Amber Starks
Amber Starks
We love #matriarchmonday because we get to profile phenomenal womxn and femmes that give us strength and inspiration that carries us forward in our work, validate our representation, and push us to challenge harmful systems.
This week we are excited to feature Amber Starks. Amber is an Afro Indigenous (African-American and Native American) activist, aspiring cultural critic/commentator, a student of decolonial theory, and budding abolitionist. She is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also of Shawnee, Yuchi, Quapaw, and Cherokee descent. She also identifies as a Reconnector - learning what it means to come from her people.
Her passion is the intersection of Black and Native American identity. She seeks to normalize, affirm, and uplift the multidimensional identity in both the Black and Native communities through discourse and advocacy around anti-Blackness, abolishing blood quantum, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. Her activism encourages Black and Indigenous peoples to prioritize one another and divest from compartmentalizing struggles. She ultimately believes the partnerships between Black and Indigenous peoples (and all POC) will aid in the dismantling of anti-blackness, white supremacy, and settler colonialism, globally.
Shout-out to Amber for all of her insight and words that elevate Black Liberation and ndigenous Sovereignty #BLIS.
