[slayingholofernes]

I’m Sean, a 21-year-old stone top butch lesbian. Poly and partnered, butch4both.

I’m a mechanic from the American West. I love a good bar, a quiet beach, and the smell of leather and cigarettes.

Don’t be afraid to say hi.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

I need each and every person who sees this to pay attention to what is going on with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The same SCOTUS that refered to tribal land as a territory of the state is about to hear a case that might overturn ICWA.

ICWA allows Alaska Natives and Native Americans control over the adoption and foster care placement of Native American and Alaska Children. In practice what this ensures is that if a Native American or Alaska Native child cannot be raised with their parents', the extended family will be given custody. If the extended family cannot care for the child, the child is placed with a family in their tribe or, barring that, with a family who is Native American or Alaska Native.

This act is important for two reasons:

For centuries, Native Americans and Alaska Natives were forcibly assimilated into White culture. From the 1800s to the late 1900s, children were taken from their families and either adopted out to White people or put in boarding schools. If parents refused, they were sometimes incarcerated, and they could lose custody of their other children. There are cases where tribes would hide their children and tell people who came that they had none...so the white people started showing up uannounced. The children sent to these schools were abused. Some were murdered. And survivors still live with the trauma. ICWA was passed to stop this...but not even 50 years after it being passed, it's at risk.

Native Americans and Alaska Natives are constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty. We all know the government picks and chooses when it wants to honor that, but Native Americans and Alaska Natives are supposed to have sovereignty. The idea that one country can step in and tell sovereign tribes and nations that they are not allowed to control the placement of their own children should be absurd. The U.S. doesn't tell Britain what to do with their foster care system...but the SCOTUS knows that Native Americans and Alaska Natives don't have an army or navy like Britain does. Because of this the SCOTUS believes it has the right to violate years of precedent and treaties. It knows that it will be protected no matter what it decides.

So I'm asking people to keep an eye on ICWA. I'm asking them to boost the signal. And I'm asking them to protest if it falls.

[hagoftheholler]

If you were outraged by the supreme court overturning roe v wade, you better be outraged by this too.

[merlinaddams]

EMMA D’ARCY

Photographed by Piczo for i-D Magazine

[robertocustodioart]

Margot McKendry and Marc Bohan by Richard Avedon 1961

[humanrightsconnected]

It’s Native American Heritage Month! As we commemorate the cultures, traditions, histories, contributions, and achievements of the Native American communities, discover from the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW), the Indian Law Resource Center, Indigenous Women Rising, the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC), and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) on how you can play a role in advancing the rights of Native American women! 

📷 by Boston Public Library on Unsplash

[chainsawpunk]

Harrison Begay, Untitled (Bison Hunter), ND, gouache on paper, 19 x 16 ¾ inches

[leforetenchante]

Reverse of a gold brooch, inscribed in Medieval French ‘Ours and Always at your Desire’, 1400. The Victoria & Albert Museum. Via: Erica Weiner.

[jacobandtheangel]

being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just *mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns-*

[vizuart]

Woody Crumbo - Three Eagle Dancers (ca. 1935)

[butchfemmeculture]

Gender Troubles: The Butches

[the-end-of-the-chase]

As encapsulated so perfectly in Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home’:

As a butch woman who was once a wee butch girl, I can attest to the sheer power of this.

[slayingholofernes]

You’re probably familiar with this song, but did you know that the band Redbone is Native American? The band was founded by brothers Pat and Lilly Vegas, of Shoshone and Mexican-American heritage. All band members were indigenous. They were the first group of Native American ancestry to have a No. 1 single. “Come and Get Your Love” made history when they reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974. The single sold over a million copies.

[delioncunt]

I had this image of you - inside of me - like a part of me.

BOUND (1996) dir. Lana & Lilly Wachowski

[aurpiment]

Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

[oarfjsh]

[genderoutlaws]

Storme Webber, a Black Sugpiaq/Choctaw Two-Spirit Lesbian artist and poet, photographed by Diné artist Will Wilson for his ongoing Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange project. | 2018

Wilson employs a wet-plate collodion photographic technique, based on the nineteenth-century method that involves exposing and then developing a plate that has been coated in light-sensitive chemicals. He explores identity, the photographic medium as both art and science, and community. Wilson collaborates with his sitters, who determine their pose, clothing, props, and how they are presented. As a gesture of reciprocity, Wilson gives the sitters the original photograph, while retaining the right to print and use scans for artistic purposes. Originally, CIPX was Wilson’s way to work toward a re-imagined vision of Native people in response to historic photographers such as Edward Curtis and his The North American Indian (1907-1930).

[glitterock]

do i make you nervous corky?

@g0thf3m

cishet men dni

[horsesweat-blog]

[cowboycouture]

Vintage cowboy boots