Indigenous Rising

angrynativefeminists:

resonanteye:

angrynativefeminists:

resonanteye:

angrynativefeminists:

resonanteye:

angrynativefeminists:

resonanteye:

angrynativefeminists:

resonanteye:

Grieving the Chief. posters!

If I had a week, I couldn’t explain all the reasons this picture is racist, sexist and fucking gross overall. 
Way to commodify, desecrate, whitewash and hypersexualize native women and native people all in one image.

“Indian” is a brand of motorcycle which has been in production in the United States for a very long time. This is actually a portrait of a woman I know, whose husband was killed in a wreck, on his Indian brand motorcycle. Yes, they are a native couple. The bike and the woman, her tattoos and such, are all based on this couple. Her headdress is from photographs she had sent me, of her late husband’s attire at a tribal gathering. The hand and marks on the bike represent his crash, and the times he wrecked the bike before that and was injured.

I am sorry that the history of motorcycles in America is seen as such a horrific offense. (Also that you dislike pin-up art.) (and, also, that you find a piece commissioned and requested by a native person as “racist”)

But to each their own.

Nope, full fuckin’ stop right there. First off, if you were telling the truth(which I doubt you are) that “Native friend” of yours is a fucking idiot that advocates for the desecration of an object sacred to many tribes. Putting this headdress on a sexualised woman who did not earn it is desecration. Shame on you. 

Admin Red thinks it’s gross, and rightfully so. And don’t you dare spew that dumb non-apology at us. Need help thinking of a way to apologize? Watch this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xJXKYL8pU

And no, this is not “to each their own” you fatuous shitstain, this is something that represents the sexualization of Native women, whose sexual assault rate is significantly higher than any other ethnic group in the U.S.

It doesn’t matter if it’s commissioned. It doesn’t really matter if it’s a memorial piece. This represents harmful stereotypes that lead to harmful things for real-life Native women, and when called out on it you shift the blame onto us and our apparent “lack of taste”. Go fuck yourself. 

Also, my grandfather was a white-passing Tsalagi Satan Slave and even he thought the “Indian” brand motorcycle was gross and stereotypical.

-Jupiter

If and when it seems an appropriate time to pass this message along, I will let her know that her commission request was found insulting and racist. I did not apologize; personally I think these are beautiful bikes, and that she is a beautiful woman, and that this is a beautiful piece of artwork which helped her in her grieving.

I do understand that people who have no interest or knowledge about motorcycle/biker culture might not enjoy this image. However it’s not  directed to those who dislike these motorcycles, who dislike nude portraits, or who find G-rated nudity “sexualized”.

Nope. Full stop. Go fuck yourself because I can’t deal with your blatant disrespect and unwillingness to listen to actual Native women telling you that this is gross and disgusting. I don’t give a fuck about that other girl, she doesn’t matter and she is not the spokesperson for all Native people. I’m tellin you right fucking now that me, Admin Red, and every fucking Native women I know thinks this is gross. Go. Fuck. Yourself. -Jupiter

I do not think I will let her know that she does not matter. It strikes me as odd that you speak for all Native women- in fact, I know you do not.

Yes, native women are overly sexualized in media, yes, there is a gigantic issue with rape and assault of native women (especially by white men, I’d also note) but your ire is misdirected in this case. I do not find a nude portrait (in which there is no sexual posing, no frontal exposure, nor even anything suggesting it’s actually a female figure) to be overly sexualized. I do not find portraiture on this level gross in any way.

I wish we had been able to discuss this in a more level manner. I wish you well.

I DID NOT FUCKING SAY I SPEAK FOR ALL NATIVE WOMEN YOU TWAT. Don’t you dare fucking twist my words and don’t you DARE cite facts that I damn well know at me, and dont you dare act like youre superior for being ‘calm’ when you are not affected by shit like this exclusively. I also like how you avoid my statement that this is stereotypical. Just wow, you idiotic piece of shit.

I have no reason to be angry- I’m simply an artist. I appreciate your reasons for anger, and don’t have a problem with it. Since you do not know my cultural heritage, I would however ask you to refrain from assuming that I am not affected by the facts we’ve both brought up.

I do not think that the person this is an image of, is typical, or that this image contains stereotypes- her husband in fact wore the costume pictured, she in fact has these tattoos…  I apologize, I misread your statement “me, Admin Red, and every fucking Native women I know thinks this is gross.”

 

 

That’s what I hate the most about you fucking Nahullo artists, how you excuse racist bullshit like this due to it being ‘art’. I don’t care if YOU don’t think that it stereotypical, what matters is that I, as a Native woman, have to deal with these stereotypes for the entirety of my goddamn life. If you ‘appreciate’ my goddamn anger, why don’t you actually look into why I’m fucking angry, and how people like YOU cause it.

racist art is still racist.

supporting angrynativefeminists <3

(via angrynativefeminists)