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#beautiful!!

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The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Princess Mononoke Symphonic Suite | Studio Ghibli Records | 2020 | Black

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The idea that racism will die out with the white baby boomers is a myth perpetuated by white millennials who do not want to take action and responsibility for calling out racism in their own generation. White millennials are not inherently less racist than white baby boomers and racism does not disappear with a generation. Racism is a construct that exists in all aspects of society, from politics to economics to social norms and activities. It can only be eradicated with constant and fervent dismantling of these powerful constructs in place and new generations must keep working at it. I’ve heard too many fellow white people say that when all these ‘racist old people’ die off then we’ll be fine but we all know that racism is not limited to old white people and that the alt-right is littered with white millennials. Check your friends and family on bigoted and racist remarks. Be a good ally. Sitting back for old people to die is not good allyship and you’ll soon see that they are not the only racists in power.

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Indigenous Literature

below are comprehensive lists of indigenous writing by indigenous authors, chosen by indigenous peoples. enjoy and reblog to spread the word.

indigenous writing by indigenous authors (written by a cherokee woman) <– list includes brief summaries and reviews

From the Hilltop by Toni Jensen

Cheyenne Madonna by Eddie Chuculate

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

The Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde Grover

Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon

Owls Don’t Have To Mean Death by Chip Livingston

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Sacred Smokes by Theodore C. Val Alst Jr.

Cherokee America by Margaret Verble

There There by Tommy Orange

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

indigenous books chosen by a cherokee man <– the list includes brief summaries/reviews of each title

Where The Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy

Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe

Tracks by Louise Erdrich

Sundown by John Joseph Matthews

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Power by Linda Hogan

The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong by Stephen Graham Jones

Winter in the Blood by James Welch

The Sharpest Sight by Louis Owens

a list of books by indigenous authors (by a cree woman) <– the list includes brief summaries of each title.

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

If I Ever Get Out Of Here by Eric Gansworth

The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline

Love: Beyond Body, Space, and Time, edited by Hope Nicholson

A Girl Called Echo (graphic novel series) by Katherena Vermette

if you have other books or authors you would like to recommend, you can come submit them to our blog or our ask box. feel free to add onto this post with more recommendations and ideas as well

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The venn diagram of cottagecore bloggers and the ppl who wld get lured into the midsommar cult is a circle

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“The Orchard” (1998) by Justine Kurland, now cover art for the latest edition of The Virgin Suicides

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do those little soot sprites from ghibli have a union

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#jeanETTEE #ahh my childhood #that and #manu chao's me gustas tu

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#my lov #i have a poster of her <3

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idk how to explain this to you but when a unilaterally oppressed group names their oppressors and says stuff like "do better" they are talking about you, to you, and you are absolutely accountable. you are not one of the good white people, one of the good tme people, one of the good nonblack people: these people are talking to and about you and you are not exempt from the connotations of the post because, believe it or not, you are fully capable of being racist/transmisogynistic/antiblack/whatever. take responsibility for your actions and understand that we never stop growing. ever.

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Re: the conversation on the colonialism and racism of cottagecore, it’s very clear that Europeans think indigenous people don’t exist where they live or that they’re indigenous because they’re Irish or whatever the fuck, so as a Vaqueira, I think it’s time Europeans start understanding whose land they’re on and that there are indigenous people everywhere, so i’ve made a short, incomplete list of indigenous and nomadic peoples of Europe. Feel free to look up more about them, especially if you’re living on their land:

Abazins (Russia, Georgia, Abkhazia)

Adyghe/Circassian people (Russia, Turkey)

Aromanians/Vlachs (Greece, Romania, Albania, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria)

Ashkali Romani (Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia)

Avars (Russia)

Balkars (Russia)

Bashkirs (Russia)

Basque people (Spain, France)

Bats people (Georgia)

Bergitka Romani (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary)

Boyash Romani (Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia)

Boykos (Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland)

Calé Romani (Spain, Portugal, France)

Cascarot Romani (France, Spain)

Chechens (Chechnya, Russia)

Crimean Tatars (Crimea)

Dargins (Russia)

Erlides Romani (Greece)

Erromintxela (Spain, France)

Finnish Kale Romani (Finland, Sweden)

Gagauz people (Moldova, Ukraine)

Gorani people (Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia)

Gurbet Romani (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo)

Hutsuls (Ukraine, Romania)

Ingush (Russia)

Irish Travellers (Ireland, UK)

