Dr. BlackDeer

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

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

thanks for being here 💖

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??

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

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...

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

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.

Indigiqueer PRIDE 💖🏳️‍🌈🦅

plantation lit aflame

forgot to post this to celebrate juneteenth

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.

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

✨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 ⚡

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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! 🙌🏽

• ever wondered where Indigenous child welfare falls in the abolition vs reform debate?
• curious how tribal sovereignty would be considered if the child welfare system were to cease to exist?
• just want to know what me and my work husband have been working on lately?
then this paper is for you!

new publication available now! 🌞 doi.org/10.1177/1044...

now all the pieces make sense. cant claim a hate crime because that would affirm that trans men are men. so they paint him as a rugged Native man out in Texas instead. blatant queer and trans erasure.
Nea'ese @/jersey.noah for bringing this together ❤️‍🩹
#TransLiberationTuesday

As with colonialism, they like to say "history is written by the winners" but our ancestors were living their mf lives, not showing up heavily armed with total world domination as the goal. The violence of a narrative. /2

The wording of headlines surrounding Jonathan Joss' murder is almost a direct mirror to how folks like to talk about colonization. Some have said he was in a dispute or feud with his neighbor. Others say it was a gunfight. He was harassed for *years* and was never taken seriously. 1/

Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

too many want recognition.
we, however, want justice.

They are literally in the middle of suppressing free speech at this very moment

As I said, Harvard is committed to doing fascism on its own terms.

“The panel…will have the power to oversee cases involving possible violations of two University-wide policies governing protest and the use of campus spaces.”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

objectivity is another lie of yt supremacy. the notion that certain folks can be completely objective in how they study OTHER groups of people, but we can never work in our own communities because we're "too close". What a perfect set up for yt savior research.