#Winona LaDuke

[progressivemillennial]

[taylor14firefly]

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."

—Winona LaDuke, "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" (2013)

[elegantzombielite]

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."

Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 August 1959)

[thelugubriousheart3]

[vanitastergioula]

[sacredfolly-blog]

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[thelcsdaily]

Crispy Tilapia Fillet

Let's prepare a fish dish for our meal to change things up a little. I make an effort to eat seafood or fish once a week. My goal while making tilapia fillets is to give them a crunchy texture and a hint of pepper in the batter. This goes well with some veggies and mashed potatoes. Sure, it goes well with pasta or even steaming rice.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships. - Winona LaDuke

[probablyasocialecologist]

The cultural erasure that accompanied conquest took the form of forcefully alienating Indigenous people from their traditional diets. Therefore, decolonisation necessarily involves preserving, reclaiming and reviving these diets, which are organically connected to the land. Palestinian feminist scholar Lila Sharif’s work, arguing that Palestinians everywhere sustain their attachment to the homeland through practices linked to the olive tree, is a valuable contribution to the study of decolonial practices. As an estimated 80 per cent of small‑scale farming and family cooking globally is done by women, food sovereignty directly empowers women, just as its loss negatively impacts them. To quote Indigenous activist and economist Winona LaDuke: ‘Native women are here, and we birthed this place. We created the agrobiodiversity of 8,000 varieties of corn, and a multitude of beans, squash and melon varieties that are now touted by big agriculture and the foundation.’ In Palestine, women have historically foraged for the bounty of herbs and leafy greens that are an important part of Palestinian cuisine, and which provided them with the means to secure social and economic independence. They are heavily involved at all stages of agriculture, as growers, harvesters, processors and traders. Today, about a third of women in the West Bank are the only income‑earners in their households. Going out in small groups to the fields at dawn, they expertly gather seasonal herbs, making sure they leave roots and seeds behind, to ensure the next season’s harvest. They are finely attuned to the short‑lived seasons that make for the hyper seasonal culinary calendar – blink and you miss it.

Nada Elia, Bodies of land: feminism and decolonisation

[diddyrivera]

additional resources to marxist feminism:

living a feminist life by sara ahmed

the rise and decline of patriarchal systems by nancy folbre

this bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color by cherrie moraga and gloria anzaldua

delusions of gender: how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference by cordelia fine

close to home: a materialist analysis to women's oppression by christine delphy

(pdf) the feminist standpoint: developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism

(medium) on women as a class: materialist feminism and mass struggle by aly e

(sagejournals) capital and class: the unhappy moments of marxism and feminism: towards a more progressive union

(substack) the marxfem pulpit by abigail von maure (earth2abbs on tiktok)

if anything else related to marxist feminism, just let me know :)

additional resources to eco feminism:

gossips, gorgons, and crones: the fates of the earth by jane caputi

parable of the sower by octavia e butler

neither man nor beast: feminism and the defense of animals by carol j. adams

bitch: on the female of species by lucy cooke

fresh banana leaves: healing indigenous landscapes through indigenous science by jessica hernandez

the intersectional environmentalist by leah thomas

right here, right now by natalie isaacs

feminism or death by francoise d'ealibonne

violent inheritance: sexuality, land, and energy in making the north american west by e cram

animal crisis: a new critical theory by alice grary

unsettling: surviving extinction together by elizabeth weinberg

land of women by maria sanchez

sexus animalis: there is nothing unnatural in nature by emmanuelle pouydebat

windswept: walking the paths of trailblazing women by annabel abbs

andrea smith - rape of the land

andy smith - ecofeminism through an anticolonial framework

carolyn marchant - nature as female

charlene spretnak - critical and constructive contributions of ecofeminism

heather eaton - ecological feminist theology

heather Eaton - The Edge of the Seat

janet abromovitz - biodiversity and gender Issues

joni Seager - creating a culture of destruction

karen warren - ecofeminism

karen warren - taking empirical data seriously

karen warren - the power and promise of ecological feminism

l. gruen - dismantling oppression

martha e. gimenez - does ecology need marx?

n. sturgeon - the nature of race

petra kelly - women and power

quinby - ecofeminism and the politics of resistance

rosemary radford ruether - ecofeminism: symbolic and social connections

sherry ortner - is female to male as nature is to culture?

