This informal workshop, related to the talk It’s All Relational: Indigenous Video Game as Storytelling Praxis. takes up ideas and (re)newed approaches within some Indigenous and decolonial projects: VR, comic books, video games, machine a and more. We’ll share ideas, approaches, sources, and workshop some ways to make your storytelling praxis happen! Come with ideas, questions, outlines for stories you need to tell, want to share, or don’t quite know what to do with. Play has been included intentionally to combat burn out from community-building, activism, and pursuing graduate degrees. Play is a powerful counter to this that can (re)code how we relate to others - human and nonhuman - and ourselves.

The workshop will be led by Michelle Lee Brown, who studies Indigenous political praxis and futures through Indigenous designers’ video games, graphic novels, and machinima in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i - Mānoa. She has published peer-reviewed work on the Never Alone video game, a methods chapter on Indigenous political theory approaches to video game research, and “Liminal” – a comic in the forthcoming Relational Constellation collection from MSU Press and Native Realities Press. She is currently working on a VR project on water and relationality, and a comic based on multiple levels of impostor syndrome.