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These are stunning designs by Wenatchi Wear which is an Indigenous owned business for stickers mugs, tanks, hoodies, t shirts and just generally sicc clothes.

What's more sicc than that is the go fund me run by the owner of Wenatchi Wear!

This is an opportunity for the Wenatchi tribe to buy back some of their ancestral lands.

Why is this so FUCKING important?

The current reservation is the Colville Confederated Tribe reservation which is a conglomerate of TWELVE tribes. (This alone is a disgusting violation of so many treaties and some day I'll have words about what it did to my family) More importantly right now is that the Wenatchi is a non-federally recognized tribe!!! This has many implications for the preservation of their culture but also limits their access to the resources both monetarily AND on the the lands they had treaty rights to that are part of their ancestral lands. This land purchase would put many Wenatchi people back on their ancestral lands and also funds a community center so their tribe has space to practice heal and grow their community and culture.

PLEASE DONATE TO THE GO FUND ME IF YOU CAN

Women of Allah Series, 1993-1997

This photograph forms part of Neshat’s, created after the artist’s first trip to Iran after the Revolution. The aesthetic of these black-and-white photographs, in which women (the artist and others) appear in veils (chadors), often bearing firearms, mimics newspaper clippings she gathered that depicted the involvement of women in the Iran-Iraq War. Neshat used these images to comment on the violence of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, after which she was barred from entering the country, and later on post-Revolution society in Iran. Historically, the role of women in Iran is fraught with repression and restriction. Thus, feminist poetry was an important source of inspiration for Neshat’s series of photographs. The verses handwritten on the photographs reinforce Neshat’s feminist beliefs (she often quotes the poet Furugh Farrukhzad) and also engage with images of violence.

Lubna (Labana) of Cordoba

Lubna of Cordoba was an Andalusian intellectual of the second half of the 10th century famous because of her knowledge of grammar and the quality of her poetry. Lubna was raised in the palace of the Sultan Abd al-Rahman III and despite humble beginnings she quickly became one of the most important figures in the Andalusian palace at the tim, she became the Khalifah’s secretary and scribe as well as a secretary to his son Hakam II Ibn Abdur-Rahman. In the library of Cordoba, Lubna, was in charge of playing, writing and translating many manuscripts. She, too, along with Hasdai ibn Shaprut, was the driving force behind the creation of the famous library of Medina Azahara. As for being a scribe, she was not merely a writer and a translator, the level she reached had to “be most intimately aware of the books they transcribed and many of them were annotators of and commentators of those texts.“ Her love and knowledge of math was great and it is told that while walking in the roads of Andalusia she would teach children the principles of math and the multiplication tables. As if that was not enough she was also a philosopher a poet, and a calligrapher who left behind “beautiful works of calligraphy”. The mathematician Labana of Córdoba was employed as Al-Hakam’s private secretary. She was said to be “thoroughly versed in the exact sciences; her talents were equal to the solution of the most complex geometrical and algebraic problems”

The historian Ibn Bashkvl said “She (Lubna) mastered the writing and science of poetry, and her knowledge of mathematics was broad and great, and she has mastered many other sciences and there was no one nobler then her in the Ummayad palace” 

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