Decolonization and Indigenization is the New Reconciliation

Originally posted on indigenous motherhood:
Decolonization and indigenization is the new reconciliation. And many of our people are blindly holding, and even kissing, colonialism’s hand in the process. So many of our people are willingly playing the lead role in the now colonial-skewed process of “decolonization” and “indigenization.” They are becoming the pets to the…

#NoOneIsIllegal #NoJusticeOnStolenLand & a bit of Springsteen

#NoOneIsIllegal #NoJusticeOnStolenLand in the USA. Same for Australia. In Israel. And really, in the end, no different even in Europe for the wars they help fuel, the climate change… as thousands continue to drown in the Mediterranean Sea and entitled white young Europeans boated out to try to help them die. Or even more so, […]

“Une Charogne” by Charles Baudelaire & the #Psychology of Addiction

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing […]

Power and Perception Exhibit Showcases Contemporary Native Artists

Originally posted on LRInspire:
Many portraits of Indigenous people by non-Native artists romanticize, stereotype, or appropriate Native people and cultures. Contemporary Native artists are actively deconstructing these myths and preconceptions about their culture through the use of art. In fact, many modern-day artists use a dynamic combination of materials, methods and concepts that challenge traditional…

The Romanticization of Indigenous Death, Eurocentrism & The Wrong Kind of Circle

“Throughout history, a country’s economic and military strength has influenced its times of cultural splendor and the rise of famous intellectuals and artists. Spain has been an exception to this. At the turn of the 20th century, a surprising series of events that no one could have predicted occurred. At the time, Spain had recently […]