Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer is an Indigiqueer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation (Tsistsistas). Currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at York University, their scholarship illuminates the impact of structural violence on Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. 

Dr. BlackDeer centers Indigenous brilliance through decolonization, weaving scholarly literature, ancestral knowledge, and lived experience as critical counter-narratives to colonial hegemony. They are deeply committed to truth-telling and radical honesty as a means of furthering collective liberation.