#settle colonialism

[thebisexualwreckoning]

not to defend the usamericans but the way i have seen europeans on their high horse here on this platform acting like the us (specifically, never canada) is this uniquely evil state for it's violent and bloody past never not manages to piss me off. quick, answer me! who colonised the Indigenous peoples of turtle island? no, you can't look up the answer on your phone.

the same with australians btw. please, enlighten me on the current rate of Indigenous youth who are part of the prison incarceration and 'justice' system. surely it must be negligible if you are presenting yourself as this paragon of virtue in comparison to the settler colonial united states?

[queer-filam-artivism]

"I think it is important not to have a binary analysis of binaries. The presumption that binarism is bad and hybridity good often works against indigenous interests. Hence, in the case of queer of color critique, the subjectless critique actually relies on a “mixed” or “hybrid” subject who is positioned against the Native foil...Since not all peoples are in a postcolonial relationship vis-à-vis the state, a binary analysis of the colonizer and colonized can sometimes be helpful in highlighting the current conditions of settler colonialism that continue to exist today both in the United States and in the rest of the world."

Andrea Smith, "Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism