GOOD TALK WITH JULIETTA SINGH
Co-Director, Writer & Narrator of THE NEST
Julietta Singh is a writer and postcolonial scholar whose work engages the enduring global effects of colonization through attention to ecology, race, and gender. Singh is Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She is the author of three books: The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021), No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018).Singh is co-director, writer, and narrator of the award-winning feature documentary, THE NEST (National Film Board of Canada, 2025), an epic feminist reclamation of women's histories and a cross-cultural collaboration with Red River Métis, Deaf, and Japanese Canadian communities shot in her childhood home on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Canada.
For more information visit: juliettasingh.com
Expertise
I am the researcher, community collaborator, writer, narrator, and co-director of THE NEST, a film shot entirely in and around my childhood home, and made in collaboration with with Métis, Deaf, and Japanese collaborators, as well as with my elderly mother and young daughter. I'm interested in how we can make feminist decolonial work not only across generations, but across time and cultures that are not our own. As a feminist writer and postcolonial scholar, I want everyone to think otherwise about the vital relations between political and intimate life.
Speaking History
The film premiered as a Special Presentation film at HOT DOCS in Spring, 2025. Since then, it has screened at film festivals and universities across Canada and the United States.