Lisa Brighteyes

02/22/2026

Just sharing to help my people apply! 😍

✨✨✨The new round of the Virginia Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Historic Preservation Fund is now open! This fund provides grants for the acquisition, protection, and rehabilitation of historic and archaeological sites of significance associated with Black and Indigenous communities and People of Color in the Commonwealth. The learn more, check the link in the comments.
📸 The Jackson Ward Historic District in Richmond, Virginia. Photo by Calder Loth, 2019.

02/22/2026

I need us to look at these events in history and then into our hearts.

Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942. It authorized the removal of people "deemed a threat" from military zones and legalized the incarceration of Japanese Americans, German Americans and Italian Americans in concentration camps.

The parallels to what is happening in this country currently are undeniable. We must keep working for the humane and fair treatment of immigrants.

02/19/2026

THIS IS IT! Let’s do THIS! 😍❤️‍🩹

02/15/2026

Share far and wide! Advocate!

IT'S TIME TO DEMAND ACTION!

Virginia lacks centralized tracking of water use by data centers. Two bills, HB496 and HB589, which enhance transparency, oversight, and planning of water use by the data center industry, were introduced in the House of Delegates during the current General Assembly session.

Unfortunately, by refusing to pass this legislation, the House of Delegates has abdicated their responsibility to help the public, localities, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) be wise stewards of our water resources.

As stewards of our Rappahannock, we ask you to contact your Delegate and demand that they take action on SB553, legislation that ensures data center water use transparency.

Virginia League of Conservation Voters has made it easy for you to advocate on this issue. Go to the link below to add your comments to their prewritten message.

Visit valcv.org/actions/tell-your-delegate-to-protect-our-water-from-big-tech/

02/13/2026

Go high

02/08/2026

WinKaPo, y’all!

NIAS will be having a Women's Basketball Watch Party March 1st at Timberwood Tap House in Charlottesville!

To Register by Feb 22nd: https://www.alumni.vt.edu/groups/inclusive-alumni/alumni-societies/native-american-alumni.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAP0muxjbGNrA_Sa0GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqDo8-QmvNJ3Z1eNc4gu0QnT_yuMsiXMrlnIY12rJEXieitCl-kVa4rGxbqD_aem_3tPOQoIFiwBZYOS6Qb1HdA

02/08/2026

Mama Bear Lisa here. I have something to say. You are free to eye roll and scroll.

This is real. There are consequences for these actions.

I would appreciate if you could meditate on something for a moment:

Did you choose where you were born?
Did you choose the level of safety you had as a child?
How did that shape the adult you became?
Do you think, if you were a refugee somewhere unfamiliar to you, that you could ever feel safety?

Please sit with this. I promise it’s important.
Every life is sacred.
Every life holds value. ☮️

Once you spend some time with that, please check in on your neighbors until you find someone who has a need you can meet.

While the president was posting video of Barack and Michelle Obama as dancing apes to distract people from him and his friends appearing in a filing cabinet, something else is getting lost.

4 Hatian women that the U.S. deported (who were likely asylum seekers under TPS) were found decapitated at the border of Dominican Republic and Haiti. I’ve only seen international news discussing it and 3 people on IG.

We sent these women to a country that is beyond unstable due to us touching stuff over there, and left them to the wolves. They were not protected because mass deportation is never about safety. It’s always about cruelty and the racist illogical fear of being replaced on land that was stolen.

4 women died because of our negligence and nobody’s talking about it.

02/06/2026

🍑🛶

01/28/2026

She smiled and walked like she belonged.

My grandmother said “I can hold my head up just as high as anyone else.” ❤️

01/28/2026

We can each do something

01/22/2026

So cute!🥰

Last month we granted 17 Indigenous Library Packages to applicants from schools, libraries, and nonprofit organizations ! Hear from a past recipient about their experience as a steward: https://lflib.org/inlp-jan-2026