native issues – The Hungover Pundit

Core Concepts 4 — Our Home On Native Land

Today is National Indigenous People’s Day in Canada.

As a settler who is trying to understand Native issues and work in solidarity with Native peoples it has been my habit on this day, ever since a friend passed on a challenge a few years ago, to “Share on social media the names of the First Peoples whose territory I live on, the Treaty or Treaties which govern where I live, and the place where my ancestors came from.” Usually I just make a short post on Facebook, but since I’ve got this new blog, I’m going to expand my usual post.

Core Concepts 3 — Intersectionality

I was doing a bit of research into intersectionality theory for today’s blog post, thinking I know kind of how I want to explain it, but if someone has done it better then I can quote and link to them — you know, standard blogger stuff — and Google throws out a link to a YouTube video titled “What is Intersectionality?” So I click it, thinking maybe I can link to it if it’s well done… and it’s Ben Shapiro.

Unexpected Ben Shapiro spouting bad alt-right logic about “leftist fads” and how “white identities are valued less” is a nasty fucking thing to stumble into while hungover and before I’ve had any coffee. No warning at all. Plus he’s got the world’s smuggest, most annoying voice and about forty seconds in it set up this sort of post-bourbon reverb inside my skull that I could taste in my teeth. Brutal.