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wait relistening to the pjo musical again. why the fuck does every adaptation of percy fight the minotaur with riptide 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 PERCY JACKSON WAS ABLE TO FIGHT THE MINOTAUR IN THE WOODS!!! WITH HIS BARE HANDS!!!!! (/ref)
POCAHONTAS: Colors of Colonization (The Dangerous and Manipulative Romanticization of Indigenous
Women, Children & Ongoing Genocide)
Before reading: This post deals with many mature and NSFW themes and imagery. Additionally, this is a political post.
"POCAHONTAS:" Her Real Story
est. 1596 - 1617
Let’s say it like it is...
“Pocahontas” was a nickname given to Matoaka, a First Nations SA,
kidnapping and human trafficking victim, in mockery. The name
Pocahontas translates to “the naughty one.” According to John Smith himself, Matoaka was only 10 to 11 years of age when they encountered one another for the first time. This pedophilic turn of events altered the lives, images and wellbeing of Indigenous children and women forever.
Matoaka is known by many names. Amonute was a less private name used by her. In this post, I will refer to her as Matoaka as that is how many of her community members remember her by & share her story.
Matoaka was imprisoned at the Jamestown colony for over a year
by English colonizers, where she was repeatedly physically and
sexually assaulted as a jailed sex slave. She was held captive as
an attempt to force her father who was the chief of her tribe, the
Pamunkey people, to give up their land and people.
Matoaka was forcibly displaced and taken to England as a
“showcase” of both the “exotic nature” of Indigenous women, but
how a Native could be whitewashed and taken advantage of for
the sole benefit of Englishmen. She was given diseases, neglected
and malnourished, and repeatedly forced into sexual relations
with white men.
*This unfortunate story also helped to popularize some well-known slurs which are derogatory towards Indigenous women and girls.
Due to this constant abuse and misogynistic, genocidal treatment, Matoaka died at only 21 years old. She had no idea that white people (and their supporters) would go on once she passed to create the myth of Pocahontas, a myth in which Matoaka was a “good Indian” who would defend white people and rescue the “love of her life” from her savage, sadistic family & tribal community. From this stereotype came the colonial myths that we follow and defend today, that impact Native people individually as a whole and shape how others justify the past and ongoing genocide that we experience. As a way to dehumanize us and ignore the struggles our women go through - even to indoctrinate our children, and alter their image of their own self-worth (another attempt to “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” which was the motto for residential boarding schools) - Pocahontas is a story that is passed down to children and audiences as an “innocent” showcase that completely erases the femicide Indigenous women grapple with in hyper-invisible society today.
Please take a moment to review this post made by popular rap artist Nicki Minaj:
What is that?
The image / post above was shared by Nicki Minaj on Instagram.
*When originally posted by Nicki Minaj, Matoaka's chest was not censored as shown here, of my memory.
When called in & called out for how dangerous this post was, Nicki Minah bullied, cursed out, harassed, abused, etc, Indigenous women and defenders in the comments, and then turned comments off as a way to - admittedly by her - silence Native advocates. She expressed that she had a right to sexualize Pocahontas and that she didn't care about the impact it had on First Nations women, as well as emphasizing other controversial points.
*Nicki Minaj has also been known to use an Indigenous slur in her music, proving controversial to Native communities.
*You can learn more about how Nicki Minaj supports predatory behavior (in general) here. You can learn about how her brother was sentenced to prison for child rape here. You can read about how she was in full support of her brother here. According to this Facebook update here, Nicki Minaj even testified for her brother against the victim. Her brother pleaded guilty, but she was still in support of him (read here). Nicki Minaj has been known to support other offenders throughout her life and career.
More Examples (with a few notes)
As long as you recognize the impact of Pocahontas and Disney’s dangerous story, it’s okay to enjoy things. Life is a balance. However, this user was profiting off of the anti-Indigenous & racist misogyny on her platform. When Native fans (and allies) expressed discomfort or tried to share knowledge about Matoaka’s true story, they were met with extreme backlash and verbal violence. Unfortunately, some of the users were continuously harassed for many days (or longer) after commenting under this post. Almost all comments were polite or considerate, until this user proved to be apathetic to the plight of Indigenous women.
