#indigenous rage

[as8bakwthesage]

“INDIGENOUS FUCKING RAGE”

I refuse to bow

I refuse to be silent

I refuse to listen to your whimpers

If you will sit there and lie

I will so easily watch you die

I do not yield their souls

Which you so gladly stole

You owe us a debt

That I will never forget

[helena-thessaloniki]

Can't stop thinking about Night Country. That feminine rage is cold and hard; old, older than everything else, and buried deep. That a woman alone is a dead woman; a woman alone is the most dangerous thing. That a man's ego is more important than a woman's life. That a woman who speaks up isn't silenced, she's destroyed. That women are strongest when they're together, when they speak, when they sing. When they're seen.

That what men want for themselves is reason enough to lay waste to everything else. That when it's weighed on the scales, their chance to live a little longer is worth more than a baby's first breath. That they'll do whatever it takes, even when it poisons all of our water.

How a mother dies and her daughter dies too, but a son can't live until he's killed his own father. How women only have power when they lie, assume the role of men, align themselves to men, or die.

And when they will no longer clean up after them.

When they honor who came before, paint the protest on their face, and learn their real name. When they emerge from the ice, leave the night behind and walk toward the sun instead of into the sea. When they shape their own stories. When their tongue is returned to them.

What a fucking masterpiece.

I guess she wanted to take them. I guess she ate their fuckin' dreams from the inside out and spit their frozen bones.

[newwavesylviaplath]

dead white writer on the floor, drew hayden taylor

[sylwanin-was-right]

Im not sorry but people who keep treating Neytiri as "psycho" and "racist" and "evil" for how she treated Spider clearly do not understand how racism, trauma, nor colonialism works lmao

[void-screams-screeches]

Open letter to the Avatar (TWOW) fandom:

Hello! Media literacy is free, please utilize it.

Thank you!

[andrumedus]

Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War; “Mercy”

[padawan-historian]

Gentle Reminder that ethnoreligious, ethnicity, and race are (hu)manmade constructs used to legitimize imperial efforts + segregationist practices.

Keep in mind that:

🖤 Indigeneity manifests from rediscovery, decolonized sovereignty, and ancestral the liberation . . . not from settler-colonial, antisemitism of the wild [white] west that sees Black, brown, beige, indigenous, queer, (dis)abled and (dis)placed Jews and MENA folks discriminated and persecuted.

🖤 Manifest Destiny was used to legitimize America’s consolidation and commodification of Indigenous lands, lives, and labor.

🖤 Repatriation + return were the same rhetorics used to justify the colonization of Liberia by free Black People (+ their white benefactors) who perpetuated progressive racism in the United States during the 1810s + 1820s! (put a pin in this)

🖤 Indigenizing Israel has nothing to do with indigenous identities, dismantling the class struggles in our shared world, or winning sovereignty to better steward + sustain ancestral lands to combat climate disaster + capitalism . . . Israel weaponizing indigeneity is an attempt to frame its zionist apartheid as inseparable (+ indistinguishable ) from Judaism + the Jewish Diaspora.

[termagax]

seeing some people's reaction to weird gamer men oversexualizing kiriko is "mauga is right there, half naked, with serveral pin-up sprays" and while i do agree to an extent, i do feel like alot of people are kind of ignoring like. the racial element of mauga's sexualization, like i like mauga, he's hot, but the second i saw him in the short story, i wasn't a big fan of the whole "big savage brown indigenious guy" and it feels like very few people are pointing that out.

RIGHT LIKE. we cannot fix "gamer men fixate on fictional asian girls to a violent degree, usually in a racist way or enabling racist tropes already present in the character" with "gamer girls fixate on fictional brown men to a violent degree in a racist way or enabling racist tropes present in the character" like you guys are part of the same problemmmmmmm youre doing the same thinggg its not better because youre doing it to men like.

