HELP A DISABLED, TWO-SPIRIT INUK MAKE ENDS MEET AND REPAIR HIS WHEELCHAIR!
Hello! So in short, I paid off my rent and was already worried about finances for the summer due to not being able to work a traditional job. Unfortunately, we ran into a bad spot when the right castor of my motorized wheelchair broke and fell off. There is a place where we can get it repaired, but sadly we’re forced to pay out of pocket and is expensive. I use a wheelchair and i suffer from non-epileptic seizures, chronic fatigue and chronic, debilitating pain. The seizures make me primarily use my power-chair, as my theyre triggered by me overextending myself. Due to this, my ability to go outside has been much more limited and it’s been effecting my mental health. We’ve also been struggling with affording food.
stills from the short film i made in the spring, “RETRIBUTION FOR WILD GIRLS” !!!! It is a student film and i will post it probably eventually!! ><
it’s about a werewolf girl who kills and eats a guy who was following her at night, and i made it bc it was cathartic and self indulgent and helped me process how i angry i am at patriarchy and living in the world that men set up to be so horrible and predatory for us!
With a heavy heart, I come to you all with the news announced by close friends of Cat Frazier that she had passed away on Monday, June 29.
She had been running @animatedtext since 2012, with her impact on the internet SHAPING tumblr. If you have a years long history on this site, you’ve seen her art.
She ran a venue in Oakland called Oakland Secret, a punk venue where I’d vend at regularly as an artist. She made a safe space for queer artists, artists of color, and local furs too. I am forever grateful for her work both in the Bay Area creative scene and online, and am forever changed by the totality of her impact.
I’ll be linking some articles from the 2010’s about her impact online: The Fader | Action | Jezebel | ObviouslySocial
I invite you to take a visit through her archive, and if you have a long history with this site like I do, it’s like walking down memory lane. (open link in browser)
we're not ever gonna make this website a safe space for black people or have a substantial black user base anymore unless y'all (non blacks obv) come to grips with the fact that y'all hold internal biases whether some of y'all be blatantly racist and hide behind your disabilities/mental illnesses queerness/transness or it's something as simple as if you see a black face on your dash you immediately swipe up
Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. It’s okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so it’s okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food
“Qalupalik Encounter” Acrylic on Canvas, June 2026.
The Qalupalik is a dangerous creature within traditional Inuit stories. When children walk over ice, the Qalupalik will burst through the ice, put them in her amautik (a parka with an enlarged hood to hold a baby) and dive back down into the frigid water. It is told as a cautionary tale.
“You Better Mark my Words” Acrylic on canvas, June 2026.
I created this as a traditional version of a seperate piece that I created awhile ago. This represents Inuit resistance, specifically female Inuit resistance. You don’t see a lot of Inuit girls/women drumming, so having her holding a drum is significant to her strength. Behind her are the eyes and hands of Sedna, who I personally interpret in the modern day as a symbol of feminine strength and resilience.
APTN Investigates presents Scar Tissue: The legacy of medical experimentation on Inuit in the Arctic in the 1960s and '70s.
Headline: Scar Tissue: The legacy of medical experimentation on Inuit in the Arctic
Publisher: APTN News
Date published: 29 June 2026
Selected text from article:
“I felt kind of ashamed of myself because those children that didn’t go to residential school knew a lot more about hunting, the land and it felt that we were kind of out of place because we didn’t know the way of traditional hunting practices,” says [Paul] Quassa.
In addition to the trauma of residential schools and forced relocations, Inuit were also victims of what’s known as the RCMP dog slaughter, where from the 1950s to 1970s the Mounties killed tens of thousands of sled dogs under the guise of public health concerns.
It decimated the Inuit way of life, leaving many proud hunters to feel aimless.
[...]
Funded by grants from the federal government, researchers from various universities conducted medical experiments, including grafting skin from one Inuk to another.
“David Howley, the late David Howely is on my skin, and Marie Ipkangnak, who’s still here, is the other skin,” explains 69-year-old Zacharias Kunuk, identifying the skin on each of his scars. “So my skin sister and my skin brother, that’s how I call them nowadays.” Kunuk is a renowned filmmaker who still lives in Igloolik, about 850 km west of Iqaluit in Nunavut.
[...]
“There was no other way of making money besides soap-stone carving, and they were offering money so I just joined the crowd,” Kunuk says “That was big back then. Five bucks could buy me biscuits, tea, sugar, back then, so I was just helping out in the family.”
Still, Kunuk says $5 or not, even if the procedure was properly explained to him beforehand, he would’ve likely agreed.
He was 18 years old, his grasp of English was not strong, and he thought everybody had to do it, like a mandatory vaccination.
