Unless its appropriation that runs on violence against an already marginalized group. Lords of Racism. Lords of Colonialism. Lords of Gastown is part of the DTES and home to a severely disproportionate number of Indigenous people pushed to the fringes of society. Lords of sexualized imagery of Indigenous women who already account for the majority of raped, murdered and missing. Lords of Uncle Pickton in a leather jacket mingling amongst your own vaguely biker selves. You all do some really corny-ass white shit to make a dollar.
http://www.facebook.com/lordsofgastown
Trigger Warning: sexual assault
Helen Betty Osbourne - Marilyn Dumont
Betty, if I set out to write this poem about you
it might turn out instead
to be about me
or any one of
my female relatives
it might turn out to be
about this young native girl
growing up in rural Alberta
in a town with fewer Indians
than ideas about Indians
in a town just south of the ‘Aryan Nations’It might turn out to be
about Anna Mae Aquash, Donald Marshall, or Richard Cardinal,
it might even turn out to be
about our grandmothers
beasts of burden in the fur trade
skinning, scraping, pounding, packing
left behind for ‘British Standards of Womanhood,’
left for white-melting-skinned women,
not bits-of-brown women
left here in this wilderness, this colony.Betty, if I start to write a poem about you
it might turn out to be
about hunting season instead
about ‘open season’ on native women
it might turn out to be
about your face young and hopeful
staring back at me hollow now
from a black and white page
it might be about the ‘townsfolk’ (gentle word)
townsfolk who ‘believed native girls were easy’
and ‘less likely to complain if a sexual proposition led to violence’Betty, if I write this poem.
(Source: my-night-circus, via sacraments)
So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger - because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
Jack Kerouac (via yimmyayo)
(via jesuisperdu)
