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Mathilde Magga
The exhibition tells the story of the prejudice, racism, and bullying that young Sami people have experienced growing up as a minority in a northern Norwegian city and how these challenges often follow them throughout life in unexpected ways. Mathilde and several of her friends, as young Sami, have experienced both physical and psychological bullying and exclusion during their childhood.
Mathilde Magga is a young Sami PhD candidate in literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a double major in English Literature and Holocaust, Genocide & Indigenous Studies from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Since fall 2020, she has focused on Indigenous literature in the English Language & Literature Master/PhD program at UW.
Through her literary studies, Mathilde has become particularly interested in how Indigenous literature in both Sápmi and on the American continent can free itself from Western conventions of what literature should be and instead be shaped by the storytelling traditions of Indigenous peoples.
Exhibition Dates: September 22 to November 10