yall can have prestige. I'll choose community every time.

Two Spirit Powwow 💖🏳️‍🌈🦅 Just all greasy and happy 🥰

Happy Pride everyone!!! Love this Bisexual TwoSpirit art I got from @artythebirb.bsky.social last year!

the way its June 1st and I'm already sick of seeing the "wish all homophobes a super uncomfortable month" because queer and trans folks are in danger and yall think its a joke to piss them off from your woo woo rainbow pride settler allyship bullshit. shut up already.

liberation will not happen via swift email replies

the irony of using an AI flyer for your conference on sustainability 😵‍💫

an excerpt from my keynote last week: If you ever want to know how I became an Abolitionist, please have an interaction with a police officer after you've been sexually assaulted. Then I sang out 🎶 ayy see ayy beeeee 🎶

Seen in Logan Square

Years ago I learned that some folks do justice work for white people, and some folks do liberation work for our people. Both are necessary, but I have different expectations accordingly.

I refuse to abandon myself in order to participate in your settler illusion of "community."

white woman is a verb I will not be elaborating further

Happy Mothers Day to those in mourning, those missing their Mommas for whatever reason, and to the Aunties who mother in community and love on our babies as if they were our own. However you feel today is valid and if you need a hug, I've got one right here for ya.

bring back desk rejects bc why did i just review a paper that had the nerve to say Native children "abandoned their culture" in boarding schools. ABANDONED. fret not. I wrote a scathing response to both authors and editors. but seriously, cmon. its 2026.

Quote from Autumn Blackdeer, @drblackdeer.bsky.social

LOUDER for the folks who want to incorporate "Native American myths" *pukepuke* into their shitty writing.

According to RAINN, for every thousand sexual assaults in the United States, there are eleven arrests. Eleven. "Why don't women come forward?" That's why. (It's also why I'm an abolitionist.)

we don’t owe the “why didn’t she report it” crowd a single response

The antebellum United States was an absolutely wretched, racist, and evil country. Somehow, the Confederacy was even worse. And on this day in 1865, it died. Happy Confederate Surrender Day. Rest in Piss to one of the most evil regimes in history.

Hoping this work. I’m writing about uses of transformative justice practices within pleasure activism & a friend recommended I read something @prisonculture.bsky.social wrote (said?!) about the “door dash effect” and how people want TJ processes delivered to them on demand. Can anyone help me?

"As a fat brown queer disabled immigrant woman and trauma survivor, who was a mental health therapist for decades, who remains a trauma-informed equity practitioner, educator, etc., nothing could convince me to stay on a newsletter platform after learning that my writing work would profit Nazis." 👀

Happy Get Fucked Confederacy Day

Happy 161st Confederate Surrender Day to you and yours

Regime change? How about Land Back instead

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth." - Mississippi's declaration of concession, 1861

We need to teach about the Civil Rights Movement more and in more detail. One reason is to get people out of the idea that the goal of civil disobedience is martyrdom. It's quite the opposite.

Unresolved anxiety

Kindness is not justice. Kindness is not justice. Kindness is not justice.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

as a chronic overthinker and anxiety spiraler, my latest affirmation is: "and that has absolutely nothing to do with me."

Today makes 6 years together, 4 months married, and now 2 countries! There's no one else I'd rather be on this journey with 🥰 I love you, J. Wes!! Happy anniversary to us 💖 #TheBlestons

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.