Relationships with Cannabis: Chicanx and Indigenous Feminisms Disrupting Settler Colonial Politics

Abstract

This project departs from a queer Chicana’s relationships to the land. Chicana and Indigenous onto-epistemological and pedagogical practices inform this project’s broader discourse on cannabis (in its many complexities) to recognize relationships to land as politically invaluable. Current national, and oftentimes state, cannabis legislation continues to perpetuate state violence against Indigenous, Chicanx/Latinx, and Black communities, while allowing white cisgender men and corporations to profit through enforcement, or at times, lack of enforcement, of this same legislation. Through a careful analysis situated at the intersections of race, class, gender, and indigeneity, I explore how cannabis functions as a tool of sociocultural and political structures of oppression against Chicanx, Latinx, and Indigenous communities.