DMykkie00

Queer Autistic Midwestern guy. Into Onomastics, Psychology, Geography, Linguistics, etc. 22.

[antinativefaves]

Prairie Band lands $30M contract for ICE ‘mega centers’

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YOUR FAVE IS ANTI NATIVE: PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION

Natives can engage in Anti-Native racism especially at a time where Indigenous people are being racially profiled by ICE and Border Patrol and told their Tribal IDs are invalid.

Remember that this isn't a reflection of the ENTIRE Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but the elected officials in charge. Power corrupts, power reveals.

There's a housing crisis in Indian Country and the United States as a whole but they can set up mega jails, detention centers and concentration camps. That should piss everyone off. If you're complicit in this, you've chosen the monster.

[neechees]

I think if you're not Native, and you see Natives talking about an actor we suspect could be/is a pretendian, you shouldn't immediately run up to the conversation with "Well x actor is mixed so that doesn't mean theyre nor Native American!" And assume that's the reason we're suspecting them.

Some of the most prominent, most beloved Native celebrities & household names are mixed race, like Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell, Radmilla Cody, Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, and so many more. Like yeah there's lots of Natives even, who are super weird and racist about BQ and mixed Natives.

But a lot of the time we're suspecting these actors specifically because they're not actually Native & are exhibiting some classic pretendian behaviors, not because they're mixed race or allegedly "mixed race".

[neechees]

I want to touch up on this a bit more but I still find it really weird that White people are super confident entering a conversation about pretendians with Natives and trying to tell US who THEY think is a pretendian or not.

I think its part of a wider trend of White people thinking they have the authority or right to comment on Native American identity & race dynamics, & culture etc. Like thats why mixed race Natives get so many comments of "you dont LOOK Native American haha" (said by a person who barely interacts with Native Americans), or why masses people instantly accused Sacheen Littlefeather of being a pretendian without sources TWICE, or how Natives with the most classic Native, looks-like-they-jumped-out-of-an-Edward-Curtis-photo face will get told they "dont look Native" (usually said by trolls, but still).

Like why do you think it's at all appropriate to enter that conversation with us? What exactly are your credentials that you think you have ANY authority to determine who is, or isn't Native American (re: if you're not Native, you have none.)? I'd say it's almost a topic of intracommunity issues that is weird if outsiders try to weigh in on it. Like if you think an actor is a pretendian, maybe keep it to yourself. Unless you see us confirm for certain that an actor is a pretendian, don't say anything about it. Because half the time, White ppl will instantly believe any actor or person who claims Native American heritage IS Native American (Kelsey Chow, Johnny Depp, Cher, "Tinsel Korey") but then will accuse actual Ndns of being pretendians with no real basis (Julia Jones, Sacheen Littlefeather, a shitton of ppl on Keeler's list) & then keep the misinformation going.

This is not your conversation to have, and I don't know what makes these Moniyawak think it is.

[alinahdee]

This is the shit Abigail Thorn's fans and defenders have been saying to Indigenous people for about a fucking week now so like...

[mithli-archive]

american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.

[mithli-archive]

im serious about this though. as an urban indian, i definitely cant speak on this as much as a rez indian could. but i know from talking to rez friends i have and from what the american indian movement has screamed for over the years that we need land we can grow on, we need clean water, we need to allow the wildlife that once lived in this land to live here again (meaning you need to listen to us before building those high speed rails you all get so hard over).

you cant drool over the zapatistas while ignoring people in your own country who have a similar goal

[mithli-archive]

silly me I never provided things to read on the topic of decolonization! I'd personally suggest the following as "beginner level" essential reading to understand decolonization:

Discourse on Colonialism (Aimé Césaire) - this is more a focus on colonization, but I feel it's a necessary read in my opinion as in order to understand decolonization I believe it's important to first understand colonization.

Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (Tuck, Yang)

also an "easy to process" read, to understand landback specifically here in Turtle Island, I'd suggest reading The Red Deal (there is a pdf, I don't mean the article with the same title)

[marxism-transgenderism]

Discourse on Colonialism (PDF, ebook, mobi)

The Wretched of the Earth (PDF, ebook)

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (PDF)

The Red Deal (PDFs of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

[antinativefaves]

Abigail Thorn really made an entire video about settler colonialism in the United States and called us "Indians" the entire time. Like Natives haven't been telling ya'll to not call us that if you're not Indigenous for decades now.

[devon-munn-75-blog]

It's my 9 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[ouroborosmoons]

[gorybomb]

emphatically: ugh.

the big damo tweet stays immortal

[theweirdbean]

And it gets worse.

It's embarrassing??? Sir- what??

[yellghoul]

LET GAZA LIVE, FREE THEM ALL, VIVA VIVA INTIFADA

we've been watching a horrific genocide for 4 months now, and your silence in complicity. ceasefire is the bare minimum, and just the beginning.

free to use, print, repost. link to images and variants

commissions for palestine

[animentality]

saga of a great dad

[devon-munn-75-blog]

Happy New Years

[tokkionline]

authors who support Palestine

because please, please don't support those who think israel is in the right. the following authors have openly showed their support for Palestine

feel free to add your own, and please do correct me if i'm wrong about an author

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Holly Black, author of The Cruel Prince series (has shown her support by donating her books for palestinian kids)

Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights duology (has shown her support for Palestine and donated for Gaza's Children's relief fund)

Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas trilogy

Xiran Jay Zhao, author of Iron Widow

Ann Liang, author of If You Could See The Sun

Zoulfa Katouh, author of As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow (very vocal about her support of Palestine)

S. A. Chakraborty, author of the Deavabad trilogy (donated for the children of Gaza)

Sally Rooney, author of Normal People (refused to sell translation rights of her latest novel to an israeli publisher in support of Palestine)

R.F Kuang, author of The Poppy War trilogy (has donated for gaza relief funds)

Axie Oh, author of XOXO (donated for the gaza children's relief fund)

Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis

more on this twitter thread

[stardustmuseum]

just posted this to instagram and facebook. let’s see which auntie gets pissed off at me lmao

[northern-punk-lad]

JKR is once again attacking a woman of colour

[mentally-thrown-out-a-window]

Isn’t ssooo crazy that the ‘defender of women’s rights’ constantly attaches and harasses women who aren’t hyper feminine looking all the time or who otherwise don’t fit in to the gender binary

That’s sooo willld

[desertbuddie]

Transphobia, Misogyny and Racism all intwined and like the bigot JK is she is once again doing all three.

[agnesmontague]

[weepingfireflies]

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)

[rribb0n-deactivated20250509]

hot take: people who believe in a gender trinary are just as bad as people who believe in a gender binary. like "you're either girl, non binary, or a boy" "wouldn't that just be non binary" that's not how it works. it annoys me sm when people try to police others identities just because it doesnt make sense to them. you're still shoving people into a box. let me be what i want.

[silenthillmutual]

"we need more weird gays" you can't handle aces & aros. you can't handle queer-platonic relationships. you can't handle it/its users. you can't handle neopronouns and xenogenders. you can't handle polyamory.

[silenthillmutual]

you all get so bent out of shape and HAVE to give your opinions on how WEIRD and ANNOYING and DEVESTATING these things are to you like damn what makes you different, exactly, from homophobes?

[silenthillmutual]

you all literally sound like boomers stomping your feet and sobbing over shit that literally does not effect you in any way. if you dont like these things, here's a thought: keep it to yourself!