We ask you today to honor Indigenous people and the Lands we hold sacred. We ask you to help us amplify our voices over the white noise of Settler Colonial manipulation programming. We ask that in your amplification you dig deeper and become familiar with Indigenous 2Spirit, Trans, Queer, Gender Nonconforming, Non-Binary, and Feminist/Matriarchal voices FIRST AND FOREMOST. We ask that in your prioritization of these communities you understand this is a direct request to dismantle heteropatriachal and hetero cis gendered supremacist complacency. We ask that you respect Indigenous uprising, fight for #IndigenousSovereignty and Land Stewardship reclamation, Afro-Indigenous Solidarity, Black Liberation, and also continue amplify Black voices and #BlackLivesMatter every hour or every day!
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3:18 pm |
July 4 2020
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NDN RELATIVES, STAY HOME + SAVE LIVES! We love you. We need you. Please, protect yourselves and support one another from a safe distance. XO!
The image above is a map from 1933 that shows the Navajo and Hopi tribals lands.
Art by RISE: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. The following text is taken from a post by Klee Benally and Indigenous Action and features Diné and English translations (by Alfredo Yazzie) on how to protect yourselves throughout and beyond this pandemic:
Níla’ txáánígis!
T’áadoo nízaa ni’hoolzhíshi txáliwosh bił níla’ txánínánígis díí tsį́įłgo yikęsígíí naadiin dahalzhin bíighahgo.
Txálíwosh ádingo éí ála’ bik’édzidí łibéi bił ałtxahígíí choidííł’įįł.
Wash your hands!
Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20
seconds. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-
based hand sanitizer.
Niniijį’ bik’í’síníłtxi’!
Haniijį’ bik’é’éstxigo éí díí ch’osh dooyit’íinii ni’kwíyósin.
Keep your face covered!
When you cover your face it will keep the germs at bay.
T’áánahdi na’ázhdiilt’ego bee asdáhóót’i’!
T’áá lą’í áłah nída’adleehgóó t’áadoo nanináhí dóó hastxą́ą́ ké silá bíighahgo nahdi nahiná díí naałniih bits’ąą.
If people keep their distance from others they will survive!
Avoid large gatherings and stay 6 ft away to avoid the virus 👉🏽www.navajohopisolidarity.org
Translations: Alfredo Yazzie
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12:53 pm |
April 3 2020
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9:05 pm |
December 1 2019
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SUPPORT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LIVING WITH HIV AND AIDS! CREATE PROGRAMS AND OUTREACH THAT CATERS TO EACH OF OUR TRIBES. THERE IS NO FIGHTING BACK IF YOU ARE COMPLACENT IN THE LARGER HIV/AIDS COMMUNITY THAT LEAVES OUT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES!
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9:03 pm |
December 1 2019
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A NATION IS A MASSACRE
Demian DinéYazhi’ & R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment
Portland Biennial 2019
DISJECTA | Portland, OR
24 August - 03 Nov 2019.
Curated by Yaelle S. Amir, Elisheba Johnson, & Ashley Stull Meyers.
”Death and grieving for Indigenous Peoples is like a war zone—a space unlike any other far removed from the ‘stars and stripes.’ We are expected to die without news headlines or revolution, and in this way we expect nothing; we accept death. It’s a slow death, but with the same urgency as endangerment or extinction or invasion, or an asteroid the size of england or complete and inevitable economic collapse. Even in our survival and resilience, we come to the table ready to protect the most sacred of human rights.”
—Demian DinéYazhi’
With its political aphorisms, all-caps fonts resembling newspaper headlines, and graphic images, A Nation is a Massacre resembles activist agitprop first popularized by Soviet Russia in the early 20th century and later adopted and refashioned by artists in the wheat-pasting tradition, like Jenny Holzer and the Guerilla Girls. Unlike these artistic forebears, who excluded Indigenous womxn and other Indigenous communities, DinéYazhi’ focuses exclusively on marginalized groups, noting that ‘The details are gruesome and american and as patriotic as gun violence and mass murder.’ A Nation is a Massacre considers over 500 years of mass shootings and massacre, missing and murdered Indigenous womxn, queers, trans, gender gradient/nonconforming, and two-spirit folx, and numerous instances of environmental racism/injustice ignored by citizens of a colonized country.
