Eva (she/they/he)
@evabowwow.bsky.social
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🌿Decolonial Disrupter
🎥 Theater of the absurd
✊️Mixed Kanien’kehà:ka
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🌿Decolonial Disrupter
🎥 Theater of the absurd
✊️Mixed Kanien’kehà:ka
http://linktr.ee/evabowwow
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#sarain When someone financially benefits from telling stories as a representative of all #FNMI #Indigenous people, scrutiny is inevitable.
None of this means she’s “not Indigenous.” It means she took on a representational role without enough nuance.
None of this means she’s “not Indigenous.” It means she took on a representational role without enough nuance.
December 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
#sarain When someone financially benefits from telling stories as a representative of all #FNMI #Indigenous people, scrutiny is inevitable.
None of this means she’s “not Indigenous.” It means she took on a representational role without enough nuance.
None of this means she’s “not Indigenous.” It means she took on a representational role without enough nuance.
Sarain shaped public narratives about #FNMI #Indigeneity that were:
generalized
trauma-centered
aesthetically packaged
commercially useful
These should be the #redflags
generalized
trauma-centered
aesthetically packaged
commercially useful
These should be the #redflags
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Sarain shaped public narratives about #FNMI #Indigeneity that were:
generalized
trauma-centered
aesthetically packaged
commercially useful
These should be the #redflags
generalized
trauma-centered
aesthetically packaged
commercially useful
These should be the #redflags
#sarainfox thoughts: brand-
building on #FNMI trauma narratives, monetizing collective trauma, packaging #Indigeneity for fashion, film, or corporate storytelling not clearly acknowledging the complexity of her upbringing, adoption, or disconnection is the issue.
building on #FNMI trauma narratives, monetizing collective trauma, packaging #Indigeneity for fashion, film, or corporate storytelling not clearly acknowledging the complexity of her upbringing, adoption, or disconnection is the issue.
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
#sarainfox thoughts: brand-
building on #FNMI trauma narratives, monetizing collective trauma, packaging #Indigeneity for fashion, film, or corporate storytelling not clearly acknowledging the complexity of her upbringing, adoption, or disconnection is the issue.
building on #FNMI trauma narratives, monetizing collective trauma, packaging #Indigeneity for fashion, film, or corporate storytelling not clearly acknowledging the complexity of her upbringing, adoption, or disconnection is the issue.
#sarainfox thoughts. She often flattened #FNMI #Indigenous diversity into a single experience. She told stories from a pan Indigenous standpoint rather than a community specific standpoint.
That contributes to stereotyping, romanticization, and the reinforcement of an Indigenous identity package.
That contributes to stereotyping, romanticization, and the reinforcement of an Indigenous identity package.
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
#sarainfox thoughts. She often flattened #FNMI #Indigenous diversity into a single experience. She told stories from a pan Indigenous standpoint rather than a community specific standpoint.
That contributes to stereotyping, romanticization, and the reinforcement of an Indigenous identity package.
That contributes to stereotyping, romanticization, and the reinforcement of an Indigenous identity package.
#FNMI Traditional adoption is legitimate, even if #colonial membership codes make it messy. People keep citing Buffy Sainte Marie or Boyden, but the issue there is fabrication, not adoption by real #Indigenous families.
December 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
#FNMI Traditional adoption is legitimate, even if #colonial membership codes make it messy. People keep citing Buffy Sainte Marie or Boyden, but the issue there is fabrication, not adoption by real #Indigenous families.
When someone experiences deep loss or injustice, it can shape how they see everything including who they think “counts” as #FNMI. But #trauma isn’t a framework for determining #FNMI identity or belonging. And it definitely can’t replace due process, community governance, or legal principles.
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The #FNMI body itself is a site where history, culture, and colonial violence are inscribed. In other words, culture and oppression are materially embedded, not just socially performed.
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The #FNMI body itself is a site where history, culture, and colonial violence are inscribed. In other words, culture and oppression are materially embedded, not just socially performed.
While some #FNMI academics say “identity isn’t in your DNA,” what #epigenetics shows is that #DNA and #biology can carry traces of cultural and social realities and markers. This doesn’t contradict points about identity being practiced in community, but it adds a layer.
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
While some #FNMI academics say “identity isn’t in your DNA,” what #epigenetics shows is that #DNA and #biology can carry traces of cultural and social realities and markers. This doesn’t contradict points about identity being practiced in community, but it adds a layer.
#FNMI Ancestry can exist without lived experience. Lived experience can exist without ancestry.
(Like Boyden, Buffy, etc. people "adopted" culturally but not genealogically.) Neither of these things alone defines “ #Indigenous identity.”
And neither tells the whole story of belonging.
