#national american miss

[yourdailyqueer]

Kent Monkman (Miss Chief Eagle Testickle)

Gender: Two spirit - genderfluid (he/him)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 13 November 1965  

Ethnicity: First Nation (Cree)

Occupation: Artist, activist

[neechees]

The blog @/mikerawtch followed me and other Native blogs, and it's one of those bots made by people who are spamming the MMIW tags by spreading blatantly racist, false posts that the MMIW crisis is a "scam"/"hoax", and the other blogs @/mittayent & @/yorkletorrez are also spreading the same. Make sure to block and report.

[deadfebruary]

I’m your national anthem ˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚

[fornpt1]

cuz u and i we were born to die

[peonycats]

did i just see someone hc South Korea to be the child of North Korea and America post-WWII

[nero-neptune]

i'm afraid that there's Never gonna be a concentrated effort to get the nazis off of tumbler dot com, bc no one knows what a nazi (or neo-nazi, for that matter) actually is! additionally, no one knows what nazi rhetoric even is, not when it's passes the "Uses Progressive Language" test, bc using the Good Words™ is all you need to let extremely racist messages fly under the nazi-detecting radar. god forbid anyone look in the mirror and ask "am I the bad guy??" and get their shit together.

this website: "hey staff !! >:((( when are you gonna get rid of all the nazis?!?!"

also this website: *makes the 358th conspiratorial post that Strongly Suggests that bloodthirsty jews (with dual loyalty, Of Course) control the media. this post has over 20k notes*

[cowboyangeleyes]

Thinking of the most perfect fanfic I read that I will never see again no matter how many google searches I do ;-;

[rabbitcruiser]

National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Advocating for justice, honor, and remembrance, ensuring visibility and action to address the safety and rights of indigenous women and girls.

A serious problem has been going on for many years surrounding the high statistics of indigenous women and girls who go missing or are murdered each year in Canada, the United States and other countries. Indigenous or native women and girls have a much higher vulnerability to violence, particularly in relation to crimes such as sex trafficking, abuse and more. 

From 2001 to 2015, the homicide rate for indigenous women in Canada was almost six times higher than for other women. In the United States, native women are at least two times as likely to experience violence than women from any other demographic. It is also estimated that the murder rates for native women are ten times higher than the national average. 

In recent years, many activists, journalists, law enforcement officers, charitable organizations and others have been calling for more attention to be paid to these inconsistencies. The desire is to increase public awareness about the issues while improving access to the urgent support that these women and girls so desperately need.

History of National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

An important impetus for the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls came through a Canadian artist named Jaime Black. In the early 2000s, Black used her influence to start the REDress project as an art installation to call attention to the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada and the US. This artistic expression led to hundreds of red dresses being donated for use in future installations and also was the start of REDress Day being celebrated on May 5. Each year, many different important spaces house REDress installations, including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. in 2019. 

The official campaign for the United States to declare this as an awareness day was started in 2017 by two senators from Montana. In 2018, the US declared this same day that had started as REDress Day, but the name was adjusted to the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

How to Observe National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Get involved with this important day of awareness by participating in some of the following activities:

Learn More About Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

One of the most important ways to participate in this national day of awareness is to commit to getting more educated and informed, and then sharing this with others in your sphere of influence. Learn more about the statistics and needs by visiting the website of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, the US Department of Indian Affairs or other important resources.  

Read the Apology to Native Peoples

In 2009, the United States Congress issued an acknowledgment and apology to the Native peoples for the way the US government has treated them with depredations and policies that were to the disadvantage of native and indigenous peoples. Access this apology online and read through it in observance of the National Day of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 

Source

[thedissociatives]

i wish i could get people from outside the uk to understand how weird watching hockey in this country is

[arctic-hands]

I woke up too early this morning and when I turned on the news to have something to fill the pre-dawn void, the local CBS News was playing some haha point at laugh at the Millennials and Gen Z'ers who still need help from their parents in this economy piece. Seeing as I'm well aware of stagnate wages, in/shrink/greedflation, and our abysmal safety net, this stupidity pissed me off.

So I switched to CBSN because it's been a while since I watched national news.

The biggest story on this American national news station was Kate Middleton. This annoyed me because it's such a stupid non-issue in general, let alone to someone living in one of Thirteen Original Colonies.

So I pulled up Al Jazeera English for something else to hear about

(Local CBS and CBSN are the only local/national news I can watch because I don't have a rabbit ear thingy for my smart TV and their combined news app is free on roku, as is the AJE app so that's what I use to watch international news)

And I'm not saying Al Jazeera is perfect, but their biggest story of the morning was the on-going genocide America is complicit in.

Spot the difference

[manwalksintobar]

I Mean Maybe None of Us Are Actually From Anywhere // Hanif Abdurraqib

it's so hard to trace these things right I just rolled out of bed one morning and I had this head of good hair and when I say good hair I mean it was passed down from someone who was once dragged through a field by it until their scalp became a wide open mouth but it looks fly tucked underneath this fitted hat on the dance floor no you cannot borrow this dance you cannot stand over another dark and shaking body and breathe in the smoke we leave in our wake I get that we are all human or whatever but I don't even know what that would do to your bones I don't know if

your bones bend like mine I come from a boxed in culture I come from people who traveled entire oceans wrapped around each other I was born from a woman who is now inside a box so you see some things are just natural for me you're right maybe there is no such thing as a country maybe there is just gutted land and rows of sharp teeth that have torn at my flesh for so long I'm not exactly sure which wound is the one I belong to I mean the only way I recognize my skin is when it is open and spilling how can I even keep track you know it must be nice to wrap your hands around an unscarred body it must be nice to wrap your tongue around all of the words in that song without also asking to bleed out on a sidewalk look all I know is I began running when the fire started and I haven’t stopped since maybe I come from running maybe running is a country maybe everyone who lives there misses someone they thought would live forever

I’m glad you don’t know how to find it I’m glad that you haven’t caught me yet I’m glad you have a black friend I’m sorry that your black friend may die soon and then there will only be me

[twinflamescape]

I'm so thankful my spirit guides and ancestors led me onto my reconnection journey, I still have to fully trace my roots but in the meantime I've been reclaiming my culture and decolonizing my mindset and it's been so healing for me 🙏❤️

[paperkestrel]

one of these days i'm gonna write a whole essay on how it feels to be a second-generation native american because there's so much conflict and grief of identity that i feel every day

[oorevitcejda]

the Kingdom of Hawaii should be allowed to close their borders and recover for like 50 years, no nonHawaiians on the island and when they have healed they can enter the world when they want and offer tours or college or whatever on their terms and in a respectful way.

also usa reparations should include cleaning the oceans, at least pacific and atlantic

[ufonaut]

I agreed, thinking I wouldn't stay long. A month or two. Little did I know that fate was going to play an unexpected trick on me. I walked out twenty-two years later. There's been a lot of guessing why. They were all wrong. What lulled me was that I had complete freedom. I answered to no one. They never knew what I was going to come out with in the books I edited.

Robert Kanigher on his time at DC Comics in Alter Ego (1999) #2