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artist & translator.
music + art + coffee + cats + trans stuff. イラストレーター・訳者・音楽ライター。趣味: ビジュアル系、コーヒー、猫ちゃん、LGBT他。

A funny thing about the Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate is the level of effort each put in. Greta probably spent less than a minute thinking up then writing that post whilst Andrew clearly spent hours on his video, getting his big cigars, putting on his silk robe and ordering a pizza all to prove how he, a 36 year old adult, was unfazed and totally not owned by a 19 year old. And it got him arrested.

This’ll go down in internet history, Greta ruined a sex trafficker life with a tweet.

Lol when i say I grew up in Texas people always ask “did you go to the coast a lot?” Ummm no...no I did not

In the drive to or from Florida Texas was always a 2 day event. West Texas on 10 has to be one of the more dull drives that exist, thankfully there's rest stops every 80 miles or so.

I will not let you guys forget that one time a guy sent me an ask like "Japan is right next to Russia, why don't you buy cheese there?"

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Indigenous Peoples Day

Today on the second Monday in October, the USA celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day.

Despite colonial efforts to erase them, there have been and continue to be many unique Indigenous gender identities and sexualities around what is now called the USA, and many Two-spirit and queer Indigenous stories to tell. If you’d like to start learning more, you can check out a few of our podcasts on these topics:

We’wha was a Zuni lhamana - a gender including both masculine and feminine roles. A highly skilled craftsperson, We’wha travelled to Washington DC in 1885 as a representative of the Zuni people, where they worked with anthropologists and the Smithsonian museum to demonstrate and share information about Zuni crafts and culture.

Ohchiish (Osh-Tisch) was a batée born in the 19th-century Crow Nation. Batée is a uniquely Crow gender identity, describing a person assigned male at birth, who performs female as well as specifically batée social roles. Ohchiish was a renowned craftsperson, brave fighter, and the best poker player in the region. In the face of attempts by the US government to force assimilation to Western ideas of gender, their community fought for their right to express their identity.

Bíawacheeitchish (Woman Chief) was a Gros Ventre woman who lived amongst the Crow, having been taken as a captive at a young age. She was skilled in traditionally masculine pursuits like riding, hunting and warfare. Her military prowess led to her becoming one of the most respected Crow chiefs. Polygamy was common amongst the Crow, and Bíawacheeitchish married four women.

Kapaemahu is a monument commemorating the visit of four healers to Honolulu in around the 1500s - the monument consists of four huge stones which are still recognised as a sacred site today. The healers were māhū, a gender recognised in Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawai’ian) culture.

[Images: black-and-white photograph of We’wha in a traditional Zuni dress; black-and-white photo of Ohchiish from Will Roscoe’s Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America, p.28-9; Illustration of Barcheeampe (Pine Leaf) from The Life and Adventures of James P Beckwourth (1856) - line drawing of a Crow woman riding a horse with a spear in her hand, possibly inspired by Bíawacheeitchish]