Dr. Megan Scribe
Megan Scribe is Ininiw from Norway House Cree Nation.
Areas of Expertise
Indigenous feminist and queer theories; Indigenous research methodologies and methods; interlocking systems of violence, oppression, and power; kinship, collaboration, and co-conspiring
Research
Dr. Megan Scribe's scholarship and community-based advocacy exposes and interrogates interlocking structures of power and oppression giving rise to white settler societies like Canada. Over the last ten years, Dr. Scribe has focused on racist and anti-Indigenous gender-based violence targeting Indigenous women, girls, and 2LGBTQQIA+ people to further draw out the ways in which cis-heteropatriarchy upholds and advances settler society. These inquiries are grounded by Indigenous storywork and critical examinations of Indigenous prose and poetry, as well as legal narratives. This is necessarily interdisciplinary work indebted to critical Indigenous studies, Indigenous feminist and queer studies, post-colonialism, and critical race theory. Dr. Scribe's research into the white supremacist underpinnings of white settler societies has presented her with unexpected lines of inquiry and possibilities for community and collaboration to examine interlocking settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and xenophobia.
Website
Courses
- SOC 350: Queering Sociology
- SOC 633: Sex, Gender Identities and Sexualities
- SOC 576: Colonialism and Anti-Blackness
- SOC 502: Violence and the Family
Community & Professional Service
- Education Director for
- Committee Member, Department Hiring Committee
- Ad Hoc Reviewer for Research Ethics Board
- Committee Member for Indigenous Faculty Council
- Community Council Member for the Diversion Program
Recent Publications
Scribe, M. Forthcoming. 鈥淜ith and Kindle: Queer Wahkohtowin for Black-Indigenous Relations in Literature鈥� in Home(place): Honouring, (Re)membering and (Re)storying the Process of Matriarchal Worlding as Kinship, edited by J. Brant, W. L. Garrett-Walker and Q. Alexander. Ontario: Demeter Press.
Scribe, M. Forthcoming. 鈥淭he Break in Rape Narratives鈥� in Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada, Vol. 6, edited by G. Starblanket and D. Long. New York City: Oxford University Press.
Scribe, M. Forthcoming. Graphic Accounts of Indigenous Schooling. Girlhood Studies (December 2024/January 2025).
Scribe, M. 2024. 鈥淕ender Reveals That Matter: Cis-Heteropatriarchy, Settler Colonialism, and Child Welfare鈥� in edited by G. Starblanket. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
Scribe, M. 2023. Policy Brief. Toronto: Yellowhead Institute.
Scribe, M. 2023. Magazine Article. Toronto: Xtra Magazine.
King, T. L., S. Latty, S. Lumsden, K. Recollet, M. Scribe and B. Jafri. 2023. Lateral Journal for the Cultural Studies Association 12(1).
Scribe, M. 2023 April 17. Guts Magazine 12.
Scribe, M. 2022. 鈥淭he Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls鈥� Narratives on Police Violence鈥� in (pp. 118-127), edited by A. Gebhard, S. Mclean, & V. St. Denis. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
Habtom, S. and Scribe, M. 2020. (Policy Brief, Issue 64). Toronto: Yellowhead Institute.
Scribe, M. 2018. Canadian Woman Studies 32(1-2): 47-57.