sturgeon - the nature of race

val plumwood - feminism and ecofeminism

winona laduke - a society based on conquest cannot be sustained

if anyone has any other recommendations related to eco feminism, plz let me know :)

additional resources related to trans feminism:

the empire strikes back: a posttransexual manifesto by sandy stone

(chicago journals) trapped in the wrong theory: rethinking trans oppression and resistance by talia mae bettcher

(philpapers.org) trans women and the meaning of woman by talia mae bettcher

the transgender studies reader by susan stryker and stephen whittle

if anyone has other recommendations related to trans feminism, plz let me know :)

additional resources related to anarcha feminism:

the anarchist turn by jacob blumenfeld

we will not cancel us and other dreams of transformative justice by adrienne maree brown

burn it down: feminist manifestos for the revolution by breanne fahs

reinventing anarchy, again by howard ehrlich

anarcho-blackness by marquis bey

a little philosophical lexicon of anarchism from proudhon to deleuze by daniel colson and jesse cohn

joyful militancy by nick montgomery and carla bergman

wayward lives, beautiful experiments by saidiya v. hartman

we won't be here tomorrow and other stories by margaret killjoy

writing revolution by christopher j. castaneda

paradoxes of utopia by juan suriano

twelve fingers by jo soares

for a just and better world by sonia hernandez

if anyone has other recommendations related to anarcha feminism, plz let me know :)

[dailyanarchistposts]

Chapter 4. Environment

Recommended Reading

Nirmal Sengupta, Managing Common Property: Irrigation in India and The Philippines, New Delhi: Sage, 1991.

Winona LaDuke, Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming, Cambridge: South End Press, 2005.

Jan Martin Bang, Ecovillages: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2005.

Heather C. Flores, Food Not Lawns: How To Turn Your Yard Into A Garden And Your Neighborhood Into A Community. White River Jct., Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2006.

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York, Viking, 2005.

Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom: the Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy, Palo Alto, CA: Cheshire Books, 1982.

Elli King, ed., Listen: The Story of the People at Taku Wakan Tipi and the Reroute of Highway 55, or, The Minnehaha Free State, Tucson, AZ: Feral Press, 2006.

Bill Holmgren and David Mollison, Permaculture One: a Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements. Sydney: Corgi books, 1978.

[library-fae]

the fact that second wave feminism has been co-opred by transphobic cis white women as a creation made by and for cis white women is so aggravating because second-wave feminism was literally the time when the black panthers were advocating for black and brown people (including women) and their rights, the stonewall riots that was led by black and brown trans women, books on support of abortion rights, pioneered by black intersectional feminist florence rae kennedy, the indochinese women's conferences from 1971 fronted by women of colour, especially vietnamese women...

everything angela davis, audre lorde, winona laduke, chela sandoval, anna nietogomez and kimberly crenshaw did... and that's just the people we are most aware of

im so tired of history being gentrified, whitewashed, colonised and the removal queer people and people of colour from our past

[hiiragi7]

From Recovering the Sacred by Winona LaDuke.

Reminder that white people have always done the "we have to find a real [person of oppressed group] to speak on this" shit when it comes to cultural and racial debates and have always ignored when people of oppressed groups spoke out.

White people mask racism by hiding beneath a facade of progression, claiming to be "only wanting to listen to the 'right' group".

[lamamasjamas]

Sometimes being an environmental scientist makes me cry. Y’all should read To Be a Water Protector by by Winona LaDuke. I’m a big fan of Environmental Justice and the implementation of Indigenous teachings and values to the modern Environmental movement or whatever 😝 because god knows it’s full of western scientists that can’t connect to people of color and minority groups (especially native people who are the most fucking vulnerable!!) to save their lives…

Get educated people! Love and forehead kisses. ❤️

[radiofreederry]

On this day in my universe, US President Bernie Sanders has announced he will not seek a second term in office. His Vice President, Winona LaDuke, has announced her intent to succeed him in 2024.

[lacangri21]

For fucks sake. Winona LaDuke was head of an organization and didn’t handle the sexual harassment of one of the employees well.

To her credit, she did apologize and resign, but the whole “I don’t believe in using the Colonial Carceral System” makes me want to rip my eyes out. As Chief Wilma Mankiller said, “I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian." Before we are Native, we are women. We all face the same types of sexual violence in our lives to varying degrees.

I hate when marginalized communities do this. Like the collective Indigenous fight to free the man who murdered and raped Anna Mae Aquash because of the White Penal System. Motherfucker raped an Indigenous woman and ended her life, but because he’s Native we must not want him in prison. What the fuck. Why does every group hate women?

