#Indigenous representation isn’t a trend; it’s resistance. ✊🏽 In a world that often erases these voices, gaming has become a frontier for change. Amber Hampton (gender-fluid, bi, Two-Spirit Tsalagi) explores how Indigenous creators are reclaiming their narratives in #TheMagazine 🎮 t.ly/rC21m

The Indigenous Art Gallery is now open, celebrating contemporary Indigenous artists whose work carries memory and resistance. In partnership with Baltimore American Indian Center, these pieces affirm a core truth: Indigenous people are still here ➡️

🎥 Part 1 | We traveled to Sápmi, the Indigenous Sámi homeland across the so-called "Norway, Sweden, Finland & Russia", in the area known as "Tromsø". Guided by Sámi storyteller Anne Maret Buljo with Tromsø Arctic Reindeer. Support Indigenous storytelling: crushingcolonialism.org/donate/

#HireIndigenous | Calling Indigenous storytellers worldwide for #TheMagazine 🌎✨ 📧 Got a powerful story to tell about environmentalism? Send your pitch to [email protected]. 📆 Deadline: January 15, 2026 Let’s crush colonialism together, one word at a time! #JobOpportunity

🎁 This season, ditch big corporations: gift Indigenous! Every purchase from our shop supports Indigenous creators and fuels our storytelling work. Choose gifts that give back: crushingcolonialism.org/shop

#TheMagazine | Lune Feu took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, and Amer AlOmari is a Palestinian refugee committed to global justice. Together, they reveal shared dignity and resistance linking Abya Yala and Palestine, as the Global South rises. ➡️ t.ly/udCZf

We celebrated the 2nd anniversary of #TheMagazine at Baltimore Center Stage with Indigenous performers, Indigiqueer film trainees, and MICA students. Grateful to everyone who helped uplift Indigenous storytelling and community! Support our mission: crushingcolonialism.org/donate

📣 The Changemakers edition of #TheMagazine is HERE! Celebrate Indigenous activists, artists, and leaders reshaping narratives and traditions. 🎉 And join us for our FREE 2-year Anniversary event! 📅 Dec 4 | 6–9 PM 📍 Baltimore Center Stage 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/.../crushing...

📽️ Walter, from the Kumaruara ppl, shares how Indigenous voices grounded #COP30. The summit advanced human-rights–centered climate policy & launched workstreams on fossil fuels & deforestation but ended without strong finance or phaseout. Reporting: Natalia Figueredo Support: Earth Rising Foundation

No thanks given for colonial violence — we choose ThanksTaking. This Giving Tuesday, turn gratitude into accountability by supporting Indigenous storytelling. Give today at crushingcolonialism.org/donate

For #TheMagazine, Ashwin Raghuraman charts how Central Asia is reshaping its symbolic landscape–restoring sacred sites, removing Soviet monuments, and grounding national identity in Indigenous memory. Read the entire piece here: crushingcolonialism.org/reclaiming-i...

If #COP30 achieved anything, it was uniting Indigenous peoples and movements. Tens of thousands marched in Belém demanding land rights, a just transition, food sovereignty, and an end to Amazonian oil extraction. Images by: Natalia Figueredo. Supported by: Earth Rising Foundation.

🎉 Our 2-year celebration of #TheMagazine is almost here–grab your FREE tickets! Join us for an evening of Indigenous art, music, storytelling, and community in a fully accessible space. 📅 Dec 4 | 6–9 PM 📍 Baltimore Center Stage 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/crush...

At the People’s Summit in the heart of Amazonia, Indigenous leaders and global movements opened #COP30 with performances and a symbolic “Funeral of Fossil Fuels.” Their message was clear: demarcate Indigenous territories now. Photos & reporting: Natalia Figueredo. Support: Earth Rising Foundation.

People’s Summit plenaries revived debates on climate justice, food sovereignty, territorial rights, and feminist perspectives as the gathering returned alongside #COP30. The day closed with a Munduruku protest against carbon credit threats in the Upper Tapajós. Photos & reporting: Natalia Figueredo

Queering Indigeneity is now on view at the Minnesota Museum of American Art through Aug. 16, 2026. The exhibition highlights Two-Spirit, Native queer, and gender-expansive artists, centering cultural reclamation and community-led artmaking. Photos/clips: @jendeerinwater.bsky.social

We’re heartbroken by the passing of Alice Wong–disability rights advocate & founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Honor her legacy by reading her work, uplifting disabled creators, and continuing to fight for disability justice. Rest in power, Alice 💛 Artwork: Jennifer White-Johnson

While world leaders meet at #COP30, the People’s Summit returns after years of exclusion—bringing together Indigenous, quilombola, and riverine communities to share solutions and assert their voices. Photo and reporting: Natalia Figueredo

🎉 Have you booked your FREE tickets to celebrate 2 years of Crushing Colonialism’s #TheMagazine? Join us for a night of Indigenous art, music, and stories — with unforgettable performances in a fully accessible venue. 📅 Dec 4 | 6–9 PM 📍 Baltimore Center Stage 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/crush...

