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piizunn · 2 years ago

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i’m jurying applications for this residency for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and one of the applicants is Indigenous Kashmiri like did they even read the guidelines for the residency? it said it’s specifically for FNMI right in the first sentence.

so for any Indigenous folks from outside of Turtle Island please understand that your personal Indigenous identity does NOT grant you access to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit opportunities, and when you come here you are a settler on these lands.

#this reminds of this bolivian beader who took a beadwork workshop opportunity and didn’t teach any cultural beadwork #like that workshop would have way better served the cree and métis communities of yeg but no you had to take this opportunity #and make shitty non culturally specific fringe earrings #if they had done aymara beadwork then i would have been more ok with it but they hadn’t been beading very long only like a year #fnmi issues

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