Dr. BlackDeer
@drblackdeer.bsky.social
Indigiqueer anti-colonial scholar activist •
professor • social worker • Auntie
professor • social worker • Auntie
ecstatic, overjoyed, and just absolutely thrilled to share that I've accepted a job offer at York University to join their School of Social Work as an assistant professor starting January 1st, 2026!! 🙌🏽
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
ecstatic, overjoyed, and just absolutely thrilled to share that I've accepted a job offer at York University to join their School of Social Work as an assistant professor starting January 1st, 2026!! 🙌🏽
guest lectured on countering colonial narratives through storytelling today at the University of Michigan med school 🤗 feels good to be back in my nerd joys.
#DiariesOfADecolonialScholar
#DiariesOfADecolonialScholar
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
guest lectured on countering colonial narratives through storytelling today at the University of Michigan med school 🤗 feels good to be back in my nerd joys.
#DiariesOfADecolonialScholar
#DiariesOfADecolonialScholar
new OPEN ACCESS publication (from your fave 💁🏽♀️) on fascism and the far right and wondering where social work is in all of this!
anzswjournal.nz/anzsw
anzswjournal.nz/anzsw
September 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
new OPEN ACCESS publication (from your fave 💁🏽♀️) on fascism and the far right and wondering where social work is in all of this!
anzswjournal.nz/anzsw
anzswjournal.nz/anzsw
Reposted by Dr. BlackDeer
Yesterday, @drblackdeer.bsky.social posted about how Wind River does not pass the Ali Nahdee Test, so here is the tool developed by @alinahdee.bsky.social 8 years ago! 👀
Ali credits Shannon & Shauna Baker as inspirations after seeing them on the Tyra Banks show! 🥹🥹🥹
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qei-...
Ali credits Shannon & Shauna Baker as inspirations after seeing them on the Tyra Banks show! 🥹🥹🥹
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qei-...
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yesterday, @drblackdeer.bsky.social posted about how Wind River does not pass the Ali Nahdee Test, so here is the tool developed by @alinahdee.bsky.social 8 years ago! 👀
Ali credits Shannon & Shauna Baker as inspirations after seeing them on the Tyra Banks show! 🥹🥹🥹
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qei-...
Ali credits Shannon & Shauna Baker as inspirations after seeing them on the Tyra Banks show! 🥹🥹🥹
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qei-...
getting emails like: please step forward for another opportunity to be tokenized.
happy back to school szn yall
happy back to school szn yall
August 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
getting emails like: please step forward for another opportunity to be tokenized.
happy back to school szn yall
happy back to school szn yall
allow me to reintroduce myself.. my name is Autumn BlackDeer, and I now use she/they pronouns 🥰
thanks for being here 💖
thanks for being here 💖
July 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
allow me to reintroduce myself.. my name is Autumn BlackDeer, and I now use she/they pronouns 🥰
thanks for being here 💖
thanks for being here 💖
can we talk about how cultural competence/humility/whatever still centers yt practitioners as the default? because as a Native social worker, how am I supposed to be culturally humble with my own dang culture??
July 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
can we talk about how cultural competence/humility/whatever still centers yt practitioners as the default? because as a Native social worker, how am I supposed to be culturally humble with my own dang culture??
I had a great time chatting with Dr. Dèsa Kayre Daniel over on The Thoughtful Counselor podcast! Our conversation felt like we've been old friends for a long time! 🤗 My episode is titled Voices of Resistance 👊🏽 concept.paloaltou.edu/resources/th...
Voices of Resistance: Conversations with Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer
The Thoughtful Counselor talks with scholar-activist Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer about voices of resistance
concept.paloaltou.edu
June 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I had a great time chatting with Dr. Dèsa Kayre Daniel over on The Thoughtful Counselor podcast! Our conversation felt like we've been old friends for a long time! 🤗 My episode is titled Voices of Resistance 👊🏽 concept.paloaltou.edu/resources/th...
A great day to be Cheyenne! On this day in 1876, my ancestors killed Custer! Talk about FAFO 👊🏽
#VictoryDay #CusterHadItComing
#VictoryDay #CusterHadItComing
June 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A great day to be Cheyenne! On this day in 1876, my ancestors killed Custer! Talk about FAFO 👊🏽
#VictoryDay #CusterHadItComing
#VictoryDay #CusterHadItComing
If I had a dollar for every time a woman in leadership abused her power and harassed me as a junior scholar but won a professional award the very same year, I'd only have two dollars but it still feels like a lot for one person to deal with.
June 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If I had a dollar for every time a woman in leadership abused her power and harassed me as a junior scholar but won a professional award the very same year, I'd only have two dollars but it still feels like a lot for one person to deal with.
