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Defund the Police? Let’s Defund and Recreate the Current Education System While We’re at It.
Defund and disband the police? Yes. I’m here for that. And while we’re at it, let’s talk about the education/public school system. Let’s talk about the importance of raising our children outside of these existing colonial education systems in order to disconnect the maintained cycles of oppression that begin in, and are upheld in, those … Continue reading Defund the Police? Let’s Defund and Recreate the Current Education System While We’re at It.
Traditional Indigenous Kinship Practices at Home: Being Child-Centered During the Pandemic
In our traditional kinship systems, children were the at the center of the family system. Everything we did was with, and for, the children. Women had babies on their back, breasts, and hips while they were skinning and tanning hides, gathering water and wood, cooking, harvesting berries and medicine, and everything in between. Older children … Continue reading Traditional Indigenous Kinship Practices at Home: Being Child-Centered During the Pandemic
To the “Old Boys Club:” F*** your Patriarchy
It’s at every political “Indian” meeting. It’s at the round tables, the dialogues, and the discussions. Their behaviours are steeped in it. It’s in the way they speak, how they carry themselves, the way they look or stare. Fundamentally, it’s the idea that because one is an indigenous male in colonial politics, camouflaged as “Indian … Continue reading To the “Old Boys Club:” F*** your Patriarchy
I never want to be seen as an equal to settler society.
I never want to be seen as an equal to settler society. Nor do I ever want to be seen as an equal in the eyes of the colonizer. And I never want to be seen as “successful” within colonial systems. It started when I was young. It was lurking in the beginning stages of … Continue reading I never want to be seen as an equal to settler society.
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