Charlie Amáyá Scott uses her experience as a Queer, Indigenous Transfemme to inspire and advocate
Content creator and advocate Charlie Amáyá Scott (@dineaesthetics) uses her lived experience as a Queer, Indigenous Transfemme to inspire and educate others. Influenced by her culture, Charlie’s content incorporates values of family and community with the mission of “inspiring joy and justice”.
“One of the best things about being Queer, Trans and Indigenous is there are so many stories, so many legacies of resistance and resilience and refusal that exist,” Charlie says. “Being able to draw from all these legacies of knowledge, I’m able to weave together something that people can read, witness and learn from.”
Charlie emphasizes the importance of the LGBTQ and Indigenous communities sharing their stories because they provide helpful memories and lessons. She greatly appreciates feedback from others who have told her that her content has been meaningful and impactful to them. “It literally inspires me to create more,” she says.
“One piece of advice that I’m going to share with you that my mother said to me is that you know who you are, do not let anyone take that away from you,” Charlie says.
She explains that she overcomes adversity with a smile and a citation. “What I mean by that is that I have a love for theory and I’m able to share an archive of knowledge with people. And because I do it with so much care and so much love, in many ways you can say I kill them with kindness.”
“I think what I’m hoping to change in the world is how people see and understand Indigenous peoples,” Charlie says. “For so long, we are seen as savages and uncivilized. But being able to tell them, being able to show them that we are so much more, and that we are brilliant, and that we’re beautiful does a lot for changing how they see us, and how they understand us and how they witness us.”
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