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My work in this issue is dedicated to my ancestors & relatives, of whom I share with relatives across the Afro-indian indigenous diaspora of the displaced & marginalized many.
In acknowledgement of the survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, my native ancestors, surviving extinction & genocide- remembered, forgotten, lost & found, Black & Latinx.
From Haiti, Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico to Brazil.
Central Africa: The Kongo/ Angolan/ Mbundu peoples of present day Congo.
West Africa:
Ewe, Fun, Ga-Dangme, Fante peoples of present day Ghana, Liberia & Sierra Leon.
Yoruba people of present day Nigeria & people of Senegambia & Guinea.
My Native “America” Ancestors, the Arawak, also known as the Taíno, the indigenous natives of following lands: Borinquen (present day Puerto Rico), Ayti, (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti), Cubanascnan, (present day Cuba), Xaymaca, (present day jamaica), Guanahani (present day Bahamian islands) & Bimini, (present day Florida). The Taino did not claim ownership of any land & traveled frequently across the seas to neighboring islands by canoa to exchange with neighboring tribes. The taino are direct relatives of the Palikur people, an Arawak speaking Nation of indigenous amazonians from the Brazilian state of Amapá.
As a Afro Indigenous trans person- The controversy of my autonomy is not new, it is old. I’ve seen this before ten folds over & I know it will not prevail. The remembrance of my native ancestors reinforces my belonging to the earth in a way that encourages my grace, compassion, growth, forgiveness & my will to replenish my own relationship to my earth roots but also to inspire others to return to theirs, & their earth medicine ways of love & freedom. I am inspired to encourage those who don’t know their roots, to plant grow & restore them, & to respect the traditions & experiences of everyones cultures identity however complex they may be. Every people has a beginning, & every body is an act of God. Where your hindsite to your own is cut off, giving ourselves permission to begin again is essential, now more than ever.
“May we say never again, (t
