@melaninmvskoke: #AfroIndigenous (#AfricanAmerican & #NativeAmerican) aka Amber Starks is an activist, organizer, cultural critic, decolonial theorist, and abolitionist. 🙌🏽 Amber is an enrolled member of the #Muscogee (#Creek) Nation and is also of #Shawnee, #Yuchi, #Quapaw, and #Cherokee Descent. Her passion is the intersection of #Black and Native American identity. Her activism seeks to normalize, affirm, and uplift the multidimensional identities of Black and #Native peoples through discourse and advocacy around anti-Blackness, abolishing blood quantum, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. She ultimately believes the partnerships between Black and #Indigenous peoples (and all POC) will aid in the dismantling of anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and settler colonialism, globally.🔥 We've been following her for a while now and it’s hard to pick out one quote from all of her wisdom. However, as a #biracial woman working through my own identity while raising #mixedracechildren and doing a lot of unlearning of other identities, I’ve struggled to navigate the forced constructs from society and my community. These recent words spoke to me. ”I am always showing up as a Black and Native person and there is no need for me to compartmentalize those identities because they’re not in competition, they’re not in contrast, they’re not in conflict, they are not any of those things. ❤️" I hope this week you bring your whole self, as Amber encourages, and invite others into the self-love of embracing all of the parts that make you, you. Let’s support Amber by following @melaninmvskoke share and amplify her posts, read and reflect on her words and buy her BLIS merch." 🏴🇺🇸 via @alist_pdx https://www.instagram.com/p/CbDryZkuVOf/?utm_medium=tumblr
