of succeeding in creating problems rather than receiving them readymade\u201d (\u201cHistory\u201d 9). I do not assume that there should be tension at the heart of Emily-Nicole friendships, nor that the tension we have cultivated will endure; if I let my extended elbow dangle by my side, it is no longer loaded with the same elastic energy. I also do not assume that Emily should confront the tensions I create. Rather, I take tension as something that requires tending: extend<\/em>. Keeping the tension then, for me, is a practice of extension (of limbs and friendship). It matters to our friendship that I bring physiology to this article, a knowledge built upon the voyeurism of colonial scientists who crafted a knowledge on the un-consenting flesh of minoritized humans and animals, but also a knowledge that, as a settler, I have been trained in (or financed into)\u2014a knowledge that I must claim in order to disrupt (Willey). Keeping the tension as friendship: extend<\/em>ing, extension<\/em>, extend<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Deploying Friendship Tension<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Emily + Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

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We are in the forest with a group we know well. Emily is Drumming, Nicole is kicking a deflated soccer ball, and a stranger interjects, asking Emily about Drum. I notice this lady immediately, and am very aware of how loudly she is crashing through the forest to get to me\/us. I do not have to notice the presence of this interjector immediately, as I am focused on the moving bodies and rhythms that surround Drum. The lady approaches me and I am immediately uncomfortable with how close she is to my body and to Drum\u2019s body. I catch her disruption when I hear a strange adult voice over the sound of children\u2019s boots on the forest floor. I try to move backwards as her hand reaches out to touch Drum. I look over and see Emily wrap her arms, shoulders, neck over Drum. I look around to see if anyone else has noticed the entitled human standing in front of me, asking too many questions and causing my heart to pound harder in my chest. I share eye contact with a colleague as I debate if I should interrupt this conversation, trying to assess what my interjection might pause. I find angry looks being thrown at the unwelcome stranger by colleagues\u2019 eyes. I worry about the limited words that I might put together accidentally camouflaging Emily\u2019s refusal or somehow settler-softening the power of confrontation for this stranger and I stay crouched on the forest floor. I feel a numb coldness flow through my blood, paralyzed by the unexpectedness of her presence, her questions, her body too close to mine; while this happens more than I care to admit, I am thrown off-guard by her appearance in the forest with raging words refusing to tumble off my tongue. I am so unsure how to negotiate allyship when I haven\u2019t been invited into this encounter, and as I debate why I am allowing my need for a signal to silence friendship, I do not move. I hastily turn away from the woman, the unease of this encounter lingering, her thick French accent creeping along my skin, unsettling anxiety burning in my body. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This moment lingers as I pick Drum up in public spaces, fear prickling in my mind when I raise my voice to match Drum\u2019s heartbeat, dreading the next settler intrusion into these moments of ceremony. Scrolling through the words so carefully written by Indigenous women, I have found a strange and unexpected comfort in knowing that I am not alone in these invasive encounters. Unraveling this settler entitlement to Indigenous bodies, Erica Violet Lee shares how \u201cbeaded earrings are \u201cbeautiful\u201d magnets for white folks who can never resist grabbing at our ears without our consent, as if they expect we\u2019re made of the same hard plastic as the little Indian dolls sold in Canadiana gift shops\u201d (Lee, \u201cMy ancestors survived colonization\u201d para 20.). White hands reach out to claim flesh that was never meant to survive under the policies of the Indian Act.<\/p>\n

This moment lingers while I hear Te Kawehau Hoskins and Alison Jones (\u201cLessons\u201d) speak of uneven risk as a question made real in Indigenous-settler friendship. I trace how my settler body necessarily confronts a different regime of risk than Emily, a (de)settler \u201crisk\u201d that (absurdly) allows for me to even debate my participation.<\/p>\n

