#Indigenous and people of color

[aspharah]

shoutout to bi ppl fr. bi women, bi men, bi nonbinary people. blows a kiss to masc bi women and fem bi men in particular. fat bi people, bi poc, aspec bi people, trans bi people, i love all you guys

[kulapti]

Under the Beautyberry, Aug 2024, ink (brush & fountain pen).

Species from the understory of the oak forests interspersed on the east edge of the North American great plains, here is a Bobcat (Lynx rufus) capturing a Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura), and plants that provide food for the dove and others like it. Plant species shown, clockwise from the top: American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana), Coralberry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus), Little barley (Hordeum pusillum), Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), and Canada wild rye (Elymus canadense). I hope one day I am able to learn some of the indigenous names for the plants I have begun to know.

[julesvictorphotography-blog]

Are you the wolf or the fox?

Model: @racheldashae

[deathsmallcaps]

I need advice.

I’m a white intern working in a mostly white southern(ish) high school. Students of Color number at under 2%, perhaps even lower. It’s a very white, rural community - I grew up in a fairly mixed, suburban northern community, and part of my family is Black.

Several of my white students say rude things to my Students of Color. I’ve told them to knock it off *as appropriately as I can* but I’m probably one of the few adults that actively discourage that behavior.

I don’t want to let this shit fly under the radar, but I also know that if an adult of authority *who will only be here for a couple more weeks* interferes, and then doesn’t stick around, it could make things worse. Additionally, I know these kids are probably very very very used to this ‘system’ and that making a short-term change could be more harmful than helpful.

I asked one of my senior students after a very racist incident *where she was laughing along with the perpetrator but I told him to stop anyway* that I can move him, or her, so she could be more comfortable (admin either does nothing or slaps wrists, especially for seniors). She said it was fine and that he was always like that.

I must emphasize, I think they were bantering (they talk so much I think they consider each other friends?), but it was also wayyy fucking out of line, especially in a school setting. And the guy says so much out of line shit I’m surprised he isn’t rocking a full set of dentures to replace the teeth he ought to have lost by now.

Another student took me up on my offer to move people, but I ended up moving him, which sucks because he was the victim in this situation. Unfortunately, I have to keep his aggressors in their spots, as they are highly rowdy in all the ways and require a lot more supervision than he did. And the class is really full. These were also all freshmen, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that affected the victim’s reaction.

So I’d really appreciate advice as to whether I should let it be, or continue as is, or step it up even more, from People of Color in largely white, especially rural, communities. Like any advice from current or previous educators, especially Educators of Color would be appreciated, but specifically southern/rural ones would be wonderful. I’m going to talk to my family members about it, but they’ve lived in more Northern settings their entire lives and they may have less … applicable (?) experience to the situation.

Again, I’m an intern, I’m going to only be there until winter break 2024, and I don’t want to fuck things up for these kids in the long run with my northern ally ‘sensibilities’. Thank you!

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

It is sick to see multiple trans people use the murder of Nex Benedict to bad mouth other trans people they don't see as oppression enough.

Even worse, many of them will turn around and say that race could not possibly have been a factor in the hate crime because Nex "Looked White."

These, mostly White, trans people will derail the Nex's life and murder to hurt other trans people and then, "Well, actually-" Native people who are in fact adding to the conversation.

This is fucking disgusting behavior, and while it would have been unacceptable regardless, it is worst still as we are dealing with a hate crime and murder of a child.

Non-binary people deserve better, Native people deserve better, Nex deserves better.

Do Better.

[cosmicvenusnebula]

I saw a sign that said "Donald Trump Matters"

Do you wanna know who really matters?

- Lgbtqia2s+

- People of Color

- Children

- Palestinians

- Congolese

- Indigenous peoples

All these groups AND MORE are shot at every fucking day in America because of Donald Trump and no one bats an eye, but when Trump gets a small booboo on his ear you drop everything to make sure he's ok.

WAKE THE FUCK UP

[genericpuff]

Girl no offense but as someone who is actually not white & IS indigenous it would be really awesome if you stopped jerking around your Cherokee princess card like it means anything lol. We’ve seen your selfies and there’s no chance on earth anyone would ever see you as nonwhite so uhhh stop lol. It’s embarrassing and eye roll worthy

lmao no offense but you're being hella racist <3 idk what your point is at all here? "stop mentioning your culture" ??? might wanna clean up on that instead of gatekeeping an entire continent's worth of tribes and cultures, it ain't a good look.

[jaw-writes]

When You...

When you commit genocide, the loudest screams are forced out of the innocent. Hundreds, thousands, ring out at pitches so high that dogs' ears burst. An immeasurable amount of pain is created, and no one is spared, from infants to elders. When you want a group off the face of the earth no exceptions are made.

Yet, despite how painfully deafening it is, most of the world doesn't hear it. Some never know about it and if they do, they take a moment to feel sorrow and proceed to put in earplugs. I can’t say I always blame them, I wish I could do the same, but I can’t, because I am a descendant of those who are being slaughtered. My parents, their parents, and their parents before have all existed under oppression. My blood carries generations from a dying people and culture. A group that is suffering in refugee camps as I stand here before you today. 

