We are Devo! D-E-V-0annuNovember 1 2007, 20:01:05 UTC
A couple of questions/comments: - Misfits w/ ghosties and everything! Wild! - What did the Amy Winehouse outfit look like. - don't you hate white punkers w/ mohawks? One of me and my friends' pet peeves is racist hair (dreadlocks, mohawks) - When halloween rolled around my mom would dress me up as an Indian Princess , i dressed as an indian princess for a halloween at Max's place once - with a tikka on my head and everything! - do people dance in the wilderness?
Re: We are Devo! D-E-V-0annuNovember 3 2007, 08:04:04 UTC
o. that is sad that you see it that way. I know many native people that have seen so much violence, they are seeing the genocide occur right in front of them. They've seem so much murder, in schools, in their communities. As far as i understand being a warrior is about self-determination, autonomy of self and community and no surrender. All the native warriors i know are womyn. They're grandmothers. They know they will be imprisoned soon, and they have never committed any crime. The natives that i know use the warrior mentality (and it is a mentality, not simply a "powderkeg" attitude - no drugs, no booze, its about the mind) as a metaphor for resistance, its not a violent attitude as you say. This professor i know, Kahentinetha, she's a really famous activist, and she tells me that this is exactly the image that natives are taught of themselves. Its so sad to me that you seem to identify with your white side when you wear a mohawk to reflect anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-status quo values. In Kahentinetha's clan the womyn have
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it's a good size.myhelenaNovember 8 2007, 04:05:03 UTC
edmonton is canada's sixth largest city, population just over a million. it feels like ottawa. the downtown is all in one spot, not like toronto where there are several major buisness areas. though i haven't found a good bookstore yet!
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- Misfits w/ ghosties and everything! Wild!
- What did the Amy Winehouse outfit look like.
- don't you hate white punkers w/ mohawks? One of me and my friends' pet peeves is racist hair (dreadlocks, mohawks)
- When halloween rolled around my mom would dress me up as an Indian Princess , i dressed as an indian princess for a halloween at Max's place once - with a tikka on my head and everything!
- do people dance in the wilderness?
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how big is the city you're in?
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the downtown is all in one spot, not like toronto where there are several major buisness areas.
though i haven't found a good bookstore yet!
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