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Grace Dillon Quotes

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Grace L. Dillon is an academic and author who is of Anishinaabe and European descent.

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The vibrancy of change permeates the air around all of our nations, human and more-than-human.

The myths about idealizing settlers and settler nations at the time of contact are a huge misunderstanding that are still promoted today.

Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms (2021)

Methods that do not resemble western science are not de facto "primitive."

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

Walking the Clouds returns us to ourselves by encouraging Native writers to write about Native conditions in Native-centered worlds liberated by the imagination.

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

May you find balance too. Mino bimaatisiiwin!

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

Climate change is as much about humanity as it is about industry, and it is creative efforts that will ultimately move hearts and minds to address the problem.

Why intersectionality in fiction matters" in Grist (2021)

As Basil Johnston (Anishinaabe) might remind us, w'daeb-a-wae, "a telling of the truth," casts our voices and words only as far as vocabulary and perception allow.

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

Everything is storytelling. Indigenous sciences are embedded in stories; this is how we share our Indigenous sciences.

Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms (2021)

May we treasure our kinship system, which connects us not always via direct blood relations but through our social relations and roles, filling each
of us with star wisdom, circling in this way back to our own Returning Home Star.

Afterword to New Suns 2 (2023)

Walking the Clouds opens up sf to reveal Native presence. It suggests that Indigenous sf is not so new-just overlooked, although largely accompanied by an emerging movement-and advocates that Indigenous authors should write more of it.

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

As the Red Nation’s The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth puts it, over and over again, we have a choice to make: decolonization or extinction.

Why intersectionality in fiction matters" in Grist (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grace Dillon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.