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Erin Monahan (she/her)

Say NoThanks to #Thankstaking

Say NoThanks to #Thankstaking

“To learn and know this history is both a necessity and a responsibility to the ancestors and descendants of all parties.” -- Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz on the true history of what has happened to the great civilizations of the Western Hemisphere in her book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United

“Pretty Good”: The American Alpine Club’s Continued Exclusion, Exploitation, and Tokenization of Black and Indigenous Communities and How White People Rationalize It Away

“Pretty Good”: The American Alpine Club’s Continued Exclusion, Exploitation, and Tokenization of Black and Indigenous Communities and How White People Rationalize It Away

The American Alpine Club’s Craggin’ Classics Have a History of Being Exclusive, Exploitative, and Tokenizing of Black and Indigenous Organizations, but Chris Schulte Reports Back That They Are Doing “Pretty Good.” White people have historically anointed themselves as the “keepers of nature” from John Muir to Theodore Roosevelt to

Building Terra Incognita Media: Confronting Failure, Self-Sabotage, and Imposter Syndrome

Building Terra Incognita Media: Confronting Failure, Self-Sabotage, and Imposter Syndrome

Since starting Terra Incognita Media my life has been a Chumbawamba song. It’s been a journey of killing my ego over and over again, making public and private mistakes, and learning major lessons. Sometimes the lessons required an easy pivot, but more often than not the lessons I have

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

“Origin narratives form the vital core of a people’s unifying identity and of the values that guide them. In the United States, the founding and development of the Anglo-American settler-state involves a narrative about Puritan settlers who had a covenant with God to take the land. That

The Privilege to Perform Queerness: When Straight People Step Outside of Cisheteronormativity They Gain Social Capital, But at What Cost?

Meme created by Brittney Okabe and Abolition Memes On September 29, 2019 Pattie Gonia posted a video and photo of both herself and Alex Honnold donning a matching pair of Pattie’s signature patent-leather, six-inch heeled boots. Honnold and Pattie are seen striking dramatic poses and laughing surrounded

The Binary is A White, Colonialist Fiction and It's Up to White Cishet Folks to Disrupt It

The Binary is A White, Colonialist Fiction and It's Up to White Cishet Folks to Disrupt It

[The image on the right depicts an angry, screaming King Kong clutching a feinting white woman in a barely-there dress. The image on the right depicts a muscular and strong Lebron James screaming and taking a forward-facing stance while wrapping an arm around Giselle Bundchen who is posed

The Ongoing Project of Settler Colonialism Ushered into the Future by Ellen Degeneres and White Feminism

The Ongoing Project of Settler Colonialism Ushered into the Future by Ellen Degeneres and White Feminism

Collage created by images from UX Gun, Duncan Kidd, and Cooper Neill/AP, Ron Jenkins/AP “White feminism does not look at itself, does not aim to de-center itself, and is only concerned about its own social and economic capital.” Ellen Degeneres spoke out about her experience of sitting