Uanga ("I"): Journey of Raven and the Revival of the Spirit of Whale

Uanga (“I”): Journey of Raven and the Revival of the Spirit of Whale is a critical autobiographical essay. In this essay, I negotiate and reflect on my own coming to voice as a Danish-Inuit artist-researcher. It is a sustained meditation on how the (post-)colonial relations between Denmark and Greenland are entangled in my lived experiences as a mixed-race woman. The essay introduces the scholarly contentions (and possibilities) in decolonizing, mixed-race and Indigenous research by critically engaging with my personal conflicts and considerations. By writing “the voiceless”, I also engage the fragmentation and divisions that characterize the (post-)colonial world. It is my intent to build and create “living memory”, as a way of pressuring (neo)colonial narratives and pave way for new.