a beautiful week with beautiful people…chi migwetch to everyone who made this possible 🧬🩵

The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.

NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.

sing it sister

grieve, yes.

then keep/start organizing.

Three Native women standing together at the Women's March in OKC (2017) one sign reads March For My People and another has a drawing of a female superhero with the words: In Dark Times Commit to be Revolutionary, Legendary Love.

How do you keep hope alive?

The same way our ancestors did which my beautifully brilliant friend, Tanaya Winder worded as "In Dark Times Commit to Be Revolutionary, Legendary Love".

interrupt contemporary despair with ancestral strength, traditional wisdom, and collective power

WE ARE STILL IN THIS.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.

Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉

Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

Resistance is a muscle that must be exercised regularly or it risks being weakened over time by forces who are pushing conformity to injustice.

every day is a beautiful day to support native authors 🩵

Talk about Indigenous people in the present tense. We are still here.

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