There is mourning built into my DNA. My bone marrow is a mix of lost souls. My face a combination of features that have been torn apart. The brown skin that binds me, a color regimes have tried to bleach. My hair, eyes, and skin, all shades that people want to be washed away in favor of a light canvas. Memories of mass murder have remained fresh in my mind. Stretching and sculpting my perception with trauma, to the point I can’t imagine having the privilege of living without it. I only exist as I am today because others like me weren't allowed to. 

Some can try to argue that my people deserved it. That far too many of us are dirty and in need of washing. This cleansing has multiple meanings. To wash away our heritage, and force our traditions and beliefs to die with us. To wash away our claim to land, leave us without homes so the majority gains more. To wash away our blood, slaughter us all, and burn the remains. Then, lastly, and this is the most important piece of the demented puzzle, to wash away our history. If no one remembers what the world lost, no one can grieve or hold you accountable.

Now, with how complex and cruel that process is, you have to wonder, what drives a single person to think that it’s okay? Let alone entire societies. Well, every maniac has a different tail they spin to themselves, and the masses, but it all ties back to one thing. Superiority. The idea is that whatever group you are attacking is less deserving of what you’re fighting them over, even if that is something as inherent as the right to live. You are in the right in your views, there's is backward. They are villains who seek to harm those who do nothing wrong, you are the hero who does what is right. They are criminal, they are rotten, they are filthy. You are lawful, you are pure, you are clean. So, it’s only your divine right to cleanse.

When you experience genocide, you and your loved ones scream so loud that they rip their vocal cords. Hundreds, thousands, of people you knew in your everyday life are abused and taken away like they are nothing more than weeds on a lawn. A pain you can’t put into words is created, and no one is safe, from your parent to your child. When you are part of a group being erased from the world and the minds in it, you are not an exception.

[chaos-in-one]

Why are there still alter race believers in 2024

[void-thegod]

A reminder that a little progress is better than None or regressing.

Vote Blue

Because we have to save ourselves

[vonclosen]

vent. sorry i’m honesty hangry and upset

actually i’m still annoyed. has anyone in this damn fandom heard of filtering tags. for shit. they don’t like

also like not to be ‘what about’ but seriously if your biggest problems are fucking shipping wars on tumblr dot com i envy you. truly.

[dungeonmessy]

What is your favorite species of ant?

Um the ants with the big juicy butt

velvet ants are also cool and shiny and pretty :3 I’ve probably eaten like at least 126 ants in my lifetime

[infiniteglitterfall]

jewish shower thoughts

A Reddit comment I can't stop thinking about: "If you think whiteness is bad, Jews are white to you. If you think whiteness is good, Jews aren't white to you."

[transexualpirate]

Hi! Saw your post on redberryterf and racism.

I'm not PoC(nebulous USA spicy white but I come from immigrants) but I've been eyeing that user specifically for a fucking minute tbh. Her posts always seemed too edgy and evocative of the alt-right to me, in a way I couldn't quite describe much less prove something wrong with. Lo and behold LOL.

The truth is racism is everywhere there's white people and especially there's racism where there's Not Supposed To Be, like radical leftist organizing.

Queer AND radical feminist spaces host plenty of racism cloaked in whatever politically correct language, because both Queer and Radical Feminist discourse spaces on the English-speaking internet are predominantly white, western, upper middle class and college-educated.

I've seen some women on here try to claim Radical Feminism is *thee* feminism of the rest of the world, but I find that disingenuous. Most American and British radical feminists are nothing like Korean or Chinese radical feminists, and who knows what would happen if we were all in the same conference as those in Mexico, Romania, Greece. A responsible feminist would not try to separate herself from racism in her own movement by claiming The PoC Agree and would instead acknowledge and address it.

Climbed in your inbox because I think it will do us all a service to discuss how racism is enabled in leftist spaces regardless of the rest of our political alignments x have a good day.

hello!! i really appreciate this, so thank you. i agree with what you said wholeheartedly (ill have to look up the poc agree, though, not very familiar with that). i think people assume that just because a space is far left it is automatically exempt from racism, which is just. factually incorrect.

i mean, to begin with, there is no community in the whole world that is fully exempt from any sort of bigotry. that just doesn't happen. there is no community like that. not the trans community, not the queer community, not the radfem community, that's just not real. the thing is that bigots are everywhere. sometimes they do it out of malice, "infiltrating" those spaces aware that what they're parroting is harmful but uncaring, but more likely it's just ignorance, completely unaware that what they're saying is Actually Bad because they've been trained to not question their own thoughts ever.

so whether it's malice or ignorance, it is a lie to say that (x) community is completely free of all bigotry, which is a feeling that i have seen, whether implicitly or explicitly, in a lot of rad-whatever spaces. i mean, have you fucking browsed the "radqueer" tag over here on tumblr? that shit has more intolerance than fucking fox news and it's all completely masked under "radical acceptance", "positivity" and "equality". that is not what you'll find in their communities, though. and though not as extreme or as obvious, the radfem community is like that in many ways.

