strangeshicken
strangeshicken
Obsidian Existing + Alive
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reconnecting {deindiginized} 22 non-binary ACE
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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This is a drawing of me that my connection Mars made. It is made with a blue ball point pen and reads the bone collector. It is an abstract figure which may resemble a persons skeleton but with two faces.
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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Hello interwebs or oblivion.
As a de-tribalized southern native who grew up in the imperial forces of the United States in Zhigaagoong on occupied Council of Three Fires lands on homelands of Kiikaapoi, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Bodwéwadmi, Myaamia, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ— I can only speak to my experiences living in empire.
I am disabled, transgender (TGNC), poor and grew up below the poverty line. Chicago is a place that many know about and for some it is glamorized and others poke fun at it being a war zone. As a de-tribalized person who is RACIALIZED I can and will only speak on my lived experiences.
I will walk the red road and continue to engage in community despite the boarders that separate our families. I will not be used as a tool of yt supremacy against my own kin. I see northern natives as my kin despite engaging in community and being met with transphobia and colorism. I understand that my families loss of connection with our life ways garnered us privileges by adopting latinidad. I understand that my recent lineage has caused harm.
I see this as a trans person, as a queer person, as a person with a uterus. My prayer today and everyday to come is indigenous sovereignty | tribal sovereignty.
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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Well said. More of this will be happening as these "reconnecting" and wannabees continue to use buzz words in their attempts to show how Native they are.
How do they not see the harm they are creating?
Because, it's all about THEM finding this lost piece of themselves and it's even more harmful because there is nothing to reconnect to. Why is this ok? Why is it ok for someone to declare that they are (INSERT TRIBE HERE) with no questions asked? That is not how our communities work and if they did their research they would know this. But they choose to ignore that fact because it doesn't help THEM. They will continue to sit in the room, taking up space, soaking up all our dialogue so they can go an spew it out as their own, throw in a few #s say MMIW, Residential School and people will nod their head in agreement. Of course these are horrible things, what kind of monster would you be to think they are ok. But what kind of sick monster are YOU to use these words and HORRIFIC events to try and justify your existence. Why does nobody question that?
I grew up knowing I was Native. Knowing my homeland. Living on my homeland and knowing my relatives. I am fortunate and appreciate every moment of that. It breaks my heart that someone cannot and does not know that because of historic events that have torn our families apart. These are my aunties and uncles, my grand parents. Not some rando name I found while doing my family tree from when the country was founded. And it breaks my heart even further that I have to justify my existence, but I do, because people still do not see Natives as actual humans.
We are still seen as story and fodder as conversation starters. Something that people who feel guilt or are missing something in their lives can latch on to and make money from. Look at academics at colleges across the country who continue to have a job teaching because of the word Indigenous. Look at the amount of New Age Hippy stores burning their artisan sage bundles in an abalone shell. Look at the ignorance someone like Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar can do while working for Marvel. Look at the tv shows that cast supposed Natives.
If only we were seen as people. No amount of Reservation Dogs or Rutherford Falls can fix that. Chambers was cancelled and no one talks about that ground breaking show. Let's just talk of the successes while ignoring our attempts to be seen and remember that "lateral violence" is only lateral when we are part of the same group.
images from @cedarsageskoden
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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So, You Wanna Stop Using AAVE?
What is AAVE?
AAVE is an acronym for African American Vernacular English. It is also known as Black English or Ebonics as well. It is a legitimate English dialect with functioning rules. 
It is not “Stan Langauge”, stan langauge and internet speak in general is derived from AAVE. You may be able to speak like this for fun or for clout, but we are forced to code-switch based on who we’re talking to or the environment we’re in as AAVE is commonly regarded as inappropriate, unprofessional, and “broken english”. 
Why Should Non-Black People Avoid Using AAVE?
When you overuse AAVE i (using it flippantly or without credit to its actual meaning), you’re contributing to the devaluing of the black experience. And, to be honest, when a lot of you use it it sounds very awkward or is often misused and just performative. Black people who speak AAVE have been made to feel lesser for speaking like this, so to see people use it flippantly is insulting and damaging to the black community.
