may12324:

Amethyst 80′s inspired

i’m putting on this show this coming tuesday 6 september 2016 in melbourne/narrm, australia. 

COCO SOLID(NZ), WAHE, RACERAGE, YUMG0D & DJ ASPS. FREE! COME THROUGH! QTPOC line up in the bandroom! 

chernobiko:

This is #DeonnaMason. Two months ago she was murdered by the police in Charlotte North Carolina. The police are covering up her death and protecting the officer who targeted her. I spoke with her heartbroken mother a few hours ago and she encouraged me share her story far and wide. Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. It was started to honor the victims of a serial killer who said the reason he targeted sex workers is because he thought no one would care. This year 41+ sex workers were murdered in America, worse than any other place in the world. The violence is brutal and often targets black and trans women but we must continue to work towards a world where #blacktranslivesmatter. #BlackLivesMatter #justiceforprissy #SayHerName #translivesmatter #tdor

onyxslaughterhaus:

onyxslaughterhaus:

“It’s time for a LONG overdue talk ya’ll.”, Beginning:
December 8th 2:50:10 AM 

Masculine Versus Feminine Energies and gender fluidity.

Please feel free to branch off this research that is near and dear to my heart, personal life and experiences.

http://othersociologist.com/2013/09/09/two-spirit-people/

This is pretty heavy. So that is it for now. 
One article. Read with me.

2nd Installment 
December 12, 2015 7:42:36 AM

Masculine Versus Feminine Energies and gender fluidity.

So I will begin this next entry with just clarifying a few things for all of those willing to read and for those of you wanting to know more:

-This post is not about comparing Masculinity to Femininity. 
-This post is an aggregation (a Collection) of the materials I come across about non-binary POC and indigenous persons through out history as well as cultural, socio-political writing I would like to share and have a conversation about.
-This post is also to arrange my thoughts about my own gender fluidity and hopefully come to some concrete answers about what being Pan African, Non-Binary, Gender Fluid, Indigenous and living in the Western world actually means on a social level as well as contemporarily.
-This post also functions as a journal of sorts. A working catalogue hopefully that will open some doors to discuss non-binary identities in the Black and African diaspora.
-This post is to introduce terminology to my Black/African people who may not even know people like me exist. 
-This post is also meant to challenge the notion of the Male/Female binary as a social construct that has been placed on us by the ruling/colonial class. 
-This post is to allow for Questions and Answers among Black and African peoples since we are so rarely given a platform to speak about gender, sexuality and identity. 
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Here is a list of Terms and Titles that will be found in the posts. I just want us all to be on the same page and use this as a learning experience:

*Note these are subject to change, these are all based on what has been found online and in the resource books I have collected over time- shoutout Google*

Non-Binary: a catch-all category for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine—identities which are thus outside of the gender binary and cis-normativity.

Cisgendered: a word that applies to the vast majority of people, describing a person who is not transgender. If a doctor announces, “It’s a girl!” in the delivery room based on the child’s body and that baby grows up to identify as a woman, that person is cisgender.

Two Spirit: someone who identified with both male and female gender roles, and so two-spirit is essentially a third gender recognized in Indigenous cultures.

Gender Fluid: a gender identity which refers to a gender which varies over time. A gender fluid person may at any time identify as male, female, neutrois, or any other non-binary identity, or some combination of identities.

3rd Gendered: the concept that individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither man nor woman. It also describes a social category present in those societies that recognize three or more genders.

Transgender: denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender. Possibly the one you have heard of I.E. pop culture, via injustice. 

Otherness: the quality or fact of being different or placed outside of the “normal” or standard societal bubble.
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So this is difficult to talk about because I’m still learning who I am in this world every day. Through my interactions with people in common and non-academic spaces, I am confirming more and more that no one knows exactly where to place me in most social settings. In regular society I stick out like a sore thumb, even on my most cisgender presenting days(meaning the days I dress more identifiably as a masculine guy).

I’m learning not only contemporarily who I am, but also who i would’ve been in my indigenous community if not for colonialism, globalization, the destruction brought on by the slave trade of Africans and the intentional destruction of our cultures and histories by British and European influence.

Contemporarily I identify as a 3rd Gender and gender fluid person. Not Gay, Not Trans, Not SGL- since my gender fluidity makes that impossible.  

These of course are within the parameters of Western and colonial rule and language. Also, I have yet to find the language based in the continent of Africa that better explains who I am and titles people like me. Trust me, I am reading as fast as I can and I know the information is out there. I do need help though.

These identifiers (3rd Gender and Gender Fluid) are problematic because learning what your “appropriate” cultural identity is can be difficult when your history has been erased, I.E. the transatlantic slave trade, forced migration of black and African people, and the mixing of African slaves as well as their ideologies, cultural practices and how your specific community would identify you in the context of their own societies and lands.

Also it is hard to identify because identity is fluid and constantly changing.
For the sake of not having to explain for twenty minutes to every new person I meet, I tend to just say I am either Gender Fluid or non-binary(an identity existing outside of the male and female gender assignments).

My life’s mission is to learn who I am and my position amongst the collective of the African diaspora, without the gaze of the white/Eurocentric colonial eyes.

This is not an easy task. As I’ve mentioned in my other posts, I also identify as Pan African. Meaning the specifics of my blood lineage will forever be a mystery to me. (Once again we all know why.)

Many pre colonial African nations and tribes had an identity and a name for someone like me, but it has been forever lost- or so we believe. I know I am not alone - so to my other gender fluid/non-binary African, indigenous and Aboriginal peoples - we have an identity. We had a history. It was stolen and is being hidden from us in order to implement a gender binary on the world as well as to restrict the practices of indigenous/African persons.

They told us we’d never existed.
They lied.
They told us we were a result of Western and European influence.  
They lied.
They told us we weren’t normal, that we weren’t human.
They lied.
Indeed we are divine.

From here on out I will be sharing excerpts from this book:

@gazikodzo @xaniqua @kowboybebop @just–the-tip @metaeiluned

(Source: cu2co3oh2sio2)

westsidewahine:

In light of the NZ Police force finally admitting they’re racist towards Māori I rewatched Aljazeera’s 2013 feature Locked Up Warriors. If you haven’t watched this be safe, it is quite upsetting. The above quotes are from ‘Cookie’ a homeless ex-convict who went through Māori rehabilitation programmes in prison but was still ultimately failed by New Zealand’s justice system. There has been literally decades of evidence of police racism and its profound systemic effects on Māori lives and the above illustrates that cultural tokenism alone is not enough to heal and protect our hurting people. The efforts our people to heal through our culture are phenomenal but are extremely underfunded and overloaded - the lack of support behind them reflects the very systemic problems which contribute to Māori incarceration. To undo a parasitic and punitive system you need to address the powerful tools that hold it up. 

weedmum:

I’m YELLING

(Source: jewghoul)

pleatedjeans:

meanwhile…in a spanish market [x]

jedifolk:

gaywrites:

“We both are in the middle, and nobody teases us for it.”

ICYMI: Kumu Hina, an indigenous Hawaiian hula teacher who identifies as mahu (”in the middle” when it comes to gender), comforts a transgender student in the trailer for the upcoming film A Place in the Middle. (via BuzzFeed)

This is an incredible mini-documentary, its 25 min out of your day but I seriously recommend watching it. Such a great story about recognizing the gender spectrum and de colonizing one’s history. Bawled my eyes out 10/10 would recommend.