The COVID-19 pandemic highlights long-standing structural and systemic inequities in our country and exacerbates the already precarious situation for Indigenous communities; many of whom live on reservations with limited access to resources including food, running hot water, and healthcare. Indigenous peoples are on the front-lines of climate crisis, protecting living forests, waterways, and resisting extractive projects during the COVID-19 crisis, and are doing so without any governmental support or protections for their people or homelands.  Meanwhile, politicians throughout the country have used the pandemic as an excuse to impose state-level restrictions on abortion access and force temporary health center closures, making it even more difficult for many to access care. This disproportionately impacts people with low incomes, people of color, and those living in remote and extremely rural communities.

The NOISE FOR NOW X SEEDING SOVEREIGNTY Mask was developed and produced by Suay Sew Shop LA. Suay Sew Shop is one of LA’s leading ethical apparel manufacturers, working towards setting the standard for change. Specializing in upcycling+responsible production, Suay is creating an alternative manufacturing model that proves that paying true living wages, investing in the professional development of employees and being dedicated to cleaning up the environment are not mutually exclusive to having a successful business. Welcome to radical business and the clean up economy. 

Seeding Sovereignty is an Indigenous womxn-led collective working on behalf of our global community to shift social and environmental paradigms by dismantling colonial institutions and replacing them with Indigenous practices created in synchronicity with the land.

 Indigenous Women Rising is an Indigenous led Reproductive Justice organization that centers the communities they come from. The IWR Abortion Fund serves Indigenous people throughout the US with the cost of their abortion, gas, food, and childcare while seeking abortion care.

 Mariposa Fund raises money to help undocumented people pay for their abortions because they recognize the extraordinary and systemic barriers that exist for undocumented people trying to obtain reproductive health services. These include systemic obstacles like fear of criminalization, lack of access to health insurance, economic insecurity, linguistic barriers, and oppression rooted in white supremacy and xenophobia.

Seeding Sovereignty acknowledges that we are guests doing work on unceded Tiwa territory and give thanks to the original peoples of the land for allowing us the space to work on behalf of all tribes of so-called New Mexico and around Turtle Island. The United States has an infamous legacy of genocide, flagrant disregard for Black life, enslavement that continues today with the prison industrial complex, displacement of original peoples from not only this land, but globally, all while the descendants of slave owners and Indian killers continue their colonial projects. We reject this rooted violence, colonial capitalism, and white supremacy and rise in support with not only Black lives, but with all people of the global majority.