B. Liahnna Stanley

B. Liahnna Stanley (Mvskoke, Poarch Creek, they/she) is a doctoral student who lives and works on the stolen homelands of the Akimel O’odham and Piipaash that are currently occupied by Arizona State University. Liahnna's research is located within rhetoric, critical/cultural communication studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies. Liahnna’s research questions how configurations of racial and colonial power organize lands, bodies, relations, and subjectivities. Their research deploys critical theorizations of Indigeneity to unravel the western epistemic project of human-centric rationality in service of enacting sovereign futurities beyond settler colonial definitions. In their research, they use a variety of methods, such as Indigenous storytelling, rhetorical analysis, performance, and qualitative approaches.