Guiding Principles

Liberation Language Labs is a white and settler-owned business operating on the traditional lands of the Lummi, Nooksack, Nuwaha, and Semiahmoo tribes. We recognize and actively engage with the facts of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous people from their lands, violence which continues up to and through the present day via public policy that has sought to eradicate and marginalize the Indigenous people who have lived here since time immemorial.

We acknowledge that despite these facts, Indigenous people are not a fact of history but continue to exist, resist eradication, and thrive here. We support indigenous sovereignty and the Land Back movement. We recognize land acknowledgments are the bare minimum for supporting Indigenous communities, and we call on our community to learn about the Indigenous people who steward this land, and to stand in solidarity with Native nations.

Learn more about the Land Back movement here.

We actively acknowledge that as a white settler-owned business, we exist in, benefit from, and enable the systems of white supremacy, capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy and ableism that profit from oppression, violence, and dispossession.

We commit to understanding the historical creation and ongoing maintenance of these systems, recognizing how they have affected our thinking, and engaging with our community about them so that we can dismantle them together.

We ground our work in abolitionist, decolonial, and liberatory values. We commit to upholding the values of abolition and collective liberation, knowing that no one is free until everyone is free.

“In order to undo the forces of violence shaping our everyday lives, we would have to change everything.” — Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition