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Indigenous Border Studies
A popular education platform offering thematic modules, scholarly research, readings, films, and community dialogue centering Indigenous perspectives on borders, sovereignty, and movement.
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Safiya Henderson Holmes
Black Arts & Radicalism Archive
A research justice and critical archival praxis collaboration with the family of acclaimed Black Arts Movement poet Safiya Henderson Holmes to preserve and digitize her manuscripts, papers, and a wide array of Black feminist, radical movement, and arts ephemera.
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O’odham and Yoeme of the Colorado River & Gila River Confluence
A community-based research initiative with the descendants of O’odham, Yoeme, and other lower Colorado River region Indigenous communities.
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Research Justice
More information about our framework for community-based research praxis featuring a TEDx talk, scholarly publications, and links to resources.
→ Learn MoreMuseum of Us Exhibit – O’odham Land Acknowledgement
A response to the impacts of border militarization and deaths of migrants in the Sonoran desert with O’odham perspectives and Indigenous histories of colonial occupation and partition. Up now as part of the exhibit Hostile Terrain ‘94 at the Museum of Us in San Diego, CA.
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collaborative project with Payómkawichum and Kumeyaay youth to recover the Indigenous place-names of the North San Diego County “Mission Trail”, part of the UC Critical Mission Studies Initiative.
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Water Justice & Technology
A gathering place for research, stories, art, and calls to action that critically confront the ways that technology intersects with water.
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A collective of scholars, artists, scientists, outdoors practitioners, and parents engaged in feminist decolonial science for climate justice.
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A descendant community-controlled reparationist process, restoring the lineages of care, reverence and spiritual memory to the work of caring for our dead and decolonizing museums.
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