Thread on colonization leading to changes in diets and more health problems, and white vegan moral arguments.
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yall are boycott this vote with your money that until it comes to food huh
then its futile and useless to even try
i dont have time to get into this but it really..idk.
Boycotts work when you want to protest a particular company or organization, not an entire food group that we as human beings rely on. This would be like trying to boycott clothing or shoes or vaccines. None of us claim boycotts are useless, just that your ideas of it are.
“Hi! My name’s Siqiñiq, I am Iñuipaq from Alaska, Iñuit, and I want to show you my furs!”
They shift the furs in their arms, holding up a white with blue undertone fur.
“This is blue fox, I’m going to use this on my girl’s parka’s (atigi)”
They hold up a white and brown colored fur.
“This is lamb, which in the city many of us use as liners.”
They next switch to a caramel colored outfit.
“This is sikshrik, squirrel. This is what you would use as a liner traditionally. It’s much softer, so pretty.”
The next fur is a white-grey color.
“This is silver fox, my favorite.”
The Tiktoker holds up the finale fur.
“And my wolf!”
They wrap the wolf fur around their head.
“Okay, yesterday Biden signed support in one of the largest fossil fuel projects in North America right next to my village where my mom lives right now-“
White text that says “Willow Master Project” shows up. They put the fur down and bend closer to the camera.
“-a dynamite mine less then 10 miles away would be installed over 300 miles of pipeline. This completely goes against the Paris climate agreement.
You can take action now.
Visit the link in my profile, it’ll go to a YouTube video of testimony’s of real people in these communities. Then go to silainuat.org
That exhilarating moment for an Asian girl when her first white guy pulls down his pants and she finds out all the rumors she heard are true. She knows 3 things: 1.) She is never going to fuck an Asian man again. 2.) This is going to be painful and amazing sex. 3.) She will let this white stud do anything he likes to her. She is his obedient slut.
4.) She cant wait to get home and show her ricedick fiancee how full of white cum she is.
the thing that fucks me up most with harry potter headcanon as a mixed chicana w/ native+”mestiza” roots is that “purebloods” already wiped us the fuck out. you can play harry potter and pureblood as a metaphor for british classism all you want but don’t tell me that the Salem Witches academy wasn’t built on the site of native americans lands, don’t tell me that european wizards and witches didn’t come to the americas and slaughter those who weren’t secretive about their magic, who didn’t have muggles, don’t tell me they didn’t slaughter us/the american magical peoples, they didn’t convert as many of our ancestors to god-fearing religions as possible because then our brothers and sisters would fear the witches and force magic back into secrecy and out of the hands of our kings and queens, our chiefs, our sages, shamans, healers, don’t tell me that spanish and british and french wizards didn’t come to the americas and round us up, ripping the magic users away from their families to be schooled in proper wand-using magics instead of wandless or wordless or magic by other means in boarding schools which humiliated us, which stole our native tongues and obliterated our heritage and our native power and then mocked us for when we continued to strive to fit our own cultures into their tiny tiny molds
don’t tell me that abuelas and abuelos don’t whisper to their grandchildren the old spells they still know, that in secret, we still cling to magic that they could never understand
voldemort as a singular villain isn’t so scary when your people were raped, enslaved, and slaughtered across two continents for hundreds of years
imagine the bitter laughter of the elderly curandera — ay, now they’re worried about who is being killed
imagine the blood your headcanon is built upon
This is where I’m going with my Shafiq Twenty-Eight series, though it’s kind of a class divide on multiple angles. On the one hand, you have the general population of Bidesh (magical Bengal/Bangladesh area) who think the Bilatis (Brits) are stupid for trying to impose some sort of separation between magical and muggle and thinking that magic is so clearcut.
But on the other hand, you have the upper-class Shafiqs (who in my fic are more like feudal landlord types that may be loosely related to each other) who subtly look down on the commoners and disregard them as farmers or pheasants (though that’s not all the common folk do). I don’t think their disdain is malicious per se - ignorant condescending benevolence, perhaps. They didn’t get around to building a school and codified magical system until relatively recently, and most of that is because they notice that the commoners are itching for a revolt and the school is their means to quell the masses (especially if they offer scholarships to the high-achieving poor kids, like Ayesha’s mother Sabila).
The heart of jadu in Bidesh is in their culture and literature and language, which permeates the country and is the main reason for Bangladesh’s liberation and existence (hence the problematic nature of trying to impose the Statute on them). However, a lot of the practical skills of jadu,knowing how to harness that culture and language into magic, comes from the bede, the boat people, the villagers. They haven’t forgotten.
And in some way the Shafiqs, like Begum Indrajala, know this. Their job as a Shafiq is actually to be a trustee to this magical knowledge, to ensure that the culture stays intact and the heart still keeps beating. But somewhere along the way they got power-hungry, they got patronizing, they though protecting their people meant treating them as little children. They chased glory and forgot greatness.
