Sandi L Boucher reflects on internalized oppression faced by women and Indigenous people, then shares a poem celebrating personal steps toward change. She encourages marginalized viewers to pursue their dreams and take the chance on themselves.
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Foreign. Hello again, everybody. Sandy Boucher here once again. I'm Red Thunderbolt, woman of the Loon clan, a proud member of the Seine River First Nation in Treaty 3 Territory in Northern Ontario. And I have a short little video to put for you today because it's a short little blog post called Changing the Freedom of the Oppressed. Now, before I go any further, I'd be willing to bet if there are non indigenous women watching my videos, really good chance. You can relate to a lot, I say, even if you're not indigenous, because women are a marginalized group, it's marginalized, resonating with marginalized. So don't be shocked if that happens. And as a woman, if you're watching this, you may have been told, you know, maybe you had a crazy dream when you were a younger woman. You wanted to become an actress or a singer or whatever, a lawyer, a doctor, whatever. And possibly depending on who your parents were, where you were raised, and how financially stable or even affluent you were, there might have been someone that said, well, well, that's never going to happen. Like, why do you think you can do that? No one we know does that, and that's really hard. If you're female, it is really common. If you're Indigenous, it's part of internalized oppression. When you belong to an oppressed group for a long period of time, you internalize it and you start to believe the stereotypes about yourself and about other people in your group. And there's two ways that it affects you. And yes, you can be affected by both. Most people are. The first is the voice in your head. You're telling you that it's never going to work and never going to happen. And that can be really overwhelming. And it starts. Stops a lot of people from going to school or bidding for that job or daring to say no. And the other way is the voices of others, other people telling you, well, that's never going to work. Why would you try going to college? No one ever does that. It's never going to change anything. That's the voice of oppression. So what this short little blog post was about is it's a poem. And it was me celebrating that I'm once again changing things in the background of my business. There's some changes going on. And as a marginalized person, as an indigenous woman who was once, that voice was overwhelming. And the voices of others kept me trapped for so many years that now when I decide I'm going to make a change and I just go for it, that's something worth Celebrating, because that's nonviolent resistance. That's overcoming the oppression. So whether you're indigenous or not watching this, if you belong to a marginalized group, take the chance. Dare to do it. Forget about the voice in your hand and the voices of others. Because my belief is if you have that crazy dream, well, that's your God trying to tell you why you're here and what you're meant to be doing. And the fact that you enjoy it is why you're the perfect person to be doing it. So I really hope, like me, you can break the chains and just go for it. Because you deserve to change. You deserve the freedom of the oppressed. I hope that made sense. Until tomorrow. I love you. Take care.
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