Crushing Colonialism Wins WorldPride Impact Award for Decolonized Beatz Series and Is Invited to WorldPride 2026 Amsterdam

Piscataway Land, so-called Washington, D.C. — Crushing Colonialism has been honored with a 2025 WorldPride Impact Award for our performance series Decolonized Beatz, with special recognition of Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride (DBIWP). This award, presented by Rainbow Advocacy acknowledges Crushing Colonialism’s exceptional contributions to Indigenous arts, performance, and storytelling—particularly uplifting the voices of 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled, and multiply-marginalized Indigenous artists across the globe.

This momentous recognition comes on the heels of a history-making edition of DBIWP, held on May 30 and June 1, 2025 on Piscataway Land (Washington, D.C.), which brought together IndigiQueer and multiply-disabled artists from around the world for two days of performance, storytelling, and solidarity. Artists and community members traveled from Brazil, Palestine, Fiji, Kenya, Canada, Finland, and across Turtle Island to reimagine Pride through Indigenous sovereignty, disability justice, and creative expression.

“All IndigiQueer people have a voice, and Crushing Colonialism ensures we have a platform to make that voice heard,” said Tatiana Villegas (Tlingit and Haida), a youth participant in DBIWP’s film workshop.

From drag shows and musical performances to youth film premieres, panels, and a pop-up Indigenous market, DBIWP offered a fully accessible and celebratory space rooted in intergenerational healing and transnational resistance. The event centered Indigenous, Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans creativity on a global stage—setting a precedent for future 2SLGBTQIA+ events worldwide.

Photos and video highlights from DBIWP can be found on our website.
Full panel recordings and performances are available on Crushing Colonialism’s YouTube channel.

Following this recognition, the students from the Indigiqueer Youth Film Training Workshop have been invited to present their films in special screenings and Q&A sessions throughout October and November 2025, including at the Charter’s Global Youth Conference and other events marking 2SLGBTQIA+ History Month.

Next Stop: WorldPride 2026 Amsterdam

Crushing Colonialism is proud to announce that following our award-winning work and transformative programming, we have been invited to participate in WorldPride 2026 Amsterdam. Crushing Colonialism will contribute to global conversations, performances and programming around Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride,, gender, arts, and decolonization—continuing the mission to uplift multiply-marginalized Indigenous voices at the highest levels of international 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy and celebration.

This invitation builds on Crushing Colonialism’s successful hosting of the “INDIGIQUEER: Storytelling in Arts & Media NOW!” panel at the WorldPride 2025 Human Rights Conference in Piscataway Land, so-called Washington, D.C.. The panel, moderated by Founding Executive Director Jen Deerinwater (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), featured artists Fabiana Gibim (Guarani-Kaiowá), Rivolta Sata (Afriqiyah & Abya Yala), and Elton Naswood (Navajo Nation) in a visionary discussion of Indigiqueer media, erasure, and resurgence.

“This panel wasn’t just about representation—it was about reclamation. Our stories, our art, our sovereignty, and our joy belong at the center of global human rights conversations,” said Deerinwater.

Following our participation in World Pride, Crushing Colonialism proudly took the global stage at the EuroPride Human Rights Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 20, 2025. We were honored to join 2SLGBTQIA+ leaders and changemakers from around the world for urgent conversations about queerness, colonization, and liberation.

Representing Crushing Colonialism, our Director of Development and Communications, Fabiana Gibim, delivered a powerful speech titled “Queerness and Indigenous Sovereignty as World-Building.” These words called for a radical reimagining of Pride, beyond state recognition and colonial visibility, and back into the hands, lands, and lineages of our ancestors.