The best way to ensure it isn’t misused is to avoid using it at all. But knowing the actual meanings of these words and when to use them is a step in the right direction to avoid the words getting misconstrued. We need to keep in mind that the mainstream population gets to control the meanings of these words, so using them in an incorrect manor is damaging to AAVE and black people as a whole. IT IS NOT A MEANS OF MAKING YOU SOUND COOL, FUNNY, OR TO EMPHASIZE YOUR ANGER. 
Some questions to ask yourself before using AAVE: 
Is it being commercialized for financial gain?
Is the usage performative or tokenizing?
Are you in proximity to the culture that originated the terms?
Are you using the language to “level up” or earn yourself “street cred
“People should be mindful of appropriating the rhythm of AAVE. It has a rhythm that differs significantly from that of other Englishes, and people tend to use the rhythm as a punchline or to seem more street savvy. Everyone knows the rhythm because everyone associates it with Blackness.” -JR Littlejohn
Here’s a good list of words and phrases to stay away from. I gathered most of these from this google doc (i will reblog with links to avoid tumblr hiding this post in tags), if you check it out, it has explanations, alternatives, and everything you need to know about these words. I did add a couple of recent ones. Feel free to reblog and add more!
👏 clapping 👏emojis 👏 between 👏 words 👏
___ game on point, on point, on fleek, fleek
100, keepin’ it 100, one hunnit, one hunned, 💯 emoji (depending on the intended meaning), etc., 10s
-ass (at the end of an adjective
Ain’t (depends on the context and the persona trying to be portrayed – are you imitating a Black woman/person?)
About that, here for this/that
AF, af, as fuck
Bae, boo
Basic
Bawdy
Be (habitual use, e.g. “They be killin’ it!”)
Been (“I been knew that!”)
Beat, beat your face, beat for the gods
Bet
Biiiiiitch
Bless up
Bomb
Boss (When emphasizing something is great)
Bruh
Catch these hands
Chill (E.g., “Got no chill!”)
Chile (As in “child”, not the country)
Coins
Come for (someone)
Cop (E.g., “Let me cop that!”)
Crack/Crackhead
Cray cray
Crib
Cuffing
Cunty
Def
Dig, dig it, ya dig, you dig, you feel, you feel me
Dip
Dope
Drag, dragging, get dragged, etc.
Extra
Fam
Feeling some type of way
Fierce
Finna
Fo sho, fo real
Fuckboy, fuckboi, fuccboi, etc.
Gag, gagged (to mean amazed or taken aback)
Giving me life, giving me all, giving you (a look/mood/aesthetic)
Go off, but go off
The gawds, beat for the gods/gawds
Have several seats
Hella
Homies, squad
-the house, the house down boots, etc
Hunty
Hype, get hyped
I feel you
Killin’ it
Laid, laying your edges
Lit
Lowkey, and other -key terms (Variant one: How you really feel about something) (Variant two: Subtle, small, quiet)
Mad (Mad annoying, mad awkward, etc.)
Mean (e.g., That’s a mean beat!”)
Nigga (Do not use this or any variations if you aren’t black.)
Period/Periot
Petty
Playa/Player (Or Stunna/Starboy for that matter, Starboy is Jamaican AAVE)
Po-Po (as in referring to the police)
Pressed
Ratchet
Read (someone), reading
Real (E.g., “The struggle is real.”)
School, schooling
Secure a bag
Serve, serving, serving up looks/aesthetics
Shade (see “throwing shade”)
Shook
Sickening (As in amazing, beautiful)
Side-eye (E.g., “I was side-eying them when they said that.”)
Sis
Slay
Snatch,looking snatched,snatch someone’s wig/weave
Spillin’ tea
Stan
Stank face
Stay woke, woke
Stay, steady (habitual use, e.g., “She stay working,” and “They steady working.”)
Straight up
Swag
Take an L
Tea, T
The struggle
Thirst, Thirsty
Thot
Throwing shade
Tried it
Trip, be trippin’
Turn up, turnt
Weak (”I’m weak”)
Werk
Wypipo, whypipo, YT(s), etc.
