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newguineatribalart · 10 months

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Rom Kom Masks Vanuatu

#vanuatu #pacific islands #vanuatu art #street art #artworks #primative art #tribal art #world art #mask #masks #Tribal Masks #mask art #indigenous masks

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archiephd · 3 months

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So long as the political and economic system remains intact, voter enfranchisement, though perhaps resisted by overt white supremacists, is still welcomed so long as nothing about the overall political arrangement fundamentally changes. The facade of political equality can occur under violent occupation, but liberation cannot be found in the occupier’s ballot box. In the context of settler colonialism voting is the “civic duty” of maintaining our own oppression. It is intrinsically bound to a strategy of extinguishing our cultural identities and autonomy.

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Since we cannot expect those selected to rule in this system to make decisions that benefit our lands and peoples, we have to do it ourselves. Direct action, or the unmediated expression of individual or collective desire, has always been the most effective means by which we change the conditions of our communities. What do we get out of voting that we cannot directly provide for ourselves and our people? What ways can we organize and make decisions that are in harmony with our diverse lifeways? What ways can the immense amount of material resources and energy focused on persuading people to vote be redirected into services and support that we actually need? What ways can we direct our energy, individually and collectively, into efforts that have immediate impact in our lives and the lives of those around us? This is not only a moral but a practical position and so we embrace our contradictions. We’re not rallying for a perfect prescription for “decolonization” or a multitude of Indigenous Nationalisms, but for a great undoing of the settler colonial project that comprises the United States of America so that we may restore healthy and just relations with Mother Earth and all her beings. Our tendency is towards autonomous anti-colonial struggles that intervene and attack the critical infrastructure that the U.S. and its institutions rest on. Interestingly enough, these are the areas of our homelands under greatest threat by resource colonialism. This is where the system is most prone to rupture, it’s the fragility of colonial power. Our enemies are only as powerful as the infrastructure that sustains them. The brutal result of forced assimilation is that we know our enemies better than they know themselves. What strategies and actions can we devise to make it impossible for this system to govern on stolen land? We aren’t advocating for a state-based solution, redwashed European politic, or some other colonial fantasy of “utopia.” In our rejection of the abstraction of settler colonialism, we don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation.

Voting Is Not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective

#indigenous action #2024 elections #voting #on one hand i think if one opponent is a mask off fascist white people have an obligation to vote against them As The Least We Can Do #but if that's all we're doing? that and bullying other people who see a futility in participating in a colonial institution of 'democracy'?#sorry but um. shut the fuck up #if we spent half as much energy on direct action to support each other in ways that help people REGARDLESS of who wins what election #as we did on yelling at Other Leftists about voting i think we would get a hell of a lot more actual shit done #and sure as hell help more actual real life people who we claim to be helping by yelling at other people to vote #i'm talking to me here like #our current blue harm reduction candidate actively supporting a genocide should make you feel like maybe this shit doesn't fucking work #because it doesn't <3 #harm reduction as the least we can do needs to be a call to action via vote AND actual action or it's not a call to anything at all #the least we can do needs to be motivating AND convicting #it's the least we can do so fucking do it. it's the least we can do so if that's All you do sit the hell down or stand the fuck up #for people who the status quo serves it needs to be the ballot AND the bullet or our ballot means fuck all for real liberation

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arthistoryanimalia · 10 months

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For #Woodensday:

Kwakwaka'wakw artist Baleen Whale Mask, 19th century Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia, Canada Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nails From Brooklyn Museum’s “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” exhibition

#animals in art #whale #mask #Brooklyn Museum #museum visit #exhibition #Woodensday #woodwork #19th century art #First Nations art #Indigenous art #Kwakwaka'wakw #Canadian art

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icarusxxrising · 8 months

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Too be honest, probably the four most neglected topics in leftist spaces as a whole is landback/indigenous rights, nonwhite rights and experiences (black communist/anarchist movements etc.), feminism (especially radicalized militant feminism), and disability accessibility/experiences (both physical and mental(like cluster B disorders especially). Not in that order btw, I believe all 4 of those are interconnected.

My one tip for people getting into leftist spaces, no matter which one it is, is to learn about the most neglected topics especially and to listen to people apart of the above groups. It is going to frustrate the shit out of you and you're going to learn a lot of the leftists around you hold onto the Patriarchy/White Supremacy etc. But you are going to empower both yourself and those around you for the better by educating yourself.

