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 to indigenous peoples

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

This article was originally supposed to be about intersectionality, and how the MMIR crisis and the fight for reproductive liberation are the same for indigenous people. As a genderfluid, bisexual, Indigenous, Laotian American second generation immigrant, I know all too well how systemic issues are not limited to one group of people.