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I know that I did not want, or need, a settler saviour to bravely fly in and save me from the white hands that felt entitled to my Indian body. Yet I grapple with the budding tensions that emerged in our Indigenous-Emily and settler-Nicole friendship, where boundaries between help and safety became blurry: what do I expect\/demand\/need from a radical friendship that is committed to solidarity? Reflecting on this moment, I did not want another settler body to take up space, but my best friend heart ached at Emily describing the magnitude of the disruption, the violence it did to her resurgent decolonial self-love, and we debated what our friendship asks of one another in places with limited space: what do I need if I want to care for radical friendships that truly keep the tension, even when tracing tension becomes very (unevenly) tough? We created ways of coping-attending-deploying together, with iMessaging the tensions; we iMessaged for hours, days, and even weeks and months through this encounter, imagining what it demands of our Indigenous-settler friendship. We are still unsure what the possibilities for deploying our tensions, without always knowing what our tensions are capable of, might entail. We debate our processes of friendship and iMessage through our deploying of the tensions we keep in a productive, safe, politicized, confronting, and imperfect way; we foreground deploying our tensions, not tensions we have deployed.<\/p>\n

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iMessaging (Our Feminisms + Academic) Futurities<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

iMessaging (as) Survivorship Futurities<\/h3>\n

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I refuse to entertain an illusion of \u201cdecolonizing the academy.\u201d My decolonizing projects will not attend to the dismantling of a colonial institution. Yet as an Indigenous woman who haunts the hallways of the ivory tower, I demand an academia that is softer, more forgiving, and accountable. This academic world is always in flux, expanding into new fields of study and proudly proclaiming the innovation of their carefully chosen students\u2013how is it that Indigenous intelligence is still re-labelled with colonial theoretical titles? In the face of rapidly spreading knowledge about the cultural genocide of residential schools (see Sinclair, Wilson and Littlechild, Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future<\/em>), and the incorporation of land acknowledgments into university protocol, why do Indigenous students continue to grapple with the debilitating anxieties of navigating post-secondary education? You cannot dispossess us from our lands, wrap up our identities with assimilative Indian Act policies, and then laugh when you try to ruin our bodies in academia. Canadian universities are built on ancestral bones, stand on top of bloody legacies, and interrupt land pedagogies (see Simpson, \u201cLand as pedagogy\u201d) with manicured greenspaces creeping with English ivy. I need an academia that is steeped in responsibility to Indigenous peoples, cleaving open room for survivorship while working diligently to move beyond this. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking to survivorship in academia means generating space for the complexities of Indigenous love and pain\u2013not a pain that is expected from settlers with an \u201cat risk\u201d label, greedily gobbled up as a certificate of lived Indigenous authenticity (see Tuck and Yang, R-words<\/em>), or even one that is easily dismissed with an impatient eye roll. I need space for the tensions of being an Indigenous body swimming in a sea of white theorists, white theories, and white classrooms. I need an academia that is not afraid to centre the pain-full, anxiety-riddled, extraordinarily resilient experiences of Indigenous peoples, unraveling this expectation that Indigenous minds do not belong in \u201chigher\u201d colonial education systems.<\/p>\n

A survivorship academic futurity is both radical and gentle; a decolonial love coupled with pain and rage (see Flowers, \u201cRefusal to forgive\u201d) will unapologetically push against the restrictive rules of academia, elbowing appropriative theoretical books in the spine, speaking justifiably angry words that unplug fingers from ignorant settler ears\u2013making space and demanding space for itself in institutions simmering with impatience, fear and hate. The embodied ethics I expect from my corner of the academy is for Indigenous survivorship to be present in our universities, rooting our academic futurities in gentle kindness and tender generosity (see Justice, \u201cCarrying the fire\u201d).<\/p>\n

As millennial female graduate students, Nicole and I have iMessaged extensively about our respective experiences as feminist women in the academy. Our emoji-studded conversations repeatedly return to the ethics and practices we hope to embody as emerging writers, researchers, and instructors; our iMessaging relationship hints at the academic futurities we both dream of as radical Indigenous and settler allies. As I seek to (re)map dissected Indigenous bodies, and Nicole aims to engage fatty-moving-muscling bodies, we each tend to our respective feminisms that inspire us to research bodies differently. Envisioning an academic world that refuses the permanence of cis-hetero-white-settler-men with our feminist \u201csoftness,\u201d we embrace the destructive strength of our menstrual cramps, the power of our perfectly timed eggplant emojis, and the ass-kicking abilities of our moccasin boots and Birkenstocks, as we take on the tired, old ways of doing<\/em> in the academy.<\/p>\n

