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							<title>Katherine Bahena-Benitez Talks Indigenous Representation in Theater</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[Katherine Bahena-Benitez is an actor, model, screenwriter, photographer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, and teaching artist. ]]></description>
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															<description><![CDATA[Indigenous content creators are taking over TikTok to raise awareness about issues affecting their communities and culture.]]></description>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[As a child, one of many truths I struggled to understand about both sides of my family, and about myself, was the constant mixture and conflict of our identities. Being a mixed-race person of European, specifically Spanish, and Indigenous descent, adopting both Mexican and American culture, switching between English and Spanish in certain spaces, it]]></description>
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							<title>First Indigenous Professor at University of Washington to Teach on Climate Change Introductory Course</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[The University of Washington has hired its first indigenous faculty member to teach an introductory course on climate change. This comes nearly two years after the UW&#8217;s graduate school introduced their first indigenous studies program. Dr. Jessica Hernández is a transnational indigenous scholar, and scientist who has Zapotec from Mexico and Ch’orti’ from Guatemala, Honduras, and]]></description>
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							<title>Decolonizing My Mind to Fully Embrace My Queer Indigenous Identity</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time thinking about who I am in the world and I’ll be honest with you, it took a lot to get here. For the longest time, I thought if I properly assimilated I would just be accepted. I would then be able to focus on working hard and making my]]></description>
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							<title>7 Positive Representations of Indigenous Communities We’re Proud of</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[&#160; The indigenous community has historically been overlooked and dehumanized but now more than ever they are getting the attention and respect they deserve. With icons like Yalitza Aparicio and activists like Amazonian female Chief Nazaré bringing the indigenous community front and center, their work is getting international attention. But these women are just two]]></description>
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							<title>Why It Took Years To Embrace My Indigenous Beauty</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I used to think I was hella ugly. I hated my cheekbones, wanted a nose job and lied to everyone in high school about not ever wanting to date someone from my own high school because “as if.” I used my sense of humor to hide behind my &#8220;ugly.&#8221; It was all just a cover up]]></description>
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