*Please also take notice of how this user took a racist character design, and morphed it into an “Indigenous fashion aesthetic” (furthering the harmful depictions of Native culture in a media / day of age where accurate depictions are ridiculed and minimized - Native people do have fashion, both traditional and modern, so calling this an "Indigenous fashion aesthetic" was objectifying and erasive of our efforts to be seen as real people, which is unfortunately still a struggle for us today). This was quite harmful, and was done specifically during a time where MMIW movements were being silenced on platforms like Instagram and Facebook, assault + murder rates going up, and Pocahontas was a hot topic in Disney discourse.
*Notice how a lot of art is overly sexualized, depictions of the relationship with Matoaka and John Smith are depictions of romanticized abuse ("love beyond limits"), and that common cosplays of this character are no less racist than Asian-fishing or Blackface.
From the Pamunkey Nation: Leave Matoaka alone!
Aside from the Pocahontas Myth detrimentally impacting Indigenous
women & youth, and sharing a dangerous story that is still a real, shared experience today, many members of the Pamunkey Nation are asking you to Leave Matoaka Alone. Let her rest in peace, and let her tribe HEAL! Consider supporting & uplifting Pumunkey voices, art, women, children & lives.
Did you know that Matoaka's tribe - though such a widely known people, thanks to Disney - was federally unrecognized? This made it difficult for the tribal community to establish economic security, and prompted various concerns across the nation of well-being, survival, and cultural preservation. You can read about it here. You can learn about their victory in finally becoming federally recognized just a decade ago here.
Though the tribe in recent years as attempted to separate themselves from the Pocahontas Myth and its mainstream popularity, you can learn about their collaborative efforts to teach Matoaka's true story and educate others about Native women here.
I also recommend checking out this "Pamunkey Recognition" article here, and visiting the Pamunkey tribal website here.
Statement on White House Use of “Pocahontas” Slur
Read about it here:
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center stands with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) the Native American Journalist
The Enduring Legacy of the Pocahontas Myth
Read about it here:
Four hundred years after her death, misperceptions of the Native American icon continue to shape the cultural image of indigenous peoples—th
Now, what can you actually do about all of this?
Here are a few options and resources if you’re looking to get involved and combat modern Indigenous femicide, modern-day genocide, and violent colonization in the U.S.
Donate:
Check the list of where to donate here:
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Act
Check the list of where to start acting here:
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Share:
This resource. Share Indigenous posts. Share our
stories, shops, profiles, news, etc to combat hyper-invisibility and destigmatize our culture and women.
Not only share, but listen. Learn*. And be unified with us.
*There are dozens of statistics on the MMIW crisis, but it is too personal and disheartening for me to report in this post. Since the government does not properly keep track of the MMIW femicide, please get your facts from Native organizations who work to provide accurate statistics and records. Please follow MMIW hashtags and share flyers of missing people - as police do not usually look for them.
why is it that when im reading fanfic i feel like i have a fairly good metric for if something is characterized accurately but when im trying to write suddenly its like ive never seen this character in my life. would he say that. would he fucking say that. suddenly i have no idea
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Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.
(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)
Are you safe?
Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.
I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.
I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.
A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.
The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.
I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.
…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.
Voting ended onJul 14
(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)
bro i'm tired of seeing "the big three kids" art that is percy, nico, and jason don't get me wrong i love jason too but he's roman give me big three kids art with percy, nico, and thalia
yeah yeah yeah. lets talk more about percy and mrs. o'leary because that boy canonically both needs and has a therapy dog and more importantly that therapy dog is very fluffy and warm and ten times bigger than him and can you tell i'm excited about this
People who have detransitioned (wether out of necessity or those who don't see being trans as "a trend") are NOT your enemy
And if you think that a specific group of trans people or gnc people or any"the enemy", you're just wrong. No group of trans people is the reason for the hate cast towards us, and saying so is transphobic.
It is not trans people's fault for transphobia.
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