Aural Sects

fothefox:

This is a piece I did for the Native show at Emily Carr. 

The names written on my body are actual names for “sexy indian” costumes that can be bought online.

This piece is a visual response to when Halloween comes around again, and people feel it right to dress up as my culture in horrible old stereotypes and pass it as honouring our culture. But it doesn’t. It only adds to more to poorly represented image of Native Americans, and objectifies Native women. 

I am a real Native Women and this my body and my culture. And I have a voice 

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roguesareth:

iamnkoli:

eccentric-central:

nefermaathotep:

theignorantparadox:

only 6 notes tho -_-

ignorance is bliss

I absolutely love this. It’s real. It’s a simple cartoon that explains the truth.

The things that Black people (or any minority) have tend to get “whitened.”

Very few notes, because only some very bold white people would actually reblog.

Yes, learning about this right now in my global societies class.

Its not just sanitizing minority history, its sanitizing any history that happens to be unpleaseant. or make ( in this case) America look bad.

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queenofzan:

stfuconservatives:

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stfuconservatives:

Submitted by stfusexists: “Yeeeah…so I may have woken up on the wrong side of the bed, but the whiny self-righteousness was a little too much for me to handle politely.”

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Heh. This response works too.

Constitutionally speaking, it’s alright for companies to require drug testing because the constitution does not apply to private entities. The constitution is in place to protect the citizens from the government. And within the constitution, as ruled by the supreme court in Roe v. Wade, there exists an assumption that the individual has a right to privacy in their person. As such, a drug test could be viewed as unconstitutional. Not that this Justine character will ever read this but what evz.

oh please, you people don’t know anything about the real welfare life. those people don’t use that money to “eat and feed their children”, they use that check to buy drugs. drug addicts buy drugs, and they don’t give two fucks about their children or themselves even, just drugs. they sell their fucking children into slavery and prostitution for drugs, and yes that does happen in real life. i completely support Florida, good job. they obviously have gotten the damn hint…

Actually, a number of readers have written to me in the past saying that the only reason they were able to stay fed as children was because of welfare and food stamps. I’m afraid your stereotype doesn’t hold up to reality. Yes, some drug addicts try to sell their children into sex slavery to buy drugs. But some people on welfare have a joint at a party or get slipped a roofie at a bar,* and they feed their kids and work hard, and they’d be stripped of their financial support just like the hypothetical drug addict you’ve come up with.

*The list of drugs in Class 1 drug testing include marijuana and GHB, the “date-rape” drug. That’s right: you could lose your government assistance because someone tried to rape you!

People who think that no one uses welfare/food stamps to actually buy things they need can tell that to my hungry 11 year old self who wouldn’t have had decent lunches or meat (at all) without government assistance.

Oh, and who might have gone hungry if there had been drug testing involved.  Thanks.  I’m glad that you know more about my life than I do!  If only I had realized sooner that my mom wasn’t really buying food with that money!  I mean, I don’t know what she was doing with it, since our lives were fucking awful at that point and we had a grand total of zero luxuries (I shared a room with my mom!  In the basement of my grandma’s condo!  I did laundry for the whole house to earn enough dimes to buy myself sodas and candy!), but really, please, enlighten me.

Also, as a child of a drug addict, this law fucking terrifies me.  The idea that some kid who is trying to cope with having an addict for a parent (not always easy) also might go hungry or without new clothes or whatnot because some privileged assholes think poor people have to be suffering saints to qualify for help literally makes me cry to think about.

anarcho-queer:

Dominican NYPD Officer Says Superior Had ‘Hit List’ To ‘Crush’ Minority Officers

A NYPD officer plans to sue the city for $15 million, saying she has been the victim of a racially and sexually charged work environment since 2011.

Eunice Vilaseca claims her supervisor at the NYPD’s Housing Bureau in the Bronx, Lt. Dennis Azambuja, repeatedly discriminated against her and other minority employees while other supervisors ignored or condoned his actions, according to a notice of claim her lawyers filed March 14.

