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Braiding Intergenerational Healing

2025
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
Arts & Culture
Trees and mountains

Earth Keepers Of Jungles, Mountains, Valleys

March 4, 2025
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
The change from jungle to mountain is abrupt like an unexpected trauma that disconnects us from heart, body, mind, spirit...
Nature
Traditional Midwifery Day

Traditional Midwifery Day

2025
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
Philosophy
May 2024 Oaxacan wildfire road closures.

Ecological Disaster in LA Highlights Indigenous Firekeeping

January 21, 2025
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
After a decade of moving between the Bay Area, the Midwest, and Mexico, in August of last year, I finally...
Social Justice
Women on a beach

We romanticize our mothers and grandmothers, but they do too

December 3, 2024
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
People say that because we were born on the other side, in the north, we are neither from here nor...
Family
Maestra Rocio Morales, a Zapotec healer and community leader mourns the dispossession of earth-based healing practices and intercultural values among Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities of Mexico.

Mother Earth Hurts, So Do We

2024
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
Nature
Statue breaking open chest.

Healing Cycles of Institutional Harm with Indigenous Wisdom

September 19, 2023
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
As a 32-year-old Indigihood femme, several physical injuries and inflammatory conditions have taken toll on my mental and spiritual health.
Social Justice
Hand holding sliced orange.

Quiere_te__wisdom

2023
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
Protestors in Uvalde.

Traumatic Grief and Dismantling Anti-Brownness in the Uvalde School Mass Shooting Aftermath

January 15, 2023
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
On Sunday, July 10th, the communities of Uvalde and the families of the children and teachers who lost their lives...
Social Justice
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