Land Acknowledgment and Commitment to Decolonization

We express our sincere gratitude to the Indigenous Peoples, the original stewards of these Lands for generations, and pay our deepest respects to the Ancestors, Elders, past, present, and future. As settlers, we acknowledge the occupation and exploitation of lands not native to us. We condemn the facilitators and privileged placators of this injustice, both on these lands of Turtle Island and worldwide, including settler colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, mass incarceration, exploitation, dehumanization, unclean water, withheld and stolen resources, displacement, war, indoctrination, medical experimentation, scientific racism, diagnostic-related ethnocentric bias, racial profiling, race-based psychiatric diagnoses, genocide, and control of narratives. We also recognize and oppose the whitewashing of 'Decolonization', the delusions of white supremacy, and the pervasive harm of performative white feminism.

We advocate for Land Back and Indigenous Sovereignty and dedicate ourselves to dismantling colonial systems and uplifting healing and restoration. Understanding that silence, gaslighting, and neglect are forms of energetic and psychological warfare, we are committed to confronting and addressing anti-Blackness, misogynoir, misandynoir, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and oppression in all their insidious forms.

In our role within the healing community and within selves, we pledge to decolonize our practices, challenge our biases, unlearn the lies we inherited, and address structural inequities. We call upon our community to join us.