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by  sty830

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Protect Cold Wife

(inspiration)

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Plan of the ruins of the Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill, Rome

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We must leave evidence. Evidence that we were here, that we existed, that we survived and loved and ached. Evidence of the wholeness we never felt and the immense sense of fullness we gave to each other. Evidence of who we were, who we thought we were, who we never should have been. Evidence for each other that there are other ways to live—past survival; past isolation.

Mia Mingus (via arabellesicardi)

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me (looking at my plants): why don’t we ever talk

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white caller - “—you blame it on the white man on how we took your land, I don’t understand when the Japanese are coming over and now buying it,and that’s ok? ….I-I-I don’t see how this is about the Haoles are coming over. You come over to our country and buy our land too, ya know it works both ways, I don’t see how you can have these rallies against the white man, this is america ya know.”

Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask - “Let me just say something to this caller, this is not america, this is Polynesia, our country was stolen. that’s one of your problems - you’re ignorant, woefully ignorant. I do! I am very active against Japanese ownership of our land, I have testified repeatedly at various commissions and legislature at opposition to any foreigner owning Hawaiian land. But you, caller, need to learn about Hawaiian history and about where you are.

And that attitude is the same attitude that you have, is the same Joey Carter has. You think you are in america, you are not in america, You are in a colony that is in Polynesia that was forcibly taken, just as, I might add, all of Eastern Europe was forcibly taken by the Soviet Union - Which americans think is a “very very bad” place. “the bad bad Soviet Union”. Well the “bad bad” united states of america took Puerto Rico, it took Alaska, it stole Indian land, it took Hawaii, it took Guam, it took Micronesia, Palau, and you better learn that history because you are the recipient of an imperialist tradition.”

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The shadows in my room make me so happy

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Lee Crutchley

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KangHee Kim

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I am Inuit reblogged from my random Tumblr friends! I love this project and visibility for the Inuit people of Alaska 

Taktuk Hopson, photographed wearing a parka made by her mother, Rainey Hopson. Rainey Hopson: “I made it [parka] last fall. Underneath, the quilted lining part, was from Ben’s cousin, her daughter out grew it. I took the cover off and replaced it with a cover I ordered off of Etsy [laughs]. The ruff (fur sewn around the hood of the parka) is from Ben’s mother, who passed away when they were younger and I kept it. It’s a farmed fox fur [ruff], perfect for little girls. My mom passed away when I was really young, when I was 11, so I didn’t get to learn from her. She sewed. I went to college in Northern California, my grandmother on my step dad’s side lives there, she’s a quilter. She bought me this super old sewing machine. It weighted like 150 pounds. I started sewing there. When I moved back to Alaska, a women from Barrow [Alaska] got me into sewing parkas. She would rip it apart and make you do it over and over again. You have to have a perfect stitching, if its too wide you will get air gaps and if its too small the stitch will rip through the skin. It’s a lost art.” —Taktuk Hopson and Rainey Hopson are both Inupiaq and live in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.

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