theaceandaroadvocacyproject: Last day of intersections week and we are highlighting First Nations an
theaceandaroadvocacyproject: Last day of intersections week and we are highlighting First Nations and Indigenous people in our community! TAAAP was started in DC, which is land that originally belonged to the Anacostan and Piscataway peoples. [ID: Two images on a light olive background with the TAAAP logo in the upper right corner and black text. The first image shows a medicine wheel on the right side, and the second image shows Two-Spirit feathers in the bottom left. The first image reads “Being Ace or Aro and First Nations or Indigenous. European settlers, in an attempt to “civilize” First Nations and Indigenous people and mark them as morally lower than Europeans, enforced their ideas of nuclear families and monogamous couples as the only “good” way to have a family. The civility and “goodness” of First Nations and Indigenous people and relationship networks have long been compared to a Christian European standard. In cultures that previously did not ascribe to a gender binary or a heterosexual nuclear family standard, now these things are often expected and there is sometimes stigma for not ascribing to these imported norms.” The second image reads “Being Ace or Aro and First Nations or Indigenous. Indigenous women and feminine people are highly sexualized in most pieces of media, and face significantly high rates of sexual violence. They are both valued for their “exotic” appearances and devalued as commodities. They are often not treated as living beings with their own sexual and romantic agency. For more information, look into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Many orientations under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, including aromanticism and asexuality, have been developed by white European communities. First Nations and Indigenous people, along with people of other racial and ethnic minorities, may choose more culturally relevant terms. Two-spirit is a Pan-Tribal term for some of these experiences (the symbol for two-spirit is seen at left).” End ID.] -- source link
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