I am an uninvited guest in Bloomington, Illinois, the ancestral land of Indigenous peoples; most recently the Kickapoo and Myaamia tribes. I live in a country built by the labor and enslavement of Black and Brown peoples and acknowledge the rural spaces through which I easily move are welcoming to certain people and dangerous for others. I am employed by the state who has often been complicit in the genocide and dissettlement of non-white peoples.
Farm animals and agricultural practices have charged histories in this country; horses, cattle, swine, and other domesticated farm species have been used tools of colonization for peoples and land. These histories haunt where I work and live.
Farm animals and agricultural practices have charged histories in this country; horses, cattle, swine, and other domesticated farm species have been used tools of colonization for peoples and land. These histories haunt where I work and live.
Land Back.
"LANDBACK is a movement that has existed for generations
with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands.
Currently, there are LANDBACK battles being fought all across Turtle Island, to the north and the South"
"LANDBACK is a movement that has existed for generations
with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands.
Currently, there are LANDBACK battles being fought all across Turtle Island, to the north and the South"