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[mixedlittlefox]

. . . genderfluid two-spirit!

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a flag for genderfluid two-spirit people! this is a revised iteration of a former flag i made of the same identity.

[ PT: a flag for genderfluid two-spirit people! this is a revised iteration of a former flag i made of the same identity. /End PT. ]

. . . butch , futch , & femme genderfluid two-spirit!

[ PT: butch, futch, and femme genderfluid two-spirit! /End PT. ]

flags for butch, futch, and femme genderfluid two-spirit people, respectively! these are revised versions of the first iterations i had of these flags.

[ PT: flags for butch, futch, and femme genderfluid two-spirit people, respectively! these are revised versions of the first iterations i had of these flags. /End PT. ]

i took down and recreated these as they felt unfinished and i was unhappy with how they turned out, however, the original iterations of the flags are all under the cut, if preferred. flags were requested by @mixedlittlefox!

[ PT: i took down and recreated these as they felt unfinished and i was unhappy with how they turned out, however, the original iterations of the flags are all under the cut, if preferred. flags were requested by @mixedlittlefox! /End PT. ]

the original versions of the genderfluid two-spirit, genderfluid two-spirit butch, genderfluid two-spirit futch, and genderfluid two-spirit femme flags, respectively.

[ PT: the original versions of the genderfluid two-spirit, genderfluid two-spirit butch, genderfluid two-spirit futch, and genderfluid two-spirit femme flags, respectively. /End PT. ]

[mixedlittlefox]

. . . genderfluid two-spirit !

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a flag for those who are genderfluid two-spirit! in the format of my two-spirit flag. tried my best to use the colors in the genderfluid flag and such, hope it communicates genderfluid.

[ PT: a flag for those who are genderfluid two-spirit! in the format of my two-spirit flag. tried my best to use the colors in the genderfluid flag and such, hope it communicates genderfluid. End PT ]

. . . butch / futch / femme genderfluid two-spirit !

[ PT: butch, futch, and femme, genderfluid two-spirit! End PT ]

flags for butches, futches, and femmes who are genderfluid two-spirit! like the genderfluid 2S flag, it's in the format of my two-spirit flag. as said in the post of my 2S flag, this is only for indigenous queer people; the 2S identity is a deeply cultural identity only for indigenous people.

non-natives are free to reblog, of course. all flags requested by @mixedlittlefox. (hope it's alright to tag you! and that these are to your liking.)

[ PT flags for butches, futches, and femmes who are genderfluid two-spirit! like the genderfluid two-spirit flag, it's in the format of my two-spirit flag. as said in the post of my two-spirit flag, this is only for indigenous queer people; the two-spirit identity is a deeply cultural identity only for indigenous people.

non-natives are free to reblog, of course. all flags requested by @mixedlittlefox. (hope it's alright to tag you! and that these are to your liking.) End PT ]

[mixedlittlefox]

Hello, I just have a question about white sage.

I was born, raised and currently live in Australia. White sage is not native here. I am a white Australian with British and European background and I was wondering if it is okay to use white sage. I don’t wish to appropriate and participate in closed practices but I’ve seen metaphysical shops in Australia selling white sage and I’m just curious about it. Thanks!

Hi, thank you so much for reaching out and asking questions to a native practitioner. This is an answer that’s gonna vary from native to native, my answer is No, you as a non native may not use white sage. It’s endangered and used in our scared rituals and 90% of white sage being sold in metaphysical shops around the world is being harvested unethically. That being said here are something things you can use in place of white sage; Cedar, rosemary, and regular garden sage work all the same, you can even use incense. Thnks for the ask ;)

[mixedlittlefox]

A bit bumming how few mixed native especially pale mixed natives are out here. Spent a while reblogging and gathering sources around the topic for this blog but have found nothing beyond a select few 🥲. If you guys are out there feel free to follow me or interact plz 🙏 Would love to find people who I can relate to as a community that can come together!

[mixedlittlefox]

Does it feel like non-native people should stay in their lane when it comes to “pretendians”? I’ve seen a lot of white people accusing others, as well as some white-passing natives, and I don’t know what to think about it. I hoped to get an indigenous person’s perspective

White people have no business judging who is or isn't Native. Especially because they know fuck all about our identities after spending so long trying to erase us.

Fakers are an inter-community problem that doesn't need external commentary. Allies should listen to the majority consensus of what Indigenous peoples have to say about cases on an individual bases* and can boost our voices when it comes to say, calling for the removal of fakers in positions that should belong to authentic Indigenous representation for example, but we don't need anyone speaking for us.

*Allies should also question people like J Keeler who have a history of using the rising problem of fakers for her own agenda and have caused more harm than good [Link]

[mixedlittlefox]

A little late for cultural heritage reconnecting sharing hour but...

