This is so empowering to see proving that despite how hard the churches and Canadian government tried. They failed to “kill the Indian in the child” and that we will continue to flourish in our beautiful culture ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 and we will never give up
[VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
A First Nations child in Canada doing a traditional dance in front of a Catholic monument in a jingle dress with live singers accompanying her as an act of defiance proving that the residential schools failed to eradicate their people. Kids shoes have been left on the stone steps, presumably equivalent to the number of child graves recently found in an old residential school.
We are still here. We will not be silenced… even though the genocide continues. /END of VD]
remember, a hard hat and a hi-vis vest, and a friend with their own hard hat, hi-vis vest and a clipboard, and you can get away with all sorts of things
just remember that if anyone asks, act irritated that you were called in on your day off because the guy who was supposed to do it fell sick, then catch yourself and say “anyway, no time to chat, i got a quota to meet” before grumbling about how you should have listened to your mother.
That bar is to prevent unhoused people from sleeping there, for anyone who doesn’t understand why we’re removing it
this is like the eighth time I’ve seen this post and it took me until now to realize they mean recycle the metal bar and use the money you get for it to buy food, not that you should eat the bar 🤦♂️
“you have to love yourself first” is toxic positivity at it’s finest, because you’re basically insinuating to people with poor self esteem that it’s their own fault, and if they ‘just loved themselves’ they’d be worthy of love. and honestly, that’s rubbish! people who love themselves can end up in a relationship with someone who completely erodes their self worth, and people who have poor self esteem can find partners who help them become their best selves. their are no pre-requisites to your ability to be loved, please don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!
If you don’t love yourself that doesn’t mean you aren’t worthy of love or can’t find someone who loves you but if you’re filled with self loathing all the external love in the world can’t compensate for that. And you may end up eventually rejecting your partner’s love just like you reject your own love if you refuse to take responsibility and do the work.
That’s all.
And when people who love themselves end up in a relationship that’s eroding their worth? They leave. That’s the power self love gives you. Stop seeing suggestions to “love yourself” as condemnation. It’s salvation.
I think it’s time for a refresher about what a “trickster” is and what makes a character or deity one.
A trickster is a boundary-crosser; an entity who highlights the rules and conventions of society by calling them into question, usually with their actions, and usually by breaking said rules and conventions. This helps us assess why these rules are in place and if they even serve us.
Because of this, tricksters tend to be transgressive and subversive. Sometimes this can be very delightful and other times can be very uncomfortable, even repulsive.
“Trickster” is a function, not a personality type. Sure, many tricksters are cocky and possess a devil-may-care attitude, but so are other beings who aren’t tricksters, and there are many tricksters out there that don’t have these personality traits.
Tricksters don’t exclusively deal with absolutes. Everything they do changes depending on the situation they’re dealing with and the goal they’re trying to achieve. And unfortunately, this is what many people seem to misunderstand.
For example, I often see people say, “Tricksters are never trustworthy,” or, “Tricksters always have ulterior motivations,” when the truth is that tricksters are situationally trustworthy, and tricksters situationally have ulterior motivations.
Tricksters are capable of being selfish or selfless, helpful or harmful, constructive or destructive, kind or cruel, etc. all depending on what it is they’re trying to achieve. We may not always know what they’ll choose because they’re operating at a higher level of meta than we are.
This is the nature you’re dealing with when dealing with a trickster. They’re not “secretly a villain” or actually an “unconventional and misunderstood hero.” They’re a trickster, and that moral gray is what you’re going to get when dealing with them.
white people ruined the non sexual intimacy of nakedness methinks
i think that for a species that come into the world naked and have such an easy time understanding sex, its ironic that the world at large cant accept that intimacy cant occur outside of sexual desire. there is intimacy in a shared bath between a mother and her child. between brothers sharing a bed. between friends changing in the same room.
and i said white people bc i feel like literally everyone else figured that shit out already? like in public bath houses and women walking around with their breasts exposed. europe got a hold of chriatianity and decided to put a worldwide ban nakedness and put these restrictions on the human body, bastardizing the nature with which we come into the world. its dirty, its deviant, its dangerous to be exposed in the appropriate spaces or ones own home.
the way young people have to cover up in their homes before guests come, the way shorts and other summer clothes are only perceived as sexual in nature and not the most effective way of combating a million degree heat, the way people freak out when they see a bra strap like it wasnt them who made bitches wear bras in the first place
No one would think it was funny to bully an Autistic Child™, and you don’t think bullying Autistic Children™ is funny! That’s horrible! But when I say that story about a “weird kid” you knew that got bullied isn’t funny, you’re like “Well…that’s different! She was really weird, I mean she MEOWED at people!”
