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Cheyanne Brown Armstrong (née Connell) (they/she) is an indigi-queer scholar and artist, with Indigenous lineage and membership with West Moberly First Nations (Dunne-Za Cree). Currently, they divide their time between their Doctoral program and research in Socio-Cultural and Indigenous Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and creating art.
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Art I think of my art and making as an expression of the affects and facets of indigeneity, colonialism, and surrounding environments. Due to my anthropology background, even when creating art, I often find myself identifying and (over)analyzing various aspects of my identity, life experiences, and environments. Mainly, I end up worrying a lot about Indigenous representation and its affects. What Indigenous tropes are being reproduced in this? How might this shaped one's identity-making process? Why is traditional performativity often privileged over multicultural, contemporary realities? And how can I make more space for identities and experiences like mine, an urban, mixed native? While I am currently working on answering many of those questions through my own academic research and scholarship, I also want to prioritize more personal and creative efforts (ones that don't require several dozen citations) that speak to my own Indigenous reality. Through all my art and making, I aim to contribute to the expansion and diversifying of contemporary Indigenous representation in public worlds.

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