the fact that your community has a common goal of equality does not mean that your methods are sensible or justified, and it definitely doesn't mean the members of your community are somehow magically exempt from being the sort of people that actively goes against equality.

my problem with the radfem community specifically goes a bit further than just the general lack of awareness and accountability about and to the occasional bigot hiding in plain sight. i believe the entire community is built on a narrative that ends up being a type of "slippery slope" that very often leads to bigotry. so more than the occasional bigot, i think a lot of what is in the radfem community actively leads people to be less tolerant and accepting of others, in many ways.

one of them is the fact that a lot of classic and even some modern radfem writers and activists were and are incredibly racist (and sometimes homophobic as well), which is a fact that is rarely acknowledged in radfem spaces, if at all. and it shouldn't be just acknowledged, there should be some sort of active work to push the ideas influenced by that hate out of the community.

i also believe that when put in practice, a lot of radfem beliefs make people assume that women are the most oppressed group there is, automatically putting them as winners in the oppression olympics and completely disregarding how being negatively affected by one axis of oppression doesn't erase the fact that you can still be privileged in other ways. if women are the True Oppressed Class, then they can't oppress anyone else in any other way. maybe they can acknowledge that certain women can oppress other women, but anyone outside of their class? unfathomable. and this perpetuates many harmful rethorics.

another big problem i have is, naturally, the transphobia, leading radfems to more often than not become terfs. the unwillingness to accept that someone that wasn't Born A Woman(tm) can find genuine joy and comfort in womanhood - it must be a lie to hurt women, or a mental illness acquired through degeneracy, or a mockery, because women are the True Oppressed Class, after all, that's the opposite of joy and comfort. or the unwillingness to accept that someone that was Born A Woman(tm) might not find womanhood suit for them for many reasons, not all of them born from misogyny. but i know that we're talking specifically about the racism in that community and that is fine. im just making a link to how hate is often "intertwined", and one will feed the other.

regarding racism specifically, i do think the radfem community needs to do better in acknowledging and fighting it, more than most communities considering the aforementioned points. unfortunately, the only radfems ive seen on tumblr actively work for that were menalez and another one who's url i cant remember right now.

regarding bigotry in general, i think most radfems need to rethink a lot of stuff and see where their priorities lay. i think all communities would benefit from that, truly, specially left leaning and far left ones that believe themselves to be Truly Good And Pure (free from hate) - including the trans community, for the record.

and i think people of color aren't listened enough in society, which results in us being shut down when speaking about how that reflects in our respective communities, which results in people like redberryterf feeling comfortable enough to share her horribly racist opinions freely and without a care. i personally had already gotten into a debate with her before in which i told her she had to rethink some stuff but naturally i was ignored. which is why i referred to her as a well known person in the community: i don't interact that often but i had already stumbled across her posts multiple times and a lot of them have a LOT of likes. she isn't as big as menalez or that pineapple blog, but she was definitely influential in some way. and yet no one called her out on her bigotry until it was as obvious as it can be. i mean, it doesn't get any clearer than "i don't care that im being racist". she was spoonfed so much hatred that her perception of reality was altered to the point where being racist was probably a bad thing, but it was fine as long as it was towards men. then it's warranted. she's a woman, after all, the supreme oppressed class, she could never oppress anyone else.

anyways, this was a long fucking way of saying To Fight Bigotry You Have To Study Your Roots, Acknowledge Nuance And Different Points Of View, Listen To And Spread Awareness About Marginalized People and Never Ever Assume That You Are Exempt From Bigotry. That's A Sign That You Are Parroting Bigotry.

thank you for your ask. i think it's super important to find common ground with people you disagree with, and fighting racism is always important. im sorry for the long fucking reply, i hope it was at least a little bit coherent. sorry for occasional grammar mistakes or poor english in general, it isn't my first language. and have a good day!

[nopeferatu]

idc what people are whining abt, i actually really enjoyed the netflix avatar series. the costume and set design was really beautiful, the effects were great, the performances were great. i think people are weirded out about the pacing and i understand that, but at the same time, they're working on netflix's budget and i think they did a great job utilizing the important material in book 1 to tell as well rounded of a story as they possibly could. and like sure, i get that it was jarring to see them start at the VERY beginning instead of starting w katara and sokka finding aang like the original show does for ex, but like. idk! i think they shouldn't feel obligated to hit every plot point beat for beat and i don't think we lost anything by establishing aang's background early on. actually, every single scene with master gyatso made me fucking bawl lol. aang's loss is soooo much more palpable in this show than the original one imo bc it lingers on that pain a lot more. there were a few story choices that kinda made me scratch my head a bit, like the fact that teo wasn't introduced as part of the new Northern Air Temple population and what effects that had on aang, but i'm really not mad about it. anyways i give it two big thumbs up and i hope it gets renewed for another season

[thehealingsystem]

being biracial between white and poc will always be so alienating for me I don't relate to anyone. I don't quite fit in with whites but I don't quite fit in with people of color. been more white passing than the rest of my family doesn't help