This week on STPT, Danielle Holland and Puja Datta dive headfirst into boundaries, discussing how they impact and inform our relationships with ourselves, one another, and our greater community. Then, they are joined by Roxanne White (she/her), Grass Roots Organizer and Social Justice Advocate who has dedicated her work to Indian Country. 

Roxanne and hosts discuss MMIP and why the missing aunts, sisters, and daughters become stories that remain siloed within Native communities. Roxanne shares that for every Sacred person they search for, march for, grieve for, is another person whom law enforcement disregarded, devalued, dehumanized. That every Border Town and city ignored, abused, abducted, and trafficked in. These people become the stories that news media refuses to tell,  the cases that legal systems do not prosecute for, and that white feminists write up resolutions that will travel no where with.

Roxanne shares the work she does, the hard work of fighting for answers, for a semblance of justice, and for the lives of so many Indigenous peoples. Within this heavy work, White brings hope, be it in her visions from the Ancestors, to her new ideas and imaginings of reparations and resilience.

We offer you this weeks conversation, that together we may stand in solidarity. Donate to MMIP at unkitawa - (Select MMIP Families from Dropdown). Learn more at MMIP and Families

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Roxanne White is of Nez Perce, Yakama, Nooksack and Aaniiih Nations. She is recognized nationally for her work on issues related to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People and for her work with Native families and communities seeking justice and healing. She is also known her work on human trafficking in Native communities. Roxanne works to amplify the voices of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women across North America. Roxanne is also a grassroots organizer, standing on the front lines for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. She embodies vibrant Indigenous leadership through the resilience of culture and ceremony and a lens of historical trauma. Roxanne is a family member of MMIWG, as well asa survivor of human trafficking, domestic violence, childhood abduction, and sexual abuse. She draws on her personal experience to empower and support survivors in Native communities. Roxanne has been featured on HuffPost, the Canadian Broadcast Channel, CNN, Al Jazeera TV, Seattle Times, and a variety of local and national media.