Our vision
We are a student collective engaging in consciousness raising and multimedia storytelling using an ethnic studies lens.
By creating a fugitive space for political education and creative resistance, we are reimagining and building toward a decolonized world that ensures our collective well-being.
Our work
Political education: We collectively interrogate, unsettle, and dismantle the narratives weāve been conditioned to absorb. We refuse to reduce racialized and marginalized communities to pain as we center their complex knowledges, desires, and histories.
Multimedia storytelling: We share (counter)stories through multimedia (photography, zines, digital artwork, etc.) to initiate critical dialogues, articulate our responsibilities to liberatory movements, and reconceptualize our relations with each other and that which feeds.
Community engagement: We learn, care, and organize with and alongside those most impacted through community gatherings, fundraisers, and mutual aid.
Our values
Land Back: We reject the stateās use of liberal multiculturalism to preclude an Indigenous futurity. We are committed to collaborative work that supports the end to cisheteropatriarchal capitalism-colonialism and the restoration and repatriation of Indigenous lands, waters, airs, and nations as outlined in The Red Deal.
Abolition: We believe in a world without cages. We are committed to demanding divestment from prisons, policing, and the military and reinvestment in life-giving, community-based systems.
We are occupying the unceded homelands of the Acjachemen and Tongva people who, in the face of ongoing settler colonialism and violence, continue to nourish and defend their ancestral lands as they have for the past 8,000 years. We acknowledge the painful history of violent colonial invasion and occupation of Acjachemen and Tongva lands, beginning with the brutal mission system during the Spanish colonial period, followed by Mexico and the united states. We recognize that our stories exist because of land and water theft, genocide, and the enslavement of Indigenous and Black people, and that our struggles against overlapping forms of oppression (colonialism, imperialism, militarism, racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc.) are intertwined but not commensurable. Aware of our privileges as non-Native youth, we are committed to envisioning and working toward decolonial solidarity that encompasses Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination as well as dignity, justice, and joy for all, including Black people, refugee and migrant settlers, women and girls, LGBTQIA2S+ people, disabled people, poor people, and other system-impacted people.
