#Afro native

[pinklikeroses]

Blacktober

Quick doodle of Elisa Maza to celebrate 30 yrs of Gargoyles ✨

One of the best animated cartoons of all time with a beautiful Afro native heroine ❤️👏🏽

One of my all time favorite inspirations

[indigaux]

Naomi Native depicted as Oshun, Yoruba goddess of love, beauty, and fertility

Created by A.J. Hamilton

[simplynovology]

INDIGENOVEMBER!!!

The 3rd year of IndigeNovember starts tomorrow! Here are the rules and the prompts! If you have questions, feel free to message me! Indigenous peoples from all over (full or mixed) are welcome to join! Keep in mind that all creatives are welcome; it doesn't HAVE to be drawings!

[madinscurianmermaid]

For this Native American History Month, I wanna send a special shout out to intersex Native and Indigenous folks, to gender non-conforming Native and Indigenous folks, to nonbinary Native and Indigenous folks, to genderfluid Native and Indigenous folks, and especially to intersex Black Native and Afro-Indigenous folks, to gender non-conforming Black Native and Afro-Indigenous folks, to nonbinary Black Native and Afro-Indigenous folks, to genderfluid Black Native and Afro Indigenous folks.

I'm Black Native and Afro-Indigenous; I'm nonbinary and genderfluid, and in context with me discovering and reclaiming gender identities and gender expression descriptors from my Native/Indigenous culture and especially from specific Indigenous groups in my blood, I'm nadleehi (Navajo/Diné), asegi udanto (Tsalagi), sxints (Nuxalk) and dilbaa (Navajo/Diné again). (I also have extensive heritage from Algonquin, Lakota, Blackfoot, Métis, Iroquois, Seminole, Nêhiyaw, Mi'kmaw, etc. and many, many, many, many other tribes.)

Then on top of that, I found out I was born intersex which I found out later in life, which along with me learning the history of how Native Americans have often held intersex folks, androgynous folks, feminine males and masculine females in high respect has been a very healing and enlightening part of my journey, culturally and expression wise.

In fact, I've been thinking about how American western culture fixates on sex and gender way too much and mainly in context of forcing colonialist eurowestern gender boxes on folks, especially black and indigenous folks, forcing labels or labelessness on us too often. And as an Afro-indigenous woman/femme, I've already been in the process of deprogramming from colonialist gender norms and reconnecting with my blackness and my Native/Indigenous American and Indigenous/Aboriginal roots, and at times my gender expression and identity intersects with that. Lily Gladstone (who uses she and singular they pronouns) worded it perfectly as decolonizing gender and that's the journey I've been on, and a journey that I'm still on as it's ever evolving and increasingly more nuanced and complex.

Anyways, I just wanna say that I love you guys, I see you and I wanna send out as much love, light and warmth to many of you as possible. 💕💕

[sasha4books]

Book Spotlight 📖

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

shoutout to afro-indigenous folk. y'all are an extremely underappreciated part of the native community n i hope this reaches some of you :)

[crippledwithrage]

Just a reminder if you're writing a story of POC characters, especially native american characters, depicting us takes time and respect.

If they're in a modern environment, dont make them "normal" like white people are "normal".

Our cultures are very much alive and connected to us. It may be easy to give the characters long hair and a scene eating frybread, but tossing our culture when its not convenient isnt an option.

For example, the fanart and fanfic of Pavitr, aka spider India, whitewashed the hell out of him for convenience. Many ignored his connection to his culture in favor of a (colorist) feminine depiction of him in white centered beauty.

You need to understand how our cultures influence our way of life, and what culture you're representing.

It's not copy and pase from chad or Elizabeth, because our foundational upbringing shapes who we become. Please consider our cultures when writing poc and native characters.

[angryrdpanda]

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[vpsstudios]

The Chief

[flowingthrough]

Tumblr I’ve missed you!

[simplynovology]

My two fits i wore for class

[yourdailyqueer]

Débora Nascimento

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 16 June 1985 ��

Ethnicity: Italian, native Brazilian, afro Brazilian 

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Actress, model

[crybabyboyscout]

It’s funny how y’all they/thems want to deny culture norms for when it comes to gender in modern society but call yourselves two-spirited and embrace Native American gender norms. Y’all are so lost. Seek help. “Afro-Indigenous”. Do you even know what nation you’re claiming to be part of? Do you even practice any indigenous culture or do you just claim it as an ethnicity?

🤣 you could’ve invested the time you took to send this on yourself. Instead, you could’ve asked what ethnicity I am, what tribes I belong to.

If you spent more than 2 seconds coming to my blog to bash me, you’d know full well where I’m from, what I practice, what my beliefs are.

Have a good day.

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Alastor being an only child doted on by his mother vs Alastor having a dozen siblings who are scattered between Heaven and Hell. . . Hmm. . . . . .

[magnoliamyrrh]

thats why it hurts my brain too when ppl have intense ass arguments abt what race specific "hard to classify" groups are

the balkans are just one example of this bc weve been considered a bunch of shit throughout history and we exist in a weird position always but. there are So Many ethnic groups and regions of the world which are like this

and ppl will go on entire things with the upmost seriousness trying to "race" whatever ethnicity when its like....... dude do you not understand.... does the entire argument itself not make you see.... this is all made up and this conversation makes no damn sense bc there isnt actually any sort of biological basis that this shit is based on ,, ,,, race is Largely some bullshit made up for the sake of oppression and youre trying So Hard to shove ppl into it instead of understanding the complexities of the situation...why..... pls stop