(via exhibition text written by David Everitt Howe, Curator at Pioneer Works)
Installation shots from A NATION IS A MASSACRE at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY.
Photography courtesy of Pioneer Works.
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12:46 pm |
August 20 2019
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APPLY NOW + Share! Deadline July 1st, 2019. We are honored to announce the launch of our 2nd annual Artist & Poetry Fellowship benefiting Indigenous Queer, Gender Gradient/Non-Conforming, Trans, and Two-Spirit Artists & Poets. Please, share this with yr community, but more importantly, APPLY TODAY!
For link to application, email: burymyart@gmail.com
(we will send you application instructions)
Eligibility:
I will be 18 years or older on March 9th, 2018.
I am affiliated with an Indigenous tribe and dedicated to an Indigenous community.
IMPORTANT: Page MAY NOT save automatically, so please save your answers on a separate document and submit with care. If you have any complications, please email burymyart@gmail.com
Deadline ↔️: July 1st, 2019 at 11:59 pm PST.
Let this be an example to all Native art organizations, this is how you fund Indigenous Queer, Gender Gradient/Non-Conforming, Trans, and Two-Spirit artists/poets, by restructuring your orgs to make radical changes! You have had these opportunities! We will not do your labor for free! By making our communities a necessity, you will inherently enact revolutionary changes that should not have to be revolutionary within Indigenous communities!
Please, share this far and wide with your Indigenous Queer, Gender Gradient/Non-Conforming, Trans, and Two-Spirit art babes, poetic warriors, and stand-against-heteropatriarchal-bullshit rebels! On the Rez, beyond the Rez, beyond the border of male or female or homo/heterosexual! Let’s evolve and reclaim our Indigenous sexualities and gender systems! Let’s infiltrate our Native communities with Queer lust, passion, love, art, poetry, and ceremony!
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11:36 am |
June 26 2019
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FREE POSTER honoring the life of Layleen Polanco Xtravaganza who was an Afro-Latinx Trans Womxn found dead in her cell on RIKERS ISLAND on June 7, 2019.
Layleen Xtravaganza was a member of the house-ballroom community House of Xtravaganza and was known for walking the category of realness at balls. She is the 10th reported Black Trans womxn to be killed this year.
We ask you to honor all Trans womxn, incarcerated womxn, Black livelihood, and call for prison abolition.
REST IN POWER, LAYLEEN!
As with all our posters, please feel free to print, wheatpaste, & disseminate at will (burymyart.tumblr.com).
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8:35 pm |
June 11 2019
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burymyart:
In the spirit of celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day”, let us not forget the violent history of the united states of america instigated & perpetuated by american presidents and european colonizers, explorers, thinkers, and political and religious leaders. As with all our posters, please feel free to print, wheatpaste, & disseminate at will (burymyart.tumblr.com).
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FUCK THE CONCEPT OF A PRESIDENT
10:30 am |
February 18 2019
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burymyart:
High resolution 18″ X 24″ poster of an Apsáalooke badé, Osh-Tisch (1854-1929, on the left), and their wife photographed in 1877. “Decolonize Your Luvvv” honors Indigenous Queer & Trans cultures that were respected and honored prior to European-led Genocide, Heteropatriarchy, Religion, & Colonization.
The photograph shows Osh-Tisch (Apsáalooke translation: “Finds Them and Kills Them”), and their wife in 1877. During the time period the photograph was taken, Osh-Tisch was one of the last remaining Apsáalooke badés (which would be the Western equivalent on a Trans person), and was respected and accepted within traditional Apsáalooke culture. In spite of being married to a woman, as a means to maintain balance in Apsáalooke society, Osh-Tisch was not prevented from living their life out romantically with other men.
In background of the photograph is an inserted tile image of Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera taken at the Christopher Street Liberation Day, Gay Pride Parade, NYC. June 24, 1973. Johnson & Rivera were veterans of the Stonewall Rebellion, founders of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), and are honored as role models for contemporary Queer/Trans rights movements.
As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out, wheatpaste, repost/regram, and disseminate at will!
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8:32 pm |
February 13 2019
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