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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · 6d

guest lectured on countering colonial narratives through storytelling today at the University of Michigan med school 🤗 feels good to be back in my nerd joys.
#DiariesOfADecolonialScholar

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · 26d

My paper is part of the larger special issue on resisting the new conservatism in social work broadly. So many great gems in here!

What a great way to kick off my birthday weekend and as always, let me know whatcha think!! 🥳

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · 26d

this paper is a shorter read on 1: key terms so we can have common language to organize ourselves around, 2: historical highlights of previous moments of fascism and how the far right came to be, and 3: several solutions that have been within our communities all along, of course!

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · 26d

new OPEN ACCESS publication (from your fave 💁🏽‍♀️) on fascism and the far right and wondering where social work is in all of this!
anzswjournal.nz/anzsw

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · Sep 6

Yesterday, @drblackdeer.bsky.social posted about how Wind River does not pass the Ali Nahdee Test, so here is the tool developed by @alinahdee.bsky.social 8 years ago! 👀

Ali credits Shannon & Shauna Baker as inspirations after seeing them on the Tyra Banks show! 🥹🥹🥹
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qei-...

Against a white background, black text states, "In order to pass The Ali Nahdee Test, the story must have:"

Against a white background, black text that is highlighted in yellow states, "An Indigenous woman who is a main character..."

Against a white background, black text states:
1. This includes ANY existing indigenous group as well as fictional Indigenous-coded characters
2. This includes trans women /femmes
3. Must be portrayed by an Indigenous actress if the story is live action

Against a white background, black text that is highlighted in yellow states, "Who does not fall in love with a white man..."

Against a white background, black text states:
1. Love and sex are not the same thing
2. Can fall in love with a white woman/ Enby

Against a white background, black text that is highlighted in yellow states, "Who isn't raped and does not die at any point in the story"

Against a white background, black text states:
1. This includes before and after the events of the narrative

Against a white background, in a pink square, with a burgundy border, text states:

"Indigenous children, especially Indigenous girls, deserve to see themselves depicted in mainstream media without feeling shame or trauma.
- ALI NAHDEE

@GDIGM #SEEITBEIT

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Aug 4

getting emails like: please step forward for another opportunity to be tokenized.
happy back to school szn yall

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jul 24

allow me to reintroduce myself.. my name is Autumn BlackDeer, and I now use she/they pronouns 🥰

thanks for being here 💖

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jul 3

can we talk about how cultural competence/humility/whatever still centers yt practitioners as the default? because as a Native social worker, how am I supposed to be culturally humble with my own dang culture??

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 26

I had a great time chatting with Dr. Dèsa Kayre Daniel over on The Thoughtful Counselor podcast! Our conversation felt like we've been old friends for a long time! 🤗 My episode is titled Voices of Resistance 👊🏽 concept.paloaltou.edu/resources/th...

Voices of Resistance: Conversations with Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer

The Thoughtful Counselor talks with scholar-activist Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer about voices of resistance

concept.paloaltou.edu

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 25

A great day to be Cheyenne! On this day in 1876, my ancestors killed Custer! Talk about FAFO 👊🏽
#VictoryDay #CusterHadItComing

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 24

If I had a dollar for every time a woman in leadership abused her power and harassed me as a junior scholar but won a professional award the very same year, I'd only have two dollars but it still feels like a lot for one person to deal with.

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 22

Indigiqueer PRIDE 💖🏳️‍🌈🦅

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · Jun 20

forgot to post this to celebrate juneteenth

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 20

If a marginalized person corrects you or calls you in and your response is "well, actually" -- you are 1000% not an ally and need to go sit down immediately.

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 19

So happy Juneteenth! Support Black liberation, honor Indigenous sovereignty, and join the fight for justice 👊🏽

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 19

✨Just a friendly reminder that theres always been different independence days in America✨ The July 4th celebration of the Declaration of Independence refers to Natives as "merciless Indian savages" and we technically weren't considered citizens until 1924 ⚡

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happy Juneteenth!
On this day, 160 years ago, enslaved people in Texas found out about their freedom nearly 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 18

we have to stop the innate urge to split things in half. another tenet of yt supremacy culture is either/or thinking. decolonizing doesnt mean colonized/decolonized, it's a false dichotomy. reading la paperson and they demonstrate that the decolonial already exists even within colonial contexts.

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 17

but I can't bring it all together right now so anyways thanks for reading

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 17

somewhere in the corner of my mind is a little scribble about the invocation of stolen land as a way to place it in the past like ope sorry gone forever and as a way of erasure of all the genocide and colonial violence that occurred and remains ongoing to keep said stolen land

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 16

idk why but I don't trust yt people that continually refer to me and fellow Black and Brown folks as "voices"

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 15

collective Liberation is not the girl scouts. you don't get patches or sashes for every little achievement. a lot of yall need to interrogate the part of you that needs external validation that you're "one of the good ones" -- this individualism is a core tenet of yt supremacy culture

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 13

It is 2025 and they asked me to review a paper on embodied anti-racist practice where they, wait for it, held a book club and went to brunch every month. But it was POC restaurants.

Seriously, the bar is in hell y'all.

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God Speed You! Molly Maguire @abrightgreencity.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Don't tread on me, tread on them instead... here I'll help."

Willie Jack's Favorite Uncle @dandantransient.bsky.social · Jun 11

Idk man, but if you don't speak out against ICE and DHS i kinda think y'all should be required to throw away that "don't tread on me" flag.

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · Jun 12

available open access thru september '25, our latest collaboration sifts through this complex debate. we don't shy away from critiques from both sides and of our proposed solution. we have to hold space for nuanced discussions like these as we move towards liberation for our communities! 🙌🏽

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