Kim TallBear

Sep 19, 2023 | peninfist.substack.com | Carrie Hamilton |Alicia Kennedy |Kim TallBear

Welcome back to Pen in Fist. I’m excited to get started on the new version of this newsletter, which will bring in other activist writer voices. From next month subscribers will get two regular features each month:1st Tuesday: An essay on activism and writing. 3rd Tuesday: An interview with an activist writer, using the Substack podcast feature. Watch out on Tuesday 17 October for my first guest: London-based freelance journalist Samir Jeraj.

May 3, 2023 | audiobooks.com | Kim TallBear

In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful-and problematic-scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations.