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black scotian-mi’kmaw & german | 2s 🩷💛💙| gamer | educator | 🌗 #AuDHD | FreePalestine 🇵🇸 | 💕 decolonizing spaces | #LANDBACK 🌱 | views are my own ✊🏽
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Friendly reminder that we need to stop framing Indigenous hunting, fishing, trapping, and sealing as practices only done because of poverty or lack of access. They are also a way of life that is deeply sacred to so many Indigenous peoples.
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Stop telling Indigenous people to go vegan or to “veganize” our practices to make them more “ethical”. Telling a people that they must adopt practices based on your ethics and understandings of morality is no different from what the colonizers did and continue to do.
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Wishing there was more representation of hyperverbal autistics / autistics who are overly expressive with their voice, facial features, mannerisms and body language. This has always made me feel like an imposter because I don’t relate to the experience of being monotone.
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Lots of folks are sharing this picture around how Indigenous people come in all shades (and we do). And while you can be Indigenous with any shade, I think it’s really telling how you can barely see the word Indigenous the deeper the shade of coffee.
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Can we please stop saying that Indigenous hunting, sealing, and fishing practices are only valid because of communities who are impoverished or don’t have access to affordable foods. They’re valid because it’s culture and a way of living and being.
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@hu4_official
@Cobratate
@TateTheTalisman
So you think that human traffickers would upload videos of sad, malnourished and abused women to promote their crime-ridden business? Your commentary makes no sense, stop trying to defend human traffickers.
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@JayWrld23
@WashedMel
Men are so weird. No comment on the action of the men, instead you think of your unborn daughter hypothetically in that situation??? Seek help.
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People will have sympathy and rally behind the Na’vi in Avatar yet have nothing but anger and annoyance towards actual Indigenous people experiencing literally the exact same thing in the movie.
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Can we start publicly shaming non profits who pay their employees wages just above the poverty line yet pay their directors over $100k… while claiming they are advocates of human rights 🥴
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@nategotdiamonds
@JayWrld23
@WashedMel
You know, when I hear a woman talk about her sex life the first thing in my mind isn’t “I hope my daughter don’t have that sex life”.. because that’s creepy as hell, once again get help.
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@lilbabygandhi
You don’t get to tell urban Indigenous people we can’t practice our culture or way our traditions foods because we live in a city. This is absolutely ridiculous. WE decide what’s ethical for us, we decide what is a necessity, we are the stewards of our lands. Not you. Ever.
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I actually don’t believe people are entitled to their opinions, as not all opinions are equal. Entitlement is rooted in whiteness and the idea they that have the right to share opinions on topics they have no fundamental knowledge or understanding of, and we have to respect it.
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What many don’t know is that the 139 residential schools mentioned in the TRC represents ones that were funded by the federal government & churches. Other residential schools funded by provinces & churches or day schools aren’t included. Over 700 day schools operated.
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If you only support Indigenous traditional food systems and hunting/sealing/fishing practices because of poverty and food deserts then that’s not actual support. It’s conditional support based on when you find it necessary/justifiable and not because it’s our inherent right.
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@danghentschel
I hated teachers like this. You could’ve used this as an opportunity to offer advice that encourages them to grow and instead you focused on the deficit/punishment. This doesn’t teach students anything but to hate educators and learning. Do better.
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@PeggyfromIHOP
@fadedd_luna
@nicholehoward_4
Only very specific tribes have headdresses, and very specific people wear them. If you understood your “heritage” at all you would know this is incredibly disrespectful. You probably have “Indian blood” in your family and thought it would be cute to get this to “honour” it.
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Why is it when Indigenous people say we have a right to our cultural practices, like hunting, sealing, fishing, vegans then ask if child brides, FGM and other practices, very clearly rooted in violent misogyny and patriarchy, are also morally acceptable?????
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While Indigenous peoples with lighter shades can have their identities invalidated, intermarriages between European and Indigenous peoples has been recognized historically and are more accepted even today. Afro-Indigenous peoples with deeper skin tones weren’t often recognized.
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A white neurodivergent influencer, speaking at a neurodivergent event with all white speakers, says events don’t need diversity unless it’s specifically a diversity related event, because it’s just neurodivergency the all white speakers “hits the nail on the head”.
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@goldenrooh
@haltercroptop
Children don’t need to be handling any of that shit. Children should be children. Period. You can become strong and independent without being bombarded by paparazzi and having your personal space disrespected.
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If you do not support Indigenous peoples inherent right to hunt, fish, seal and trap on our own lands then you do not support
#LANDBACK
. You don’t get to pick and choose which parts you support. Food sovereignty is fundamental to this movement and cannot be separated.
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People who are obsessed with upholding blood purity (for any background) and trying to reduce identity to 1/2 or 1/4 etc will always be weird to me. We’re not breeds of dogs. We’re not half our ancestors. These concepts were not created for our benefit but to control.
