INDIGENOUS WORLD PRIDE 2025

Crushing Colonialism is gathering support for Decolonized Beatz, Indigenous World Pride 2025, an Indigenous-led event in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the work of Native and Indigenous storytellers, artists, and performers, including Indigenous women, AfroIndigenous, 2LGBTQIA+, and disabled Indigenous people. Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride will provide 2LGBTQIA+ Indigenous created and led programming that meets the access, cultural and safety needs of all our relatives and non-Indigenous guests when Washington, D.C. hosts World Pride, May 23-June 8, 2025.

We’ll produce an Indigenous music and performance series to celebrate the work of Indigequeer artists from across the world during the global celebration. These events will feature films, dancers, live performances, poetry, visual art, and more organized to support and connect organizers and performers, to uplift our 2LGBTQIA+ Indigenous creatives, and open up places for sharing and celebrating our creativity and beauty.

Our Approach

• Develop a core planning committee for Decolonized Beatz-Indigenous World Pride, composed of 2LGBTQIA+ Indigenous people from around the world

• Bring together multiply marginalized artists to create Indigenous programming

• Organize a free event featuring films, dancers, live performances, poetry, and visual art, while fostering community safety and disability and language accessibility and justice

• Produce communications and documentation for the event in accessible formats across languages and disability needs

• As a lead up to the primary 2025 event, we will produce two events, and communications materials, highlighting 2LGBTQIA+ Indigenous artists and performers and their important contributions to our communities.

Who We Are

Crushing Colonialism is an Indigenous-led 501(c3) nonprofit that uplifts and tells the stories of Indigenous people through media and traditional storytelling while supporting those doing the work. We advocate for the just funding, employment, and professional opportunities for Native media workers and storytellers and produce international reporting and organizing to inform and uplift marginalized community members.

Crushing Colonialism has held six Decolonized Beatz events since 2018, which have included music, performance, film, and visual art. The inaugural event was held in person in Washington, D.C. and the performance series has included five streamed and archived events. Performers have included: Dr. Maha Hilal Summer Dawn Reyes Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez Nexus Liliane Wolf Chris J Light (04/20); Aveda Adara aka Post Modern Sleaze (06/21); Marcy Angeles (6/21); Adrian Rollins & Fight The Future (07/21); and Elexa Dawson (8/21).