there’s all these things talking about how transandrophobia is such a “white” concept and i don’t get it at all
i’m an Indigenous trans man, and in my culture, long hair is seen as masculine. that said, society at large.. to put it shortly, does not agree with that. as a result i’ve been forced to choose between embracing my culture by growing my hair long, and being seen as a man by the non-Indigenous people around me by cutting my hair short
i’ve cut my hair short. and it brings me grief, a lot of it. i didn’t do anything to honour the hair after i cut it because i was so focused on finally being seen as a man, and it hurts me to know that in failing to do so i’ve hurt my ancestors who fought and died for simple things like their right to keep their hair long
transandrophobia as a word helps me describe this struggle, this mourning, this one or the other choice of being who i am. transandrophobia doesn’t only describe the oppression that white transmasculine people face for their transmasculinity. it describes Indigenous transmascs, Black transmascs, Latino transmascs, Asian transmascs, so many BIPOC experiences
to equate transandrophobia to being just a white thing erases the voice of myself and many other BIPOC who are finally, finally able to talk about our experiences with society’s rejection of our cultural masculinity, now that we have a word for it. so please, stop calling transandrophobia a white thing, because it really, really isn’t
These photographs were found in a recent accession to the Roberto Hernandez Center Records (UWM Archival Collection 116, Accession 2019-018, Box 1).
Per the captions on the back of the first two photographs, they depict Vernon Bellecourt and Russell Means, leaders of the American Indian Movement, during their visit to UW-Milwaukee. The photographs are undated, but a search through the UWM Post reflects that both Means and Bellecourt were featured speakers during UWM’s 1981 Native American Week. Bellecourt conducted a seminar on “Racism and the American Indian,” and Means spoke about “The American Prison System.”
Information about the individual and the event in the last photograph of this series is unknown.
Habang naglilinis ay nakita ko ang mga postcards na nabili ko noong 2019 MIBF. Napag-isipan kong hanapin ang mga ito sa internet at nalaman ko na ang mga larawan sa postcards ay makikita rin sa librong Form and Splendor: Personal Adornment of Northern Luzon Ethnic Groups, Philippines ni Roberto Maramba. Ang mga larawan naman sa naturang libro ay kuha ni Masato Yokoyama.
The striking neck ornament of the Isneg called “sipattal” composed of a bead collar and three cascades of cut mother of pearl.
Ilongot ear ornaments for females called “calipan.” Disks of mother-of-pearl have scratchwork designs of an anthropomorphic figure,
Ilongot earrings for males called “batling.” The jagged form is cut from the skull of a scarlet hornbill. It denoted headhunter status.
Bontoc women’s girdle called “akosan.” Very old and worn cone shells (Conus literatus) and bone pieces on woven textile.
The Tinguian shell girdle called “akosan.” ivory rings, wooden rings, cone shells and animal teeth on woven cloth. 110 cm in length.
Ceremonial loincloth for “Gaddang” males called “dinega.” Finely-woven cloth is decorated at the ends with tiny glass beads.
An assortment of Kalinga and Isneg bead ensembles. Bone and shell segments, glass, ceramic and agate beads.
Three oil companies have canceled their leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Drilling in the refuge has long been a controversial issue, as the 19.5-million-acre wilderness area is home to 45 species of mammals including polar bears, bowhead whales and caribou and considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich’in people, according to the Gwich’in Steering Committee.
“These exits clearly demonstrate that international companies recognize what we have known all along: drilling in the Arctic Refuge is not worth the economic risk and liability that results from development on sacred lands without the consent of Indigenous Peoples,” the Gwich’in Steering Committee said in a statement.
The Anchorage Daily News first reported Thursday that the oil company Regenerate Alaska, a subsidiary of 88 Energy, had canceled its lease on the refuge’s coastal plain, as confirmed by the Bureau of Land Management.
“The Bureau of Land Management has a well-established procedure to do this, and last month rescinded and canceled the lease, as requested,” the Interior Department said in a statement reported by the Anchorage Daily News. “The Office of Natural Resources Revenue refunded (the) full bonus bid and first year rentals.”
At the same time, the paper also reported that Hilcorp and Chevron had spent $10 million to exit older leases to land owned by an Alaskan Native coorporation within the refuge.
“Chevron’s decision to formally relinquish its legacy lease position was driven by the goal of prioritizing and focusing our exploration capital in a disciplined manner in the context of our entire portfolio of opportunities,” company spokesperson Deena McMullen told The Hill.
