In Literacies of the Rainbow Corn Mother: A Queer Indigenous Eye for DEI, we rethink belonging with queer theory, Indigenous education and human rights education.
Find collage work in Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands.
Gadugi isn’t just a principle of community—it’s a guiding vision for how we can treat each other across differences. Read a short piece I wrote on connecting gadugi to a practice we can all do.
I’m an introvert that finds great joy in connecting with others and preserving space to recharge the glycogen ducts. When time permits, I’m usually serving on a board or committee, cymbaling in a marching band, being a plant daddy for flying saucer cacti or weaving baskets.
Inspired by intersections of human rights and peace education, I’m usually weaving something around joy and well-being within justice work, listening to lessons from time immemorial intermixed with UNDRIP and SDGs.
My recent dissertation asked to advocate for justice work titled Traversing Contentions Among Human Rights Practitioners: An Exploration of Futurizing Wellness with Joyful Human Rights and Indigenous and Queer Paradigms To Activate Well-Being. Recently I’ve presented around this work in Aotearoa with the International Peace Research Association, CIES, the illusive NCORE, Imangining America, and for the Center for Humanizing Education and Research. You can find a salacious piece on DEI and a collage as part of a piece related to homeplace as some of my art and writing. Stop by one of our Training as Action Series for lessons on human rights education.
Look for some upcoming publications around wellness in justice work, unlearning, queer methods, and experiential education in this upcoming year with the SAGE Encyclopedia of Indigenous Education, Rutgers University Press, and Vernon Press. Be sure to keep an eye out for volume one of Cooking with Gadugi, a Cherokee cookbook in Tahluquah shops within the next year.