2024 Meredith Miller Memorial Lecture
Why Is Sex a “Thing”? Making Relations against a Colonial World Settler-colonial states like Canada and the US have forged their societies and governance systems with theories of what is natural, and have centered specific property regimes while doing so. Concepts of nature and property have been at the heart of violence toward first peoples of the Americas, peoples of African descent, women, children, the differently abled, and queer people. What is deemed to be natural and who gets to define and manage “nature” have kept straight, white, property-owning men on top. Nature and propert...