Molly Swain is an otipêmsiw-iskwêw currently living in amiskwaciwâskahikan Edmonton, Alberta, on Treaty 6, Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4, and Nehiyaw-Pwat territories. She is a PhD student in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta studying 20th century Métis political history and Métis anarchism. She is a co-founder of Free Lands Free Peoples, and Indigenous-led anti-colonial prairie penal abolition group, and co-host, along with Chelsea Vowel, of otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk Métis in Space, an Indigenous feminist science fiction podcast and Land Back project. Molly is keen on total liberation, karaoke, and Star Trek.