iMessaging (as) Transdisciplinary Futurities<\/h3>\n

Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

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The word \u201ctransdisciplinary\u201d makes 12 appearances in my latest dissertation article draft. My transdisciplinarity owes to numerous brilliant feminist science studies and feminist new materialisms scholars, as I echo their calls to fashion \u201cincorporations, appropriations, and rerecordings of inherited discourses in affective transdisciplinary labour\u201d (Roosth and Schrader 6) capable of cultivating \u201cepistemologically eclectic mode[s] of engaging with the body\u201d (Pollock 3). I am so inspired by invitations to make critiques of Euro-Western sciences proliferate and be bodied otherwise (see Willey), to trace pedagogies as they animate physiologies (Lenz Taguchi, \u201cThe concept as method\u201d<\/strong>), and to inhabit the borders of dominant disciplinary silos (Stengers, \u201cIntroductory notes on an ecology of practices\u201d). I can endeavor to do this in my research and craft productive, rigorous, precarious amalgamations of transdisciplinarity; I can activate what an immediately accessible academic transdisciplinarity might ask of me. In doing so, I often fall into drawing finessed onto-epistemological loops around my transdisciplinary imaginings as I participate in an exciting but coherent transdisciplinarity. This is my practiced shortcoming, not that of the feminist science studies, feminist new materialisms, or post-qualitative education scholars I owe. Although the parts of my transdisciplinary bundles might profoundly trouble one another, it remains that these dual\/multiple knowledge fragments are made perceptible and hospitable to one another when I transform them into text. That physiologies and pedagogies can forge collective provocations is the crux of my doctoral research, which assumes the possibility of transdisciplinarity and requires a specific sort of transdisciplinarity. While I work hard to articulate methodological experiments that do not \u201capproach practices as they are\u2013physics as we know it, for instance\u2013but as they may become\u201d (Stengers, \u201cIntroductory Notes\u201d 186) and orient toward productivity and problems rather than mounting multidisciplinary response-solutions to problems of pedagogies and physiologies, I wonder how I double back on myself to tie together bundles of a very partial sort of transdisciplinarity.<\/p>\n

When Emily and I iMessage transdisciplinarity, we are not doing a transdiscipinarity where each moment, nor the content of each message, is wholly intelligible to another. Emily and her Indigenous feminisms and resurgent (re)mapping interventions do not dialogue with ease with myself and my post-qualitative early-childhood education feminist science studies allegiances. There exists no manageable cross-talk, no traversing of a parallel disciplinary plane. We are typing into practice a tense\u2013an extended\u2013transdisciplinarity, one where what it is to transit and what it is to be disciplinary are crafted differently and momentarily (Lather, \u201cTop ten+ list\u201d). In our conversations, movement requires digital space, the fast taps of our thumbs, and fleshed intellectual motion across ontological and political spaces that necessarily refuse entrance (or that we refuse to trespass) and force us to work in the spaces where we become incomprehensible to one another. I think of the \u201ctrans\u201d in our transdisciplinarity as a precise mode of moving, of \u201cpolitics as movement, not as\u00a0\u2018a\u2019 movement, [where] we open it to the outside rather than understand it as an intrinsic, predetermined relationship. This is not a politics that rests on representing or speaking for a single group of people to a wider audience, but is grounded in bringing bodies together in and through space\u201d (Rotas and Springgay 386). This transit demands immediacy, unintelligibility, and accountability, but it never expects that this answerability will ever rest with one of us holding the other to account; it is an accountability to what we negotiate together, not an expectation that accountability will emerge by virtue of our being in digital conversation. Our iMessaging transdisciplinarity needs to be content in being unable to transit, as Emily and I often find ourselves saying to one another \u201cI have absolutely no idea what that means for your project, but I would think the problem like this\u2026\u201d. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our iMessages are filled with artifacts, from GIFs to academic quotes, screen captures of Twitter threads to moments of writer\u2019s block, emojis to lengthy narratives about our research days. We are disciplinary, but loyal to the disciplines beget by the tensions we keep and deploy in our friendship conversations. We are academic, but perhaps not in a way the academy might welcome (or publish). I think of Haraway\u2019s articulation of tentacular thinking, of the need to generate modes of collective inquiry that cultivate practices that \u201cmake a difference, they weave paths and consequences but not determinism\u201d (Staying<\/em> 31). I imagine our iMessages layering on top of tentacular thinking, an iPhone screen-protector sheen of partiality; our iMessaged transdisiplinarity is about paths and consequences but also about the uneven imperfections of the paths and consequences we generate together (see Hoskins and Jones, \u201cLessons in fluid encounters\u201d). Our iMessaged transdisciplinarity is hard, and it often undoes my critical early childhood and feminist science studies propositions as they are in the process of unfurling. My iMessaged transdisciplinarity is not often Emily\u2019s iMessaged transdisciplinarity. We do a transdisciplinarity that exposes my words to the trouble in being transdisciplinary in millennial Indigenous-settler academic friendships. It highlights how the work in which I invest calls for increased academic transdisciplinarity and can be complicit in perpetuating existing forms of scholarly engagement and conversation; it also makes clear how collaboratively divergent transdisciplinarities are already threaded through our theorizing and spurs me toward an ethic of transdisciplinarity that allows for neither the transit nor disciplines that my settler body (of scholarship) knows now.<\/p>\n

