This Pride Month, I want to share this freedom to know yourself. Two-Spirit folks are STILL here even after boarding schools tried to erase this part of us. We might never have the same understandings that we did pre-colonial contact, but I am still here and still able to claim my identity because I am surrounded by a supportive community and am free to be who I am from the inside out.

It is no surprise to our Indigenous communities that many of our people fall through the cracks of this reactive, wealth-centric system. With little to no protection and resources, our Indigenous relatives fall victim to sex trafficking, murder, rape, and other unspeakable crimes. Being intentionally intersectional means acknowledging the similarities in how systemic oppression oppresses every marginalized and underserved person while working to undo the specific harms done t

We can’t keep being the only country in the world with a school shooting epidemic. We just can’t.

Part 1 of the Protect the Sacred Zine series in article format.