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Penny Kagigebi

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QUEERING INDIGENEITY - sparking 2-Spirit cultural reclamation through art 🌈conversation 🌈 community ◊ White Earth Ojibwe direct descendant ◊ Radical Lateral Nurturing & zero tolerance for bullies nacdi.org/news/pride-is-indigenous-featuring-penny-kagigebi

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Jun 30

QUEERING INDIGENEITY
September 18, 2025–August 16, 2026
Thursdays through Sundays
✨ Community celebration on October 11, 2025 ✨

Minnesota Museum of American Art
St. Paul MN USA

mmaa.org/queering-ind...

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Jun 29

USA Today features Queering Indigeneity exhibit

Minnesota Museum of American Art ◊ St. Paul MN
September 18, 2025–August 16, 2026
Thursdays through Sundays
✨ Community Celebration ◊ October 11, 2025 ✨

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Minnesota exhibit uplifts Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ voices in Indigenous art

To be two-spirited, to see through the eyes of more than one gender, is what many Indigenous members of the LGBTQ+ community want to embrace.

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Jun 10

Agreed. When “liberal = apologist” I want to bring them in for deep and meaningful domestic violence training.

There is nothing that can be done “correctly” - the point is to criticize as a means of dominating -> and there’s no winning or convincing the abuser / fascist.

Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · May 25

This comment is not meant to take anything away from reporting on loss of Black American lives.

AND Native Americans have been made invisible in this country.

Statistics are worse for Native Americans & include many “in custody deaths” that are written off (falsely) as “medical issues”.

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big rock big river, ms ⧖ @bigrockbigriver.bsky.social · Apr 26

Does everyone see she cut him out of the photo???

She made a choice and those circulating the whole photo are the type of person who made it harder for her to live in society.

Sit the fuck down, be still, reflect on why you think your impulses are more important than her life was.

Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · Apr 26

Virginia Giuffre, a courageous and outspoken victim of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died at the age of 41.

Giuffre’s family said in a statement on Friday that “she lost her life to suicide.”

"Virginia was a fierce…

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Apr 19

A website where someone is keeping track - big props!

projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Apr 19

Agreed. Considering what’s at stake, need all of it 24/7.

Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Apr 19

Yes! Fight Fight Fight

AND - not seeing this reporting from NPR on Facebook or Instagram. 🧐

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · Apr 10

“They don’t view an honest discussion of policy as something they need to slow down and do.” We’re digging into the Trump team’s logic, or lack-there-of, with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social.

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Apr 7

This is my version of “The well is dry. The season has turned. I’ve invested what I could in your growth and development. Someone else’s turn now.”

It becomes clear this is a good choice as they lose their minds trying to get me to roll this back.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Mar 25

I find @listifications.app (which DM’s you when you’re added to a list or if you get blocked) very useful, both as a “you’re being an ass, stop” sense-check but also as a hilarious “some people really don’t like jokes about Starmer and alpacas”’gauge.

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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · Apr 6

A few thoughts about today's protests:

1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures:
-- total national turnout (~ 3 million)
-- number of local protests (~ 1400)

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Apr 6

It’ll have greasy fingerprints all over it! lol

Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Mar 17

more names from today's post

Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Mar 14

My "future for America" wish list includes Pete Buttigieg taking a serious look at the 1/3 of Americans who chose to not vote in the Nov 2024 election.
This is where the challenge lies - 1/3 of Americans said no, this isn't the "government of the people" and made a stand to not participate.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 9

1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 10

So now they are arresting people accused of no crimes who are lawful residents of the United States.

Wow.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Mar 9

This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...

Marco Rubio # @marcorubio •46m
We will be revoking the visas and / or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported

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Anna Martineau Merritt @nagamoopichikwe.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · Nov 13

There is so much to love and fight for. So much goodness among us. The violence & hate seems insurmountable. But in the words of Elder Arvol Looking Horse: “Each of us is put here in this time & this place to decide the future of humankind. Did you think you were put here for something else?"

Painting titled Summer Rain. Deep warm yellow background with lightly coloured flicks of rain falling on an angle from the upper right to bottom left corner. Two cedar waxwing birds are flying with wings open among a large stem, leaves berries and flowers. A monarch rests on a oversized maples. Many dots cover the painting to emulate Metis beadwork.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · Feb 25

The resistance is as ancient as despotism. Study those before you for lessons you can use now, and innovate for the future because the struggle ain’t ending in your lifetime. Pass it on.

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Feb 23

Today 2-23-2025

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 22

This is not normal! As if federal employees didn’t already feel threatened enough—sure, let the brown shirts have guns; that’ll certainly boost compliance.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Feb 22

Worst. Episode. EVER.

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Feb 23

Yes! More, daga 💖

Danilynn Jiibay ᐧᐋᐸᓄᑮᔑᒃ @jiibaydani.bsky.social · Feb 22

Mino kizhep

Always wondered how Sailor Moon would sound in anishinaabemowin? Wonder no more!

You are welcome!

#Ojibwe #Anishinaabemowin #Anishinaabe #SailorMoon #Indigenous #Anime

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Dibikigiizis Ogichidaakwe - Gegapii Bi-izhaaag Ezhi-nisiwaad (Episode 190 onji) (Ojibwe)

YouTube video by Ojibwe First Nation Dubbings

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Penny Kagigebi @pennykagigebi.bsky.social · Feb 23

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 22

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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