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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
Golem
PT: Golem /end PT
ID: a flag with five uneven horizontal lines. The two first are bigger while the fourth one is smaller. Their colours are from top to bottom, dark brown, brown, beige, soft red and dark soft red. On the upper left corner there is a symbol, a brown circle with inside a small black circle on top and two black triangles underneath the circle, forming a golem's head. END ID
Golem: a queer Jewish individual who defines themselves as protective, defensive, supportive, helpful and/or have a tall, chubby, fat, an imposant body type/shape in any other way.
Everything in the design are in reference to the clay that golems are composed of.
Wanted to make a Jewish exclusive presentation label because I haven't seen any yet. I want to do more of those, inspired from creatures of the Jewish folklore! I don't have any idea yet, feel free to suggest anything. :)
Under cut separated parts of flag.
ID: the golem symbol isolated, on a transparent background. END ID
ID: the flag without the symbol on it. END ID
I'm literally sick on MY DAY. THIS IS SO RACIST.
reminder to keep your immigrant family members safe and that they’re detaining citizens too, be aware of your surroundings and of your rights. this behavior is disgusting and I’m scared for my native american family members
Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?
They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
And people say that Canada is the nicer America
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
Native Americans march in solidarity with Palestine
Denver, Colorado USA
© Malek Asfeer
I highly recommend checking out Eighth Generation if you’re looking to support indigenous artists. They have a ton of awesome stuff, but their wool blankets are a real standout.
It’s a fantastic alternative to all the “native-inspired” blankets and textiles you’ve seen.
“Christianity didn’t become a world religion because of the quality of its teachings, but by the quantity of its violence.” -Eleanor Ferguson.
I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)
Some tribal owned grocers that ship:
Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)
Native Harvest (White Earth)
Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)
Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)
Ramona Farms (Gila River)
Tanka Bars (Oglala)
Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)
Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)
Ute Bison (Ute)
Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)
She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)
Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)
Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)
Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)
Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)
BONUS: coffee :)
Yeego Coffee (Navajo)
Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)
Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)
Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)
I genuinely feel like I’m going insane sometimes
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇦
UKR🇺🇦 -> ENG🇬🇧
Щороку 23 серпня моя кохана Україна святкує День Державного Прапора, 24 серпня — День Незалежности. Сьогодні нашій сучасній державності виповнюється 33 роки, хоча насправді українська історія сягає тисячоліть. Це — роки здобуття Майбутнього, Волі, Незалежности. Це — роки Віри, Самоусвідомлення, Шляху.
Україна — це Боротьба. Вічна боротьба за долю.
Дякую кожному та кожній, завдяки кому ми можемо святкувати цей День. Дякую всім, хто боронив, боронить і боронитиме нашу Державу.
Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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Every year on August 23, my beloved Ukraine celebrates the Day of the National Flag, and Independence Day on August 24. Today, our modern statehood turns 33 years old, although in fact, Ukrainian history goes back thousands of years. These are years of gaining Future, Freedom, Independence. These are years of Faith, Self-awareness, Path.
Ukraine means Fighting. Eternal fighting for destiny.
I thank everyone, thanks to whom we can celebrate this Day. Thank you to everyone who defended, defends, and will defend our State.
Slava Ukraini! Heroyam slava!
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OCs in their nationalities' folk clothes: Ian (Ukrainian) and Alim (Crimean tatar).
You all DO NOT fucking understand.
A “what did I do-o-o-o 😭😭😭 I'm just a little guy, I'm apolitical, what do you want from me-e-e-e 😭😭😭😭” russian is not a “good” russian. It is a product of russian propaganda they've got going on inside the country. It is what they've been brainwashed to think like. Their government feeds them contradicting lies and punishes for speaking up, so they sit quietly, not even wanting to learn about Kursk.
They went on a protest when there was no electricity due to infrastructure damage. They went on a protest abroad when a russian nazi singer got blocked on Spotify. Why don't they protest the war while living in Britain? Why do they either not give a fuck or attack Ukrainians abroad? It is THEIR choice to see Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria and then ploof on their backs receive belly scratches that Western folk happily provides.
They don't engage, then visit Crimea in the summer and run in complete bewilderment with tears on their faces when there's a bomb. What war? They're apolitical, guys. How could you? What did they do? Of coooourse they can call a Ukrainian a cowshed animal and still be apolitical (in russian of course, so you, their western friend, don't think bad of them). They can mock any language that got trapped under the empire however they please and not notice any oppressive undertones. You all did not hear what they think about Belarussian or Ukrainian — NOT when they're confronted, but when they speak in their space and in their language.
Image 1, “Dead languages of russia”
Image 2, “Guess why the fuck there are so many nationalities in ruzzian empire and why is that their culture is being erased. A bonus question: by whom? An extra hard question: do ordinary russians think that these people have the same social status as them? Do they think that some nationalities are subhuman?”
Of course they call for “peace”, because, you see, war is bad, because fuck the war! — because it's a surface-area nice thing they can say to get friends, because they're too “pure” to follow up with “they should give up so the killings stop giving me a bad reputation and I DO NOT GIVE A SINGLE SHIT about death when it's not on my Twitter feed”.
I know what a Westerner would think about this. At the very, very best, literally peak compassion I've met maybe twice, it would be: “Damn this is xenophobic, but I bet they're going through a lot right now, so I won't tell them that they're wrong”. And the funny thing is that I am not wrong. They're just nice to you, because your nation is not the funny one that belongs in the stables. If they're an opposition, they just want a better russia, not a free Ukraine.