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If you claim to support
#LandBack
yet don’t support Indigenous food sovereignty, which includes hunting, fishing, and sealing, then you don’t actually support us. You don’t get to pick and choose what aspects of our movements are acceptable or necessary and which are not.
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Kids are supposed to talk back, challenge and question us. Raising critical thinkers who aren’t easily manipulated/taken advantage of starts at home. Demanding children do what they’re told without question doesn’t empower them, it silences their voice before it’s even developed.
Opinion about Parenting that would get you like this? Let’s have them!
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Believing that veganism can be universally applied, relevant and applicable to everyone gives peak colonizer energy and I will die on this hill
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Afro-Indigenous people are met with violent hostility, anti-Blackness, intentionally excluded from their communities and told they don’t belong. And I’m not trying to make this a competition, but we really need to acknowledge lighter Natives are way more accepted and believed.
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It’s weird to me when people are like “but they didn’t grow up Indigenous” as a way to undermine someone’s Indigeneity. Like the entire point of colonization was to eradicate our communities, cultures and identities. It doesn’t make us less Indigenous.
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If I’m being honest, seeing all of the hateful and racist comments on Indigenous cultures from vegans on my threads, leads me to believe that many of them don’t actually support
#landback
and Indigenous food sovereignty. They want us to assimilate because our ways are inferior.
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I don’t believe my ancestors wildest dreams were for me to get an education or a good career. I believe they dreamed of our liberation from a worldview that centres the individual over the collective…of pure joy where we can live authentically and fulfill our natural gifts.
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You do not actually support
#LandBack
if you don’t support Indigenous peoples rights to hunt, fish, trap, and seal, as these are fundamental to Indigenous food sovereignty.
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Acknowledging this does not mean your experiences are invalid. If we truly want to end the belief that to be Indigenous means you must have a certain skin tone that work starts with dismantling anti-Blackness within our communities.
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I remember talking with some aunties about Two-Spirit and gender identity, and they told me “you young people are trying to change our old ways with your new ways”. I said to them what if what you think are new ways are just old ways we’ve forgotten, and we are now remembering.
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Reconnecting is part of the Indigenous experience…the vast majority of us all have something we need to reconnect to whether that be family, culture, community, ceremony, language, land and that’s because we all have been impacted by colonialism.
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PSA: You cannot support
#LANDBACK
and Indigenous people’s right to self-determination and self-government while simultaneously supporting the settler colonial state of Israel.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but Indigenous is not a race and we need to stop framing it as such.
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We need to talk about the notion that children have to earn the right to have agency and autonomy, privacy, and boundaries, and that these things can be removed as a consequence/punishment. In any other relationship dynamic this is abuse, yet we justify doing it to kids. Why?
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If your idea of Indigeneity is framed around the percentage of someone’s blood then you are not decolonial. There is no room for blood quantum and blood purity within decolonization. And it’s wild to me how many people keep reinforcing this notion while claiming to “decolonize”.
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Land back, abolishing capitalism and the colonial state are actually the best ways to combat climate change 😊
going vegan is the singular best way to combat climate change but that tea is too hot for a lot of people
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Natives, please stop co-opting Black movements and slogans. Replacing BLM with “Native Lives Matter” is harmful when there is so much anti-Black racism within Indigenous communities that is not acknowledged and people are unwilling to speak out and up against it.
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@imjdsharp
@AOC
So the USA has a larger population with more people paying taxes to pull from 🤔 y’all can afford $700 billion in military budget but can’t find funds for a stimulus.
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Many people are shocked when I tell them I’m a university drop out with no bachelors and I’m getting my master of education anyways in urban Indigenous education. There are some graduate programs that don’t require bachelors!
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I find it incredibly fucked up that Indigenous peoples, who were (and are) some of the most controlled, tracked and restricted groups of people, are now being forced to provide evidence of their Indigeneity by the institutions that tried to assimilated us. Make it make sense.
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Indigenous cultures are not costumes. Our regalia, headdresses, and spiritual items do not exist for your consumption. They are sacred with deep meaning. Chicken feathers, shitty fake buckskin, and war paint is not honouring us. It is mocking us, and it is disrespectful. Period.
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I think it’s important to acknowledge that treaties did not give us the right to fish, hunt or trap, they reaffirmed them. Our rights to the land and waters were granted to us by the Creator and not the settler state.
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Imagine openly saying “I think it’s okay for the Natives to practice their culture and hunt so long as they’re poor and don’t have access to other options” and believing that the moment we live in a city, we no longer have that right. So culture is okay so long as we’re poor????
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The RCMP is calling the burning of a car, throwing rocks, property damage, intimidation and harassment “disturbances” as if they’re not violent hate crimes.