Izhorians (Russia, Estonia)

Kalderash Romani (Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia)

Karelians (Finland, Russia)

Komi people (Russia)

Laks (Russia)

Laz people (Turkey, Georgia)

Lemkos (Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland)

Lezgins (Russia, Azerbaijan)

Lipka Tatars (Poland, Lithuania, Belarus)

Livonians (Latvia, Estonia)

Lom people (Armenia, Georgia)

Lovari Romani (Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czechia, Germany)

Manouche Romani (France)

Maragatos (Spain)

Mari people (Russia)

Mingrelians (Georgia)

Mordvins (Russia)

Norwegian Travellers/Fanter (Norway)

Ossetians (Russia, South Ossetia, Georgia)

Pasiegos (Spain)

Polska Roma (Poland)

Mercheros (Spain)

Romanichal (UK)

Romanisæl (Norway, Sweden)

Ruska Roma (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

Sámi people (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia)

Sarakatsani (Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, North Macedonia)

Scottish Travellers/Indigenous Highland Travellers (UK)

Servitka Roma (Ukraine, Russia)

Setos (Estonia, Russia)

Sinti (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Czechia, Netherlands, Belgium, Serbia, Croatia)

Tat people (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia)

Udi people (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Georgia)

Udmurts (Russia)

Ursari Romani (Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Serbia, Italy)

Vaqueiros de Alzada (Spain)

Veps (Russia)

Volga Tatars (Russia)

Welsh Kale Romani (UK)

Yeniche people (Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg)

Also to mention:

The millions of Jews whose homes, property, and land was stolen and never returned when they were murdered in the Shoah.

The hundreds of indigenous peoples of Asian Russia which is frequently seen as part of Europe because of its colonization by Russia.

There are many peoples that are known by few. There may be very little to no information about them in English or any language besides the official language of the country they are in. They may not have a written tradition and all written accounts of them are in old print books. They may be known only by people who live near to the region where they are. I know this is certainly true for Vaqueiros and the nomadic peoples of Spain.

Indigenous and nomadic peoples of Europe may be called ‘hill peoples’, ‘nomads’, or ‘cursed peoples’. They have lived in your country for hundreds or thousands of years, but were or are still not considered proper citizens. They live in their own territory by their traditional lifestyle, or in the city as part of your society, or in diaspora across the world. They unequally face land theft and environmental racism. They are hardly represented, if at all, and face challenges like insufficient infrastructure, education, healthcare, or access to water. It’s time to learn who your neighbors are. We want to be known. We are in small numbers because of the land theft and cultural destruction by the European countries you live in.

If this description rings a bell for you, or if your group isn’t up here, feel free to add an indigenous or nomadic people in Europe you know!

DO NOT fuck around on this post or i will tear your head clean off

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finland, pietarsaari, 2020

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But the question remains, do you offer the same chivalry to black femmes as you do white femmes? What parameters must one meet to be a femme? Is it body type... skin tone... facial features, vocal tone, hair length, fashion sense, mannerisms... do you keen after the midnight-kissed fatbellied oversized-jumper wearing femme as you do the miniskirt high-heeled long nailed pale-skinned flat stomached femme we all have internalized as the femme prototype... how do you describe the femmes you desire to protect? Which femmes do you desire to protect you back? Of course we have internalized heteronormativity, but have you unlearned its racism? Have YOU caught yourself from labelling her as strong, when she so obviously needed help no one had ever, in her 23 years of life, offered to give? Do you walk up to these black women and offer the coats off of your backs... offer to walk her to her car, interrupt the argument between her and an audacious white femme, bickering over a seat at a bar... do you see her skin in sunlight as heavenly... yearn to kiss down her dark body, from her coils to her flat nose to her feet... do you think of her sex first, or how she laughs heartily with glee... What have you done to strip away whiteness from femininity?

What, then, will you do to add femininity to blackness? Blackness to womanhood? Can you join blackness and humanity?

Or are we destined to, once again, be shamed from this community for being both too much to exist and too little to care for? (Where is my butch prince? Does she/he/they even like women like me? Will they swoon after me as my heart will do for them? Can I for once trust enough to be protected, as I will protect with my entire being, or must I fade back into nonexistence so as to save myself from my world's ire, a world decidely done with my existence... a world forgetting I ever existed, denying I could.)

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waves hitting rocks = underrrated sound

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#writing #:0 #writblr #hehehe