No Thanks - Decolonized Friendsgiving

This Thanksgiving we’re saying NO THANKS to the colonial myth — and beginning the day with a sunrise hike on the very land we’re fighting to return.

Decolonized Friendsgiving is a radical, intimate chosen-family gathering that flips the script on stolen-land nostalgia and turns the day into honest history, creative resistance, and a soft landing with people you actually feel safe with.

We start at 7:30 AM with an optional sunrise hike — a quiet, grounding way to connect with the land before the heavier emotional and political work. Out-of-town guests (or anyone who wants to ease in) are warmly welcome to stick around and chill between the hike and the

2:00 PM main gathering. From there we move through a land acknowledgement, a myth-busting history circle that connects 1621 to today’s ongoing colonialism, a decolonized potluck with table prompts that spark real conversation, and a creative resistance workshop where we make banners, zines, and protest art together.

The evening closes with a soft Thanksgiving Recovery Lounge — just chill hangout vibes with people you feel safe with. Feel free to come crash out afterwards. This is not a performance of gratitude — it’s a refusal of the lie and a rebuilding of community care on stolen land.

📋Agenda |

7:30am optional sunrise hike on the land (out-of-town guests welcome to chill afterward)

→ 2:00pm arrival & welcome framing

→ 2:30pm land acknowledgement & ancestor honoring

→ 3:00pm myth-busting history circle

→ 4:00pm shared decolonized potluck with table prompts

→ 5:30pm creative resistance workshop (TBD)

→ 6:30pm Thanksgiving Recovery Lounge (chill hangout vibes with people you feel safe with — crash space available)

🎆 Vibe | Radical, honest, and emotionally grounded — mourning mixed with joy, resistance, and chosen-family warmth. The evening ends in soft, safe recovery mode instead of forced cheer. Zero colonial kitsch. Anti-capitalist, queer-inclusive, and rooted in land-back politics

👽 Who | Open invite for anyone ready to reject colonial mythology and do real decolonization work. Intimate capacity Queer-inclusive and explicitly anti-settler-colonial

🧳 Bring | A potluck dish honoring Three Sisters or indigenous/Global-South foodways (no turkey required).