colonialism Archives - Wear Your Voice

Yandy’s Native American Costumes Perpetuate Violence Against Indigenous Women

Guest WriterOct 12, 2018

Our society can never really eradicate patriarchy or sexual violence when we permit violence against Indigenous women. By Dani M. Every year, Indigenous pe...

Race

Europe Won’t Rescue the Hearts of Black Women, Here’s Why

Guest WriterMay 22, 2018

European monarchies built and waged their power upon our deaths and our blood. Within this context, how could we possibly expect them to value Blackness? By Nn...

Race

21st Century Colonization: Becky Came For Our Bindis and Our Chai

Guest WriterMar 28, 2018

I live in Boulder too, and no, cafés aren’t going to sell very good chai. You know who might? A Desi friend, if she had one. By Nami Thompson On Bollywood s...

Culture

In Support Of Spending The Holidays With Chosen Family

Cameron GloverNov 23, 2017

This holiday season, whether you're spending time with your chosen family, yourself, or with your blood relatives, know that you are seen. Know that you are lov...

LGBTQRace

Words Mean Things: Understanding Colonialism

Devyn SpringerNov 22, 2017

Colonization is the act of forcefully stripping sovereignty of a country through acquisition of land, resources, raw material, and governmental structures. My ...

Culture

Why It’s Necessary to Call Nicki Minaj Out For Her Sexualization of Pocahontas

Guest WriterNov 21, 2017

Nicki Minaj has participated in the continuation of the hypersexualization and erasure of Native women in our culture via lateral oppression. By Arielle Gray ...

Culture

4 Ways to Decolonize on Columbus Day

Nik MorenoOct 9, 2017

This Columbus Day, it's important that we continue to fight against colonialism and defend Native people and the land that belongs to us. Here are 4 ways you ca...

Race

Mourning for Papi and for Puerto Rico

Guest WriterOct 7, 2017

In mourning Papi, I am also mourning the possible destruction of the Puerto Rico familiar to Papi and me. By Michelle Carroll On Wednesday, September 20th, ...

Culture

Tourism / Colonialism / Vacation / Caribbean

When You’re Not Here on Vacation, Actual Humans Live in the Caribbean

Guest WriterOct 3, 2017

People eat, breathe, dance, create, work, start families, raise children, love, cry, celebrate and build lives there. It is more than your relaxing destination....

Culture

Colonialism / Colonial / Environment / Climate

The Lasting, Racist Legacy of Colonialism on the Environment

Holly AOct 2, 2017

Puerto Rico is without resources. Meanwhile its colonial government plays golf. By Holly Peoples with enduring colonial histories are time and again margi...

News

How Environmental Racism Affects Indigenous Communities in the USA

Sezin KoehlerSep 26, 2017

Environmental racism in the case of Indigenous Americans must be acknowledged as an insidious form of genocide. Environmental racism is a term that first began...

Race

We Need To Talk About Racism In The Tattoo Industry

Sezin KoehlerAug 30, 2017

Tattoos were invented by brown and Black people centuries—even millennia—before white supremacy became the dominant global paradigm. You’ve taken the time, don...

Race

Yes, Portland is Racist AF.

Guest WriterJun 5, 2017

Portland has shown us a history of Black and brown folks fighting tooth and nail for their spaces, while white Portlanders have taken up that space and gaslight...

Race

India’s Hindu Sena Treat Trump Like a God, and White Nationalism Like Gospel

Sezin KoehlerMar 6, 2017

The Hindu Sena's internalized racism puts the group at odds with fellow Indians -- and, ironically, with themselves. As if what Trump is doing to America isn’t...

Politics

5 Latina Activists Who Are Kicking Ass

Heather JonesOct 4, 2016

It’s time to give some shine to the Latinas who are working hard for the betterment of their people and society as a whole. They refuse to be stereotyped or box...

Race