Indigiqueer PRIDE 💖🏳️🌈🦅
June 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Indigiqueer PRIDE 💖🏳️🌈🦅
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forgot to post this to celebrate juneteenth
June 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
forgot to post this to celebrate juneteenth
If a marginalized person corrects you or calls you in and your response is "well, actually" -- you are 1000% not an ally and need to go sit down immediately.
June 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If a marginalized person corrects you or calls you in and your response is "well, actually" -- you are 1000% not an ally and need to go sit down immediately.
Happy Juneteenth!
On this day, 160 years ago, enslaved people in Texas found out about their freedom nearly 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
On this day, 160 years ago, enslaved people in Texas found out about their freedom nearly 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
June 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Happy Juneteenth!
On this day, 160 years ago, enslaved people in Texas found out about their freedom nearly 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
On this day, 160 years ago, enslaved people in Texas found out about their freedom nearly 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
we have to stop the innate urge to split things in half. another tenet of yt supremacy culture is either/or thinking. decolonizing doesnt mean colonized/decolonized, it's a false dichotomy. reading la paperson and they demonstrate that the decolonial already exists even within colonial contexts.
June 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
we have to stop the innate urge to split things in half. another tenet of yt supremacy culture is either/or thinking. decolonizing doesnt mean colonized/decolonized, it's a false dichotomy. reading la paperson and they demonstrate that the decolonial already exists even within colonial contexts.
somewhere in the corner of my mind is a little scribble about the invocation of stolen land as a way to place it in the past like ope sorry gone forever and as a way of erasure of all the genocide and colonial violence that occurred and remains ongoing to keep said stolen land
June 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
somewhere in the corner of my mind is a little scribble about the invocation of stolen land as a way to place it in the past like ope sorry gone forever and as a way of erasure of all the genocide and colonial violence that occurred and remains ongoing to keep said stolen land
idk why but I don't trust yt people that continually refer to me and fellow Black and Brown folks as "voices"
June 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
idk why but I don't trust yt people that continually refer to me and fellow Black and Brown folks as "voices"
collective Liberation is not the girl scouts. you don't get patches or sashes for every little achievement. a lot of yall need to interrogate the part of you that needs external validation that you're "one of the good ones" -- this individualism is a core tenet of yt supremacy culture
June 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
collective Liberation is not the girl scouts. you don't get patches or sashes for every little achievement. a lot of yall need to interrogate the part of you that needs external validation that you're "one of the good ones" -- this individualism is a core tenet of yt supremacy culture
It is 2025 and they asked me to review a paper on embodied anti-racist practice where they, wait for it, held a book club and went to brunch every month. But it was POC restaurants.
Seriously, the bar is in hell y'all.
Seriously, the bar is in hell y'all.
June 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It is 2025 and they asked me to review a paper on embodied anti-racist practice where they, wait for it, held a book club and went to brunch every month. But it was POC restaurants.
Seriously, the bar is in hell y'all.
Seriously, the bar is in hell y'all.
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"Don't tread on me, tread on them instead... here I'll help."
Idk man, but if you don't speak out against ICE and DHS i kinda think y'all should be required to throw away that "don't tread on me" flag.
June 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Don't tread on me, tread on them instead... here I'll help."
new publication available now! 🌞 doi.org/10.1177/1044...
June 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
new publication available now! 🌞 doi.org/10.1177/1044...
now all the pieces make sense. cant claim a hate crime because that would affirm that trans men are men. so they paint him as a rugged Native man out in Texas instead. blatant queer and trans erasure.
Nea'ese @/jersey.noah for bringing this together ❤️🩹
#TransLiberationTuesday
Nea'ese @/jersey.noah for bringing this together ❤️🩹
#TransLiberationTuesday
June 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
now all the pieces make sense. cant claim a hate crime because that would affirm that trans men are men. so they paint him as a rugged Native man out in Texas instead. blatant queer and trans erasure.
Nea'ese @/jersey.noah for bringing this together ❤️🩹
#TransLiberationTuesday
Nea'ese @/jersey.noah for bringing this together ❤️🩹
#TransLiberationTuesday
The wording of headlines surrounding Jonathan Joss' murder is almost a direct mirror to how folks like to talk about colonization. Some have said he was in a dispute or feud with his neighbor. Others say it was a gunfight. He was harassed for *years* and was never taken seriously. 1/
June 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The wording of headlines surrounding Jonathan Joss' murder is almost a direct mirror to how folks like to talk about colonization. Some have said he was in a dispute or feud with his neighbor. Others say it was a gunfight. He was harassed for *years* and was never taken seriously. 1/
Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.
June 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.
too many want recognition.
we, however, want justice.
we, however, want justice.
June 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
too many want recognition.
we, however, want justice.
we, however, want justice.