Winona has done some great things but fuck. This. Shit.

[daggerzine]

Film Review: “It’s only life after all” an Indigo Girls documentary (2023)- review by Dina Hornreich

And here is another revolting rockumentary review to help us further consider whether punk is “more queer” than mainstream gay culture, but first let’s get our lingo worked out:

• Punk is best described as an attitude, according to Don Letts’ 2005 film (Punk: Attitude).

• Punk Rockers are then considered the n*ggers of Rock ‘n Roll, according Patti Smith’s song from her 1978 Easter album; and it features Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, and (of course) Sex Pistols’ mastermind Malcolm McLaren.

• Glam Rock challenged the boundaries of masculinity and femininity via David Bowie, The New York dolls, and other (mostly) “dudes in drag” styled outfits.

• No Wave is a different extrapolation of punk efforts affecting Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, and other offshoots that deconstructed and reassembled sound to further challenge conventional structures.

• Riot Grrrl & Queercore/Homocore were another sub-counterculture which uniquely adopts a loud (often campy) Punk idea that is overtly informed by more academic feminist and queer approaches as a deliberate artistic movement involving the work of Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, Mecca Normal, Team Dresch, Pansy Division, and Tribe 8.

In other words: Losers, freaks, deviants, etc. and other people whom society just wanted to GO AWAY.

So where do the Indigo Girls fit into this motif – LGBT communities also certainly know that stigma intimately?

Much like Sinead O’Connor (or even Suzanne Vega) in the late 80s & early 90s, this pop & rock  folk/country duo should more readily be able to fit into this sex & gender revolution. However, in this documentary, they really don’t seem to think

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that they do. But the press kit photo of Amy Ray wearing a Husker Du t-shirt suggests fairer comparisons could include gay punks like Bob Mould and Grant Hart. And the film footage with The Butchies, Jean Smith, and Thalia Zedek further reinforces that impression.

I can’t truly speak for their fans from the Michigan Womyn’s Music festival (whose dominant voice often screamed “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” or TERF which are ideas from an era that has itself become stigmatized as we approach the next era of inclusivity challenges beyond “me too” sentiments); but they were clearly aware of crucial considerations for building community in ways that promote authenticity, safety, consistency, acceptance, comfort, and impartiality in our communicative exchanges.

What makes the Indigo Girls’ approach different is the level of self-sacrifice they are willing to make in order to accommodate their fans’ needs, wants, and desires. They have a very nuanced and humanistic sensitivity that makes them reluctant to challenge conventions or contradictions in the ways that turn weirdos into outlaws; an idea that frequently dominates punk ideologies and expressions as it overtly challenges societal power dynamics.

Instead, they prefer to go more grassroots in their activism as they continue to self-consciously challenge oppression without giving into that tendency for oppressing others which happens throughout most marginalized groups; but, they still seem to have internalized their oppression (which is something that women clearly seem quite willing to do) as the heartfelt explanations about dealing with depression, addiction, and other self-sacrificing responses to trauma portray.

Additional footage involving their activist work with Winona Laduke (or even Joan Baez) further exhibits an impressive willingness to move toward a more “crowd pleasing” aesthetic and clearly maintains a more unifying image given their “GLAAD approved” identity (which is something that artists like Stephin Merritt never seem able to accomplish despite sincere attempts to assert his status as “gay and loud.”). And this pressure certainly isn’t easy to navigate; especially when you consider the unhappy ending we recently witnessed to Sinead O’Connor’s story.

However, it is clear that they were very often distracted by a nagging pain from the concomitant rejection that accompanies just being “out” lesbians in an apparently still sexually repressed society. Their struggles and story are quite consistent with many women musicians who challenge societal conventions including gender essentialist structures as they tend to become grouped together into one large mass of “masculine” (or even “butch”) women.

For me, their ongoing dedication to a successful musical partnership is a testament to their commitment to building relationships on numerous levels. They clearly have their “niche” where they inhabit which keeps them a bit “insular” for its more narrow range – often making them appear a bit “contained.” However, they demonstrate an impressive commitment to beautiful lyrical prose alongside enjoyable melodic harmonies (using voice and acoustic guitar) which allows their work to remain generally consistent and reliable to their audience; and (in doing so) the film clearly supports their overall thesis that “It’s only life after all.”

www.indigogirls.com