solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

ecstatic, overjoyed, and just absolutely thrilled to share that I've accepted a job offer at York University to join their School of Social Work as an assistant professor starting January 1st, 2026!! 🙌🏽

guest lectured on countering colonial narratives through storytelling today at the University of Michigan med school 🤗 feels good to be back in my nerd joys. #DiariesOfADecolonialScholar

new OPEN ACCESS publication (from your fave 💁🏽‍♀️) on fascism and the far right and wondering where social work is in all of this! anzswjournal.nz/anzsw

Yesterday, @drblackdeer.bsky.social posted about how Wind River does not pass the Ali Nahdee Test, so here is the tool developed by @alinahdee.bsky.social 8 years ago! 👀 Ali credits Shannon & Shauna Baker as inspirations after seeing them on the Tyra Banks show! 🥹🥹🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qei-...

getting emails like: please step forward for another opportunity to be tokenized. happy back to school szn yall

allow me to reintroduce myself.. my name is Autumn BlackDeer, and I now use she/they pronouns 🥰 thanks for being here 💖

can we talk about how cultural competence/humility/whatever still centers yt practitioners as the default? because as a Native social worker, how am I supposed to be culturally humble with my own dang culture??

I had a great time chatting with Dr. Dèsa Kayre Daniel over on The Thoughtful Counselor podcast! Our conversation felt like we've been old friends for a long time! 🤗 My episode is titled Voices of Resistance 👊🏽 concept.paloaltou.edu/resources/th...

A great day to be Cheyenne! On this day in 1876, my ancestors killed Custer! Talk about FAFO 👊🏽 #VictoryDay #CusterHadItComing

If I had a dollar for every time a woman in leadership abused her power and harassed me as a junior scholar but won a professional award the very same year, I'd only have two dollars but it still feels like a lot for one person to deal with.

Indigiqueer PRIDE 💖🏳️‍🌈🦅

If a marginalized person corrects you or calls you in and your response is "well, actually" -- you are 1000% not an ally and need to go sit down immediately.

Happy Juneteenth! On this day, 160 years ago, enslaved people in Texas found out about their freedom nearly 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

we have to stop the innate urge to split things in half. another tenet of yt supremacy culture is either/or thinking. decolonizing doesnt mean colonized/decolonized, it's a false dichotomy. reading la paperson and they demonstrate that the decolonial already exists even within colonial contexts.

somewhere in the corner of my mind is a little scribble about the invocation of stolen land as a way to place it in the past like ope sorry gone forever and as a way of erasure of all the genocide and colonial violence that occurred and remains ongoing to keep said stolen land

idk why but I don't trust yt people that continually refer to me and fellow Black and Brown folks as "voices"

collective Liberation is not the girl scouts. you don't get patches or sashes for every little achievement. a lot of yall need to interrogate the part of you that needs external validation that you're "one of the good ones" -- this individualism is a core tenet of yt supremacy culture

It is 2025 and they asked me to review a paper on embodied anti-racist practice where they, wait for it, held a book club and went to brunch every month. But it was POC restaurants. Seriously, the bar is in hell y'all.

"Don't tread on me, tread on them instead... here I'll help."

new publication available now! 🌞 doi.org/10.1177/1044...

now all the pieces make sense. cant claim a hate crime because that would affirm that trans men are men. so they paint him as a rugged Native man out in Texas instead. blatant queer and trans erasure. Nea'ese @/jersey.noah for bringing this together ❤️‍🩹 #TransLiberationTuesday

The wording of headlines surrounding Jonathan Joss' murder is almost a direct mirror to how folks like to talk about colonization. Some have said he was in a dispute or feud with his neighbor. Others say it was a gunfight. He was harassed for *years* and was never taken seriously. 1/

Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

too many want recognition. we, however, want justice.

