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Eva (she/they/he)

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❤️ Fix your hearts or die 🌿Decolonial Disrupter 🎥 Theater of the absurd ✊️Mixed Kanien’kehà:ka http://linktr.ee/evabowwow

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Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · Aug 13

I made a #zine about #harmreduction and #abstinenceonly frameworks. In response to #ontario HART Hubs. Free online & for distribution. Link in my bio.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a kind of dramatized callout culture in some of these spaces or rage baiting for likes under the banner of protecting #Indigeneity. But when the focus shifts from structural harm to social media performance, it stops being about justice and starts being about control.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 15h

Much of the discourse around #Pretendian-hunting online feels performative and it thrives on outrage and algorithmic engagement. It starts to mirror the same #colonial structures of surveillance and punishment that it claims to challenge.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 1d

Every act of #honest reckoning even saying, “I don’t know where I belong, but I want to learn #ethically” defies #colonial conditioning. It says: we choose #repair over #reputation, community over control.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 1d

Never admit fault, because fault equals weakness, and weakness threatens control.
That’s how #capitalism and #colonialism co-produce isolation pushing people to act in #selfinterest rather than #kinship.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 1d

True #collective care requires vulnerability and repair. In saying “I caused harm, and I want to help heal it.”
Denial and legal threats shut that down. They #weaponize the same tools that have long silenced #Indigenous grievance: fear, liability, and image management.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 1d

The #colonial state, when confronted with harm, doesn’t repair. It deflects, denies, or #litigates. It safeguards its image and #power.
When individuals accused of #identityfraud do the same, they reproduce that same “protect the institution (self)” mindset over community well being.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 1d

The #Pretendian crusade exists because repair never happened. No public apologies, no redistribution, no conversations just silence. In that silence, anger grew, and the state’s logic of #punishment took over our #kinship spaces.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 2d

The head of the Assembly of First Nations says Canada needs to conduct a constitutional review of the 1930 Natural Resource Transfer Act.

AFN national chief calls for constitutional review of 1930 Natural Resource Transfer Act | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

What To Know About Data Centers https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/

Q: How long does it take to build a new data center?

A: Approximately one closed-door city council vote.

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Longest Ballot Committee @longestballot.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone know which ridings Carney and Poilievre will run in if the budget doesn't pass? Asking for a friend.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

Retailers don't pay their employees well? I'm shocked. Next you'll tell me restaurants aren't great to work for.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 2d

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Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

Genetics reflects systems not origins. Healing means confronting the #colonial conditions, not just the symptoms they left behind.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

#Colonialism built the conditions for trauma & those conditions that are now perpetuated through DNA, genetics, and the body itself. Our survival isn’t just biological; it’s relational, cultural, and deeply #political.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t go to bed because I’m doing an experiment where I stay exhausted for my entire life

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Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

#Science is often treated as neutral, but it is practiced through a #colonial, #settler lens. Discussions of #DNA and #ancestry are important, but they are incomplete without recognizing #epigenetics and #intergenerationaltrauma

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

Science is not neutral, it operates through a #colonial, white settler lens. Discussions of #Indigenous identity that emphasize #ancestry or relationality often ignore how #colonialism, #capitalism, and systemic exploitation shape both science and knowledge production. Recognizing this gap is key.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

It’s interesting how some #Indigenous frameworks emphasize relationality and community as markers of identity, but often ignore the role of #colonialism, #capitalism, and systemic #exploitation in shaping these identities and knowledge systems. Even when it comes to #science #genetics etc.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

#Indigenous identity policing and fraud don’t exist in a vacuum. You can’t separate these issues from colonialism, assimilation, and systemic oppression they’re what create the conditions for both. To separate it & point blame to anythiny but #systemicopression can resort to #internalizedracism

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Ben @goodbye-press.bsky.social · 3d

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 3d

Francesca Albanese: Countries "who still have ties with Israel, diplomatic, but especially economic, political, and military ties, are all responsible."

"Renewal is only possible if complicity is confronted [..] and justice is upheld."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Germany #UK #Genocide

UN Expert Says All Nations With Ties to Israel 'Responsible in Some Measure' for Gaza Genocide

Francesca Albanese, one of the UN's leading experts on human rights in Palestine, says that the dozens of nations around the world with military and financial ties to Israel are culpable.

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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 3d

Some 2SLGBTQ+ events cancelled in Kitchener following threats of disruption | CBC News

Beers with Queers was supposed to be a judgement-free place for members and allies of the 2SLGBTQ+ community to hang out on Tuesday. But it was cancelled after local police received a tip that there a...

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Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

It’s interesting how #intergenerationaltrauma and #epigenetics are often ignored in discourse of #Indigeniety yet some people claim cousins off-reserve are ‘white’ while others are ‘authentic’ #FNMI. Identity isn’t performance, it’s lived experience, history, and connection, not judgment.

Eva (she/they/he) @evabowwow.bsky.social · 3d

Status and band membership are not the same. Status is a federal designation under the #IndianAct, while membership is determined by the Nation itself. So responsibility lies with the #Nation, not the government.