“How do you weave yourself into a story in a place your ancestors were not born to?” 

Amba Sepie

Settled Kin: Coming Home to Where We Now Belong

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“Indigenous peoples are those who have creation stories, not colonization stories, about how we/they came to be in a particular place - indeed how we/they came to be a place” 

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang,

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor

 

“...no matter what we look like, if we were born and raised in America white-bodied supremacy and our adaptations to it are in our blood. Our very bodies house the unhealed dissonance and trauma of our ancestors.” 

 

Resmaa Menakem

My Grandmother's Hands