Funds are limited, so if you do not receive a response within 48 hours it might mean they are fully depleted. I invite folks to add their Venmo/cash app in the comments and invite non-Indigenous folks to put your money where your values are.

Similar to last year, if you’re a queer, trans, and/or 2Spirit Indigenous person from what is currently referred to as the us and are in need of support DM me, there are some limited funds from the Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove sales still available.

I hope everyone takes time to really reflect on what celebrating genocide means, the excuses we make up, and what it’ll take for us to actually do better.

So, if you’re in my life and you’re celebrating, you most likely already know I will not be talking to you for a minute. I make it clear to everyone, if you post things that celebrate genocide I will unfollow you.

I believe every single human makes mistakes, can be accountable, and grow. I am non-attached to this process, you will get there when you’re meant to. In the meantime, my work continues and no one gets to take me away from that.

CI think about strategy first and foremost, part of that strategy is I refuse to give problematic behavior my energy when I need my energy for the work.

Depending on the type of relationship, I usually will not talk to anyone celebrating (idc if it’s a friendsgiving) for the week before and after. Some relationships it’ll be just a few days, some months. Some we will never talk again, until they truly understand AND it’s strategic to do so.

And you do not owe your energy and time to anyone celebrating it who might be a family member, friend, coworker, whoever. That is not punishment, that is moving with clarity, intention, and strategy.

It is also our responsibility to heal and move in the most strategic ways.

In regards to folks celebrating the genocidal holiday later this week. You do not owe anyone your presence in a celebration of genocide.

We are each on our individual journeys, and with grace, accountability, and growth we move towards ourselves, the land, spirit, and all living things. However, that does not mean that everyone has access to us in the exact same ways indefinitely.

Growth is not pretending we will never cause harm.

Growth is to have a foundation that makes it difficult for us to make the same mistakes again.

To be human is to make mistakes, be accountable, and grow throughout our life.

I am so grateful for the grace and love Indigenous folks here have given me. I would not extend the same to settlers in Falasteen.
If we were in Falasteen and you told me:
“It’s a Friendsgiving”
“It’s the only day we can gather”
“We get it”
I would at the very least set your stolen house on fire.

This work cannot happen on stolen land without deep relationships with the people of this land.

Remember, there is no good settler on stolen land - so we build a better world.

Thanksgiving is a celebration of the world white supremacy has built, but the work does not begin or end with a single day.

We are all accountable. It is our responsibility to build a liberated world.

The truth is, everyday we commit to fascism. It’s in the jobs we have, the transportation we take, the money we spend, how we raise our kids - everything is an investment in systems of oppression unless we’re investing to build a liberated world. We are all accountable for this world.

Gratitude is an immensely powerful practice to move towards wholeness, oneness, and balance. Claiming genocide as those things will only ever reinforce your commitment to fascism and all systems of oppression.

I don’t care if you think you’re a ‘good’ person or someone ‘who gets it’. You will never be a good settler on stolen land, especially not when you are not in relationship to the indigenous people of this land. It is that simple.

Thanksgiving is a day to whitewash genocide and to psychologically weoponize the concept of gratitude.

Thanksgiving is about being grateful for what you benefitted from genocide.