#native men

[markos-husband]

Dwayne so sexy. Like, yeah, everyone knows he's hot but he is like. SOOOOO SEXYYY

LIKE WHAT??? WHAT DID THEY FEED BILLY WIRTH TO MAKE HIM THIS SEXY??? It has to be those indigenous genes

[whitecherrylavender]

Never not going to be angry every single time the PWHL hires another white man as a coach.

This is an active choice they are making. And any excuse they can come up with is also a choice.

If you want to claim that there are not enough women and marginalized men to fill the positions you need to prove it. You need to provide me a list of every single professional coach in hockey, and give me your qualification for coaches in this league. I need you to tell me why you made the qualifications the way you did. Because qualifications don’t exist in a vacuum. They can also be imbedded in ableism, white supremacy, and patriarchy.

Maybe there aren’t enough women who want to be professional coaches! Just like how they don’t want to be professional hockey players. Oh wait. They do! Please go back to a feminism 101 with a focus away from bio essentialism and you can rejoin the conversation after.

The PWHL doesn’t pay well enough to entice professional women’s coaches to join the league! Up the pay! Easy. Fixed it. That’s a choice they are making, not a scarcity problem. New leagues require investment and everyone knows that. But while we are on it. White men having the societal and economic privilege to take lower paying jobs while advancing their careers is part of patriarchy and male privilege.

If we have fixed and addressed all these things and there genuinely is not enough women and marginalized men who want to join the league who are qualified, then I need the league to outline the steps and programs they are putting in place to make sure they are fixing the problem.

Anything less than that, is willingly perpetuating systems and that’s not acceptable.

I don’t believe the white men who are coming in and accepting these positions are any kind of genuine feminist allies. They are looking at these positions and seeing the same discrepancy and choosing to continue to contribute to it. Why are they not comfortable calling out hiring discrepancy between white men and literally everyone else in the league? Why are they not also angry?

WhiteCherryLavender! The PWHL and the Walter Group are the system! You can’t expect capitalist elitist to actually care and do the work. I don’t expect them to. That doesn’t mean I won’t call it out and demand better. Especially when they advertise based on being inclusive and building a better future. I want the better future they are trying to sell. Don’t you?

Which is all to say welcome François Méthot as head coach to the Boston Fleet. Blah blah blah. Treat my team well. Take some intersectional feminist classes please. Good luck and all that jazz. I’m sure you’re a perfectly fine person and gonna try your best. I hope it goes well. I currently have nothing against you personally.

[threaded-in-feelings]

Special thanks to @darkeyesshine for putting this pic on my radar 😜

This pic in itself is a fanfic prompt ✍🏾

[global-musings]

Performer During the Heiva Festival in Anau, Bora Bora, French Polynesia - Sasha Popovic

"The Heiva, held every July, is much more than just a festival. It is a true celebration of Polynesian culture, a time when the inhabitants of Bora Bora and all of French Polynesia honor their ancestral traditions through artistic performances and sports competitions. The six communes of Bora Bora compete in song and dance contests, each hoping to win the coveted title."

[twilightmoone4l]

a much deserved post for the best twilight character

[butch-bakugo]

Anyway its FUCKING WEIRD how much y'all white folks and non-natives are obsessed with specifically policing the identities of native Americans. Like it's quite litterally none of y'all's business. 💀

If you're white/non-native, full stop, none of your business. Yes even if you think they are lieing. Yes even if she's talking about Cherokee princesses. Yes even if your native friend is suspects too. Yes even if that person doesn't have tribal sovereignty/doesn't know or identify via their tribe/hasn't had a DNA test. Yes even if they look white/mixed white. I do not care, this is none of your business, we don't need you mfers to tell and warn us and try to gatekeep outside of a community that isn't even fucking yours. Similar to the Hispanic community, a majority of natives are mixed, a majority are mixed with white and a majority pass as white. We can handle appropriators on our own. You are policing and colonizing up our spaces. Its none of your business what tribe they are, what race they look like, who or what makes them native. Its quite litterally none of your business. Us natives can and will handle it. You'd be pissed if you saw us policing white people, Hispanic pple or black people or literally anyone of any race who isn't native. Leave us alone.

And as for fellow natives who do this incessantly because you have a card/arnt wp/rez/raised in culture, you have no business either policing their identities or how they figured it out. You are part of the problem emboldening the colonizers to think they can clock us. They don't have the indicators you do and just because you went through the process doesn't mean you know what it looks like for a totally different tribe. I don't care if you think you can always clock it, you can't. Unless you're from their tribe and their spreading misinformation, you don't know that person, you don't know their card status and you don't know their history. Quit being a dick.

Oh and, just to tack it on here, just because a native may know their tribe or their ancestors or any personal information related to being native DOSENT MEAN you, non native or even other natives, are ENTITLED TO IT. Natives don't have to prove jack fucking shit to you. Be respectful ffs. Everytime anyone who isn't completely native passing says their native, a million non-natives who have no business there worm out of the woodwork like fuckin nasty maggots out of a corpse to ask their tribe, to show paperwork or proof, to get their card or DNA tested and still question them afterwards. Its none of your damn business. You got white papers? You know what specific tribe your ancestors came from? No? Then stfu, god damn.

Oh and to all you white folks knowingly lieing and preying on the kindness and understanding of natives who don't harass you over your race, especially to leverage it to be racist against actual poc? Get a fucking life, colonizer.

And, finally, to all my natives who just learned they were native, who are still learning about their cultures, who are still tracking down their tribe, who aren't capable of getting a government card or don't want to, who aren't capable of getting a reliable test (most dna tests aren't reliable for native American DNA and the only one who is, 23 and me, is ran by Mormons) or don't want to, no matter how much "proof" you want to aquire for yourself, your family or for the world, wether that's all of the above and more or nothing at all, as long as you have enough evidence to prove to yourself and you know it's true, you are welcome in our community. Don't listen to anyone who invalidates you because you don't "look native", wether due to being wp or passing as a completely different race, or the little shits who constantly demand more and more proof from you. You don't have to prove shit to anyone. Fuck the blood quantum purists, fuck the eugenicists. Your tribe loves you and respects you and if they don't, you didn't need that "offical" authority anyway.

💛🩵🤎❤️💛 🪶🧡 we got your back.

[halflightlune]

Luv luv luv

Smilin like a thief~ :/

[theofficialmalewife]

Me when indigenous men/women:

I am SO normal about native men/women i SWEAR