And I'm talking about “leftists” here (not sure if it's the correct term, like, politically), the ones being befriended and cherished online. Shit the openly genocidal ones produce, which are many, is far beyond Western comprehension.
A very beautiful image of these smiley blackfoot. It seemed everything was alright…
Photograph by Mary T. S. Schaffer in 1907.
When a Caucasian person gets offended that Columbus Day is changed to Indigenous Peoples day. Then they start posting about how they aren’t indigenous anywhere and what even is indigenous? Excuse me, you would be indigenous to Europe. Stop trying to make this about you and just be happy that you’re alive and well. Stop raining on other peoples’ parade.
#ME
Lent 2025 personal devotion
For Lent this year, I'll read 12 pages a day for 40 days of this wonderful translation.
bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry
sex, gender & sexuality words:
last updated: 8 october, 2024.
yananchay - sexuality
kamamanta - gender (social). (back-formation of latin [genere] meaning type or kind, quechua [kama] meaning kind.)
t’ipip - sex (social & biological). (back-formation of latin [sexūs] meaning section or division, quechua [t’ipi] meaning division.)
chawpit’ipip - intersex.
runa - gender neutral term for human / person.
tinkuy - liminal space of unity, complementary forces, convergence, meeting of elements, roughly translates to nonbinary.
warmi - woman - feminine
qari - man - masculine
tikrachisqa [qari / warmi / runa.] - transgender / transformed people: tikrachisqa qari, tikrachisqa warmi, tikrachisqa runa, so on, so forth.
chakachisqa [qari / warmi / runa.] - transgender / trans meaning extending across, through, or over: crossing people: chakachisqa qari, chakachisqa warmi, chakachisqa runa. (alternative based on cross-linguistic analysis featuring the arabic language term for transgender, old based on transform / change [mutaħawwil] and new based on trans / extending across [ʕābir/ʕābira])
ch’usaq - zero - absent / agender
runapuri - genderfluid
warmiqari - feminine man*
qariqari - masculine man*
qariwarmi - man-woman* / masculine-feminine* / masculine woman* / liminal-gendered / historical transvestite {considered analogous to two-spirit identities in the north.}
warmiwarmi - feminine woman*
chiqan - straight / hetero
chinaku / warminchu - gay (qaripura kuyay - love among men / MLM)
qarinchu / ushuta - lesbian (warmipura kuyay - love among women, basically our way of saying WLW)
q’iwa - translates as necessary or sacred irregularity in life (surprise) or .. as we westerners say… being queer . dotty. pansy-like. a dandy. (also means imperfection, coward, could refer to any number of perceived flaws)
chawpinpashña - demigirl
chawpinmaqta - demiboy
yuquchu - asexual
kuyachu - aromantic
kaqllapura kuyay - homoromantic
chiqanpura kuyay - heteromantic
iskaypura kuyay - biromantic
llapanpura kuyay - panromantic
iskaypura yuquy - bisexual
kaqllapura yuquy - homosexual
chiqanpura yuquy - heterosexual
llapanpura yuquy - pansexual
(*doesnt take sexuality into account FYI)
(green text indicates brand new words)
main sources used:
Wiktionary, QichwaDic 2.0, Promsex, Glosbe
Guardians of the Sacred
by Douglas Wolz
Tita Medicina
by Ruysen Flores
AUSTRALIA ABORIGINAL PICTOGRAPHS WORLD HERITAGE ROCK ART WANDJINA ART found throughout the Kimberley. Strange are these heads with short, narrow nose, so different from aboriginal faces, a sort of helmet on the head, a sort of glasses. They haven't lips, because according to the Mowanjum tribe, the Wandjinas didn't speak. It reminds me of "Memories of the Future. Unsolved Mysteries of the Past" by Ernest von Daniken. The book suggests that some ancient artworks throughout the world could be interpreted as depicting astronauts. Harald Reini made a documentary movie of 1h30 based on the theory developed in the book of Daniken. This documentary film was presented for the Oscars en 1970. #landscape #indigenous Australians #aborigines #dreamtime #australia #harald Reini #ernest von Daniken #kimberley #aboriginal pictographs #rock art #pictographs #national parks #world heritage list #dreamtimel #myths #beliefs #wandjina #art #history of civilizations #gods #mowanjum tribe https://www.instagram.com/p/BuRvkIrgE0zfQd1_GJjHIbIyARbeF8c7fSPjdo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7omw1uf9itf9
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"so wHY DONT YOU GIVE ME ONE MORE
chAAAAAAANCE"
-Gumball Waterson
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(before we get started i know none of this is whimsigoth but this is the only social media i have to show my trip to yall im so sorry plz dont crucify me)
GOOOOOD nothing like being in a different country and having the urge, no, the NEED to text an ex or flirt and sext, amirite ladies? FUCK.
Also! The red and white striped clothing you see woman wearing in some pictures are called Güipil. They are woven and worn with a traditional skirt (same weaving method is used but an entirely different pattern and style is used for skirts) by the Triqui people, which I am half :)! We are a fascinating group of indigenous Mexicans so if you have any questions please please ask away!! I wanna talk to yall about my people (or you could just google us but i miss you all :( so)
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