References & further reading

These are the sources behind our Land & Labor Acknowledgement and the inclusivity choices in this directory. It’s a starting point for learning, not a complete bibliography — and it is not a substitute for guidance from the communities named here.

On trust & verification: the acknowledgement links, the “pay rent” resources, and specific facts below were checked against live sources in July 2026. Web addresses change — please verify before relying on them. Broader recommendations rest on the books and movements named. Please verify the list of Tribal Nations against the WA Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs and, ideally, have the acknowledgement reviewed by Indigenous community members.

Land & Labor Acknowledgement

The Tribal Nations of Washington (verify the list here)

WA Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs (GOIA) — the authoritative directory of the 29 federally recognized Tribes in WA.
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs — Tribal Leaders Directory — the federal list.
Native Land Digital — an interactive map of territories, languages, and treaties (community-sourced; a starting point, not a legal authority).
Tribes headquartered outside WA with treaty-reserved rights in WA (Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs): WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife — treaty history (off-reservation hunting) and CRITFC (Columbia River treaty fishing; the 1855 treaties).

Pay rent & ways to give

Real Rent Duwamish — rent payments to the Duwamish Tribe. Checks: Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center, 4705 W Marginal Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106.
Duwamish Tribe — the Tribe itself, still fighting for federal recognition.
Lummi Nation Honor Tax (Lhaq’temish Foundation). Checks: Lhaq’temish Foundation, 2665 Kwina Road, Bellingham, WA 98226-9298.
Chinook Indian Nation — Contribute and Chinook Justice (recognition campaign).
Native Governance Center — Voluntary Land Taxes.
Seattle Met — “The Politics of Paying Real Rent Duwamish” (2022).

The labor of marginalized communities in Washington

HistoryLink.org — Washington’s online encyclopedia: Chinese Exclusion and the 1885–86 expulsions, Filipino cannery/farm labor, Black Washington history.
Densho — archive of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Underlying federal actions referenced: the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Executive Order 9066 (1942).

Decolonization, antiracism & inclusivity

“People of the Global Majority”

Coined by Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE (in use since ~2003). Overview PDF (Leeds Beckett University).
Book: Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, Educational Leadership and the Global Majority: Decolonising Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Overview (Wikipedia).

Disaggregating “AAPI” → Asian / Southeast Asian / NHPI

The Leadership Conference — “Data Disaggregation Deconstructed: AANHPI Communities”.
AAPI Data — why aggregate data hides NHPI disparities.

SWANA (Southwest Asian & North African)

SWANA Alliance — the community organization behind the term.

“Latine / Latino/a” instead of “Hispanic”

Pew Research Center — Race & Ethnicity on Hispanic/Latino/Latinx/Latine terminology.

Caste as an equity issue

Seattle Times and NPR — Seattle bans caste discrimination (first US city, 2023).
Equality Labs — the Dalit civil-rights organization behind this work.

“Neurodivergent” — origin & inclusive framing

Kassiane Asasumasu coined neurodivergent / neurodivergence (~2000): Wikipedia, Stimpunks.
Judy Singer introduced neurodiversity (1998): overview.
NPR — “How ‘neurodivergent’ became a word for many types of minds” (2025).
Sonny Jane Wise — Lived Experience Educator; profile; author of We’re All Neurodiverse and The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills.
Dr. Nick Walker — coined neuroqueer (2008) and developed Neuroqueer Theory, which extends the neurodiversity paradigm by treating queering neuronormativity (of mind, gender, and being) as a liberatory practice. Book: Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities (Autonomous Press, 2021); “Neuroqueer: An Introduction” and her site neuroqueer.com.

Frameworks behind the approaches & stances

Liberation psychology: Ignacio Martín-Baró, Writings for a Liberation Psychology (Harvard University Press, 1994).
Decolonizing therapy (and welcoming community healers): Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Decolonizing Therapy (Norton, 2023); decolonizingtherapy.com.
Disability justice: Sins Invalid — Skin, Tooth, and Bone and the “10 Principles of Disability Justice.”
Language justice: Antena Aire, How to Build Language Justice.
Design justice, consent & anti-surveillance: Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice (MIT Press, 2020); free/open access.

How marginalization, oppression & minority stress affect mental health

Further reading on the social, structural, and historical roots of mental-health inequity — grounded in the liberation-psychology view that suffering is often a rational response to unjust conditions, not an individual defect.

Liberation psychology (foundations): Ignacio Martín-Baró, Writings for a Liberation Psychology (Harvard University Press, 1994); Mary Watkins & Helene Shulman, Toward Psychologies of Liberation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); and Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) — colonization, race, and the psyche.
Minority stress: Ilan H. Meyer, “Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations” (Psychological Bulletin, 2003) — the foundational minority-stress model explaining how chronic stigma and prejudice drive mental-health disparities.
Structural / social determinants: WHO & UCL Institute of Health Equity, Social Determinants of Mental Health (2014): who.int — how inequality shapes mental health at the population level.
“Weathering”: Arline Geronimus, Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (2023) — how systemic oppression biologically ages the body.
Racialized & intergenerational trauma: Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands (2017); Dr. Joy DeGruy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (2005); and, for Indigenous historical trauma / the “soul wound,” Eduardo Duran, Healing the Soul Wound (2006) and the work of Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart.
Decolonizing clinical practice: Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Decolonizing Therapy (Norton, 2023) — connects political and historical oppression to what shows up in the therapy room.

Compiled July 2026. This directory also keeps a plain-text copy of these references in its project files.