Excerpt from Autostraddle piece by GABRIELLE LAWRENCE
“While doing research on queer-friendly farms, outdoor initiatives, and nature projects, a friend of mine sent me a link to a panel titled “Queer Projects on Indigenous Land.” I was expecting a gathering of white queer settler colonialists — even if I couldn’t name the expectation at the time. I was expecting to feel out of place in the conversation, but the panel’s guiding questions struck me:
“How do we create liberatory spaces on stolen Indigenous land?
Where do queering and decolonizing and unsettling land intersect and support each other and miss or collide?
How are queer-led land projects and intentional spaces navigating collective approaches to healing historic harms, land access, landback, and rematriation?”
The panel was hosted by Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, “an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people…….. “
![Rematriar la Tierra
Devolver la Tierra
Regresar a Tierra
Rematriate the Land
Return the Land
Return to Land
We are excited to be translating some of our materials into Spanish with the support of our team member Sharon.
As we look at some of the language we use, we are discovering not everything always translates.
What words have you seen being used for Rematriation,
Land Back and Indigenous Land Return work in other languages?
[ID: A set of slides with a turquoise textured background with curved bold yellow text that read Rematriate la Tierra, Devolver la Tierra, Regresar a Tierra, Rematriate the Land, Return the Land and Return to Land]
#Rematriate #Rematriar #SogoreaTeLandTrust #UrbanIndigenous #WomenLed #LandReturn #LandBack #Rematriation #aroundtheworld](https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)