Chasity Salvador

"This funding will allow me to transform how I see my work in traditional Pueblo farming to be a space of accessibility, acceptance, safety, and ultimately home for disabled Pueblo indigenous women. It will allow me to be more intentional with the seeds that I am growing in my seed home, and investing my time in the seed work as much as I do in growing these seeds—which I am learning is what young women did in our community all year long prior to colonization and the Spanish influence on our farming practices. This funding will allow me to continue to deepen my work in seeing that birth work, seed work, and farming are only successful and strengthened when you include the disabled/chronically ill members in the community and those most vulnerable like the elderly, expecting parent/mother/families, those yet to be born, women, femme, two-spirit, and children kin of our communities."