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Amaya Scott

Amaya Scott

Dr. Charlie Amáyá Scott is a Diné (Navajo) scholar, educator, and advocate with a Ph.D. in Higher Education who uses her platform to inspire Indigenous queer joy, justice, and decolonization.

Jun 24, 2026

9:25
i'm like okay i need a break i need to take my power back and this is how right now yeah and i would love to know like how you've been navigating that as well and that take on outrage of social currency so navigating social media
9:39
i'll answer that question first before we get into outrage of social currency yeah but for me i've always viewed social media as a tool Like, that has always been my perception.
9:51
Like, there was, like, maybe at some point early on in my life, I considered it to be, like, a possibility for nurturing community.
9:59
And it was.
10:00
It worked well for me as someone who was from a rural area of the Napa Nation who didn't really have a lot of queer friends growing up.
10:08
And so learning about queerness, learning about gender, learning about sexuality came from the internet for me and through social media.
10:14
Yeah.

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32:51
intentions of colonialism.

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