Writing Knowledge Futurities with iMessage<\/h3>\n

Emily<\/em><\/p>\n

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iMessaging has evolved into a space where words flow, ideas are fleshed out, and the block that exists between my heart, thoughts, and posed fingertips on laptop keys disappears. In academia, the knowledge that escapes from the lips of Indigenous women is often silenced. This erasure, as a purposeful violence enacted in the academy, mirroring the greater systemic issue of colonial gender-based violence in Canada\u2013where the rape, kidnapping, and murder of targeted bodies is not just widespread, but normalized (see Arvin, Tuck and Morrill; Simpson, \u201cAnger, resentment & love\u201d).Turning to Facebook status updates, Instagram captions, tweets, and blog posts, Indigenous women have found \u201calternative\u201d ways to raise their voices and hold up the enduring efforts and resilience of Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit folks in the midst of targeted violence. Yet these methods of sharing have also been cast aside as holding little weight in the academy. As a young Indigenous graduate student, I am endlessly inspired by the unapologetic fierceness and fearlessness of Indigenous women and Two Spirit scholars that are paving the way for me to do the same (@KimTallBear; @tuckeve; @justicedanielh; @apihtawikosisan; @sammynock; @BillyRayB; @kwetoday; @ZoeSTodd; @EricaVioletLee; @thesarahhunt; @betasamosake; @RedIndianGirl2<\/sup><\/a>). Collecting pieces of Indigenous intelligence and truths to store in my bundle, these women lend me life with their words, nudging me to hold my head up high in this hostile world.<\/p>\n

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In light of this, I have found that the quickened pace and fleeting temporality of iMessaging matters for my writing. I often feel disconnected from the rigidity of formal academic writing. The frustration that mounts inside my body, as I stutter to translate heart knowledge and ancestral teachings into academic jargon is paralyzing. I overthink every letter, losing myself in the process, allowing doubt, fear, and insecurity to navigate and overtake my writing. As a Haudenosaunee woman, I gather inspiration from how we are well-known for our lengthy ceremonies. As peoples of an oral culture, every word we speak is significant, dripping with knowledge, carefully shared and crafted between generations. In our Creation Story, as Sky Woman danced and sang this world into existence, she outlined the original instructions by which the Haudenosaunee live their lives\u2013we are the ones responsible for weaving a complex web of loving kinship relations. My body, my voice, and my words must be accountable to more than just the academy. As Nicole and I found our way to an iMessaging friendship that cares for our conversations, I have found myself tiptoeing closer to a writing praxis that resonates with my embodied Haudenosaunee knowledge. iMessaging fragmented words, fractured ideas, and relevant memes carves open a path where my voice can flourish and my words are cradled in a digital web of human interaction. My writing, freed from the heaviness of colonial expectation, is effortlessly transported across the country, instantly appearing in the Messages app of Nicole\u2019s iPhone\u2013a space we both nurture so that my words are able to take on a persistence that defies the systemic silencing and erasure of Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people in Canada.<\/p>\n