They are literally in the middle of suppressing free speech at this very moment

As I said, Harvard is committed to doing fascism on its own terms. “The panel…will have the power to oversee cases involving possible violations of two University-wide policies governing protest and the use of campus spaces.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

objectivity is another lie of yt supremacy. the notion that certain folks can be completely objective in how they study OTHER groups of people, but we can never work in our own communities because we're "too close". What a perfect set up for yt savior research.

I'm not impressed by "checking your privilege" in the exact same way I could care less if your org does a land acknowledgement. Because 9/10 times you're about to carry on with your colonial nonsense afterwards anyways. Just keep it moving, folks.

Earlier this month I was notified that my virtual visiting scholar fellowship had been terminated due to lack of fit with new directions of the NSF (thanks to current admin shifts). I'm unsure what will become of my institutional pushout research at this point, but I know Creator has a plan for me!

Liberal response to leftist agitation

IN LOVE with my new tattoo by Cante Eagle Horse (Cheyenne River Lakota) at Chokecherry Tattoo!! 🥰 I've followed their work for a minute now and it was such an honor to be tattooed by an Indigenous artist and for such an important cause! 🙌🏽 #MMIR #IndigenousInk

your fave Indigiqueer scholar is officially part of the 2025 William T. Grant cohort of the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies!! (ICQCM) 🥳🙌🏽

decolonization is not just about adding more inclusive voices to the conversation. achieving inclusion isnt even the goal of decolonization. these are nice things to do, but are not inherently decolonial.. the entire system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt outside of the colonial imagination.

colonizers get so upset that their pillars of yt supremacy are pulled down. I remember when we took down the kkkolumbus statue in St. Louis there was a 'suggestion' to leave the statue and simply add a (live) Native person to stand out in front of him and tell the true history. BFFR

I am so excited to share my latest (open access) publication-- Wrapping a Rainbow Around the Medicine Wheel: A Scoping Review of Social and Emotional Wellbeing for Queer, Trans, and Two Spirit Native Youth 🏳️‍🌈🪶

hi. hello. your meeting is not hybrid if you don't give a shit about the online folks. thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.

EVERY TIME YOU SAY IT IS ANTISEMITIC TO BE AGAINST KILLING PALESTINIANS, YOU'RE SAYING IT IS JEWISH TO MURDER *THAT* IS THE ANTISEMITISM

some folks get sad when it gets cold, seasonal depression. I get mad when it gets hot, seasonal aggression 👊🏽

Winnie, our first grader, brought these home for us today 🥹🥰🌈 #InstaAunties ##TwoMomsAreBetterThanOne

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Tenure Track Year 3 •Total of 40 peer-reviewed publications: 28 papers and 12 book chapters •Delivered 13 keynote addresses in the last three years alone •Taught in all four MSW programs across GSSW And always praying for wisdom, guidance, and direction from the universe 💖🌿🙏🏽

it was an honor to carry Annie Mae Aquash's sign at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives March and Remembrance yesterday in Colorado Springs. Nea'ese to the MMIR Taskforce of Colorado for holding such a powerful space for us to grief and remember our relatives and call for justice ❤️‍🩹

today is the National Day for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. I created this mini guide as a resource to increase awareness, share education, and provide links to resources to get involved. #MMIW #MMIR #NoMoreStolenRelatives

today's what even is time moment: did you know the US literally elected and sent a member of the KKK to the Senate (1922) before Native people were even considered citizens of the US (1924)?? we really need to talk about colonizer memory and interrupt their false notions of history with the facts.

IDHA's #DecarceratingCare series returns on 5/5 with a panel uplifting lessons from history in order to strategize towards a future of radical, accessible care free from state violence. Suggested donation $10, ASL + CART provided. Register: bit.ly/Decarceratin...

God, I love academia so much, I love the ideals of higher ed so much, and I fight so hard for its principles. It's so annoying that it will never love you back - and will even punish you for daring to show how much you care about something.

our traditional teachings are praxis 💖🌿

We’re calling it: a white male will be the next Prime Minister of Canada