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#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

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 ➡️

#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

🎁 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

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...

as a person with adult children who still speak to me, have you tried treating your kids like people rather than property?

📽️ 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

Have you registered for your free tickets yet for @crushcolonialism.bsky.social's free event on December 4th at Baltimore Center Stage? If not, you can learn more and register at the link below. You don't want to miss this one. #Indigenous #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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.

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

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...

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

🪶 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...

Learn more about the countless hurdles to disability accessible housing for tribal citizens. Donate & share today tinyurl.com/53jbk5ad #Homeownership #LandBack #DisabilityJustice

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

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...

Columbus brought rape, enslavement, thievery, sex & human trafficking, disease, & genocide to the so-called Americas that still impacts Indigenous people heavily to this day. Example: I’ve been in a years long fight to get Disability accessible stable housing. I need your help. #IPD #LandBack

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...

In the so-called US in 2022 24.9% of Disabled adults aged 18-64 lived in poverty vs 10.1% of the able-bodied. And Disabled adults have a 77% reduced change of home ownership vs the able bodied. Please help me get the stable, Disability accessible home I need with a donation & sharing this post.

The poverty rate for American Indians is between 25-29%. The national average is 12-15%. Help me get disability accessible, stable housing so I can access the healthcare I need. Please donate if you can, & repost & share w/ 5 people in your network #LandBack #IndigenousPeoplesDay #DisabilityJustice

This Sunday, October 5 at 3pm ET, join us for a virtual screening of Severed, a new documentary from Gaza by Donkeysaddle Projects, followed by a live panel discussion that I’ll be on. Palestine is a disability justice issue! Register at tinyurl.com/SevOct5

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

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation over Gaza war protests.

🎥 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

🎥 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

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...

As the severe tendinitis & psoriatic arthritis have become more severe due to a lack of healthcare it’s become increasingly difficult to read books. I use audiobooks now as an access tools to great writing, such as Joshua Whitehead’s novel, Johnny Appleseed. Let’s make all books #DisabilityAccess.

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

✨ 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.

Get your submissions in! @crushcolonialism.bsky.social is always looking for pitches from Indigenous people with community ties of written pieces from journalism to more creative genres (no fiction) and high quality photography and videos. #IndigenousWriters #Indigenous #IndianCountry

I’m so excited to be included in the latest exition of New Suns by @unitedstatesartists.org. #DisabilityJustice is absolutely necessary for arts & event programming. @crushingcolonialism is committed to creating space for all our #Indigenous relatives & accomplices. #DBIWP25 #WorldPride

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

Severed is a must watch. Show your support by signing up to host a private or public screening & sharing with your communities. Severed is a powerful new short doc that follows Mohamad Saleh, a teenager from #Gaza who lost his leg at 12 & survived five Israeli military assaults tinyurl.com/SevOct

The Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly wraps up today in Winnipeg. Among the talking points was an emergency press conference held by a First Nation in Manitoba, and a discussion on the repatriation of historical artifacts.

Stop saying govt actions are “illegal.” The U.S. has NEVER honored its laws. Democrats & Republicans violate civil rights, commit genocide, & various forms of oppression every damn day. & this isn’t a democracy! A democracy is how the Haudenosaunee Confedaracy operates, not this bastardized US ish.

The U.S.’s summer COVID-19 surge continues, with cases increasing across all regions through early August, driven by travel and gatherings as well as the variant XFG. This week's full COVID-19 trends by @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4mWEUk9

🌎✨ Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: Awareness is a start—action changes lives. How? Donate, amplify our voices, commit long-term, shop Indigenous. 🔗 crushingcolonialism.org/donate/ #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousResistance

Franco-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan exposed the EU’s double standard: 17 sanctions against Russia, none against Israel. Now Slovenia has become the first EU country to ban arms trade with Israel. Will the rest of Europe follow? 👉 Support Indigenous reporting: crushingcolonialism.org/donate/

For #TheMagazine, Cree filmmaker & writer @tjcuthand.bsky.social reflects on gender, art, and survival–from queer teen isolation in 1990s Saskatchewan to life as a trailblazing trans man using cinema as resistance. #Pride Read the full piece: crushingcolonialism.org/the-queer-pe...

and remember, the US hoarded vaccines during the pandemic. most of the globe never got access to them because of us. the back of the line is probably our future next time, especially since we are no longer at the table with WHO, etc.

📣 We featured in the bi-monthly magazine, Free Minds Connect. Our Founding Executive Director @jendeerinwater.bsky.social shares Crushing Colonialism’s journey centering Indigenous voices, resistance, & storytelling. Read the full issue here: freemindsbookclub.org/our-work/con...

Sizzle up your evening with this hot, hot, hot Cabaret TONIGHT! Join us in person or virtually. Get your tickets for both at the link. You don’t want to miss this one. #DisabilityArts #2SLGBTQIA #Indigiqueer

🔥 Our Founding Executive Director, @jendeerinwater.bsky.social, takes the stage at the Disability Culture Cabaret: Pride Edition, a night of gender-nonconforming, Disabled brilliance. 📍Hook Hall, 3400 Georgia Ave NW, D.C. 🗓️ July 30, 6-9 p.m. | Livestream 🎟️ 18+ show: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

The dire cuts to Medicaid coupled w/ the extreme underfunding of Indian Health Services is act of genocide. 7/23–26 @crushcolonialism.bsky.social is joining a 60-hour vigil in DC. We'll read statements from our relatives on 7/24 7-8pm EDT. Watch the livestream at protectmedicaidvigil.com #Indigenous

Gives me goosebumps. I got to watch this stellar performance from backstage at #DBIWP25