sliced agate windows in Grossmunster Church, Zurich, Switzerland
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Arianna is the name. Ojibwe,Turtle Clan. Queer and curvy and brown and fabulous. I think all people are pretty sexy, and I'm all about my fellow POC's.
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• Personal
• Ask me some shit:
• Submit some shit ishkwaakiiwan
Anonymous asked: What is your view on the Boston bombings?
Hm. Let me put it this way :
Think of Heath Ledger’s role as the Joker in the new Batman movies. He was chaotic, did horrific things just for the sadistic shits and giggles of it. We didn’t know where the Joker came from, but it didn’t really matter, because nothing he did had any real end game or purpose. He was chaos.
That’s how I see the bombings and the Tsarnaev brothers. We can’t possibly know why they did what they did, but only that they were scarred in some way, and created unfiltered chaos as a result.
He built a box, and she painted our last initial and their wedding date on it. They put in two unread love letters to each other about why they fell in love, a nice bottle of wine from the year they started dating, and nailed the lid on the box. They promised that if things ever get too hard and their love starts to fade, they will open the box, drink the wine, and read the letters they wrote to each other, reminding them of how much their love means and to never give up.
I shall do that with my future wife.
oh my fucking god.
I don't like it, I'mma call it colonialism!
| Boss: | You're 15 minutes late. |
| Me: | Being on time is colonialism! |
| Friend: | Why do you eat your sushi with your fingers? |
| Me: | Chopsticks are colonialism! |
| Mom: | You forgot to call your dad on his birthday. |
| Me: | Birthday wishes are moniyaw kikway! |
| Coworker: | Did you eat the muffin I was saving for myself? |
| Me: | Private property is colonialism! |
| George R.R. Martin: | I don't like fanfiction. |
| Me: | I don't like waiting five years between each book. |
| HBO: | YOLO. |
ASSIGNED SEX: A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Five transgender individuals untie themselves from the stereotypes that American culture has regarding gender roles.
“Up until this point, we’ve funded this project completely out of our own pockets. We believe in this story that much. But, we’ve officially broken the bank. We need your help to raise the money necessary to keep the cameras rolling.”
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*flattered* Also, this is my face-of-the-day again.meh.
lifespiration
You are an incredibly intelligent, beautiful, resilient individual with fantastic skin and hair.
Samoan fa'afafine reject same sex marriage
With the recent legalization of gay marriage in New Zealand and France, So’oala Roger Stanley, president of the Samoa Fa’afafine Association, is interviewed about their position against pushing gay marriage in Samoa right now.
So’oala considers the current crime ordinance attempting to decriminalize laws prohibiting female impersonation, indecent acts towards men, and sodomy. Issues with a higher priority for fa’afafine in Samoa right now.
I highly recommend listening to the interview, to hear So’oala speak for themselves. But the link also has a transcript.
I cannot express how happy I am to see this.
Because. Yeah. Getting rid of colonial era laws that have the impact of criminalizing fa’afafine should be a greater priority than gay marriage. Particularly, when fa’afafine are clearly more or less happy with their situation right now.
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Occupation of Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement (AIM), 1973, as profiled in Ramparts Magazine
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North Dakota Voter ID Bill Threatens to Silence Native Votes Just Eight Days After Republican Congressman Cramer Publicly Bashes Tribes and Threatens Native Leaders
One would think that if you’re a U.S. Congressman who insulted your state’s largest minority population and threatened bodily injury to their Tribally-elected leaders while in the process of verbally assaulting a Native American woman at a very public state coalition meeting for Abused Women’s Services that you would apologize. That would be the smart, decent thing to do, right?
Welp, apparently North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer doesn’t think so. On March 26, 2013, he spent nearly half an hour laying into Melissa Merrick, the Director of the Spirit Lake Victim Assistance Program. She’s also a tribal member who happens to be a survivor of child sexual abuse. During that time, Cramer reportedly stated in front of a roomful of domestic violence advocates that he wanted to “wring the Spirit Lake tribal council’s necks and slam them against the wall.” He also called tribal governments dysfunctional, and went on a tirade against provisions in the Violence Against Women Act that are meant to protect Native American women. His tantrum was so disturbing that attendees at the meeting got up and left. By the time the dust settled, another Native American woman present was in tears.
Cramer had no problem addressing the media once the story broke- but instead of apologizing for his verbal attack and decidedly inappropriate behavior, he took the opportunity to reiterate his anger towards North Dakota tribes and personally assail Ms. Merrick even further, at one point saying “once a victim, always a victim” about her on a news program broadcast out of Fargo, N.D. Furthermore, Cramer, to this day, has never denied that he threatened tribal leaders with physical violence.
North Dakota tribes were outraged. They responded to the incident via press releases asking for a formal apology from Representative Cramer, and requesting a meeting with him. So far, those pleas have gone unanswered.
(Source: petticoatruler, via sikssaapo-p)
