Search Results for Indigenous women

... , and traditional communities. We now have one woman elected to Congress, but one is not enough. Our fight is collective; we need more than one. We will support Indigenous women running for office at all levels of institutional politics—municipal, state, and national offices—and even the presidency, right...

...Renya Ramirez Abstract Too often there is the assumption in Native communities that we as indigenous women should defend a tribal nationalism that ignores sexism as part of our very survival as women as well as our liberation from colonization. In contrast, in this essay, I assert that race, tribal...

... on women as victims, and pay no attention to the structural underpinnings of the violence women face. Parallelly, the securitization strategies that have been implemented across Mexico have further exacerbated the violence across the country—a violence that is experienced differently by Indigenous women...

...Lena Palacios Abstract This essay, with accompanying lesson plan, explores how race-radical women of color feminist activists—in particular, Black and indigenous feminists—identify, conceptualize, theorize, and resist the carceral state violence of white settler societies in both Canada...

... knowledge) and ideological (the interconnectedness of people, the earth, and culture) constructs enable communal paradigms rather than individualistic or gendered identities to rise to the fore. Given these parameters, how can the testimonies of native women’s lives as artists inform debates of indigenous...

... knowledge) and ideological (the interconnectedness of people, the earth, and culture) constructs enable communal paradigms rather than individualistic or gendered identities to rise to the fore. Given these parameters, how can the testimonies of native women's lives as artists inform debates of indigenous...

... (2022) by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Becoming Kin (2022) by Patty Krawec. It examines such themes as white feminist complicity with colonial white supremacist violence, the collective survival wisdom of Indigenous and Black women, abolition, and the revolutionary potential...

... the normalization and acceptance of torture against women identified as Indigenous, campesinas , and insurgents. The author contends that the narration of ex-combatant herstories of war visibilizes the insufficiency of Peru’s legal system to address cases of human rights violations, opens spaces from which...

... Solutions .” Journal of the American College of Surgeons 227 , no. 5 : 537 – 42 . Speed Shannon . 2017 . “ Structures of Settler Capitalism in Abya Yala .” American Quarterly 69 , no. 4 : 783 – 90 . Speed Shannon . 2019 . Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants...

... Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 SisterSong wofrkil, oczoorrRw,f0Attoroiti.molcAKtiyA The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective is made up of local, regional and national grassroots organizations representing four primary ethnic populations/indigenous nations...

... Black radical feminisms anti-violence movement-building My formal introduction to the feminism of Indigenous and Black race-radical women of color was violent due to my own life experience as a survivor of sexual and state violence and my social location as a queer Chicana from an urban working...

... Bhattacharjee noted, that we cannot go to the police for protection against domestic violence and then rally against them for police brutality as if these "police" are two totally separate institutions. Also significant was the prominent role indigenous women played in the conference. The large contingency...

... of Ala in their spiritual journey.” Next, we have two Pedagogy features that exemplify the resonant diversity of Indigenous epistemologies across the world, which share commonalities such as respect for the wisdom of women elders/Aunties and a calling to take care of/with the earth and all living...

...). In contrast to Wolfe and Veracini, Trask, alongside many other Indigenous women, feminist and/or queer scholars, centers gender and sexuality in her analyses of settler colonialism. Trask critiques how central the eroticization and exotification of Native Hawaiian women has been to settler colonialism...

... discuss Indigenous communities’ well-being without considering Indigenous women’s physical and emotional stability. At the same time, cuerpo-territorio and its notion of well-being refer to the cultural, social, and emotional relation to the land one inhabits, including accountability for caring...

..., accessible, and affordable for women” despite having grown up witnessing the Indigenous “birthing wisdom” of women in her community. A miscarriage and near–maternal death experience in 2007 “due to medical negligence” within the SMI-modeled system of Nigeria became a “turning point toward remembering...

... as artists and other protesters. Without the inclusion of Indigenous women’s and LGBTQ2s’ knowledge, “the academy cannot have a full understanding of colonialism as a process nor can it fully understand Indigenous resurgence” (Simpson 2017 : 31). As part of the decolonization of the feminist academia...

... 2024 spirituality women of color feminism Indigenous feminism Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminists have long recognized that spirituality and activism are deeply intertwined. The Black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde’s ([1978] 1984 : 56) concept of “erotic knowledge,” for example...

... about women's participation in the South Africa landless movement, the Intifada, the Dalit Struggle, and the indigenous movements often reminded us that although we are the backbones of our struggles, women remain marginal within the masculinist politics of national liberation and community struggles...

...Denise Noble Abstract This article deploys an intersectional, transnational, and postcolonial approach to uncovering what is repressed and connoted in recent pronouncements that multiculturalism in Britain has failed and that it is time for Britain to return to a lost, indigenous, “active, muscular...