Black and Indigenous Solidarity in Social Sciences: Leaning into Our Nuanced Racialized Identities and Healing Together

Our co-authored piece contributes to Black and Indigenous solidarity juxtaposed our nuanced convergent lived experiences as racialized people. Lauren I (Nate)co-explore how identities stories may complexify Black-and-Indigenous-led movements. We say “racialized” acknowledge white supremacists’ racecraft subjugate Lauren, an educator activist, I, a scholar both with maternal lineage, connected after storying about journeys to, through, beyond the teaching profession. educators have centered theories of we are not free until all free. knowledge contributions further freedom-for-all by offering on ancestry within U.S. racialization project. Conversational data stemmed from activist collective project where had many conversations similar unique toward justice orientation. yielded learnings. These co-learnings included: building through weaving stories, extending understandings experiences, co-regulation in societal spaces made for us. conclude implications continuing build social science.