Even as they fight off the British and Pakistani colonialists (magical or otherwise) for trying to suppress their culture, they are doing damage to themselves.
I was just on the phone with my mum, who didn’t quite get what I was trying to explore with the class divides in my story. She thought that Sabila being a bedewas nonsensical - surely she’s a lot more sophisticated than that (well, it was mostly because Sabila is inspired by my mum somewhat and she thought I was calling her uneducated). She also questioned my use of casi for the commoners because that’s what you call really backwards village uneducated folk. But that’s kind of the point - they’re actually the most educated out of everyone, but the Shafiqs in power don’t really respect that because the commoner education doesn’t look like the Shafiq education - it doesn’t look like their private tutors, it doesn’t look like Hogwarts or Durmstrang, it doesn’t look like the Cadet College. You want to be seen as worthy? Follow the structure. None of this loosey goosey business.
I’m also trying to figure out how this fits with the Trixie/1920s Bengali Harlem storyline. Her mother is from Louisiana Voodoo stock, so she would have learnt a lot of old magic that way, and her dad is a Shafiq, but pre-Cadet College. I’m thinking of how in Malaysia you’d have a lot of people that have hereditary title-names like Raja or Puteri or Syed and usually that hints to some royal lineage but they’re so far removed that functionally they’re like regular folk. Considering the way family trees work in Bangladesh I figure that Trixie’s dad is more of a distant relative than a direct descendent, having some cousin or other study at The Big Magic Schools, relatively middle-class by Bangladeshi standards - I mean, he’s an international merchant, he has a fair amount of money, but he hasn’t completely forsaken his roots.
I know stopdropandbeauty was planning on exploring issues of colonization and imperialism and native genocide in potential HP headcanon/fic, and I feel like some of the other headcanon blogs have touched on that one way or another. HP Headcanon Tumblrs seem to be a trend now, so maybe someone will pipe up and write something along those lines!
(also I wonder if part of the original meta is running under the assumption that only White people can be from Pureblood families, at least in JKR’s stated canon. I pounced on Shafiq when I saw it in the Sacred 28 list because that’s my last name, it’s a name rooted in a rich cultural history that is not White European, it’s real. The only other real-sounding last name on there is Abbott though I couldn’t be wrong. And there’s also Shacklebolt, and the one canon character we meet from that line is Black.)
my feature about my ancestry for The Nib Magazine’s Power issue is online today. this is the heaviest and maybe most personal thing I’ve ever made & it would mean a lot if you took the time to read it. i’m certain you’ll learn something new.
Educate yourself on what’s happening right now. Having well formed opinions on relevant topics matters more than you may think.
Israel is not a country, there are no “struggles on both sides”. This is not anti-semitism, an actual genocide is currently taking place and defending Palestine and it’s people should not a controversial topic.
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The postcard is from the 1930′s. It dates back to a time when Europe disregarded ethnic and tribal boundaries to divided Africa up into colonies where land and people were exploited.
More adult oriented postcards from the era that were distributed privately among like minded individuals were more risque than the above card. In their depictions of same-sex behavior, typically shown were African males with huge sexual appendages dominating willing European males. In gay mainstream and general mainstream media, there is a phobia of showing men of African descent romantically involved with one another; and, few are willing to challenge the phobia.
The postcard above is evidently different in what it shows. The card is non-erotic. All the subjects in the card are African. In the midst of largely heterosexual couplings, one gay couple is featured prominently holding hands as they lovingly look at one another without so much as a disapproving glance from the straight couples.
Same-sex relationships in Africa is nothing new as anthropological and ethnographic observations predating European colonialism reveal. There once was a time when same-sex behavior was accepted as part of the larger arc of human expression and not frowned upon. Same-sex behavior could be accepted and even valued in Africa’s many ethnic tribes. Under the intellectual and Judo-Christian influences of a Europe claiming to have only the best interest of the people always in mind, much of this acceptance and valuation disappeared. .
After the colonial powers left, much of Africa chose to keep foreign customs or laws morally frowning or criminalizing same-sex desiring folk. Observed and oral histories that were evidence of a tolerance or an outright full embracing of same-sex desiring behavior became largely denied and forgotten to be replaced by the intolerable homophobia that make for today’s headline news around the world in a now “free” Africa.
Scope of Viking influence, exploration, colonization, and raiding and trading from the late 8th century to the mid 11th century in Europe (and North America).
White people dont get to have sexualities imo…like they invented homophobia in the first place so i dont feel bad for white people who have their fcking special snowflake labels. Only POC can be demipan.
Gentrification is the urban version of colonization. The same way Europeans take the land away from Africans is the exact same way White people are taking away the communities from black people. As a result of this many black families are forced to move out of their homes. White people are not only moving into this communities but they’re opening businesses as well. Keep in mind these businesses that they’re opening used to be in areas where these black families used to live. At the end of the day, gentrification like colonization doesn’t benefit black people.
