With every purchase, 100% of the profits are donated directly to Decolonize All, a nonprofit whose mission is to, "reimagine institutions and build a future where all voices, especially those historically silenced, are seen, heard, and empowered" (Decolonize All, 2026). Read more about what inspired this fundraiser below:

In August 2026, I will earn my MA in Education (Counseling), becoming the first in my family with a graduate degree. My graduate capstone project explores the experiences of women who are Black, Indigenous, and/or of People of Color (BIPOC) as they navigate higher education. In it, my writing partner (Sayeda LeVieux) and I dive into the stories, past and present, that uncover the systems that were never designed for the success of the BIPOC Woman.

Rooted in Eurocentric ideals, education in the United States was established by means of religious colonization and cultural indoctrination (YoungBear,1998). Today, these same systems uphold long-standing power structures and function under the guise of modernity, which promises the opportunity of success to all, while continually failing to place value on "alternative" forms of knowledge (Stein, 2022).

In her 2018 work, Embodying Decoloniality: Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy, Indigenous Canadian author, Karlee Fellner, writes that education systems must embody decoloniality through active intentionality and by ?critically undoing colonial ways of knowing, being, and doing, while privileging and embodying Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing? (Fellner, 2018, p. 284). Similarly, McNamee (2010) asserts the value of community-based practices, such as reading tea leaves, astrology, or the words of an elder (McNamee, 2010).

By dismantling the historical dominance of Eurocentric systems and pairing teaching and learning with cultural humility, knowledge regains its richness.

Decolonise All. (2026). About. https://decoloniseall.org/about

Fellner, K. D. (2018). Embodying decoloniality: Indigenizing curriculum and pedagogy. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62(3?4), 283?293. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12286 

McNamee, S. (2010). Research as social construction: Transformative inquiry (Pesquisa como constru??o social: investiga??o transformativa). Sa?de & Transforma??o Social, 1(1), 9?19. https://incubadora.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/saudeetransformacao/article/view/418 

Stein, S. (2022). Unsettling the university: Confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education (1st ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12600/unsettling-university

YoungBear, B. (1998). Native American Indian Female Students in Higher Education. Scholar Works. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2859&context=grp