I'm half-Mexican and my family's been in the US for 4+ generations, is extremely white-passing and generally very assimilated into mainstream American culture. I know from a DNA test that I'm ~20% native american (indigenous Mexican I assume) and 80% European, but I have a lot of angst about ID-ing as "white-passing" myself (vs "rounding up" to white) and feel like an impostor checking the Hispanic/Latinx box on forms and such. I'm still working through a lot of my personal baggage about not being connected "enough" with my Mexican heritage but I wanted to share a couple things that have been meaningful to me.

I play the violin, so I joined a mariachi band in college and started playing & listening to a lot of Mexican music. A lot of Mexicans have an emotional connection to mariachi music, either through having a favorite song or just that the music reminds them of a loved one. Having that point of connection helps me find common ground between myself and other Mexicans instead of getting too in my head about not being able to speak Spanish very well & all the cultural experiences I'm lacking.

I also started having conversations like this one with my irl friends, several of whom are mixed-race or 2nd-gen immigrants but don't share the same heritage as me. I learned that a lot of people have these same anxieties, but it's easy to assume the people around you are all secure in their identities and you're the only one stressing about this stuff, because it's not a topic of conversation people bring up very often.

Anyways, thanks for hosting these conversations on your blog, and I'd like to give a big warm hug to all the other anons with cultural anxieties.

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[mixedlittlefox]

also wrt the native question: the idea of culture being entirely decided by ur blood is such a modern racist concept too? for centuries people would accept foreigners into nations/tribes and they would be full members of that society. hell there were plenty of europeans who (for a variety of reasons) ended up becoming a member of a native nation with a spouse and children! like the idea that blood is the defining trait of whether you are [x] ethnicity is smth thats directly related 2 the creation of race by white europeans, which is why native ppl by and large do not support blood quantum.

Oh god don't even get me started, the idea that where you "belong" and what culture you're "allowed" to practice is based solely on your blood and DNA is a relatively recent practice in human history, as discussed prior plenty plenty plenty of historical evidence suggests that when humans of various cultures came across others different from themselves, most of the time they freely intermingled and accepted each other as part of their society, except in explicitly closed cultures which often times were the result (or had the end goal) of genocide.

So long as trade and tragedy have existed, so have the lines of ethnicity and race been blurred.

So of course most Natives *do not* like or practice blood quantum because, surprise, most of their cultures allowed for mixing in the first place because it wasn't about blood but culture.

It's also interesting to note that, due to the one-drop rule, black politics mostly say "would someone walking down the street call you or a direct, close relative of yours within a generation or two, black? Then you're black"

[mixedlittlefox]

One thing that's also really frustrated to me as a (mixed) indigenous trans masc is how it's so ingrained that long hair = feminine. I want to keep my long hair because it makes me feel connected to my heritage, especially with how part of the genocide towards indigenous communities included boys and men being forced to cut their hair. But it's like choosing between my culture and being misgendered/people refusing to take my gender seriously because I don't present masc enough (by white standards) and it's just so frustrating.

Dog question tax: I know you love chihuahuas and terriers, but is there another small breed you like?

Big same, being mixed Irish/Black/Native, where long hair is not discouraged in the bulk of my family history and even the white people in my family often have/had longer hair than your typical standard American man due to their rural roots. And knowing that black and Native men are often forced to cut their hair- or worse, held down while their hair is forcibly cut as a means of cultural genocide- in order to conform with the dominant white society makes me want to grow my hair out and wear it in traditional styles even more.

However, it often has a feminizing effect on my face and body type, and it leads to me being misgendered more than normal. Which, I get it, even cis men with long hair get misgendered more often because of society's strong association with long hair = woman, but still. I have a white friend who is a cis gay man and he hasn't cut his hair in over a decade- he's very clearly male and is otherwise masc-presenting and not outwardly GNC and yet when we're out together there are times we get called "ladies" or someone catcalls him because they think he's a woman. This is also part of why I cannot wrap my head around the idea that men don't experience misogyny- my cis male friend experiences plenty of misogyny just because he wears his hair long. He stopped cutting his hair not due to cultural reasons but to honor his father who died of cancer and was distraught to have been losing his hair during his chemo.

For your dog ask: the majority of small dogs I like are going to be terriers, terrier-lites, and terrier-likes, but I would say that other small dogs I enjoy that are not terriers are frenchies, dachshunds, and beagles, though I have pretty much zero desire to own any of those for various reasons. I also think cavaliers are hideously cute, and for a long time I wanted a papillon.

[mixedlittlefox]

Indigenous for Indigenous (Indigenous4Indigenous)

A term that is exclusive to Indigenous/Aboriginal people who have a preference in attraction to other indigenous people or are exclusively attracted to other indigenous people.