i think some people only want to see the kiriko problem as misogyny and while im not going to even pretend that ISNT a massive part of it, theres still like. a reason kiriko and d.va and mei are fascinations for these dudes. there is a pointed difference between the way these three get spoken about compared to their white counterparts (and their dark-skinned counterparts too - look at the responses to illari for a really easy comparison to how kiriko is treated). their ~exoticism~ as asian women is part of the appeal. even if you dont just wanna take the way dudes online treat them (like making a joke that shes "obvious pornbait" for speaking japanese and using JSL) as evidence of that, look at their marketing. kirikos whole thing is atheleisure traditional, shes got her Mystical Japanese Spiritualism Ninja Powers and her magic doggy and they constantly put her in japanese and korean fashion, and dva has been constantly crossing over with korean merch companies. i cant help but notice theres no brazilian IP crossovers or merch launches for lucio, or any attempt to Sell Peru To Gamers for illari. they couldnt even pick a town in Samoa to name maugas map after. these people wouldn't buy that stuff because it's not fetishized in the same way asia is.

but like. a lot of the people trying to Gotcha these racist dudes with an asian fetish just whip out their favourite racist tropes instead and its a really bad look. like you guys dont wanna examine how your examples of The Characters Its Okay To Hypersexualize are all brown? even the people who wanna fuck cassidy dont talk about him like this. or like. fuck if you want a good comparison for mauga lets look at roadhog. big half-naked tank who theyve been playing up a sexual energy/comic relief duology on since day one with racially insensitive cosmetic options. nobody treats it like its completely normal to talk about him that way. the dev team isnt pushing pinups of him out. he isnt flexing his boobs in trailers. hes a white dude*, so he gets the bare minimum dignity of being treated normally. incidentially hot, maybe, but for the most part his character is sold on being cool , funny and scary. mauga is being sold 50% on being a Sexy Rogue Love Interest and 50% on. releasing late. they put in so little effort for him to be anything else despite hyping him up as suuuper significant to the lore and a major gamechanger its almost embarrassing to watch. (this is why that short annoyed me so much for anyone keeping track).

[fatehbaz]

when you’re reading about the most despicable revolting outrageous inhumane shocking horrific maddening worst things human beings have ever done and you ask “who was responsible for this violence?” and the answer is very often “the scientists of the atomic energy commission” and "scientists working on behalf of colonial British/US governments" and “medical doctors in the United States”

[amatres]

actually im going to shout into the void that the solavelan romance is the height of my hatred

[jusiri]

Love people using the live action atla as an excuse to draw White Katara and Sokka

I mean, obviously its totally fine, because after all, thats what the actors look like!

That means theres nothing at all wrong with this now :)

And like, Katara's actor is paler than OG Katara, so its alright to make her skin just white, as well as take away all indigenous features, and give her a stereotypical White Girl Face

No problems at all, thats all totally cool!!

[awellreadmannequin]

Things you should hate about Canada if you are not Canadian: performative bilingualism

[rewritingcanon]

this coming referendum is going to give me cancer

[manwalksintobar]

I Have Not Signed a Treaty with the United States Government // Chrystos

nor has my father nor his father nor any grandmothers We don’t recognize these names on old sorry paper. Therefore we declare the United States a crazy person nightmare   lousy food  ugly clothes  bad meat nobody we know No one wants to go there.  This US is theory   illusion terrible ceremony   The United States can’t dance  can’t cook has no children   no elders   no relatives They build funny houses no one lives in but Everything the United States does to everybody is bad No this US is not a good idea   We declare you terminated You’ve had your fun now go home we’re tired   We signed no treaty   WHAT  are you still doing here  Go somewhere else and build a McDonald’s   We’re going to tear all this ugly mess down now   We revoke your papers your soap suds   your stories are no good your colors hurt our feet   our eyes are sore our bellies  are tied in sour knots  Go Away Now You must be some ghost in the wrong place   wrong time Pack up your toys   garbage   lies We  who are alive now Have signed no treaties Burn down your stuck houses  you’re sitting in a nowhere gray glow  Your spell is dead Go so far away we won’t remember you ever came here Take these words back with you

[pea--chie]

viewing pieces of media but in this case particularly musicians and the music they create only in a white american context is such a horrendous thing to do like you see it with mitski and soooo many artists where their art just gets reduced and watered down to become palatable for a white american audience like some of the most gut wrenching and honest albums are reduced to sad girl music or femcel music or in relation to an exclusively white american experience that completely ignores the actual artist behind the music and their experiences like i think we should stop trying to relate to everything and make it about ourselves

[andrumedus]

I have red written my red fear wailed my choked back rage.

Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, tr. Howard Scott, Assi Manifesto