Writing Careful Futurities with iMessage<\/h3>\n

Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

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Writing articles is immensely comforting to me. I take (often indulgent) joy from filling the vibrant white pages that live on my laptop screen with words made of pedagogical inquiry, Photoshop art, scholars whose texts nourish me, and my own histories of knowledge. I am overtly aware that my cozy relationship with writing owes to the \u201cperceptual style<\/em> and habits of seeing<\/em>\u201d (Jackson and Mazzei, Thinking<\/em> 134, original emphasis) that I have been trained into; I am often reminded that I am in \u201cgrade 22,\u201d having been, for my entire adult life, a constantly complicit participant in the dominant Euro-Western systems of normative education that my ancestors built. I do not take the same comfort in iMessaging as Emily. iMessage demands of me a different habit of seeing, an interruptive perceptual pace, and an unfamiliar pattern of making words real (see Jackson and Mazzei, \u201c). Plugging on text into another\u201d; Koro-Ljunberg & MacLure, \u201cProvocations, re-un-visions, death, and other possibilities of \u201cdata\u201d\u201d; Pacini-Ketchabaw, Taylor, and Blaise, Decentering the human in multispecies ethnographies<\/em>). We cultivate iMessage tempos that are both urgent and slow\u2014urgent, as we pull out our iPhones in moments of crisis to tap into our collaborative brain trust, and with a slowness that for me resonates with slow science as I work \u201cto activate the possible, and not to describe the probable, that is, to think situations with and through their unknowns when I can feel them\u201d (Stengers, \u201cAnother Science\u201d 1). iMessage makes itself felt in a mode that co-writing in a shared Word document does not. To schedule \u201ciMessaging time\u201d into my day feels ludicrous, as our iMessaging has its own momentums that announce themselves with phone vibrations and that ebb and flow in concert with the unfolding of our days. I carry our iMessage threads with me, pulling out my iPhone in the middle of the grocery store to add to our conversations about smashing the colonial heteropatriarchy as I throw an industrially farmed and water-devouring avocado in my basket. Often I cannot iMessage perfectly articulated bundles of words, because my fingers are too cold to keep the pace. There is no \u201csave\u201d function with iMessage, no space where my words hang in limbo on a page but not logged; I hit \u201csend\u201d and my thinking transits to Emily. iMessage, then, enacts a curatorial care for our conversations; it carries our chats, keeping them constantly within arm\u2019s reach, while we nurture our own urgency that is patient and slow and generous and contradictory. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I re-read that paragraph and chuckle at how so-called millennial it sounds. I always have my iPhone near me. We iMessage all the time. Such a summary lacks the precision with which Emily and I iMessage, where we write with tensions that demand a generous urgency. I think of Erin Manning\u2019s imagining of an ethic of research-creation performance that \u201cis emergent anew each time, yet carries a precision of technique\u201d (\u201cThe Dance\u201d 344), of how Elizabeth Adams St.\u00a0Pierre (2014) writes of her own collaborative potentialities \u201cbut only in a certain way\u201d (374), and how Elizabeth Wilson stakes a terrain that resolutely \u201cdoes endorse biology\u201d (27). Our iMessaging methodologies are bounded differently than those Manning, St.\u00a0Pierre, or Wilson inhabit, but I borrow from them to trace the contours of our practice as a method of caring. This is a precision that is not prescriptive but one of intentionality, of keeping and deploying the tension, and of iMessaging survivorship and transdisciplinarity. I iMessage many friends, but Emily and I allow for a different ethos of messaging that is more laboured, that tugs at more precision. I do not simply need iMessage to finish my dissertation or to imagine what my research contributions might look like into the future. I need to iMessage (with) Emily<\/em>. I need to iMessage our Indigenous-settler friendship because of the tensions we keep and the precision we curate, because this is a precision that gives to iMessage the power to make us think how we can activate the unknowns between our lives (see Stengers, \u201cIntroductory notes on an ecology of practices\u201d). To deploy the tensions our iMessaged friendship cares for feels like an ethics relevant to the academic futures that I need to help create.<\/p>\n