This term can also be written as “Aboriginal for Aboriginal” or “Aboriginal4Aboriginal”

Coined by: @arcticflowerz

Colour meanings

Black stripes: Mixed indigenous people

Blue stripes: Métis

Red stripes: First nations and Native American people

Yellow stripes: Inuit

Teal stripe: All indigenous/Aboriginal people from all over the world as a whole

This term was coined by an actual Inuk. DO NOT USE THIS TERM IF YOUR TRANSRACE! THIS TERM IS ONLY MEANT FOR BODILY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

Edit: by “bodily indigenous” I do not mean you have to be “indigenous passing” to use this term. You can still use this term if your white passing or not. By “bodily indigenous” I was referring to having indigenous blood and indigenous relatives in your family tree.

Also, do not repost my flags/the things I coin with out credit.

[mixedlittlefox]

i feel like 2 huge things missing from the conversation around american privilege is that a) america existing as the dominant culture, both in the political sense & that of the larger zeitgeist, is contingent on the attempted cultural genocide of, forced mass abduction of, and cultural theft from native &/or black americans thereby meaning that the way those groups interact with the concept of “american culture” is going to be vastly different from the dominant culture we as the world are presented, sociologically speaking at least & b) a lot of poc in america are, for lack of a better term, de-americanized by white people who the systemic power to do so by sole virtue of not being white, &/or in some cases being an immigrant. certain americans are denied both their right to be seen as and claim being american as a part of their identity safely, as well as denied access to the wider culture we see as globally dominant in spite of the fact that much of if not all of it was stolen from people of those groups. so though in a very, very wide sense there is some privilege to being american because of the country’s position as a major world power etc, it’s not comparable to other axis of oppression in that it can’t be accessed by being american alone. you have to fit into the white, christian hegemonic version of americanism, or at the very least be trying, to access so called “american privilege” if that makes sense?

like every country in the West is known to in some way benefit from imperialism, and there’s a reason those of us outside the states have to learn about things like americanization in school, but whether one has access to personal individual privilege from one’s american status can’t be as cleanly generalized as with other forms of oppression, and in not taking that into account any discourse is going to end up taking a racist turn intentionally or not.

(apologies if this is unwarranted, i’ve just seen a lot of discussion on this the last week and you’re one of few reasonable voices in the mix)

no you're fine actually thank you for putting it in way better words than my dumb ass ever could

[mixedlittlefox]

Honestly it's really horrific that people get so into yelling at others about culture appropriation that they end up sounding like an insane racist

Like, I've literally seen the most politically correct BLM liberals spouting shit like "Do NOT interact with cultures other than yours. If you date any POC as a white person you are fetishizing them. Do NOT move to another country. Do NOT learn the language of POC."

Like bro please take a step back and reread what you just said. You can't call yourself an ally and say you support BLM and support minorities and then turn around and go "Immigration is bad and you can't race mix or learn about other cultures or languages or eat foreign food". If I can't tell the difference between your post and the post of a KKK member there's a problem.

I've also seen them get upset at white people (or at least people they THINK are white) for buying handmade Native American art FROM THE ACTUAL NATIVES. Like oh my GOD it's not cultural appropriation or fetishization for someone to support a small family owned business by buying their pottery or jewelry or clothing. Especially when you're sitting there wearing your #BLM shirt that was made by foreign sweatshop workers.

At this point I'm just gonna call accidentally advocating for ethnostates and anti-miscegnation The Dreamcatcher Effect because it's too prevalent.

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It's honestly kind of weird and scary how a lot of modern "politically correct" people have gone completely in the other direction to the point that they go "You CANNOT interact with another culture, you cannot learn a new language, you cannot date someone outside of your race/culture/etc." and it's like...

Do they not realize that they sound exactly like white supremacists who are against immigration/race mixing/etc. It's exactly the same thing except replace "You can't mix with those people because they're nasty animals" with "You can't mix with those people because you're fetishizing and appropriating their culture"

Not to mention it ALWAYS seems to be white people saying this, even if people of said culture are like "Yes please come learn our language and wear our clothing and eat our food we want to share it with you!"

On Facebook one of my white friends went off on one of her friends for cultural appropriation because she was making dreamcatchers... Said friend was literally Ojibwe.

I think about this every single day at work because a Native client from the nearby reservation gave my clinic a medicine wheel he made himself and we have it displayed at the front desk. And I think if any of these folks walked into the clinic and saw it their heads would explode. Nevermind that tied to it is his hand-written note about what it means and why he made it for us. But it's a white-owned, mostly white-run clinic and we've got this very clear Native piece front and center as you walk in.

Idk man. It feels gross to me to say "you MUST have part of this race in your DNA if you want to partake in ANY of this at all", especially when it's not coming from those *within said culture*... like how studs and voodoo are black-only closed culture things vs "you can't learn [language] because that's appropriation!!!"

I'm blaming white people flattening all nuance over "political correctness" though- they don't want to be politically correct, they want to hold the moral high ground and prove they're one of the good ones. Personally I think it's better to just vibe and try not to be an asshole and to be open to change when someone says you're hurting them.