This week in #TheMagazine: “Ancestral Answer Key” by Marique B. Moss, a poem tracing Afro-Indigenous identity through ancestral voices. From her new collection Sweetgrass and Soul Food, now available online and in select bookstores. crushingcolonialism.org/ancestral-an...

🪶 Honoring 2 years of Indigenous brilliance with #TheMagazine! Join us for a FREE night of Indigenous storytelling, art, film, and community–featuring performances by @misschiefrocka.bsky.social and 9a. 📅 Dec 4, 2025 | 6–9 PM EST 📍 Baltimore Center Stage 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/crush...

Our latest feature in #TheMagazine by Bukunmi Oyewole explores Igboora’s World Twins Festival and the Yoruba belief that twins are sacred carriers of spiritual identity. Read the full piece: crushingcolonialism.org/the-sacred-i...

Celebrate 2 years of Crushing Colonialism #TheMagazine! Join us for this FREE event featuring Indigenous storytelling, art, film, & community, with performers @misschiefrocka.bsky.social and 9a. 📅 Dec 4, 2025 | 6–9 PM EST 📍Baltimore Center Stage 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/crush...

Nehiyaw (Bigstone Cree Nation) designer Dusty LeGrande, creator of streetwear brand Mobilize ᐊᐧᐢᑲᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ Waskawewin, shared how he weaves language revitalization into his designs at INYFW. In collab with @nativemax.bsky.social Report and clips by: Fabiana Gibim

In the poem, “I Indigenous,” featured in The Magazine, Yaffa–a trans, autistic, Muslim, and multiply displaced Indigenous Palestinian–pushes back against the boundaries placed on identities like theirs. Read the entire piece here: crushingcolonialism.org/i-indigenous/

#HireIndigenous | Looking to grow your professional capacity as an artist? 🍂 Native Arts & Cultures Foundation’s fall workshops bring together Native artists, awardees, and mentors to share tools for long-term creative success. Check them out: mailchi.mp/nativeartsan...

At Indigenous New York Fashion Week, Navajo & 2S model Zach Ander Thomas shared how his heritage and gender-nonconforming identity shape his fashion journey — and what this new platform means for Indigenous representation. In collab with @nativemax.bsky.social ​​Report and clips by: Fabiana Gibim

In the pictorial series Los Perfumados, featured in this edition of #TheMagazine, Muysc descendant artist from the so-called "Colombia" CHICHIMUT blends pigment, memory, & ceremony to reclaim Indigenous identity & resist erasure. Read the entire piece: crushingcolonialism.org/perfumados-n...

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 17 Indigenous artists took over The Met in “NYC” on Lenapehoking. The unsanctioned AR exhibit, ENCODED, reimagines historic works through Indigenous perspectives. On view through 2025. More info: changethestorychangethefuture.com Featured artwork: youngmer Clips: Nat2D2

While they honor Columbus, we honor Indigenous resistance. This #IndigenousPeoplesDay, stand with us to keep Indigenous stories alive. 💫 Donate: crushingcolonialism.org/donate/

Don’t miss tomorrow’s #AccessFest2025 panel on building a disability-led newsroom from scratch! 🕑 Oct 10, 2:30–3:30 p.m. ET 💻 Zoom (paid) With the participation of our Founding Executive Director @jendeerinwater.bsky.social Organized by @ire.org 🔗 schedules.ire.org/accessfest-2025

Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth says the soldiers who carried out the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre deserve their Medals of Honor. Advocate @johnniejae.bsky.social (Otoe-Missouria & Choctaw) exposes how this choice glorifies atrocity and erases truth. Read the article here: truthout.org/articles/wit...

Nigerian-British writer Tunji Offeyi examines how colonial legacies and “Indigeneity” laws continue to shape who gets to belong in Nigeria through the story of the Igarra (Etuno) people, in this feature for #TheMagazine. Read the entire piece: crushingcolonialism.org/country-of-t...

🎥 Watch a screening of Severed (2025) on Oct 5. The film follows Mohamad Salah, a teen from #Gaza who lost his leg and survived five Israeli assaults–echoing the experiences of thousands disabled by Israel’s ongoing #GazaGenocide. RSVP: crushingcolonialism.org/crushing-col... #DisabilityJustice

Seneca descendant Rachel Arlene Redeye Porter shares her journey to claim Indigeneity amid colonial systems that question belonging, in her article for #TheMagazine. Read the article here: crushingcolonialism.org/indigenous-e...

