Whenever I publicly talk about Land Back, someone will inevitably ask me the same question: “What does Land Back really mean?”
More
often than not, I will answer with something short like, “it means give
the land back.” As to-the-point as that answer is, I know it isn’t the
answer they are necessarily looking for. The concept of Land Back,
particularly for many non-Indigenous folks, can seem confusing and
abstract. People want to know what is being done and what they can do to
help the movement.
While
it is only in the past couple of years that Land Back has entered
national dialogues, Indigenous people have always found ways to assert
their jurisdiction despite their displacement and forced alienation from
the land. What’s more, some non-Indigenous people have acted as
accomplices in the Land Back movement – finding ways to pay reparations
and subvert the systems of oppression that have often benefited them, in
the spirit of Land Back.
This piece explores four case studies to
show concrete ways that Land Back is taking place on the ground.
Hopefully these examples can provide some clarity about what Land Back
means and looks like, perhaps functioning as a starting point for
non-Indigenous people to join the Land Back movement and begin
reconciling their relationship to these lands.
You know how as a kid, some rather unpleasant and not-very-nice girl from a wealthy family would often brag about how she was going to go to sleepaway horseback riding camp ALL SUMMER and she was going to get to ride a horse every day? And you kind of get the sense that, “Hm, this girl is aesthetically into horses like many of us young girls are, but I get the feeling that she won’t actually enjoy a camp where she rides a horse on rugged terrain all day and sleeps in rustic tents all night, because horses are a lot of work and she’s not used to that kind of thing?” And then when the next school year starts, she’s still bragging about her summer at horse camp because she’s embarrassed to admit that she didn’t really enjoy it, but you slowly notice she stops talking about horses or having horse-themed school supplies or bragging about how her parents will buy her a horse one day, and then she just never mentions horse camp again and even starts acting like it’s gross or lame when other girls talk about the idea of horse camp?
I gotta admit that’s kind of what I think will happen with Jeff Bezos’s little trip to space.
something something judas is no less holy than jesus. he needed to sacrifice the man he loved so that the world might be saved. his betrayal was an act of god. something something
yall see “love” and immediately go to “romantic love” if you translate “love is the whole point” to “romantic love is the whole point” you need to rethink everything because love is found in everything. in community, in friendships, in family, in food, in nature so actually love is the whole point and u can die mad about it. hope this helps <3
no but for real . Gangnam style call me maybe riptide we are young . lana releases her first album and changed pop forever . Frank ocean releases his first album . 1D premieres . grimes releases genesis . and the movies. don’t even get me started. the first avengers movie the last twilight movie hunger games the hobbit les mis. like them or hate them they were cultural phenomenons. minecraft was at its peak before it was deemed cringe and before the minecraft renaissance. 2012 was one of the last good years of youtube too . and everyone was rlly into moustaches for whatever reason
while i highly appreciate the new trend of people adding image descriptions to as many posts as they can, i think if youre going to write an image description for a well known meme you should make sure you’re familiar with the context of the original meme or else maybe you’re not the most qualified to be writing the description for that particular image. this post inspired by me seeing an ID of a version of the “ariana grande we’re really in it now” meme that described Manny Jacinto as “a white man”
also on a much more sinister note, intentionally misrepresenting what an image depicts when writing an image description for the sake of being funny, which is an (albeit rare) thing that i have actually been seeing people do, is literally disgusting and the fact that people could think thats acceptable is mind boggling to me. like obviously describing an image in a funny way that adds to the experience of the image is fine but ultimately image descriptions are a utility and accessibility measure that is meant to at least approximate the actual image and obscuring that for the sake of jokes is ableist xoxoxo
additionally, please make sure that you make every attempt to find the correct pronouns of a person if they are being described, as well as their gender identity if it is relevant to the description, this is usually as simple as going to someone’s profile. Misgendering is never okay, even when simply describing visuals.
we’re just gonna have to start straight up killing these grown ass men dating teenagers since the families of millie bobby brown, billie eilish, and olivia rodrigo obviously arent gonna do it
because a lot of people have been confused and i don’t want to keep repeating myself:
millie bobby brown: previously dated a 20 year old when she was 16. he recently bragged on ig live that he groomed her and had sex with her. they lived with her family for 8 months. was preyed on by drake.
billie eilish: previously dated a 22 year old when she was 16. currently dating a 29 year old while she is 19. was also preyed on by drake.
olivia rodrigo: currently dating a 24 year old while she is 18. worth noting she JUST graduated high school.
Donna Gottschalk’s “Brave, Beautiful Outlaws” is opening at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art on Aug. 29. While Ms. Gottschalk doesn’t identify as a documentary photographer or a photojournalist, she has been making pictures since she was 17. Photos selected from her 50-year personal archive will be made public for the first time.
Her work documents her closeness with her working class family and her involvement with the radical lesbian, sometimes separatist, communities in the late ’60s and ’70s.
The photos are tinged with mourning and mystery. She’s been holding their memory for decades, “fiercely protective” and unwilling to “subject them to scrutiny, judgment and abuse” from the outside world.
”Understand, people didn’t care about them or my pictures of them back in the day,” she said. “These people were all very dear to me, and they were beautiful. These pictures are the only memorial some of these people will ever have.”
