Abu Arif is an uninvited, racialized and queer settler in the ancestral homeland of Beothuk and Mi’kmaq. They are a doctoral candidate and an international student advisor – immigration and inclusion at Memorial. Valeri Pilgrim is the manager of the Indigenous student resource centre at Memorial University. She was born in North West River, Labrador to parents of Inuit and settler families, and raised in Nain, Nunatsiavut from the age of two years old, a remote sub-Arctic Inuit community.
