"just my process of education through school, political organizing, doing anti-racist workshops and similar experiences [made me different]. Having learned a lot more about white history, colonial history, the history of enslavement, I was really landing in a mentality and an attitude of 'fuck my ancestors, fuck my people,' really disavowing them in all the ways that I could. I see it as being the cancel-culture approach to ancestor work."
"I came to understand that not everyone in my bloodline are inherently evil people. I took this course with Comrades Education (formerly White Awake) called Ancestral Recovery for Collective Liberation. One of the first steps in this process was Lyla June. I was actually reading one of her pieces when you arrived. She's someone who grew up Native [American], but is mixed Native and White European and was told she was just Native."
A white, queer, non-binary performer with male privilege and U.S. citizenship examines personal ancestry and white history through education, political organizing, and anti-racist workshops. The performer describes an initial reaction of disavowing ancestors and adopting a cancel-culture stance toward familial legacy. Engagement with an Ancestral Recovery for Collective Liberation course prompted a shift toward understanding the complexity of individual ancestors and broader ancestral threads. Encounters with mixed-identity figures, such as Lyla June, highlighted nuances of identity transmission and the limits of singular racial narratives. The project blends personal reckoning, racial history, and performance to explore inheritance and accountability.
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