RCMP issue statement and say they're investigating what they describe as two "disturbances" Tuesday night against Mi'kmaw fishermen in Middle West Pubnic, N.S. and New Edinburgh, N.S.
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@ju1cii
European colonizers created the nuclear family to forcibly restructure (and erase) kinship systems that were multigenerational and non hierarchical. It imposed a family and community structure that created a hierarchy and separation. What’s the issue in acknowledging this?
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@bintalshamsa
@QueenMab87
And she has a video on YouTube that shows her process for doing the different hairstyles for other cookies makers so they can learn how to do it too. She could’ve put it behind a paywall, but chose to be intentional in walking her talk. This is the standard!!
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What is another way to speak about and frame Indigenous peoples existence instead of “before contact”… I don’t like this framing as it still centres Europeans around our existence
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@TheNikkiRosa
@kamrynjadeeee
It’s not a hate wagon to point out she got a tattoo rooted in a very violent, hateful ideology. When you get a tattoo, especially from other cultures, you have a huge ethical responsibility. So she either didn’t know or knew and didn’t care. It’s bad both ways.
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Saw a TikTok by
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that challenges us to think about Indigenous languages not a endangered or extinct, but rather sleeping and it’s up to us to wake them up 🥺
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Important thread on Afro-Indigenous/Black Native peoples. The writer starts by saying “there is a long history of silencing Black and Indigenous relations, making it seem as though these connections are a figment of one’s imagination”.
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And to be clear, I’m not saying that being vegan is colonial. I’m saying that advocating/demanding for cultures to adopt your ethics and morality *is* repackaged colonialism.
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I’m gonna need vegans to stop saying it’s only acceptable for Indigenous peoples to practice hunting/sealing when they’re poor and for survival. If you believe Indigenous peoples should only practice their traditions when we’re poor.. you don’t actually support us or
#LANDback
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Indigenous communities need to reconcile their anti-Blackness and xenophobia.
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Can we stop with the narrative that being subjected to bullying, mistreatment and abuse at an early age leads to adults with “strong back bones” or builds up our capacity to endure hardships. It doesn’t.
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We are not half of our ancestors. They are so much more than broken down fragments and percentages. Our ancestors are woven together within us. And they are waiting for us to remember and honour them.
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Violence is never the answer they say as they forced our people onto reserves and wiped out our food systems. Violence is never the answer they say as they continue to steal our children and allow our people to die in hospital waiting rooms. Violence has always been their answer.
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So many vegans dismiss Indigenous peoples claims that we constantly face attacks, racism, and violations from their community because they’ve never seen it. I made a thread asking that Indigenous cultures be respected & to stop saying we need to “veganize” and was met with hate.
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If you are not part of a culture, don’t have a foundational understanding or even relationship to it, you have absolutely no place to impose your beliefs onto us or to critique our cultures.
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@toughtalkty
Baby.. ain’t no body looking at this and getting triggered. And this comment reveals how insecure you are and how you try to overcome that insecurity by projecting it onto others. May you heal the misery in your heart.
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Let’s never forget that in 2017 Canada tried to celebrate 100 years of women having the right to vote and they were slapped with the reminder that status Indian women couldn’t vote until 1960.
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White people honestly believe they can represent everyone and I’ve had enough of it. I’m calling you out
@MattRaekelboom
,
@TheAspieWorld
,
@PaigeLayle
. If you’re going to claim to be the biggest autism and ADHD influencers in the world then you have to be accountable.
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To the ancestors who buried their sacred items in the earth. Who hid their identities and stopped speaking in their languages to protect themselves and their children. You are seen and remembered. Always.
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What’s missing from this “pretendian” discussion is the fact that many who come from historically Black and Indigenous communities will have not documentation because these identities were never legitimized by the colonial state.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a boundary is not “I don’t like this so you need to stop”. This is control. A boundary is something you set solely for yourself about what you will (or won’t) tolerate and accept.
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I dropped out of university 3 times and didn’t get my bachelors, and I’m about to complete my master of education in urban Indigenous education 🥹🥹🥹 (yes, there are graduate programs that will accept you without a bachelors!!!)
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I think a lot of Natives need to unpack the way they centre Indigenous peoples from ‘North America’ and continually undermine or fail to even include Indigenous peoples from other parts of the world. We aren’t the only ones impacted by these conversations.
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If you only support Indigenous hunting, sealing, and fishing practices when done by communities who are impoverished with food deserts, then you don’t actually support Indigenous food sovereignty. You simply just support it when you believe it to be rationale/reasonable.
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And this is something I constantly encounter. People feeling entitled to speak on topics they clearly don’t understand and, yet believe that their personal subjective opinion has to be equally considered. It’s okay to not know or understand something. It’s an opportunity to grow.