🎥 Part 2 | In collab with @nativemax.bsky.social, we followed up with Jeremy Arviso (Diné, Hopi, Akimel O’odham & Tohono O’odham), Creative Director of Original Landlords. He shares what drives his creative direction & how fashion can be a tool of reappropriation. Report & clips by: Fabiana Gibim

📣 Submissions close tomorrow! #TheMagazine is still seeking pitches from #Indigenous storytellers for our next edition about Indigenous changemakers in 2025. 📆 Deadline: Sept 30 Read the thread for the details. 🔗 Find the guide for submissions here: crushingcolonialism.org/call-for-sub...

🎥 In collaboration with @nativemax.bsky.social, during the first INYFW, we also spoke with Dante Biss-Grayson (Osage), the creator behind the family-owned brand Sky-Eagle Collection, who reminded us that "fashion can be for a cause, for social justice." Report and clips by: Fabiana Gibim

About a week until the launch of the "Palestine is a Disability Justice Issue" campaign. On Oct 5, 3 pm ET, join us for a screening of Severed–following Mohamad Saleh, who lost his leg at 12, reflecting thousands disabled by Israel’s #GazaGenocide. RSVP: tinyurl.com/SevOct5 Host: tinyurl.com/SevOct

In this article for #TheMagazine, Oglala Lakota writer Shana Baumgartner reflects on her grandmother’s silence as a boarding school survivor–tracing #identity, grief & healing. Read the full piece: crushingcolonialism.org/identity-cri...

Check out this Q&A with our Founding Executive Director, @jendeerinwater.bsky.social – a bisexual, Two-Spirit, multiply-disabled citizen of the Cherokee Nation–on bringing disabled artists & audiences together at our #DBIWP. Read the article here: newsuns.net/jen-deerinwa...

🎥 Part 1 | At the first Indigenous New York Fashion Week, in collab with @nativemax.bsky.social, we spoke with Jeremy Arviso (Diné, Hopi, Akimel O’odham & Tohono O’odham), Creative Director of Original Landlords. He shares his story & inspiration. Part 2 soon! Report and clips by: Fabiana Gibim

🎥 Host an Oct 5 screening of Severed (2025), which follows Mohamad Salah, a teen from #Gaza who has lost his leg and survived 5 Israeli military assaults. His story reflects the thousands of Palestinians disabled by Israel’s ongoing #GazaGenocide. Register: tinyurl.com/SevOct #DisabilityJustice

📣 Less than two weeks to submit! #TheMagazine is still seeking pitches from #Indigenous storytellers for our next edition about Indigenous changemakers in 2025. 📆 Deadline: Sept 30 Read the thread for the details. 🔗 Find the guide for submissions here: crushingcolonialism.org/call-for-sub...

✨ The first INYFW, produced by Relative Arts, lit up Lenapehoking (NYC) with #Indigenous creativity, identity, and storytelling. In collaboration with @nativemax.bsky.social, we’ve pulled together this recap–celebrating the designers, the looks, and the energy that made it unforgettable.

📣 The Identity edition of #TheMagazine is NOW here! It explores what it means to be #Indigenous in motion–how memory, land, ancestry, and community shape #identity. Subscribe to get the print version: crushingcolonialism.org/subscribe/ Or kindly donate: crushingcolonialism.org/donate/

🎬 Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in the so-called U.S. + kick off spooky season! 👻 Oct 9 @ 7 PM ET: Virtual screening of The Smudging, a Native supernatural thriller by Mike J. Marin, followed by a live Q&A. 🎟️ Tickets: US $10 → tinyurl.com/2sr9f7ns ✨ Proceeds uplift Indigenous storytelling.

🙌 The first Indigenous NY Fashion Week–brought to Lenapehoking land by Relative Arts is kicking off today! Together with @nativemax.bsky.social, we bring you the fourth and final group of Indigenous designers who will walk the runway with clothing, jewelry, and accessories. See the thread!

After 43 years, the Gathering of Nations Powwow will come to a close. Each year in the so-called "Albuquerque, NM", it unites 3,000+ dancers from 500+ Tribal Nations, making it Turtle Island’s largest powwow. The “final dance” is set for 2026. For more info, visit: www.gatheringofnations.com

⏱️ Just a few days left for the Indigenous NY Fashion Week–brought to Lenapehoking (NYC) by Relative Arts. Together with @nativemax.bsky.social, we’re excited to introduce the third group of designers. See the thread and stay tuned to meet the final group and get more info about #INYFW!!