Nahanee Creative

Proud to be a ̱wú7mesh mother-daughter facilitation design team, and family (I’ve never identified as a single-mother, we are a mother-daughter family.)

We each have other creative businesses, (she’s a DJ & stylist, I’m a designer), but we keep coming back together for Indigenous Inclusion by Nahanee Creative.

You need a high level of trust and synced energy to host as a team and I have to say that there’s nothing like sharing genes, Ancestors and a lifetime together to make social change work sacred.

This is us hosting the Unity Awards gala a few weeks back. So many powerful moments, witnessing her strength.

Mothering continues to be the best part of my life. I’m thankful everyday for the gift of our relationship and relations.

I’ve been critical of allyship.

I’ve witnessed “justified” harm, including watching self-proclaimed allies gate-keep opportunities, steal cultural teachings, and exploit their proximity to Indigeneity.

At the same time, I know allies who embody reciprocity, who are willing to not be the centre and who make efforts to balance inequity like taking less pay or doing more labour than Indigenous contributors.

I designed Activating Critical Allieship with appreciation for the growing base of good relations that can only improve with critical awareness and activation. It was an honour to share this new workshop today as my contribution to the change I want to see in the world.

On this eve of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation, there are many mixed feelings. Grief, loss, shame & guilt as well as a growing backlash to the centring of what was done to us. The things we’ve just begun to speak about, that many don’t want to hear.

Fixing us, feeling sorry for us, blaming us and ignoring us has been the dominant culture was for a long time. We don’t need fixing or sympathy, we need critical allies.

Thanks to all who attended today! I hope you were fueled with language, framings and teachings to contribute to the change you want to see. Let me know!

If you missed it, watch for more public events!

We’re bringing back a few old fave on-demands, creating complimentary community content to support Decolonize First readers and readying for monthly live events!

Right now, our Cultural Protocols, Empathy & Safety on-demand is available for $48 per view. Our Territorial Acknowledgments mini-course is up on our website, ready to purchase too!

The first chapter of the free on-demand Decolonize First course is up too. I’ll be updating the course every few weeks with with short audio lectures, text explainers and expanded resource links to support or reactivate your workbook journey.

Tickets for our 90-minute Re-activating Allyship, with a decolonial critical lens, are on sake until tomorrow (Friday) at 8am Pacific. We’ll see you on the zooms! Watch for news of more frequent live, online events!