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Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

a poem from my amazing friend Emma that genuinely changed my life

so there's a natural order to this world and we need atleast four million mans in boots with armor, vehicles, and firearms to enforce it, otherwise something unnatural might happen

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Now that we have proven that we will not accept annihilation, we find ourselves in an era of reconciliation. Reconciliation? Like many of my sisters and brothers, I have trouble understanding what it is that we are trying to reconcile. Is the time for fighting over? Have we come through to the other side of the nightmare that is history? Have we decolonized this country? Reconciliation: the invitation from Canada to share in the spoils of our nations’ subjugation and dispossession. What a tainted gift, and such a false promise. Reconciling with colonialism cannot heal the wounds the colonizers have wrought on our collective existence. The essential harm of colonization is that the living relationship between our people and our land has been severed. By fraud, abuse, violence and sheer force of numbers, white society has forced us into the situation of being refugees and trespassers in our own homelands and we are prevented from maintaining the physical, spiritual and cultural relation-ships necessary for our continuation as nations. Our struggle is far from over. If anything, the need for vigilant consciousness as Indigenous people is stronger than ever. Reconciliation is recolonization because it is allowing the colonizer to hold on to his attitudes and mentality, and does not challenge his behaviour towards our people or the land. It is recolonization because it is telling Indigenous children that the problem of history is fixed. And yet they know through life experience that things have not changed and are getting worse, so they must conclude I am the problem.

— "It’s all about the land" by Taiaiake Alfred Whose land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization

digesting feelings but my metabolism isn’t great

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June fieldnotes include phrases like ITS ALWAYS WORTH IT TO PUT YOURSELF OUT THERE and April included YOU WILL COME TO REGRET YOUR INACTION THE MOST

self love affirmations saying i don’t feel this way about anybody else

imagine this: a group of social worker students hanging out at a park. a robot dog runs by. the robot dog owner stops to talk to us. he tells us his dog cost him $56,000. he tells us he’s in grade 9. he tells us he has two other robot dogs. he tells us he wants to work in robotics at lockheed martin or another defense technology company. he tells us ethics won’t buy him a house. we all gasp. his mom calls him and he leaves, his robot dog jogging beside him.