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superinjun · 1 month

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Sculpin “Gwama”

Henry “Hank” Speck Jr. (Tlawitsis Kwakwaka’wakw)

red cedar, acrylic, tacks, copper. 13.5” x 10” x 4.5”

#henry speck jr #hank speck #henry hank speck jr #kwakwaka’wakw #masks #carving #indigenous art #native art #first nations art #ndn art

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theancientwayoflife · 2 years

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~ Mask

Culture: Moche

Date: 100 B.C.–A.D. 500

Medium: Copper, shell, and pyrite

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #ancient history #archaeology #moche #peruvian #peru #south america #latin america #indigenous #mask #100 b.c #a.d. 500

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gurorori · 2 months

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haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise

#'ohh i saw white people still go out to rally for ukraine' yeah have you considered they are ukrainian or have ukrainian loved ones or uh #simply have humanity in their heart to care about several humanitarian tragedies in the world?#this is both aimed at a post i saw on here and at SEVERAL. MANY. twitterians with a thousand palestine flags all over their accounts spewing #misinformation hate and sometimes straight up russian propaganda tactics because they're this fucking insane #i don't care about sounding nice anymore by the way. i know my heart lies in the right place and i have the capacity to care about more than #one ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples #removed incidents of bad actors having a ukrainian flag on their backpack doing hateful shit does not somehow okay dismissing a genocide you #so vehemently claim to oppose. they are not ukrainians who are getting bombed on the daily for years #i saw a very lovely 🍉🕊️ lady denying holodomor and using literal russian talking points while patting herself on the back for being such #a good person. i saw one of the most popular leftie accs on twitter be actively anti-ukraine and using slurs. luckily we mass reported them #and they're gone #i'm no longer being careful with my words because i don't want to be misconstrued. i know my values go beyond twitter and tumblr #if i catch you in any way undermining the genocide of ukrainians or only bringing it up to point fingers and bitch i am blocking you forever #don't care how far this post might go cuz of ppls questionable use of the search function. and i didn't care to censor anything #like. masks off. just block me if this is your rhetoric

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theinconvenientlifestyle · 4 months

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#palestine #western imperialism #indigenous #genocide #hypocrisy #every kind of mask has dropped #joe biden #global south

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breaking-noose · 1 year

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Gamu Zamiyakal: Torres Strait Islander masks and headdresses.

Cairns Art Gallery, Australia.

#gamu zamiyakal #headdress #head dress #mask #masks #Torres strait #Torres strait Islander #First Nations #Australia #Australian #indigenous art #blak australia #Indigenous #cairns #Queensland #fnqld

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anarchotahdigism · 2 months

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yt ppl who say shit like "you can't blame settlers for the actions of their governments" are just settlers who know they could be doing a lot more to stop the actions of their governments but won't because they don't actually care enough to risk arrest, injury, or death to halt genocides they just wanna be told they're one of the good ones as they go back to brunch to spread COVID we can and should, in fact, blame people who support their genocidal regimes and think that voting in more genociders or sending letters or calls to genociders will do anything, ever, to stop genocide you don't have to be at the front of a riot throwing molotovs or shooting cops, you just have to be willing to help people targeted by cops & soldiers & other genocidal bigots for resisting genocide in its myriad forms

There's a lot you can do to help others-- you can share skills, resources, demand spaces & people mask, provide peer support, or any other form of mutual aid that helps people survive & thrive. You can even do that online! But whining that it's unfair and unethical to condemn those who choose to do nothing of impact or, worse, choose to actively support genocidal regimes is not only absurd criticism, it's genocide apologia. If settlers do not want to be lumped in with their genocidal regime leaders, then they must reject the socipolitical norms promulgated by those genociders & their regimes; they must support the taking up of resistance against genocide and understand that anyone who refuses to support resistance is siding with the oppressor. The people who could most easily and most quickly end a genocide or the regime behind one are those within the protected class of the regime, the settlers and citizens who derive support & comfort from the functions of the oppressive system. If yt Americans, for instance, had the courage of their supposed convictions, they could easily pressure Genocide Joe into ending his unlimited support for the genocide of Palestinians. Instead, they are constantly explaining why it's never the time to riot, never the time to punch Zionists, never the time to do anything that demonstrably threatens the American empire. Most yt American leftists leave militant radical acts up to the most marginalized and oppressed because most yt American leftists do not experience the kind of persecution that drives people to abandon any lingering attachments to the oppressive American system & its social norms. They don't have skin in the game, they are tourists to the suffering and struggle of others, and come from the outside to it and find it is extraordinarily easy to exit such areas of pain and hardship. The abandonment of the BLM movement as soon as people got vaccinated and felt they could safely embrace the eugenics of the fascist Big Lie of "back to normal" is a scathing example of just how easily yts claim to resist, for a time, until it becomes difficult, and then they find reasons to abandon the struggle. Thus ever with settlers.