The move follows a game of political football over oil and gas exploration along the refuge’s 1.5 million acre coastal plain. In 2017, Congress passed a law mandating two lease sales in the refuge by 2024, according to The Washington Post. However, when the Trump administration held its first lease sale in the coastal plain in January 2021, Regenerate Alaska was the only oil company to buy a lease, according to the Anchoridge Daily News.
The company’s decision to pull out follows political uncertaintly over the lease, as the Biden administration put a halt to exploration in the refuge and suspended the leases for more study. Indigenous and enviornmental groups also led a campaign against drilling in the refuge, and 29 banks and 14 international insurers have now said they won’t fund drilling in the refuge, according to the Gwich’in Steering Committee.
Some have criticized the Biden administration for delaying the leases, blaming its actions for the companies’ departure.
“The Biden administration continues to tell the American people that they are doing all they can to bring down energy prices,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said, as The Washington Post reported. “Then they take actions that do the exact opposite, especially in Alaska.”
However, environmental groups responded favorably to the news, arguing that drilling in the refuge would be dangerous both to the local ecosystem and the global fight against the climate crisis.
“This is positive news for the climate and the human rights of Indigenous people whose survival depends on a healthy, thriving calving ground for the Porcupine Caribou Herd, and further proves that the oil industry recognizes drilling on sacred lands is bad business,” Wilderness Society Alaska state director Karlin Itchoak said in a statement reported by The Washington Post.
There are two entities that retain leases following the 2021 sale – the state-owned Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority and an Anchorage real estate investor (AIDEA). However, experts say that it’s unlikely they will be able to develop the land independently, making fossil fuel exploration in the refuge now unlikely. Still, Indigenous activists said they would keep pressure on the remaining lease holders.
“AIDEA must show respect to the Indigenous communities they have been overlooking in Alaska projects,” executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee Bernadette Demientieff said in a statement. “We are spiritually and culturally connected to the land, water and animals. The Gwich’in people and our allies will never stop fighting to protect Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit.”
Inuits in the Arctic can survive perfectly on a plant based diet
Vegans: We care about all life! We’re all equal!
Also vegans: I think Inuit people should starve :)
Animals in nature: *kill and eat each other all the time.*
vegans:
Commercial agriculture: *develops certain GMOs and pesticides that kill keystone bug species, which disrupts the environment and kills many different animals up the food chain as a result*
Vegans:
Commercial agriculture: *destroys local ecosystems by ripping out native species and replacing them with massive farms of exotic monocultures, resulting in the deaths and endangerment of millions of species*
Vegans:
Inuit people: *live in an environment where growing plant based food is extremely difficult, and where grocery prices are inflated past affordability so they hunt a few large animals every year which feed their entire community*
Vegans: that’s immoral and evil, actually.
@feathertayl
MY PEOPLE! MY PEOPLE ARE ALREADY STARVING! We are NOT the reason animals are going extinct. We have kept the EXACT SAME HUNTING PRACTICES FOR CENTURIES! CENTURIES! Before cars we hunted this way, before light bulbs we hunted this way, BEFORE AMERICA OR AUSTRALIA WAS COLONIZED WE HAVE HUNTED THIS WAY!
Orange juice in my home town is 25$ minimum! We buy bread for special occasions! Something Southern people have on their dinner table 24/7 is something I would see only a few times a year!
Not to mention, we use AS MUCH OF THE ANIMAL AS POSSIBLE! Bones become plates, and silverware (or in some cases jewlery), fur and blubber becomes homes and clothing and beds. Teeth become combs. And we eat EVERYTHING! I’ve had brains, and eyeballs, and intestines. Anything that can be eaten, will be eaten. We DONT throw ANYTHING away. And if we have too much (which is rare but has happened before) we leave it for the suffering wild life!
Polar bears will come and gouge themselves on a whale we don’t finish, wolves will feast on some left over seal tails, foxes will devour caribou carcases!
Even now, we are curbing our hunting ideas. We DONT hunt as many whales as we used too, we used to hunt maybe five a year, but now we hunt one to three! Seals are also taken care of but use only hunting males, and older males at that! Caribou was my family’s main meal, and lemmings when they would come around.
If you are vegan, cool! More power too you! But you probably live in a place that can grow more than lichen, and grass. You live in an industrialized place, where everyone has a car, and house.
Some of my people still don’t own these things. We are so far north, cars are hard to maintain, electricity for my childhood home came from a car battery we would buy from the soldiers and sailors, we didn’t have wifi, or even phones.
Policymakers are converging on Bonn, Germany this week to hammer out details so countries can begin implementing the Paris climate agreement. As they work, they would do well to remember the speeches given by government leaders at the April 22 signing ceremony at the United Nations.
