Know Your Rights 101 at the Borders and Ports
During these extra contentious times, law enforcement interactions, particularly at borders/ports and within the 100-mile border zone, call for discipline and mindful approaches to de-escalation. This training will walk through knowing your (legal) rights when dealing with law enforcement (CPB, TSA, FBI, HSI, ICE, local police, etc.), outline useful practices for resolving and/or ensuring interactions do not jeopardize your safety, and engage participants in constructive roleplay exercises to prepare for potential real-life scenarios. The goal of this training is to leave participants with confidence in their communication skills and legal knowledge regarding interactions with law enforcement, to minimize risks of escalation and threats to bodily integrity and civil liberties.
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Decolonize U x Science Warriors
For this training we will:
- discuss the Science Warrior Fellowship (SWF)
- the essentials of designing a research science project and
- provide practical tools for getting started.
We’ll be discussing effective communication with communities, emphasizing that while science can drive data-informed decisions, it’s crucial to tell the story honestly and effectively. This is an opportunity to bridge the gap between grassroots organizing and science-based interventions. This initiative is solutions-oriented, empowering Indigenous Peoples to address environmental health, wildlife, soils, and water conservation of any area of ecological concerns using comprehensive scientific methodologies.
Queerness 101
Indigenous communities traditionally honored and upheld a variety of genders and sexualities. Settler colonialism interrupted these practices and left a legacy of colonial mentalities surrounding gender and sexuality. This training will introduce core concepts of understanding gender and sexuality, review colonial histories of policing Indigenous gender and sexuality expression, and delineate Indigenous reclamations and emerging language to support Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit relatives.
This training will be led by Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer, a queer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation.
Indigenous Feminism(s) 101
Mainstream feminism is structured around the white middle-class experience, implicating the patriarchy as the sole overarching concern. This feminism largely fails to address historic and ongoing settler colonialism and pinkwashes the complicity of white women in colonial projects. This presentation will review mainstream feminism, introduce Indigenous critiques of this whitestream feminism, and delineate key tenets of decolonial Indigenous feminism as a remedy.
This training will be led by Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer, a queer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation.