Instead of celebrating the 4th of July this year, I ask that you take a moment to educate yourself and honor some of the Indigenous cultures and nations the United States has conquered and killed in the name of “freedom”
Be mindful of the land you live on, and look up and acknowledge the Indigenous tribe that owns the land you are on.
Donate to their local causes and educate yourself on their history. Do research and look deep.
Check the link below to find out who’s land you live on, from there, you can dig deep to find individual nations sites and causes.
Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.
We cannot celebrate “independence day” on stolen land.
Y'all ever see those posts that r like "leave your hometown" and think about the place of privilege that has to come from? I can't leave my hometown. I'm native. My tribe is literally dying. If we don't gain full sovereignty by the time I'm 50, we'll be declared a dead tribe, and lose our rights! Like I Actively Have To Stay Near Home to help the other members of my tribe from my generation and before to gain sovereignty so the children right now don't lose their rights.
And like. You know what rights we're talking about when natives talk about rights? Because we aren't talking about hunting and fishing rights, a lot of these treaties were written up to protect us from the continued genocide. They were written to protect our culture. They were written to protect our people. Our lives.
culturally-specific orientations and gender identities are real and they exist whether you want to validate them or not. terfs and truscum refuse to accept these facts because their ideologies can only be defended by racist and colonialist arguments, such as insisting that gender is biologically-dictated or that your gender is not real unless you experience gender dysphoria and pursue medical transition with hormones, surgeries, and legal document changes.
biological essentialism, cis-normativity, and the pathological idea of ‘transgenderism’ are racist, they’re concepts made up by colonizers that are violently enforced by christianity and white supremacy. when we say “gender is a social construct” we mean “the gender binary and the idea of transness, as it is defined by western standards, are ideas constructed by a white christian society.” i am ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ only because i am considered trans and queer by white christian standards. in my own culture, i would not have to ‘transition’ because my gender would simply be accepted.
colonizers force upon us their concepts of gender, biological sex, and sexuality while they continue to erase ours. you cannot separate the extermination of our culturally-specific sexual orientations or genders from the violent genocidal destruction of our cultures. the words that once existed for our concepts of gender and attraction were erased when our languages were banned and we were punished, beaten, and tortured for teaching them.
my own two-spirit identity can only be labeled using the language of my oppressors because the words for what i am are no longer spoken.
By protesting and going out on hunger strike, environmental justice advocates helped stop a controversial metal scrapper from being built on Chicago’s Southeast Side.
On February 18, Chicago’s Health Department denied the final permit that would have allowed a metal scrapper to open a controversial facility on the city’s Southeast Side, a predominantly Black and Latinx neighborhood. …
Lauren Bianchi, who serves on the campaign’s steering committee, a Chicago Public Schools social studies teacher: … “After the hunger strike, we got our first major victory. The city did not respond to our demands during the course of the hunger strike. … Two months later, Biden’s head of the EPA, Michael Regan, steps in.
“That was the first major victory because it meant that as long as that health assessment was happening, the permit could not be issued. And the fact that the federal government got involved was huge. It should not have taken a hunger strike to get to that point, but it was a huge victory. …
“After the third health assessment meeting is when we got the decision that the permit had been denied. …
“All these struggles are connected. We need to be talking to each other, we need to be learning from each other. And we do need to build alliances between all of these environmental struggles, because ultimately this is very much connected to the movement for climate justice. We need an economic system that is not going to destroy our air and water. We don’t currently have that. This society too often puts profits over people.”
Nick Barry, a young nonspeaking advocate, writes about how the privacy and autonomy of nonspeakers is often violated by those around them, h
"The words to tell about your day are all in your head, but you can’t get them out...The feeling of not being able to control your own narrative is crushing."
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