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Gingger Shankar

@gingger_shankar

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Clean water for all. Be kind. The rest is imaginary.
Storyteller | Nature Baby | Sundance Filmmaker | Speaker 🦄
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This Mother’s Day, celebrate all the badass mothers out there... and the one who gave life to us all.

Mother Earth has fed us, protected us, and held us. And now she needs us to do the same.

In the Amazon, oil extraction threatens Indigenous lands, cultures, and futures. Defending life means defending the forest. And Indigenous mothers like Nemonte are showing what that love in action looks like.

Watch Mother of the Forest and honor Mother’s Day by standing with those protecting the Earth.

Because love isn’t just a feeling. It’s a fight.

Stay tuned. We’ll need you in it.

#MotherOfTheForest #DefendTheAmazon #MothersDay #CeiboAlliance #AmazonFrontlines #nemontenenquimo #HeartbeatOfThePlanet
#ProtectIndigenousRights #LoveIsResistance by @gingger_shankar

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Welcome to Little Indian Girl Storytelling Collective! Pull up a seat and let’s spark a revolution!

Little Indian Girl Storytelling Collective streamlines access to resources for visionary women and Indigenous storytellers to bring revolutionary ideas to life. by @gingger_shankar

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There are places that you visit, and there are places that change you. We had the extraordinary privilege of traveling to Klemtu and spending time at @spiritbearbc to sit quietly on the land and witness one of the rarest bears in the world- the Spirit Bear. What makes this place even more extraordinary is that the Kitasoo Xai’xais Nations are not simply inviting people to come see their land, they are stewarding it. The community protects the land and waters they have cared for since time immemorial. They have banned bear hunting in their territory. They are protecting wildlife, monitoring ecosystems, restoring habitat, and creating a model for so many others.

We are living through a time when some of our last pristine places are still being treated as commodities. To witness spirit bears, grizzly bears, black bears, sea wolves, orcas, fin whales, humpbacks, bald eagles, salmon, birds, kelp forests, ancient trees, and all the creatures that make this ecosystem whole was an extraordinary privilege. But the greatest privilege was seeing what happens when a community has the authority to care for its own homeland. There is so much the rest of us can learn from that.

Thank you to Doug Neasloss, Roxanne Robinson, Heather, Cassandra, Krista, Justin, Christa, Cat, Wendy, the Spirit Bear Lodge team, and the entire Kitasoo Xai’xais community for sharing this place, your knowledge, your stories, and your vision with us. And may we understand that when land stays in Indigenous hands, extraordinary things can happen
Forever grateful. 🐻❤️

🐺📸: Kim Ferguson

#spiritbear #greatbearrainforest by @gingger_shankar

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What an honor to collaborate with the one and only @keithsecola! Thank you for your generosity and your stories. There were so many highlights including the video on the next slide 😍 by @gingger_shankar

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I met Remy nine years ago, when he was just a puppy in Vivek’s backyard, happily attempting to chew on some rocks. From the very beginning, he was the sweetest guy.

He was the best studio dog I have ever known. He sat patiently through our rehearsals, our long chats over coffee in the kitchen, and all the beautiful chaos that comes with making music. I’m pretty sure we even have a few of his snores captured somewhere on our album recordings. ❤️

Remy was the biggest teddy bear I ever met, and somehow he made every day in the studio better just by being there. His expressive eyebrows could say everything, and his excited bark always let us know what was happening in the backyard or when a new friend had arrived. Watching him interact with Vivek in the studio always melted my heart.

Remy left us last night, far too soon. Sending so much love to Vivek and Patty as they navigate a world without their sweetest boy.

Rest well, sweetest prince. You were so deeply loved, and you will be so deeply missed. The studio will never, ever be the same. 💔 by @gingger_shankar

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There are few experiences that can capture the immense power, beauty, sacredness, and humbling force of the natural world quite like witnessing the eruption of Kilauea in Hawaiʻi on the full moon. Standing before the flowing lava was a reminder of how small we are, how alive our planet is, and how much there is to honor beyond ourselves. Just for perspective on our distance, the clouds above of heat and ash reached heights of 19,000 feet above sea level!

For many Native Hawaiians, Pele is revered as the deity whose presence is intimately connected with Halemaʻumaʻu at Kīlauea. To witness this place was a profound privilege, and we do so with gratitude and respect for the land, its people, and the cultural traditions that continue to steward its stories and significance.

Mahalo to No’eau, Haley, and everyone at @huimau_ohana for your generosity and the world-changing work that brought us here. And thank you, Victoria, for continuing to illuminate paths forward and create opportunities for connection. ❤️❤️❤️ by @gingger_shankar

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To my magical Grandmother, Lakshmi Shankar, on what would have been her 100th birthday. ❤️❤️❤️

#lakshmishankar by @gingger_shankar

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@iamthirtyaf by @gingger_shankar

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WATCH THIS FILM!!!! @stealthisstoryplease is a powerful story about Amy Goodman and @democracynow. In this moment, we need independent journalists more than ever!! Thank you Carl Dean and Tia Lesson for making this film. Also, what an honor to be standing next to these two powerhouses changing the world ❤️❤️❤️

#Repost @stealthisstoryplease
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STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! is “a thrilling and chilling reminder of how and what journalism should be,” raves In Their Own League

See the award-winning film in theaters this weekend and let’s send a powerful message to the powers that be; there is a demand for politically-minded documentaries that platform the most urgent and vital issues of our time!

Find a theater near you ➡️ StealThisStory.org. by @gingger_shankar

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We can’t say we didn’t know.

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” James Baldwin

Freedom to oppressed people everywhere ❤️

#jamesbaldwin by @gingger_shankar

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Across Coast Salish territory in the Pacific Northwest, Children of the Setting Sun Productions is using storytelling to preserve culture, support community, and reconnect people with traditional knowledge.

We had the honor of writing a new piece for Ishkode Fund about their work, from salmon restoration to creating pathways for Indigenous youth in media and storytelling.

For them, storytelling is more than creative expression. It’s a way of carrying knowledge forward - something that carries through in their new film, The River Remembers, which asks us to see rivers not as resources, but as living systems.

The full story is up at the link in bio. by @gingger_shankar

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#WaterIsLife | 02.25.26 • Gaza City — thanks to your unwavering support, we delivered 1 water truck (6 cups total) to the northern region today.
This distribution reached:
• Passports office area in Gaza City
The total cost for this delivery was $200.00 ($33.33 per cup).
This delivery is the equivalent of 2 trucks — brings our running total to 1,390 water trucks delivered across Gaza through mutual aid. That’s the equivalent of 13.90 MILLION bottles of water.
We continue because our water comes from Palestinian-owned wells in Gaza. Every truck is an act of direct aid and Indigenous solidarity, rooted in self-determination and sovereignty for the Palestinian people in Gaza.
How You Can Support:
• Donate on Instagram or at waterislifegaza.org
• Shop t-shirts by Indigenous artists – 100% of proceeds go to Gaza relief
• Share this post to encourage your friends to amplify our mission
#mutualaid #mniwiconi #FreePalestine #Gaza IndigenousSolidarity waterislifegaza الماء_حياة by @gingger_shankar

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