Giselle Dias (Niigaanii Zhaawshko Giizhigokwe – Leading Blue Sky Woman) is an Indigiqueer Métis writer, activist scholar, educator, community organizer, and Auntie with roots in the Red River (Hodgson and Fidler), as well as settler ancestry. She lives and works on the Haldimand Tract, the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee Peoples. Her scholarship focuses on Indigenous wholistic abolition, Indigegogy, decolonization, and land-based learning, weaving Indigiqueer feminist theory, Indigenous wholism, and community-rooted practice. Her published work engages Indigenous ethics in social work, Indigenous queer and Two-Spirit futurities, Indigenous disability and fat studies, and the responsibilities of mixed-race Indigenous and settler positionality within decolonial scholarship. She is an assistant professor in the Indigenous Field of Study in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University, where her work bridges academic scholarship and community activism in support of Indigenous sovereignty, Land Back, and abolitionist futures.


