I made more #zine copies for tonight’s #BIPOC #LGBTQ arts event.
If you want to buy one and support my local LGBTQ Youth org go here:
https://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com/shop/p/ancestors-of-the-rainbow
If you want the free PDF go here:
https://shotgunseamstress.blogspot.com
“Ancestors of the Rainbow: A Spectrum of Gender Before Colonization”
Inside El Salvador's Prisons, Where Trump Is Sending Deported Migrants
Exposé of Trump & Rubio's #ElSalvador #torture #prison to which random US-residents of Nicaraguan heritage were sent after being kidnapped by Kristi Noem's #ICE thugs, making every citizen of the US and the world FAR less safe & secure by eliminating due process and implementing summary, extralegal/wrongful #imprisonment. Documented by Noah Bullock, Executive Director of #Cristosal, a #humanRights organization based in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
#authoritarianism #colonization #humanTrafficking #slavery #crimesAgainstHumanity #habeuscorpus #DHS #stateTerror #romeStatute #constitution #ICC #humanSecurity #prisonState #rendition #kidnapping #Sturmabteilung #deportations #refugees #roundups
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/20/trump-deportations-el-salvador-prisons-bukele-human-rights/
I have spent the last 2 years focusing on waste management, especially that of Electronic Waste—from the mining of the resources to the discarding of the commodities, and while we are well aware of the pattern of disparity between the over-consumption in the Global North and overproduction in the Global Majority parts of the world, the problems largely still exists. Who to blame, somebody is surely making profits from this trade deal.
Anthropocene is a (Poubelle)ocene.
Certain headlines, like the one below, always make me feel disgusted, knowing that the patterns of dreadful and atrocious colonial practices are still prevalent. I am so perplexed as to what design thinking hat to put on or what circular economy principles to explain the exporting of trash to their previous colonies.
Not only that, but in a recent survey commissioned by the Repair Campaign (https://repaircampaign.org/), more than 2,000 people in the UK found that 85% did not know that more than 3 million people had been forcibly shipped from Africa to the Caribbean by British enslavers. It also found 89% were unaware British merchants had enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years.
As Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned various times, "And LOOT, a Hindi word which the Britishers took into their dictionaries as well as their habit" (Link below of the talk of Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India at the University of Edinburgh)
Sources -
1. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14jy2dd8jeo
2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/most-britons-do-not-know-scale-of-uks-involvement-in-slavery-survey-finds?utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=ig_gu
3. https://youtu.be/OB5ykS-_-CI?si=iczPAnaOR5j6E-K-&t=224
Good news: Francesca Albanese's mandate as Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories (on the United Nations Human Rights Council) was automatically renewed (tacitly as they say, for three years); there was no vote.
Her reaction (in French): https://www.off-investigation.fr/gaza-albanese-reconduite-par-onu-malgre-un-lobbying-des-pro-netanyahou/
Portrait: https://somethingtoaimat.com/people/francesca-albanese-and-a-job-like-no-other/
On Israel’s targeted smear campaign: https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/21060.html
Huron-Wendat First Nation mulls dropping Huron from official name, citing link to colonization
Members of the Huron-Wendat First Nation in Wendake, near Quebec City, will soon decide whether to drop the word Huron from their official title. A consultation will be held at the end of April.
#Name #politics #colonization #history #Wendake #QuebecCity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/huron-wendat-quebec-wendake-identity-decolonization-1.7500979?cmp=rss
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Surely someone wants to see #JasonMomoa in a loin cloth? That plus an #epic #Apple TV+ retelling of Hawaiians' #fight against #colonization. https://www.cultofmac.com/news/chief-of-war-jason-momoa
Prior to the recent Sid Meier's #Colonization 25th anniversary celebrations on @civfanatics I released a video years in making that shows how to play the good old 1994 #Microprose classic in HD & show some similar games to #Col ! Made some bonus eps too! #freecol #civ4col https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAYn5LGq60&list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY
CNN:
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he “won’t take anything off the table” to obtain Greenland, including military force, but that there is a “good possibility” it won’t be needed.
“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker during a phone interview Saturday.
Trump acknowledged there is a “good possibility that we could do it without military force,” but emphasized, “I don’t take anything off the table.”
#Colonizers #Colonization #Greenland #Felon47
"Quetzalcoatl Fighting The Pope" - You'd have to know a little about the role of Catholicism in the #colonization of the Americas to "get" this one; and there's no room to explain that here. But hey, check out the Pope's epic tats! Watercolors and ink, 2004.
I found this resonated for me a great deal. The disconnect of how media presents America and our day-to-day experience feels real. Never more so than under the current administration.
The US invented the supermarket style of shopping wear products were on display so people would buy lots of them. #Capitalism.
I’ve attached a picture of a Walgreens drugstore across from where I work. Most products are under lock and key and you have to press the button to get attention. The shopping experience is revolting. It’s easy to blame shoplifters for the lack of products on the shelving, however people are desperate.
I think the core problems are #Colonization and #IncomeInequality.
80 years of israeli crimes
15 y.o. boy. Bethlehem, before Oct 7th.beaten by israeli soldiers for he was playing football near to a checkpoint.they shot him in the legs. one leg had to be amputated: this is #israel - this is #colonization - this has been going on for 76 years now. this is an ongoing and growing heap of crimes against humanity, and #genocide *#genocidio #Palestine #Palestina #warcrimes #starvingpeople #starvingcivilians #iof #idf #colonialism…
http://slowforward.net/2025/03/27/80-years-of-israeli-crimes/
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/03/25/the-ethics-of-spreading-life-in-the-cosmos/ #space #human #limitations #HackerNews #ngated
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, 7) by James S. A. Corey (EPUB)
Author: Goodreads Best Books of the Month 2017
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/persepolis-rising-the-expanse-7-732e8f2b2f/
#Colonization
I just learned about “praying towns”, but I am realizing they were never disappeared.
Now we simply call them churches.
A place where they desire to strip you of your identity and force you to be like them in exchange for the promise of community, security, and eternal life.
I have lots of feelings right now but now a whole lotta words to explain it.
Hudson's Bay Company's role in colonization leaves some Indigenous people conflicted about its troubles
With the Hudson's Bay Company filing for creditor protection, some Indigenous people are reflecting on their relationship with the company whose history is tied to colonization in Canada.
#colonization #business #history #indigenous #Canada #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/hbc-colonization-conflicted-1.7488401?cmp=rss
Made a #zine for the teens I volunteer with. “Ancestors of the Rainbow: A Spectrum of Gender Before Colonization” celebrates the vibrant and diverse multiple genders that existed - and still exist - in precolonial societies around the world. Available through Brown Recluse Zine Distro. All proceeds go to ALSO Youth, a #Florida #LGBTQ youth org.
https://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com/shop/p/ancestors-of-the-rainbow
And guess who stands between them and their goals?
“Russia and US eye joint Arctic energy projects after Saudi talks”
#Canada #Greenland #Never51 #CDNPoli #CanPoli #Colonization
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-us-saudi-arctic-energy-rdif-ukraine-russia-capital/
How the #UnitedStates Tried to Crush #NativeAmerican #Matriarchies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLUYHLNeSkM
Before #colonization, many #Indigenous societies had egalitarian social structures, with #women holding power in ways that challenge everything we think we know. It's a history largely left out of the narrative. So why was this history revised?