(Like Boyden, Buffy, etc. people "adopted" culturally but not genealogically.) Neither of these things alone defines “ #Indigenous identity.”
And neither tells the whole story of belonging.
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#FNMI Ancestry can exist without lived experience. Lived experience can exist without ancestry.
(Like Boyden, Buffy, etc. people "adopted" culturally but not genealogically.) Neither of these things alone defines “ #Indigenous identity.”
And neither tells the whole story of belonging.
(Like Boyden, Buffy, etc. people "adopted" culturally but not genealogically.) Neither of these things alone defines “ #Indigenous identity.”
And neither tells the whole story of belonging.
#FNMI Lived Experience (community upbringing, cultural immersion, relational accountability) This is the life you actually lived, the stories, teachings, hardships, obligations, and community that shaped you. But lived experience is not #ancestry, it can’t create biological lineage or #Nationhood.
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
#FNMI Lived Experience (community upbringing, cultural immersion, relational accountability) This is the life you actually lived, the stories, teachings, hardships, obligations, and community that shaped you. But lived experience is not #ancestry, it can’t create biological lineage or #Nationhood.
#Ancestry (genealogy, bloodlines, biological descent)
This is who your people are, historically and biologically.
It matters because: it links you to Nations, lands, and kinship, it forms the base of potential belonging. It’s part of #FNMI identity whether or not you had access to it growing up.
This is who your people are, historically and biologically.
It matters because: it links you to Nations, lands, and kinship, it forms the base of potential belonging. It’s part of #FNMI identity whether or not you had access to it growing up.
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Talking about my #Welsh background doesn’t make me less than. Talking about my #Haudenosaunee ancestry doesn’t make me less legitimate. Talking openly is healthy and decolonial. Also ancestry doesn't = #FNMI identity or lived experience.
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Talking about my #Welsh background doesn’t make me less than. Talking about my #Haudenosaunee ancestry doesn’t make me less legitimate. Talking openly is healthy and decolonial. Also ancestry doesn't = #FNMI identity or lived experience.
There is a strange phenomenon happening now that suggests #FNMI #purity is how little being white is attributed to you vs just being transparent how #assimilation impacts you + your lineage.
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There is a strange phenomenon happening now that suggests #FNMI #purity is how little being white is attributed to you vs just being transparent how #assimilation impacts you + your lineage.
Proximity to whiteness is not equivalent to being aligned with #FNMI fraud.
#Colonialism forced #assimilation
You aren’t less #Indigenous because:
you have a white parent
you acknowledge your mixed ancestry
you are transparent about your full family history
you grew up disconnected
#Colonialism forced #assimilation
You aren’t less #Indigenous because:
you have a white parent
you acknowledge your mixed ancestry
you are transparent about your full family history
you grew up disconnected
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Proximity to whiteness is not equivalent to being aligned with #FNMI fraud.
#Colonialism forced #assimilation
You aren’t less #Indigenous because:
you have a white parent
you acknowledge your mixed ancestry
you are transparent about your full family history
you grew up disconnected
#Colonialism forced #assimilation
You aren’t less #Indigenous because:
you have a white parent
you acknowledge your mixed ancestry
you are transparent about your full family history
you grew up disconnected
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Ethical store only overworks employees without anyone to spend holidays with
Ethical store only overworks employees without anyone to spend holidays with
SMITHS FALLS, ON ― In an attempt to assuage customers’ consciences and boost last-minute Christmas Eve sales, local handmade clothing store, The Silver Thread, has announced that they will not force o...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Ethical store only overworks employees without anyone to spend holidays with
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Quick question @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social how is this relevant when his head shot is white presenting? I'm First Nations and also white. No one is going to racially identify this person as Indigenous as far as I am concerned.
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Quick question @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social how is this relevant when his head shot is white presenting? I'm First Nations and also white. No one is going to racially identify this person as Indigenous as far as I am concerned.
Who would have guessed my #1 youtube music stream was my #longestballot (@longestballot.bsky.social) campaign song by @thefamoussandhogs.bsky.social !!
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Who would have guessed my #1 youtube music stream was my #longestballot (@longestballot.bsky.social) campaign song by @thefamoussandhogs.bsky.social !!
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"[A]ccepting that adults take cocaine, and legally regulating the drug, is the only sensible path forward."
"Legalization is the only way to change the story of cocaine, from field to nose, being written in other people's blood."
#USA #Bolivia #Ecuador #Colombia #Drugs #Policing #Military
"Legalization is the only way to change the story of cocaine, from field to nose, being written in other people's blood."
#USA #Bolivia #Ecuador #Colombia #Drugs #Policing #Military
Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump's deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM