Julietta Singh: Against Home in the Settler Colony | Screening + Public Conversation

Co-sponsored by the Feminist Media Studio & Dark Opacities Lab

What does “home” mean in the settler colony and how does that term come to resound differently for and across communities? How might our homes—the places we grew up and the places we now inhabit—become spaces of explicitly anticolonial dwelling? Through her new collaborative feature-length documentary THE NEST Singh turns to the architecture of the settler colony to ignite trans-cultural and trans-historical anticolonial feminist kinships. Displacing the legacies of home passed down by the heteronuclear family and through the settler state THE NEST intimately examines the architecture of Singh’s childhood home to reframe Canadian history as a story of entangled subjugated and politically charged feminist and minoritized lives.

This event will consist of a screening of The Nest (2025) a documentary film directed by Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt followed by a conversation between Julietta Singh and Professors Krista Lynes and Balbir Singh as well as a Q&A with the audience.

Julietta Singh is a postcolonial scholar and nonfiction writer whose work engages the enduring global effects of colonization through attention to ecology inheritance race gender and sexuality. She works and teaches across anticolonial studies the ecological humanities queer studies and experimental feminisms. Singh is the author of three books: Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism & Decolonial Entanglements No Archive Will Restore You and The Breaks. The Nest is her first feature-length experimental documentary.

Accessibility information: The venue is located on the ground floor of the JMSB building. While there are stairs along the side of the auditorium proscenium level doors grant access to the space from the front. ASL interpretation will be provided. If you have further accessibility needs and/or require more information please get in touch with us at info@feministmediastudio.ca