Odette

[ PT: genderfluid two-spirit! /End PT. ]

a flag for genderfluid two-spirit people! this is a revised iteration of a former flag i made of the same identity.

[ PT: a flag for genderfluid two-spirit people! this is a revised iteration of a former flag i made of the same identity. /End PT. ]

. . . butch , futch , & femme genderfluid two-spirit!

[ PT: butch, futch, and femme genderfluid two-spirit! /End PT. ]

flags for butch, futch, and femme genderfluid two-spirit people, respectively! these are revised versions of the first iterations i had of these flags.

[ PT: flags for butch, futch, and femme genderfluid two-spirit people, respectively! these are revised versions of the first iterations i had of these flags. /End PT. ]

i took down and recreated these as they felt unfinished and i was unhappy with how they turned out, however, the original iterations of the flags are all under the cut, if preferred. flags were requested by @mixedlittlefox!

[ PT: i took down and recreated these as they felt unfinished and i was unhappy with how they turned out, however, the original iterations of the flags are all under the cut, if preferred. flags were requested by @mixedlittlefox! /End PT. ]

[ PT: genderfluid two-spirit! End PT ]

a flag for those who are genderfluid two-spirit! in the format of my two-spirit flag. tried my best to use the colors in the genderfluid flag and such, hope it communicates genderfluid.

[ PT: a flag for those who are genderfluid two-spirit! in the format of my two-spirit flag. tried my best to use the colors in the genderfluid flag and such, hope it communicates genderfluid. End PT ]

. . . butch / futch / femme genderfluid two-spirit !

[ PT: butch, futch, and femme, genderfluid two-spirit! End PT ]

flags for butches, futches, and femmes who are genderfluid two-spirit! like the genderfluid 2S flag, it's in the format of my two-spirit flag. as said in the post of my 2S flag, this is only for indigenous queer people; the 2S identity is a deeply cultural identity only for indigenous people.

non-natives are free to reblog, of course. all flags requested by @mixedlittlefox. (hope it's alright to tag you! and that these are to your liking.)

[ PT flags for butches, futches, and femmes who are genderfluid two-spirit! like the genderfluid two-spirit flag, it's in the format of my two-spirit flag. as said in the post of my two-spirit flag, this is only for indigenous queer people; the two-spirit identity is a deeply cultural identity only for indigenous people.

I was born, raised and currently live in Australia. White sage is not native here. I am a white Australian with British and European background and I was wondering if it is okay to use white sage. I don’t wish to appropriate and participate in closed practices but I’ve seen metaphysical shops in Australia selling white sage and I’m just curious about it. Thanks!

White people have no business judging who is or isn't Native. Especially because they know fuck all about our identities after spending so long trying to erase us.

Fakers are an inter-community problem that doesn't need external commentary. Allies should listen to the majority consensus of what Indigenous peoples have to say about cases on an individual bases* and can boost our voices when it comes to say, calling for the removal of fakers in positions that should belong to authentic Indigenous representation for example, but we don't need anyone speaking for us.

I'm half-Mexican and my family's been in the US for 4+ generations, is extremely white-passing and generally very assimilated into mainstream American culture. I know from a DNA test that I'm ~20% native american (indigenous Mexican I assume) and 80% European, but I have a lot of angst about ID-ing as "white-passing" myself (vs "rounding up" to white) and feel like an impostor checking the Hispanic/Latinx box on forms and such. I'm still working through a lot of my personal baggage about not being connected "enough" with my Mexican heritage but I wanted to share a couple things that have been meaningful to me.

I play the violin, so I joined a mariachi band in college and started playing & listening to a lot of Mexican music. A lot of Mexicans have an emotional connection to mariachi music, either through having a favorite song or just that the music reminds them of a loved one. Having that point of connection helps me find common ground between myself and other Mexicans instead of getting too in my head about not being able to speak Spanish very well & all the cultural experiences I'm lacking.

I also started having conversations like this one with my irl friends, several of whom are mixed-race or 2nd-gen immigrants but don't share the same heritage as me. I learned that a lot of people have these same anxieties, but it's easy to assume the people around you are all secure in their identities and you're the only one stressing about this stuff, because it's not a topic of conversation people bring up very often.

Anyways, thanks for hosting these conversations on your blog, and I'd like to give a big warm hug to all the other anons with cultural anxieties.

Oh god don't even get me started, the idea that where you "belong" and what culture you're "allowed" to practice is based solely on your blood and DNA is a relatively recent practice in human history, as discussed prior plenty plenty plenty of historical evidence suggests that when humans of various cultures came across others different from themselves, most of the time they freely intermingled and accepted each other as part of their society, except in explicitly closed cultures which often times were the result (or had the end goal) of genocide.