“Because at that time, we listened to the white man, whether we like it or not,” explains Kunuk.
Quassa, Kunuk, and three other Inuit filed a civil lawsuit against the federal government in 2019 over the skin graft experiments.
[...]
The lawsuit Quassa and Kunuk are a part of is taking a while to work its way through the courts.
The delays stem from Canada bringing in the universities of Manitoba, Alberta, and Toronto as third party defendants as it was their employees who conducted the experiments with government funding.
Cooper says that Canada was preparing to argue the case that the universities were entirely at fault, when at the last moment, they switched to a statute of limitations defense.
“Evading Assimilation”, watercolour, white pen and microns on hot-pressed watercolour paper, June 2026.
Very packed with symbolic meaning! It’s an updated version of the piece that got me into art school, so I put as much of myself as i could into this. The lines on my legs represent my chronic pain, with one of my crutches also pointing towards my disability. It’s of me looking out my window and seeing the story of Sedna play out, representing not losing my Inuk-ness in the face of living in a colonized space.
“Not Dead Native”, watercolour and microns on hot-pressed watercolour paper, June 2026.
Another recreation! This time i wanted to test my abilities with making landscapes/natural scenes with watercolours (as the original was made with acrylic.) All the elements have their own symbolic meaning, and this piece is broadly about decolonialism and cultural revival/survival.
haiii !! i’m Holly/Bmo, and this is my primary art account!
Im mixed Indigenous! Inuk and grew up on rez :33
Im a lesbian! specifically butch/futch and i’m married
I am disabled, I suffer from fibromyalgia, FND and i use a wheelchair (ambulatory because of physio) ((i’m also MAD and have autism))
I’m a SUPER multidisciplinary artist! I do traditional paintings, illustrations, prints, sculpture and digital art. I specialize in acrylic / oil / watercolour paintings, illustrations and digital! (and my commissions are open :33)
im into one MILLION fandoms (mainly homestuck, warrior cats and deltarune rn,) bugs like crazy (want to be an entomologist when i finish my current schooling,) environmental biology/pathogenic testing, and more!
i’m a therian ! :33 i’m a husky and maned wolf hybrid !
wish literally any gay papers would talk about lil nas x cause every article is either written with contempt OR makes sweeping assumptions by only quoting the cops and blatantly lies about things they contradict in their own article. like how is there no coverage of support or efforts to keep an eye on his location?
shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.
But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.
And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!
WHERE IS EVERYONE? Pinknews cunts? Them? OutMag? Hello??
Almost a year later, Lil Nas X is out of a mental health rehab program, looking good, saying he feels really good, and seems to be on the way up after all of this. I'm really happy for him. I hope he has good genuine support in his life through family, friends, and folks rooting on him that he can count on.
I am really disappointed but not surprised how quickly a lot of media support for him disappeared, especially queer papers. An interview from before the police incident really highlighted how many people wanted him to fail and wanted to see him fall, including certain pockets within communities that should have has his back.
Happy Happy Pride to Lil Nas X. I hope nothing but good things come his way.
Since Canada is currently trying to sell itself as an "ethical alternative" to Iran's oil, I would just like to remind folks / share some quick information:
More than 50% of Indigenous communities in reserve areas in Canada are at high risk of pipeline spills. When there is a spill, reserves are disproportionately impacted.
The National Energy Board and Supreme Court of Canada has a history of declaring the "public interest and economic interests outweigh Indigenous and treaty rights." Basically, Indigenous peoples don't count enough as "public" to matter.
Pipelines are built without proper consent from the Indigenous Nations they choose to occupy. Keep in mind I say choose, because this is the case even when alternative pipeline routes are suggested that could avoid reserve land. This is a direct, constant, and often violent threat to Indigenous sovereignty.
The MMIW crisis is funded by the oil industry through the creation of worker's "man camps" near reserve land. These "man camps" are nothing but pits of sexual violence and human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls. I am not exaggerating; this is well studied and well documented.
Resources & Sources:
To become an ‘energy superpower’, Canada wants to bulldoze Indigenous rights (START HERE!)
Indigenous Resistance to Alberta Oil and Gas Development Report
When the environment is destroyed, you're destroyed: Achieving Indigenous led pipeline justice
First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion
Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: threat to health equity for Indigenous communities
Is Violence against Indigenous Women in “Canada’s interest”? Liquified Natural Gas in B.C., Sexual Violence & Narratives of Terra Nullius
The colonial playbook never ended, Canada’s pipeline deal proves it
Stand together: Alberta's First Nations and non-Indigenous unite against Big Oil
