Dr. BlackDeer

After all I've been through these past few years, it was such an honor to specifically be sought out and recruited! Like literally, the job posting read like it was written just for me 🥰
Jess and I can't wait to start this new chapter and live our best lives in Toronto!! 💖

ecstatic, overjoyed, and just absolutely thrilled to share that I've accepted a job offer at York University to join their School of Social Work as an assistant professor starting January 1st, 2026!! 🙌🏽

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

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!! 🥳

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!

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

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

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-...

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