Digital Resistance
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We are the grandsons and granddaughters of many peoples, the heirs of an ancestral and millenary struggle carried into the 21st century, a generation born with the internet, with phones, with computers. And even though it is difficult and continues to be difficult to access the internet from Indigenous territories and local communities around the world, even with the inequalities that make it hard to have phones or computers, we are creating content. We are producing stories shaped by our own aesthetics, our own realities.
While access to the internet remains difficult for many Indigenous and local communities, new generations are using digital tools to share their own stories and perspectives. Born into a connected world, they are creating content shaped by their cultures, histories, and lived realities. Digital storytelling is a way to carry ancestral struggles into the present and ensure that Indigenous voices are represented on their own terms.
How do we diversify climate voices?
Racialized, feminized voices have been silenced and to tackle oppression, we must put those voices at the center of climate action and diversify the channels and mechanisms through which we communicate solutions