We work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples;

the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

As four racialized founding partners, we also acknowledge that our presence on these unsurrendered territories, colonized as Vancouver, are the result of larger historical, global, ongoing and ontological violence of capitalist, white supremacy. Whether through the processes of chattel slavery, ableist and exclusionary policies, violently enacted structural adjustment policies, the displacement and subsequent placement of puppet regimes, domestic worker schemes, and various exploitative and extractive immigration schemes that place us, intersect, and pit us against each other—we commit to reminding ourselves of the continuing legacy of colonialism, and the ways we are complicit in upholding colonialism.

We commit to a work practice that goes beyond land acknowledgements, and is decolonial in nature, and seeks to advance personal and collective reconciliation goals, recognizing the separate and shared processes and impacts of colonial white supremacy.

We further recognize that violent processes like mass incarceration of Indigenous, Black and racialized folks, racialization and feminization of poverty, occur parallel to ongoing extractive dispossession of Indigenous lands.

Our goals and ongoing work on these territories must centre a commitment to reflect and act on what our presence means on these lands, and how we continually work to build relations, within and beyond these violent systems.