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iMessaging Process and Pause, Again and After, Across and Apart<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

As we look toward how our iMessage collaborations might continue to evolve, we have only tentative responses to question, \u201chow<\/em> does iMessaging flesh, friendship, and futurities matter?\u201d: iMessage is present in our collaborations and throughout this article, because our iMessaging practices are entangled with the engagements, flesh, friendship, and futurities we make possible through the bodies, tensions, and temporalities we craft with iMessage. Thinking with flesh, we take seriously how our hands clutch our iPhones as our fingerprints leave traces of the digital words we have beamed to one another across their screens. As we consider how tension matters to our Indigenous-settler millennial academic friendship, we sit with the messiness of relying on expensive, commoditized technologies to sustain collaborations we hope might chisel at the heteropatriarchal habits of our academic communities. We do not have any interest in deploying our friendship toward traditional academic ends, such as increasing our publication count, or mounting \u201cinterdisciplinary\u201d or \u201creconciliation\u201d research collaborations. We carry the tensions of our friendship alongside the uneven, difficult work of inheriting and inhabiting shared and incommensurable worlds. Imagining futurities, we notice how iMessage lends a patient urgency to our scholarship, leaning into a temporality of collaborative work we cannot otherwise access in the academy, wherein notifications of our messages instantaneously light up our iPhone screens but then faithfully linger until we are ready to read, reply, debate, or return to the unintentional archive of scholarship our iPhones hold for us. We take seriously iMessaging, not iMessage: iMessage matters as our mode of Indigenous-settler millennial academic friendship only with<\/em> the kinship we make real.<\/p>\n

We extend these partial responses to how our friendship has become entangled with iMessage into to questions of how we might continue to hold up the tensions of our friendship in our academic work: if mobility matters to how we iMessage bodies in our Indigenous-settler millennial academic friendship, how might we generate active, lively conversational spaces that stretch beyond academic conversational conventions with our students, colleagues, and collaborators? Where our work of maintaining our tensions becomes the generative backbone of our Indigenous-settler friendship, how might we cultivate gentle and uncompromising, demanding and evolving tensions throughout our academic communities, while doing tension<\/em> as a method of love, friendship, and scholarship? How might we enact our iMessage transdisciplinarity and temporalities beyond the skeletons of our iPhones, working to collaboratively imagine not-yet-present academic practices that value lingering and urgency, perfect sentences and inexact wonderings, returning and responding, and tension and intention as modes of relating that do scholarship and Indigenous-settler millennial academic friendship in the same breath?
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  1. Our understanding of how we might begin and the necessity to reimagine futurities and temporalities borrows inspiration from Indigenous scholars who emphasize the urgency in resisting and reconfiguring settler-colonial conceptions of space and time (see Belcourt, \u201cOn \u2018moving too fast\u2019, or decolonial speed\u201d; Morrill et al.,\u201cBefore dispossession, or surviving it\u201d; Rifkin, \u201cQueering Indigenous pasts\u201d; Rowe and Tuck, \u201cSettler colonialism and cultural studies\u201d; Tuck and Ree, \u201cA glossary of haunting\u201d). We situate our work as a tentative, partial practice of making public how our iMessaging orients us toward specific pauses, archives, words, and exchanges that matter to our Indigenous-settler millennial academic friendship because they complexify the temporal and disciplinary contours of our (scholarly) writing and reading habits.\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. At the time of publication, @RedIndianGirl has been continually censored by Twitter and their account has been blocked multiple times. We are citing the account that was active as we wrote this article, but want to note that this Twitter handle has necessarily changed, and continues to change, to avoid ongoing censorship.\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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