Cherry Smiley

Cherry Smiley, PhD is a feminist, artist, & researcher from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) &Diné (Navajo) Nations. With other women, she works to end male violence against women. She completed her PhD in communication studies at Concordia University where her thesis examined the prostitution of Indigenous women in Canada as a form of male violence & proposes a female-centered definition of colonization & decolonizing feminism. She is the founder & executive director of Women’s Studies Online, a platform for decolonizing feminist research, education, action, & community-building....