ABSTRACT
The contest of values that emerged in public discussions of the march prompts deeper reflection of mobility, territory, and the racialization of space writ large in Indigenous-settler history. The threat of its cancelation represented a trumping of one group’s mobility for another’s, the prioritization of Olympic traffic over the circulation of the city’s everyday users and its most disenfranchised inhabitants. Mobility, when read in light of the traumatic histories, is burdened with unsettling reminders of state-sanctioned violence, expropriated territory, and the exercise of power over bodies. The Unnatural and Accidental Women and Burning Vision posit mobility and exitability as effects of modern power—a power over the movement of people and things that leaves in its trail irremediably altered lives and landscapes. The Unnatural and Accidental Women explores mobility’s racial and gendered limits by following the movements of Indigenous female characters who cannot wear their bodies lightly in urban space.
