#native men

This pic in itself is a fanfic prompt ✍🏾

Performer During the Heiva Festival in Anau, Bora Bora, French Polynesia - Sasha Popovic

If you're white/non-native, full stop, none of your business. Yes even if you think they are lieing. Yes even if she's talking about Cherokee princesses. Yes even if your native friend is suspects too. Yes even if that person doesn't have tribal sovereignty/doesn't know or identify via their tribe/hasn't had a DNA test. Yes even if they look white/mixed white. I do not care, this is none of your business, we don't need you mfers to tell and warn us and try to gatekeep outside of a community that isn't even fucking yours. Similar to the Hispanic community, a majority of natives are mixed, a majority are mixed with white and a majority pass as white. We can handle appropriators on our own. You are policing and colonizing up our spaces. Its none of your business what tribe they are, what race they look like, who or what makes them native. Its quite litterally none of your business. Us natives can and will handle it. You'd be pissed if you saw us policing white people, Hispanic pple or black people or literally anyone of any race who isn't native. Leave us alone.

And as for fellow natives who do this incessantly because you have a card/arnt wp/rez/raised in culture, you have no business either policing their identities or how they figured it out. You are part of the problem emboldening the colonizers to think they can clock us. They don't have the indicators you do and just because you went through the process doesn't mean you know what it looks like for a totally different tribe. I don't care if you think you can always clock it, you can't. Unless you're from their tribe and their spreading misinformation, you don't know that person, you don't know their card status and you don't know their history. Quit being a dick.

Oh and, just to tack it on here, just because a native may know their tribe or their ancestors or any personal information related to being native DOSENT MEAN you, non native or even other natives, are ENTITLED TO IT. Natives don't have to prove jack fucking shit to you. Be respectful ffs. Everytime anyone who isn't completely native passing says their native, a million non-natives who have no business there worm out of the woodwork like fuckin nasty maggots out of a corpse to ask their tribe, to show paperwork or proof, to get their card or DNA tested and still question them afterwards. Its none of your damn business. You got white papers? You know what specific tribe your ancestors came from? No? Then stfu, god damn.

Oh and to all you white folks knowingly lieing and preying on the kindness and understanding of natives who don't harass you over your race, especially to leverage it to be racist against actual poc? Get a fucking life, colonizer.

And, finally, to all my natives who just learned they were native, who are still learning about their cultures, who are still tracking down their tribe, who aren't capable of getting a government card or don't want to, who aren't capable of getting a reliable test (most dna tests aren't reliable for native American DNA and the only one who is, 23 and me, is ran by Mormons) or don't want to, no matter how much "proof" you want to aquire for yourself, your family or for the world, wether that's all of the above and more or nothing at all, as long as you have enough evidence to prove to yourself and you know it's true, you are welcome in our community. Don't listen to anyone who invalidates you because you don't "look native", wether due to being wp or passing as a completely different race, or the little shits who constantly demand more and more proof from you. You don't have to prove shit to anyone. Fuck the blood quantum purists, fuck the eugenicists. Your tribe loves you and respects you and if they don't, you didn't need that "offical" authority anyway.

“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳; 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘸𝘰𝘢 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘳.”- 𝘌.𝘓.

📌Everyone lies to get a job. What's the worst that can happen if you tell a little white lie?

That's Ember's dilemma. Tired of being rejected from every job she's truly interested in, she decides to embellish her resume a bit. Technically, they're half-truths, but lies nonetheless.

What she didn't plan on doing was finding love in this mess.

📌A love forbidden by the rules, since at Technix, romantic relationships between employees are prohibited.

I'm in love with this romantic comedy. I love Ember. She's a realistic character, I think anyone has been in the same position as her or felt the same way and would have made the same decisions.

And what can I say about Danuwoa? I love him. I love that he's Ember's unconditional supporter, that he understands and trusts her, even when circumstances make things difficult. I love that they have moments of telepathy; they've created this great connection where they know exactly what the other is thinking just by looking at each other.

Ember loves her family, she cares for and protects them all. That's her role, it's what defines her. And Danuwoa is that piece of the puzzle who's there so she doesn't have to carry everything alone, so she can rest and let Danuwoa care for and protect her as she has done for her family.