According to the notice of claim, Azambuja — who works at NYPD’s Public Service Area 8 at the Throggs Neck Houses — announced that he had a “Hit List” of African American and Hispanic workers he disliked for their ethnicity. He also made offensive comments about Vilaseca’s “Spanish hair,” and “openly referred to females as ‘Bitches’” in the workplace, according to the notice of claim filed by the Sanders Firm.

Vilaseca, who is Dominican, said she filed numerous complaints with the Office of Equal Employment and the Internal Affairs Bureau, but that there was no change in Azambuja’s workplace behavior, according to the notice of claim.

According to the Daily News, Vilaseca complained about Azambuja’s behavior, NYPD brass questioned her sanity and put her on modified assignment, Sanders claims.

“It was the same game they played with (Officer Adrian) Schoolcraft,” said Sanders, referring to the Brooklyn cop who was detained by the NYPD and locked in a insane asylum for 6 days against his will when the department realized he was going to public with incriminating evidence against them.

The scandal comes just days after Officer Adrain Schoolcraft and Officer Pedro Serrano testified in court, providing evidence that the NYPD illegally set quotas for stop and frisk, told by their officers to target “male blacks 14 to 21” and illegally ‘misrepresented’ crime reports to decrease the official crime rates in NYC. 

Related: NYPD Officer Blows Whistle On Stop & Frisk,  Superior’s Told Him To Target “Male Blacks 14 to 21”

(via alltruthwaitsinallthings)

anarcho-queer:

NYPD Officer Blows Whistle On Stop & Frisk,  Superior’s Told Him To Target “Male Blacks 14 to 21” (Must Read)

As hearings are under way to investigate New York City’s stop and frisk policy, one police officer is testifying that he was told by superiors to target young black men between the ages of 14 and 21.

Stop and frisk is a method of searching people in which a cop is able to stop someone he or she suspects of a crime, and is able to frisk that individual if they feel that there is some justification. New York City policy made 685,724 stops as part of the policy in 2011 alone. In total, they have made over 5 million stops, and 85 percent of those stopped were black or Latino. 88% were innocent, meaning they were not arrested or given a summons.

Officer Pedro Serrano, in court to testify yesterday, played a covert recording he’d obtained of an interraction with his superior where he was told the race of people to target, though not that he should stop everyone of that race:

Stop “the right people, the right time, the right location,” Deputy Inspector Christopher McCormack is heard saying on the recording.

“He meant blacks and Hispanics,” Officer Pedro Serrano, who made the secret recording, testified Thursday in Manhattan federal court.

“So what am I supposed to do: Stop every black and Hispanic?”Serrano was heard saying on the tape, which was recorded last month at the 40th Precinct in the Bronx.[…]

“I have no problem telling you this,” the inspector said on the tape. “Male blacks. And I told you at roll call, and I have no problem [to] tell you this, male blacks 14 to 21.”

During cross examination, City lawyer Brenda Cooke got Serrano to admit that McCormack never said he wanted Serrano to stop all blacks and Hispanics.

“Those specific words, no,” he told her.

The news about targeting black men tracks with yesterday’s revelations that the NYPD set quotas for arrests. It also explains the fact that, in 2011, NYPD made more stops of young black men than there actually are young black men in the city.

Serrano’s tape and testimony were introduced as evidence in a class-action lawsuit against the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk tactic brought by four black New Yorkers who claim they were targeted because of their race.

Also, the first of several tapes surreptitiously made by Brooklyn cop Adrian Schoolcraft made its debut at the trial. The audio he recorded proved that the police department ‘manipulated’ crime reports to make to it seem like crime decreased in NYC. 

After the NYPD found out about Adrian’s incriminating evidence, they broke into his apartment, handcuffed him and locked him in a insane asylum for 6 days against his will to silence him.

(via stfuconservatives)