WEAVING NARRATIVES:
@INDIGEDOCSCHOLARS (RE)WRITING ACADEMIA
2 THE WCIDS ZINE
J’SHON LEE
Dził Łigai Si'án N'dee
Their Hearts in Mine 4
MIRTHA GARCIA, PH.D.
Mexicana Jaliscience
Nourish the Body, Mind, and Spirit 5
ALYCIA DE MESA
HEAVEN SEPULVEDA
Akimel O’Odham & Xalychidom Piipaash
Apache of Chihuahua, MX, mestiza, Japanese descent
Indigenous Scholar 3
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
HEATHER ROMERO MERCIECA 8
S-CUMA:CIDDAM
Caxcan (Juchipila River Valley), Scottish, Maltese
Far More to the Story 6
Onk Akimel O'odham, Tohono O'odham, Hualapai
Haṣañ kaj 9
BOBBI L. FREDERICK
Húŋkpati Dakota
DR. MICHELE CLARK
Chicana, Filipina, Mixed Race
Self Care, Wild Hair 11
Diné
Finding Hózhǫ́
MIRIAM THEOBALD-DESCHINE
Húŋkpapȟa (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) & Diné From the Desk of Nicholet WEAVING
TAINA DIAZ-REYES
Taino, Maya, Huichol 12
Song of a Sonoran Sirena
Indigenous Art 15
CECILIA MAREK
Diné, Nimiipuu, Hopi 13
Just a Girl From the Rez
NICHOLET DESCHINE PARKHURST
16
DANIELLE D. LUCERO, PH.D.
Pueblo of Isleta & Hispano To-Whay, Let’s go! 17
ALAINA GEORGE, PH.D.
Diné
Nízaad go' t'ádííyáh 14
In 2022, the Women’s Council of Indigenous Doctoral Scholars (WCIDS) hosted a zine-making workshop celebrating Indigenous stories about Indigenous women’s experiences in graduate and doctoral programs as part of ASU’s Women’s HERstory Month event programming. The ou issue of “Weaving Narrative
About the Zine
“Weaving Narratives” addresses the disparity of Indigenous scholars in doctoral programs and highlights current Indigenous students in higher education as a form of healing, creating kinship, and (re)writing, (re)righting, (re)riteing (Tuhiwai Smith, 2012; Risling Baldy, 2018) narratives to center Indigenous voices.
Our first issue includes stories from our WCIDS community about their academic journeys, personal perseverance and resilience, and highlights their cultural backgrounds that contributed to their successes in higher education. We hope you enjoy our stories told in our own words and ways!
Tell yourself and others your appreciation for yourself and them
Begin an adventure by living vicariously in a book you’ve been wanting to read Through
Mind, Body, and Spirit
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By: Mirtha Garcia
other versions of teen years dying it with cheap box chemicals. it hoping more professional. play, and wasps flew in my hair and my mom pulled them out one by one. my first
The pressures of my dissertation felt like the weight of the world on my shoulders. my hair started falling out. I first realized when I saw piles of hair that clumped along the side of my desk chair. I was unknowingly twisting and walks, slow down, and stretch my body. I myself with gratitude for my family, meals with friends, and some expensive Instagram ad hair serum that didn’t quite work. I still have the patches and they might never grow back but, at least, I slowed down.
on racial equity in STEM education. Her international research examines human relationships with plant communities, forests, and grasslands.
This PhD has journey, in all the ways it could be.
Walking numerous miles thinking over theory and methods, praying for guidance, and grounding myself in nature.
Sometimes these were short walks , sometimes entire days.
Sometimes at home, sometimes far away. But Shimá N ahasdzáán
always granting peace, strength, and energy to persevere.
Editors
Cecilia Marek & J’Shon Lee