"While I yearn for the day when my body wont need to be distinguished as an indigenous scholar - we are not there yet. Until then, my non-dominant cultural identity (identifiable by my racialized name and sacred tribal markings) will stand in the way of my work being given an equal level of scholarly consideration as my dominant-culture contemporaries.
Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq
"I wish @NRP and @CaseyNewton had acknowledged the near decade of research Dr. Sarah Roberts of #UCLA (@ubiquity75) has done on this topic, if only to bring more context and depth to the story, and better clarify what's at stake. Terrible to see her award winning work ignored.
7:35 am March 4, 2019
"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression."
Combahee River Collective Statement
From the book Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology