#reclaiming culture

[ohmypawsandwhiskers]

As someone exploring and reclaiming their indigenous heritage and culture, I am super excited to announce that I purchased my first ever ribbon skirt! I have already been rocking my earrings this week at work, and I am excited to receive that skirt!

[designresearch-ii]

Identity, language, culture: Flavour of the month, and then what? - Leki Bourke

RNZ: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/442632/identity-language-culture-flavour-of-the-month-and-then-what 

I am in a war.  A war with self identity.  A war with culture.  A war for survival. 

I am failing to maintain a part of culture that has been passed down for generation to generation - the language. 

In this day and age, the language of Vagahau Niue and Cook Island Maori is been seen at its most vulnerable. As someone who is of Niuean and Cook Island descent, it angers and deeply saddens me to think that some time in the near future both of my native languages will be extinct. 

Because of my lack of understanding within my own culture, I held a grudge and was angry at my migrant parents for not teaching me the mother tongue and I was angry at myself for not doing enough to learn - this is the barrier that I am faced with.

However, reading this article it makes me question myself - what I am doing to reclaim my cultural identity ? How can I shift my perspective to think about this in a positive light? Am I myself, putting in the hard yards to learn both my languages?

At the end of the article, Leki Bourke, ends off on a good note and instills hope and positivity within me. As someone who has been battling many barriers in anger and sadness - his words are spark inspiration and comfort to know that through my design practice I can make a difference with the revitalisation, maintenance, and preservation of my native languages. 

This article has made me re-think my direction of my design research concept as I am now interested in shedding a positive light upon the issue of vulnerable languages, culture and self identity - I need to focus on the opportunities and not on the fear of failure. 

“Our creative sector serves in the revitalisation, maintenance, and preservation of indigenous languages.”

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

when an LDS person uses the term "mormons" vs when a non-LDS person uses it

[butlerkitty-art]

old/unfinished explorations of freya's past through her garb as Leader of the Vanir & Queen of the Aesir.

[bitternanami]

been watching nezumiva's retrospective of aa3 and like always im Thinking About Her. alt text has img description

(w crop because tumblr messed w the quality a bit)

[cluster-b-culture-is]

Cluster b culture is being mad that your personality disorders are demonized in media and only portrayed as serial killers in horror movies,,,but also having those same characters being your favorites and projecting your disorder onto them anyways bc "omg they're just like me fr"

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[concernedbrownbread]

Katara traveled the world because she was the last Southern waterbender. She's the one who fought Pakku and stole the waterbending scroll. She brought the Southern Water Tribe back into the world.

Sokka's the one who learned how the North made its buildings and how hot air balloons worked. He brought the world back to the Southern Water Tribe.

That is to say, I'm a Chief Katara truther.

[welcometogrouchland]

I also think it's nice that they made Camilla a sci-fi nerd and Luz a fantasy nerd. They're genres that are often seen as completely opposing one another by many people, which is what we're led to believe about Luz and Camilla in season 1. Luz is silly, nerdy, frequently in over her head and irresponsible and loves the boiling isles. We're led to believe that Camilla is the normal, conventional TV mother who'd be disgusted and terrified by the demon realm if she saw it.

Then yesterday's lie gives us a lot of nuance to this, and we realize that while they're still very different and now on opposite sides of a conflict, both mother and daughter are incredibly kind people (seen in their treatment of Vee) who love each other but struggle to make the right choices without hurting one another.

Then thanks to them drops all this Camilla characterization and we realize! She was a nerd too this whole time! The wedge between Camilla and Luz is motivated by past traumas and grief! and for the future has them switching sides on the central conflict of where Luz should stay (Camilla now wanting Luz in the demon realm because it's what's best for her, and Luz believing that staying in the human realm is what's best for the people she loves). They finally talk and realize that, like Willow pointed out earlier in the ep, the two are so alike. Camilla reveals that she's a secret nerd too! That she had a hard time growing up and accidentally hurt Luz trying to save her from the same fait! It's so important to me that Camilla keeps calling Luz a good witch. It's affirming her interests and goals, reminding her that she's just as good as the hero of her favorite story. And Luz finally only realizes that she wants to be understood...when she's finally able to understand her mom. When she realizes that the woman she loves and admires is just as much of a nerdy screw-up as her and that there's hope for her. Her palismen ends being multiple animals at once, showing both how Luz making unconventional choices (like carving an egg) keeps paying off for her and how her potential is limitless now that she finally knows and accepts her own goals, but to me it also reminds of the fact that Camilla is a vet and passed a love of all the weird and unliked animals (like wolves, possums, snakes, etc) to her.

It's just so so sweet and it really shows how much love and thought the crew put into this mother daughter storyline (FTF haters are not welcome on this page, respectfully). I can't wait to see how both of these misunderstood but healing women (who radiate "little/big sister" and "mom" energy respectively) are gonna interact with a) the lonely, easily manipulated and well intentioned but ignorant collector (a mix of both their interests as a magic being with a space motif! I just realized that lol) and b) the nasty puritan white man who's really obsessed with conforming to society's norms even when it literally doesn't benefit him at all.

Anyway, I believe in noceda( AND clawthorne 👀) family supremacy 💙

[peonycats]

If you had the possibility what would you change in China's character?

Well, I would first probably make his character just less japan-centric overall 😂😂 Like that backstory of Japan being found and raised by China? Nah, I would nix that immediately.

I'd also just give China more of a fiery temper and sharper tongue, to match the irl Chinese people I know (why are we all so short-tempered all the time omg) and also, not make him the main nation (out of the Allies+Axis) that gets weirdly and specifically humiliated with him not really fighting back about it beyond making a few embarrassed comments about it???

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

Loving the moon being a symbol/significant part of the psychotic community (because lunacy/lunatic) 🌙

Free to Use With Credit

Credit for moon with psywiggle symbol to @/actuallyschizophrenic

[desimartinis]

[flyingclubhouse]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1193010257/block-print-sew-on-patch-support-your

The new patches are in my shop.

[schizotypalpd-culture-is]

Schizo culture is being afraid of taking/starting on meds because “what if I loose my silliness?” 🥹

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[mcnuggyy]

another thing that annoys me about tektok are those ones w straight women in their straight relationships not telling their boyfriends what sound they’re using that always comment on how “effeminate” or “twink-like” their bf is like… you are just reinventing new kinds of homophobia and ways of calling people gay (derogatory) leaves a bad taste in my mouth yugh

[everymadara]

Chapter 674

[left-the-room]

Some people have blood type A, some have B or AB or O. That's a neutral fact about their bodies and it might be important information in medical settings. That's not biological essentialism. Some people have organs that produce/ could produce large gametes and the associated secondary sex characteristics. That's also not biological essentialism.