So long as trade and tragedy have existed, so have the lines of ethnicity and race been blurred.

So of course most Natives *do not* like or practice blood quantum because, surprise, most of their cultures allowed for mixing in the first place because it wasn't about blood but culture.

Dog question tax: I know you love chihuahuas and terriers, but is there another small breed you like?

Big same, being mixed Irish/Black/Native, where long hair is not discouraged in the bulk of my family history and even the white people in my family often have/had longer hair than your typical standard American man due to their rural roots. And knowing that black and Native men are often forced to cut their hair- or worse, held down while their hair is forcibly cut as a means of cultural genocide- in order to conform with the dominant white society makes me want to grow my hair out and wear it in traditional styles even more.

However, it often has a feminizing effect on my face and body type, and it leads to me being misgendered more than normal. Which, I get it, even cis men with long hair get misgendered more often because of society's strong association with long hair = woman, but still. I have a white friend who is a cis gay man and he hasn't cut his hair in over a decade- he's very clearly male and is otherwise masc-presenting and not outwardly GNC and yet when we're out together there are times we get called "ladies" or someone catcalls him because they think he's a woman. This is also part of why I cannot wrap my head around the idea that men don't experience misogyny- my cis male friend experiences plenty of misogyny just because he wears his hair long. He stopped cutting his hair not due to cultural reasons but to honor his father who died of cancer and was distraught to have been losing his hair during his chemo.

A term that is exclusive to Indigenous/Aboriginal people who have a preference in attraction to other indigenous people or are exclusively attracted to other indigenous people.

This term can also be written as “Aboriginal for Aboriginal” or “Aboriginal4Aboriginal”

Coined by: @arcticflowerz

Colour meanings

Black stripes: Mixed indigenous people

Blue stripes: Métis

Red stripes: First nations and Native American people

Yellow stripes: Inuit

Teal stripe: All indigenous/Aboriginal people from all over the world as a whole

This term was coined by an actual Inuk. DO NOT USE THIS TERM IF YOUR TRANSRACE! THIS TERM IS ONLY MEANT FOR BODILY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

Edit: by “bodily indigenous” I do not mean you have to be “indigenous passing” to use this term. You can still use this term if your white passing or not. By “bodily indigenous” I was referring to having indigenous blood and indigenous relatives in your family tree.

like every country in the West is known to in some way benefit from imperialism, and there’s a reason those of us outside the states have to learn about things like americanization in school, but whether one has access to personal individual privilege from one’s american status can’t be as cleanly generalized as with other forms of oppression, and in not taking that into account any discourse is going to end up taking a racist turn intentionally or not.

(apologies if this is unwarranted, i’ve just seen a lot of discussion on this the last week and you’re one of few reasonable voices in the mix)

Like, I've literally seen the most politically correct BLM liberals spouting shit like "Do NOT interact with cultures other than yours. If you date any POC as a white person you are fetishizing them. Do NOT move to another country. Do NOT learn the language of POC."

Like bro please take a step back and reread what you just said. You can't call yourself an ally and say you support BLM and support minorities and then turn around and go "Immigration is bad and you can't race mix or learn about other cultures or languages or eat foreign food". If I can't tell the difference between your post and the post of a KKK member there's a problem.

I've also seen them get upset at white people (or at least people they THINK are white) for buying handmade Native American art FROM THE ACTUAL NATIVES. Like oh my GOD it's not cultural appropriation or fetishization for someone to support a small family owned business by buying their pottery or jewelry or clothing. Especially when you're sitting there wearing your #BLM shirt that was made by foreign sweatshop workers.

Do they not realize that they sound exactly like white supremacists who are against immigration/race mixing/etc. It's exactly the same thing except replace "You can't mix with those people because they're nasty animals" with "You can't mix with those people because you're fetishizing and appropriating their culture"

Not to mention it ALWAYS seems to be white people saying this, even if people of said culture are like "Yes please come learn our language and wear our clothing and eat our food we want to share it with you!"

On Facebook one of my white friends went off on one of her friends for cultural appropriation because she was making dreamcatchers... Said friend was literally Ojibwe.

I think about this every single day at work because a Native client from the nearby reservation gave my clinic a medicine wheel he made himself and we have it displayed at the front desk. And I think if any of these folks walked into the clinic and saw it their heads would explode. Nevermind that tied to it is his hand-written note about what it means and why he made it for us. But it's a white-owned, mostly white-run clinic and we've got this very clear Native piece front and center as you walk in.

Idk man. It feels gross to me to say "you MUST have part of this race in your DNA if you want to partake in ANY of this at all", especially when it's not coming from those *within said culture*... like how studs and voodoo are black-only closed culture things vs "you can't learn [language] because that's appropriation!!!"