Mainstream feminism is structured around the white middle-class experience, implicating the patriarchy as the sole overarching concern. This feminism largely fails to address historic and ongoing settler colonialism and pinkwashes the complicity of white women in colonial projects. This presentation will review mainstream feminism, introduce Indigenous critiques of this whitestream feminism, and delineate key tenets of decolonial Indigenous feminism as a remedy.

This training will be led by Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer, a queer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation.

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Indigenous communities traditionally honored and upheld a variety of genders and sexualities. Settler colonialism interrupted these practices and left a legacy of colonial mentalities surrounding gender and sexuality. This training will introduce core concepts of understanding gender and sexuality, review colonial histories of policing Indigenous gender and sexuality expression, and delineate Indigenous reclamations and emerging language to support Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit relatives.

This training will be led by Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer, a queer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation.

Register for the training here!