Wig
Y’all* (depends on how it is performed–used in  way that seems like “acting Black”)
Yas, Yaaaaaas, etc.
Other Things to Avoid
double negation: “I ain’t never seen that boy in my life.”
absence of 3rd-person singular forms:
“He ain’t got no choice but to.”
omission of the copula(to be):
“He choosing!”
omission of the auxiliary:
“You playing ball, bruh?”
past participle of strong verb denotes past tense:
“Man, I been done known that!”
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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Constantly cycling between loneliness and fullness
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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It seems to always be lies here
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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I call in love 🔆
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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The truth please
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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I don’t want mestizaje 🤮
I will not glorify/exemplify the mix
I will not glorify/exemplify rape/marital rape
I will not stand with our oppressor and allow them to continue to dehumanize people on turtle island of the trans experience specifically |Black / Indigenous| peoples.
If you need to call me something just refer to me as a pissed off deindiginized bastard .
Fuck all colonizers, death to all colonizers.
All Settler States must fall.
Latinidad is canceled. Its time to walk in a good way.
Latinidad is
anti-Black anti-Indigenous transphobic misogynistic fatphobic ableist
Ytness is…
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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Unlearn yt supremacy
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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I think i understand
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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As there don't seem to be many indigenous mexican voices here (At least not that I can find), i will speak up. Animecha Kejtzitakua or Día de muertos as the mestizos call it is not a Mexican holiday. At least in the sense that it doesn't belong to mestizos the biggest demographic in mexico. It is an ancient tradition/ritual belonging to indigenous people and even this is a broad statement, while it is true that several ethnic groups have celebrated it historically, we are not a monolith. there are a lot of ethnic groups and there were more in the past, this was not a part of most people's culture. The government appropriated it in the 60's, after decades of trying to wipe us out for our culture which was deemed too inferior to let exist. I encourage everyone to learn more about our genocide, the mestizaje, at the hands of the mestizos. Before this most Mexicans had never even heard of our tradition. They appropriated the very thing they committed atrocities trying to wipe out. If you are a mestizo and "celebrate" día de muertos it is appropriation, you might not have personally ripped our families apart, shamed us, beat us, forcibly sterilized us but that doesn't change the fact that that was done to us by the majority of the mestizo population and they have no excuse to even come close to our sacred traditions. I'm not saying people can't mourn their dead loved ones, death is universal, but how we see it and how we relate to it is different across cultures. Unless you are one of us and are raised in our culture with our beliefs how do you expect to understand the intricacies and context of our traditions, you can't. Just as i can't understand them from other cultures traditions around death. Undoubtedly there will be mestizos who will become defensive at this, in my experience most do, but if even a few people listen it'll be better worth speaking up.
I use Animecha Kejtzitakua because I am p'urhepecha and that is what my people call it, there are of course a few names for it. My people are one of the few that have observed our tradition since before the Spanish invaded. The state has no problem exploiting my people parading us around commodifying our dead for their tourism dollars, meanwhile tourism companies run by mestizos further exploit my people. Charging tourist more and more to further encroach on our tradition. A large chunk of those tourist are you guessed it mestizos, they clog up our cemeteries prevent people from spending the night with their departed loved ones, pissing in the graveyard, and partying on our yacatas. But they don't care as long as they party/make money off of us. All we want is to practice our culture in peace, no appropriation no exploitation how hard is that.
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strangeshicken · 3 years ago
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hi do u have any resources for learning purepecha? im trying 2 reconnect so i can converse w my grandparents but so far there hasnt been much online and theres only so much i can ask my relatives <:]
Sadly, I don’t have any comprehensive resources, but I do have a few videos (first five) and two word lists with translations in Spanish.
The Sound of the Purépecha Language
Purépecha Lesson 1/4
Purépecha Lesson 2/4
Purépecha Lesson 3/4
Purépecha Lesson 4/4
ESP Dictionary
ESP Dictionary
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strangeshicken · 4 years ago
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Welcome QT people of the interwebs i lub u
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strangeshicken · 4 years ago
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For 2022 I will only respond to love
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