Natalie M Avalos
@nataliemavalos.bsky.social
Native/Indigenous Studies | Tibetan/Buddhist Studies | Ethnographer of Religion | Land-based Ethics | Decolonization | Asst Prof of Ethnic Studies at CUBoulder ✨ Chicana-Indígena | Views My Own
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:
Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft lässt sich nicht in den Begriffen der radikalen Rechten verteidigen
US-Hochschulen üben Selbstkritik wegen mangelnder „viewpoint diversity“. Weshalb hinter diesem Begriff eine jahrzehntelange Kampagne gegen die Idee einer freien Universität und Gesellschaft steht, erk...
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Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
In this interview with Greg Soden of Classical Ideas, I discuss Indigenous plant medicines, relational ethics, whiteness, and how decolonization is liberating for all of us ✨ classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-345-relat...
The Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie Avalos
Natalie Avalos (Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2015) is an ethnographer of religion whose r...
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In this interview with Greg Soden of Classical Ideas, I discuss Indigenous plant medicines, relational ethics, whiteness, and how decolonization is liberating for all of us ✨ classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-345-relat...
The Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie Avalos
Natalie Avalos (Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2015) is an ethnographer of religion whose r...
classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com
Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.
“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”
Conversation about my work with Liz Bucar. We discuss the problems of religious borrowing and how it obscures the relational nature of Indigenous religious life and the liberating possibilities of decolonization open.substack.com/pub/lizbucar...
Your Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem.
Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation
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Conversation about my work with Liz Bucar. We discuss the problems of religious borrowing and how it obscures the relational nature of Indigenous religious life and the liberating possibilities of decolonization open.substack.com/pub/lizbucar...
Your Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem.
Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation
open.substack.com
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
Newsweek@newsweek.com · 6mo agoRuben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.
@jennylsq.bsky.social Palace Music’s New Partner and then Elliot Smith soon after 🥹 whew, these break up songs had me crying in the car AND remembering the bittersweet ennui of youth… thank you 💕
For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations
Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
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It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs 1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--" The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."
'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies
Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
Yep. It's the correct term. That it makes people uncomfortable is more reason to use accurate language.
Jamie Schwesnedl@schwesbomb.bsky.social · 7mo agoConcentration Camp: a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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Yesterday, over 30,000 people protested against ICE in below-zero temperatures. Amazing work, everyone. Minnesota strong. Tomorrow, there will be more of us.
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave - Assata Shakur Pic of the day #photography
ICE THUGS arrested a pastor & kept asking him "Are you afraid?" numerous occasions. The pastor said NO. Eventually the THUGS let him go stating that "You're WHITE, you're no fun to us!!" This is how sick & deranged these THUGS are, thanks to this REGIME‼️ youtu.be/lcSOyVrc5HM?...
Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV'
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Let’s be honest. He shot her because he was angry that she wasn’t intimidated. He was pissed because she said “it’s ok I’m not mad at you” - that’s why after he shot her, he said “fucking bitch.” He wasn’t afraid for his life and she wasn’t threatening him. Her calmness was the threat.
