“As a two-spirited person, I have experienced it. Being made to feel like my existence isn’t even worth a crumb of bread. Being made to feel like everything I am is shameful. Yes I would want to extend to youth to say we are surrounding you with love and dignity”
Sisters Rising participant
Publications
de Finney, S., Chadwick, A., Adams, C., Moreno, S., Scott, A., & Sam, S. (2019). Being Indigenous is not a risk factor: A Sisters Rising story of resurgence and sovereignty. In K. Gharabaghi & G. Charles (Eds.), Child & Youth Care Across Sectors, Volume 2 (pp. tbd). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
de Finney, S., & Saraceno, J. (2015). Warrior girl and the searching tribe: Indigenous girls’ everyday negotiations of racialization under neocolonialism. In C. Bradford & M. Reimer (Eds.), Girls, texts, cultures (pp. 113-138). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press.
*Winner of Children’s Literature Association’s Edited Book Award
de Finney, S. (2014). Under the shadow of empire: Indigenous girls’ presencing as decolonizing force. Girlhood Studies, 7(1), 8-26.
Online Features:
Sisters Rising featured on UVic Faculty of Health and Social Development “Research” page
Sisters Rising Knowledge Sharing Brief February 2019
Networks4Change March 2019 Newsletter
Sexual Health Knowledge Translation Forum Brief
We Raise Our Hands: Sisters Rising Forum Report
About Sisters Rising: Shape Shifting Settler Violence Through Art and Land Retellings
Sisters Rising Forum Invitation
Cultural Re-Centering Model – Shezell-Rae Sam
Kairos Victoria Facebook Post – Cultural Re-Centering Model
Undergraduate research posters – Shezell-Rae Sam, Chantal Adams, and Michaela Louie
Girlfesto – Circles within Circles Contributors
Networks4Change May 2018 Newsletter
de Finney, S. (2018). Sisters Rising: Indigenous resurgence and kinship. Culturally Modified,June(3). Retrieved from https://culturallymodified.org/sisters-rising-indigenous-resurgence-and-kinship/
“The Game Changer: Cultural Connection – Dr. Sandrina de Finney” – UVic Torch, Spring 2018
Networks4Change March 2018 Newsletter
Sam, S.R. (2018). Sisters rising: A community based research project honouring Indigenous girls’ responses to sexualized violence.
Sisters Rising profiled by the School of Child and Youth Care at UVic
Networks4Change September 2017 Newsletter