Commentary: Indigenous TikTok
TikTok’s dance challenges and infectious memes enable content sharing across cultures—and Indigenous creators are using it to find powerful new ways of seeing and being seen.
Canadian Art
Essay: mâyipayiwin
“Did you know that there’s a distinct waver in someone’s voice as they say, “Oh my God” that immediately, undeniably means that the person on the other end of the phone is telling them that someone has died?”
Originally published in ndncountry, anthologized in Best Canadian Essays 2019
Review: On nîtisânak
“nîtisânak is an accounting of beyond-family kinship, from the fragility of great-grandmothers to first gay makeouts. It feels like they are sitting next to you, visiting, talking round and round, pulling you in with familiarity and firmness.”
The Capilano Review
Poem: pimîhkân
Here’s how you make pemmican:
1. wiyâs
2. pânisâwân
3. kâhkêwak
4. yîwahikanak
5. pîmihkân
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Originally published in ndncountry, anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2019 and Poetry in Voice
Selected academic publications
Articles
Cielemęcka, Olga, Monika Rogowska-Stangret, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Andrea Pető, Jessie Loyer, Mariya Ivancheva, and Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir. "Roundtable discussion: Thinking together from within the times that worry us." Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 1, no. 1 (2020).
Loyer, Jessie, Madelaine Vanderwerff, and Meagan Bowler. "Supporting Indigenous Studies Programs Through Sustainable Budget Allocation." Collection Management 42, no. 3-4 (2017): 338-350.
Bak, Greg, Tolly Bradford, Jessie Loyer, and Elizabeth Walker. "Four Views on Archival Decolonization Inspired by the TRC's Calls to Action." Fonds d'Archives 1 (2017).
Loyer, Jessie, and Marija Small Legs. "Non-insured health benefits for First Nations and Inuit people: an overview for information providers." Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 35, no. 1 (2014): 24-26.
Book chapters
Voth, Daniel, and Jessie Loyer. "Why Calgary Isn't Métis Territory: Jigging Towards an Ethic of Reciprocal Visiting" in Visions of the Heart, 5th edition, edited by Gina Starblanket and David Long, 106-125. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Loyer, Jessie. “Indigenous information literacy: nêhiyaw kinship enabling self-care in research” in The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship, edited by Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale. Sacramento: Library Juice Press, 2018.
Loyer, Jessie. “Not a Mônîyâw Librarian” in Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians, edited by Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Talks
Opening keynote for Access 2020, “The (sometimes false) promise of technology in Indigenous language revitalization”
Social Justice in Health Librarianship panel, with Andrea Kang and Patricia Devine, moderated by Karen Ng of the podcast Organizing Ideas
“Where do you work?” workshop, delivered at the ARL Symposium for Strategic Leadership in DEI