Ningli Loken

  As a non-Indigenous Asian person in America, I am a settler. “Settler” refers to all who aren’t the First People of a given place-territory. We dwell on the disruption of Indigenous ways of life and Native American land stewardship. Dear Settler, let me help you become unsettled. To gain accountability toward Indigenous Americans, settlers...

  Utah harbors a radical working-class history that white-washed Mormon narratives of colonialism overshadow. Immigrants and nonwhite union organizers largely fostered Utah’s labor movement. The predominantly Mormon state saw people of color organizing and providing mutual aid as a threat to their power. To this day, Utah police vehemently deny claims that the murder of...

  We want people to take accountability for their mistakes. This requires recognition of the harm they enact and a commitment to improving. We should be asking the same thing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Come as you are, but don’t stay as you are. Accounts about the “Indian Wars” in...

  Dominant culture imposes racial identities upon people based on the white gaze. But people’s heritage and ethnic identities come from within. The harm of racialization began with the justification of slavery, which birthed the language of racial difference. True Indigenous resurgence requires that every individual has the right to identify and disidentify themselves. Slavery...

  Womxn of color want to engage in research, but workplace racism and sexism routinely push them out. These strands of discrimination intersect and force womxn of color to uniquely deal with both. Academic institutions characterize womxn of color as less intelligent and competent than their white male counterparts. But Black, Indigenous and womxn of...