For #IndigenousPeoplesDay, my #Essay: “When I Think About America”

Originally published at Medium, Feb 2020, as a #BIPOC #personalessay #flashmemoir. (Photo of my mother and son, taken by me, 1997) When I think about #America, I think of the multi-millions of #Indigenous peoples who were killed, who were raped, who had their children ripped from their arms or who died from diseases deliberately introduced. […]

“Native’ hobbyism Is modern day #Colonialism” my op-ed at @CBC @cbcdocs & The Things Forgotten in All these “Debates” on “#Multiculturalism” & #CulturalAppropriation

Following my participation, albeit a small but contextually accurate part, in “Searching for Winnetou”, the 2018 documentary film on Indian hobbyism, with a million dollar budget very different than my own “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” film, both in finances and tone, I was invited to write an op-ed published to CBC Docs. I […]

Our statement on the #Winnetou #Ravensburger or ANY “Debates” on #Racism #Sexism – 31 August 2022

This is my official statement and sharing of information and situation I’ve experienced due to the on-going controversy of Ravensburger, Winnetou and the “bad faith” arguments, “strawman” examples and false equivalents on Native American stereotypes, cultural appropriation and misrepresentation, and the inherent racism and Eurocentrism at the root of those behaviors and practices. This is […]

The Whitecentric #Winnetou Controversy in #Germany is Overshadowing Important Topics like #RostockLichtenhagen but the Root Cause is the same: #Racism & White Supremacist Ideology

In a recent Twitter post an important point was made by Dr. Noa Ha, a participant from our documentary, “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” and a “(Post)colonial urbanist. Des/integration, critical race, decolonial studies. @ art school Berlin-Weissensee and DeZIM.” I responded on the thread “Another facet of whiteness and whiteness-centeredness, both of which […]