these are the sounds that exist inside my head
doldrums // endless winter
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, “Love is Colder than Death” (1969)
(Source: erosum)
Oooh YAAAY !
![oki-pierogi:
[Image: A hipster white person culturally appropriating a faux headdress along with faux painted lines on their face, smoking a cigarette and striking a pose. Below the picture is the text: “Go ahead and continue sexualizing American Indian and First Nations Women”. In smaller text beneath that: “It’s not like they are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women living in the United States.”] - thanks to http://madamethursday.tumblr.com/
edited to add some links:
http://firebearsplace.com/rape.htm (short article about the rapes on reservations)
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283230712683 (facebook page but sites the information from Rainbow Tribe’s 1-in-3 Campaign
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/035/2007 (This report focuses on sexual violence against indigenous women in the USA. Governments have a responsibility to ensure that women are able to enjoy their right to freedom from sexual violence. As citizens of particular tribal nations, the welfare and safety of American Indian and Alaska Native women are directly linked to the authority and capacity of their nations to address such violence.)
http://abyss2hope.blogspot.com/2007/03/american-indian-women-raped-25-times.html (statistics)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12203114 (from 2007 but obviously still relevant)
http://thehouseofifg.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/i-am-a-survivor-of-sexual-abuse/](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm939ttwo31qzu6blo1_1280.jpg)
[Image: A hipster white person culturally appropriating a faux headdress along with faux painted lines on their face, smoking a cigarette and striking a pose. Below the picture is the text: “Go ahead and continue sexualizing American Indian and First Nations Women”. In smaller text beneath that: “It’s not like they are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women living in the United States.”] - thanks to http://madamethursday.tumblr.com/
edited to add some links:
http://firebearsplace.com/rape.htm (short article about the rapes on reservations)
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283230712683 (facebook page but sites the information from Rainbow Tribe’s 1-in-3 Campaign
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/035/2007 (This report focuses on sexual violence against indigenous women in the USA. Governments have a responsibility to ensure that women are able to enjoy their right to freedom from sexual violence. As citizens of particular tribal nations, the welfare and safety of American Indian and Alaska Native women are directly linked to the authority and capacity of their nations to address such violence.)
http://abyss2hope.blogspot.com/2007/03/american-indian-women-raped-25-times.html (statistics)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12203114 (from 2007 but obviously still relevant)
http://thehouseofifg.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/i-am-a-survivor-of-sexual-abuse/
(Source: lifeinthemargin)
Dia De Los Muertos Is Not Your Halloween by Nuestra Hermana
As we all know, Halloween in America is right around the corner. Kids & adults alike will be dressed up in costumes, consuming candy, attending parties, navigating through haunted houses and thoroughly enjoying their night. Think about your last Halloween and look at the images above.
These are still shots of Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, California & Arizona. They are small snippets of a vibrant, important and REAL holiday for Latin@s. This is not your Halloween.
Dia De Los Muertos developed out of over 2,500 years of indigenous ritual celebrating death and paying respects to loved ones who have passed away. Scholars state that the Aztecs originally held a month long festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl, the ruler of the afterlife.
After Spanish colonization and many attempts to eradicate the rituals & festival, a new merging with the Catholic holidays All Souls Day & All Saints Day developed over time to what is now Dia De Los Muertos.
Dia De Los Muertos is celebrated November 1st & 2nd (in alignment with All Saints Day & All Souls Day respectively). It is NOT celebrated on October 31st, it is not tied in with Halloween in America at all.
In Mexico, November 1st is dedicated as Dia De Los Inocentes, a day to honor and respect the innocents, children & infants to be more specific. November 2nd is Dia De Los Muertos, the day to honor deceased adults.
On these days, altars are made in honor of them. People build them on their loved ones graves, at home or anywhere they find rightful to honor their loved ones. They make ofrendas (offerings) to the dead of their favorite foods, toys (for children), pictures, pan de muertos, sugar skulls and many other things that help guide the spirits of the dead safely to the altars. Marigolds, known as the flowers of the dead, are usually prominent in the altars.
In Mexico, many people sleep overnight at the graves. Every ritual & altar is not the same everywhere. Many places have their own traditions and ways of honoring the dead. One thing is for sure, Dia De Los Muertos is not Halloween. It is a sacred time and holiday for Latin@s everywhere.
So, when you’re dressing up for Halloween remember: doing this, this, this or this is not only disrespectful but it is also a erasure of someone’s real life culture. Think before you walk out of that door.
Beach House & Washed Out. From top left (clockwise): Blair Greene, Victoria Legrand, Ernest Greene, Alex Scally.
(via fyalexscally)
