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Ty Bryant
Areas of interest
Asian-Indigenous relationaliites; Asian settler colonial critique; transpacific solidarities and imaginaries; Indigenous geopolitics and sovereignties; decolonizing diaspora and area studies; deconstructing and contesting Canadian and Taiwanese nation-building and settler colonialism; performative settler multiculturalism; border coloniality and abolition; affective economies and the politics of belonging
Biography
Gila鈥檏asla! Ty is a member of We Wai Kai Nation, and a graduate student in anthropology here at SFU. He is Co-Founder of Asian-Indigenous Relations Collective and serves as Co-Director, stewarding AIR鈥檚 initiatives and relationalities. He is currently finishing his MA thesis which examines (im)possibilities of Taiwanese diasporic settlerhood in Vancouver on the never ceded, traditional, and stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His life is anchored in knowing that new forms of solidarity are not only possible but achievable, and that modes of belonging not contingent on settler states are necessary for collective liberation. Land back.
Projects
Asian-Indigenous Relations Collective (AIR)
Asian-Indigenous Relations Collective (AIR), formed in 2024, directs far more attention to the rich, countless ways in which Asian-Indigenous relations have shaped (and been shaped by) Turtle Island and beyond.
AIR straddles community, academic, and multi-media work with a cross-cultural relational ethic of care, stewarding a digital resource and a programming slate which includes the largest Asian-Indigenous gathering in the history of "canada" set for September 2025: "The Past, Present, and Future of Braided Solidarities: Asian-Indigenous Relations Symposium" (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and various other institutions and funding bodies).
Featured collaborators:
- Nadine Attewell, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, 91泡芙
- Ryan Buyco, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, California Polytechnic State University
- Marc Castro, Alumni of Beedie School of Business, 91泡芙
- Cynthia Cui, MA Graduate of School of Interactive Arts and Technology, 91泡芙
- Candace Fujikane, Professor of English, University of Hawai'i at M膩noa
- Michael Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology, 91泡芙
- Gage Karahkw铆:io Diabo, Assistant Professor of English, Concordia University
- Jane Komori, Provost's Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Labor, Migration, and Racial Capitalism, Georgetown University
- Yi Chien Jade Ho, Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria
- Geri Lee, MA Student of Sociology, 91泡芙
- Sharon Luk, Associate Professor of Geography, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair of Geographies of Racialization, 91泡芙
- Ashley Caranto Morford, Assistant Professor of Multiethnic American Literatures, Weber State University
- Nishant Upadhyay, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
- Rebecca Wong, Candidate in the Joint JD (Canadian Common Law) JID (Indigenous Legal Orders) program, University of Victoria
- Ayaka Yoshmizu, Associate Professor of Teaching in Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
To learn more about the collective, its members and initiatives, visit and read the project feature story: SA graduate students establish Asian-Indigenous Relations Society and launch digital resource
Publications
Bryant, Ty. 鈥淚, The Gutless Indian.鈥� Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. Spring 2024: 146-149.
Awards
- SFU Indigenous Graduate Entrance Scholarship
- New Relationship Trust
- Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) CGS-M and Indigenous Scholars Supplement
- We Wai Kai First Nation