I’m gonna be real here, I take neurotypicals’ opinions on “weird” people far more seriously than I take their statements of support for me or for autistic people in general.
Like your opinions on furries (putting aside any sexual connotations) are HONESTLY a better litmus test of whether you are a safe person for me or any autistic people than your opinions on Five Year Old Boy Disease.
Yup. “Of course I support you, autistic person, but look at this guy over there being weird!”
So what you’re telling me is you’re supporting me, who is autistic, as long as I don’t behave autistic. Got it. Bye.
“We’re not making fun of him for being autistic, we’re making fun of him for being weird”
a quiet but important acknowledgment that as of my niece’s fifth birthday last wednesday, it’s been five years since i stopped having any suicidal ideation whatsoever, after living with for about twenty years.
sometimes it’s ok to live for others at first. sometimes it helps you learn how to live for you.
I know the news is in the pocket of the ruling class and everything but I can’t fucking believe ppl in philly created an entire fucking les-mis style blockade around a city block to stop cops from evicting houseless folks and that wasn’t major breaking news.
Like CHAZ was in the news for fucking weeks meanwhile philly had a colossal group of homeless people set up a tent city, a bunch of black bloc folks erected a barricade by breaking into construction sites and stealing supplies, then used that barricade as a bargaining chip to negotiate the city into giving 100 homes to public housing, and nobody fucking knows about that except for a few of my friends irl. What the fuck.
Is there anything about this online at all? Twitter threads? Pictures? Any media from the activists?
Yeah! So I actually didn’t expect this post to leave my little online circle but I saw you and somebody else mention it so. Sorry if this is messy, I’m no source of authority here.
https://philadelphiahousingaction.info/ is a great place to start. They actually have an entire page on press behind it. I’d also recommend looking through their twitter @PhlHousing. Philadelphia housing action is as close to an organizational body behind the two encampments as exist.
There were 2 encampments, camp JTD and camp Teddy, which was parked
right out side the philadelphia housing authority. Basically what the
Philadelphia Housing Authority was doing was taking row homes that were
designated as “public housing”, refusing to let anyone rent, letting the
property value go down, and then selling to private investors, some of
which are owned by the mayor. As a protest, a large group of homeless folks set up encampments on public property, declared them sit ins as to make them protected under first amendment rights, and then proceeded to set up camps at some point in late june.
On their instagram, @campjtd, they posted this on september 27th
this thread from unicorn riot on twitter does a pretty good job of covering it, with some images here and there
The camps themselves were actually very well run, they had access to porta-potties, clean running water (I have no idea how they set it up but I spent a couple nights there on lookout, they had sinks for washing they had set up outside and for drinking water). Tents were donated so new residents could set up sleeping areas if they didn’t have one themselves. A steady stream of food, toiletries and other essentials were donated by dozens of local activist groups and individuals, they had grills and stoves for cooking hot meals, medical tents with on site street medics from volunteers and various groups. It was really incredible how well everything ran.
Below are some more pictures of the camp from their instagram
and twitter
I don’t know much about camp Teddy, as I only ever went to JTD, but a very large number of people lived there, and eventually police started routinely circling the camp and demanding it was disbanded, and threatening to mobilize, only to be met with enough pushback to prevent them. Some images of the event were posted on their instagram
and actually this video is of the police delivering the order to disband
Eventually from enough pushback 50 homes were given away to people living at the camps, but the struggle isn’t quite over as many of the homes were in a dilapidated condition and many individuals wound up not receiving a home. As of today (6/10/21) I believe both camps have been disbanded, and no further organized action has been pursued, but it was still a mind blowing radicalization in resistance.
I can’t stress enough please go through https://philadelphiahousingaction.info/, I am not an expert, I am just a random kid who happened to be there at the right time, and all information I picked up was through word of mouth.
