Centering Community-Led Indigenous Gender Sovereignty

Authors: Sandrina de Finney, Kathleen Bennett, and Chantal Adams

View our latest article, “Centering Community-Led Indigenous Gender Sovereignty” published in Collaborations: A Journal of Community-based Research and Practice.

Abstract

Kinship Rising is an Indigenous community partnership project that offers urgently needed action research led by Indigenous youth and communities impacted by colonial histories of gendered and sexualized violence. Working with hundreds of Indigenous youth, practitioners, Elders, and knowledge keepers across diverse rural and urban Indigenous communities in western Canada, our project engages land- and arts-based practices, intergenerational mentoring, and community leadership to recenter Indigenous knowledges of gender and sexual wellbeing and sovereignty.