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We need to talk about the Native influencers who use culture and language to gain fame yet are some of the most meanest and unkind people you will ever meet. They speak so beautifully about teachings but don’t apply any of it in their actions and the ways they treat people.
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Stop telling Black Natives to wait their turn and be patient tome after time shows, films, campaigns and even our own histories fail to represent, include or even acknowledge these identities and stories. Advocating for Indigenous representation includes ALL of us.
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You’re telling me you can create worlds with witches, wizards and warlocks, and all types of magical mythical beings and creatures, but can’t dream up a world without racism and misogyny???? 😩
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It’s Indigenous History Month, Pride, and my birthday is today. I am at my most powerful!
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@DrSerunjogiEmma
@EWanderema
Because for centuries, if not thousands of years, men have stated this is a woman’s sole purpose and responsibility, and men engaging in such things makes them weak and feminine. All of the things you’re identifying stem from the decisions men have made.
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Nobody is a half, quarter, whatever of their ancestry. It doesn’t work like that. You’re not half of your ancestors. Don’t disrespect them like that.
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It’s always very interesting to attend Indigenous education/academic conferences where we sit for the entire time listening to lectures about the importance of storytelling, relationality, lane and more.. while having none of those things incorporated into the actual conference.
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My hatred of the word “pretendian” is further cemented by the fact that Natives are now using it as a slur against people they don’t like. It’s being used as a way to silence people who are speaking up. This is literally lateral violence. And so many of y’all are condoning it.
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Pay close attention to the organizations that will honour the federal holiday and give their staff the day off for a “national day of mourning” yet will force their staff to work on National Truth and Reconciliation day, another federal holiday.
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People see “nuclear family is colonial” and automatically assume the alternative is single parenthood 😭😭😭😭
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Indigenous relations. Please take care of yourselves. You do not have to share, retweet, read and look at content that might trigger you or bring up painful memories. We all grieve and heal in different ways. Do what makes sense and feels right for you
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For
#TruthAndReconciliationWeek
here are some important questions to reflect on:
- Do you know who created reserves and why?
- Do you know who created the Chief and Band Council system, and why?
- Do you know about the Inuit being forcibly relocated, and why?
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No one will ever be able to convince me that rich people work harder than poor people. The vast majority of rich people have never worked harder than any poor person, yet constantly feel entitled to give lectures on meritocracy and work ethic.
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Like the people subjected to these horrific circumstances are not props for you to use as “gotchas” in arguments. Especially considering the people saying this are generally the ones not subjected to that treatment. It’s absolutely disgusting.
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I just got accepted into the Masters of Education program at York University. I’m a drop out and never got my Bachelors. This ones for me neurodivergent and drop out relations who struggled to succeed in a system that didn’t understand us ❤️
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It’s
#PrideMonth
and
#IndigenousHistoryMonth
and I’m honouring my great uncles Gary and Greg who were known as the Christmas Twins and were proud to be gay Black and Mi’kmaw performers. They danced, designed clothes, painted and performed as jazz dancers from the age of fifteen.
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Friendly reminder that urban Indigenous people are connected to community and culture. We are not disconnected from the land or our culture, despite what is said about us.
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If there are Indigenous organizations, collectives, institutions, groups, communities, educators, leaders etc., who are not sharing and promoting Black History Month and Afro-Indigenous peoples, and are unwilling to do so, they must be called out. It’s not acceptable.
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The Indigenous urge to say “in a good way” about literally everything
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What a state determines to be “lawful” is not going to align with resistance, rebellions, or revolutions. It was legal to force my people onto reserves and unlawful to leave one without permission. Racial segregation was legal and denying racialized people services was lawful.
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Not all of us are raised in culture and community. Some of us reconnected while our parents and grandparents didn’t, and so now are the ones passing knowledge onto our families and supporting our siblings in understanding their identity.
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It’s great that Sephora did it’s first ever campaign with Indigenous influencers, but where is the inclusion of Afro-Indigenous peoples? Why are these identities never included within Indigenous campaigns, history months or art? Forgetting these voices is not acceptable.
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@jiokety
@hashjenni
As someone who’s lost a lot of weight and is now trying to gain some back… I think I both are hard in their respective ways and can’t be compared
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Imagine calling Mi’kmaw lazy and telling them to get real jobs, just for us to turn around and own 50% of one of the largest lobster companies. The power.
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You don’t need to understand it or agree with it. But it is not your place to tell a people that their culture and worldviews are morally wrong and they need to adapt to your worldview. This is literally advocating for assimilation and sounds like repackaged missionary work.
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My papa grew up in Nova Scotia when there were still “whites only” sections in a movie theatre. Anti-Black racism isn’t a distant part of Canadian history like they want us to believe.
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It’s so weird to me when people try and reduce the severity of what the Canadian government did to Indigenous people’s by saying that colonization and violence has happened everywhere. Like??? Are y’all really trying to normalize genocide???
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