our blog & events
On October 9, 2025, Crushing Colonialism, an Indigenous-led arts and media organization, will host a special Indigenous People’s Day fundraising event featuring a screening of The Smudging and a live Q&A with its director, Mike J. Marin (Navajo, Laguna Pueblo, Washoe).
Crushing Colonialism is inviting you to participate in a campaign this October, linking Palestine and disability justice, through organizing a grassroots/community screening of the new documentary film, Severed (2025). The campaign will begin with a virtual screening and panel discussion on October 5, 2025, at 3 PM ET.
Crushing Colonialism, an Indigenous-led organization in the so-called United States, is expanding its social impact by joining the prestigious Culture Caucus at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
On June 10, 2024, Crushing Colonialism hosted an event at Baltimore Center Stage that included a film screening followed by a conversation between filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield and Jen Deerinwater, the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism and the impetus for the film.
Indigenizing Disability Justice. A film screening and conversation in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2024.
On April 16, 2020 Crushing Colonialism hosted its first Virtual Decolonized Beatz event. It featured the creative works of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) artists and performers