Echidna

I remember when this came up a few years ago on Twitter. There are First Nations restaurants, most (white) people just don't go to them and where they are. Yes there are not a lot, it would be much better if there was more. The reason there isn't is because of colonization and genocide.

But we also have to be careful because presenting a minority group as already extinct exists to help continue the perpetuation of the genocide. As Judith Butler describes.

An ungrievable life is one that cannot be mourned because it has never lived, that is, it has never counted as a life at all'

There is a surviving first nations food culture that doesn't care whether Patrick Blumenthal has eaten it or not.

Also First Nations food has been heavily assimilated to into many cultures food. Mexican Food, Peruvian Food, etc When people eat these foods they don't think of it's relationship to First Nations, but there's a connection.

Finally stuff like corn, tomatoes, potatoes all of this food that is widespread everywhere is from North and South America and only hits Europe and Asia in the early modern period. What is and isn't a certain cultures food is not static but subject to forces of history.

Leslie Feinberg also wrote a very good book on Cuba, ranging from pre-colonial history to the early 20th century, to the revolution, the UMAP camps, the HIV crisis and the rough present it's free to read here

Two years ago a Hexbear mod (transcomrade69) harassed me (by calling out my username among many) into reading Leslie Feinberg's Trans Liberation : Beyond Blue and Pink.

Possibly one of the most significant events in altering the trajectory of my entire life.

Yes, we can be too rambunctious at times. Yes I view present politics and past history through a lens of dialectical and historical materialism.

Yes we will likely have significant contradictions on many issues which are impossible to resolve through the Internet where we've already entrenched our positions. But were you on my verandah with a good duriff maybe we'd get somewhere.

I think both communities will regret this and broadly the future looks bleak for everyone, but extra bleak for Trans and Non-binary folk everywhere.

Hi everybody! I have joined here from Hexbear. I'm not going to vote in anything. I hope we all stay federated but if not I now have two places I can post at from work.