Here’s another Indigenous person you can support today with a few $ 💜✨

It's indigenous peoples day. If you have some extra cash please consider sharing it with BAF

The coolest thing about the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is how quickly they made it so that almost every Indigenous person either has to work or wants to stay home all day to avoid everything

Yesterday my best friend knew I was going thru it so they came by after work. They brought me raspberries, peaches, and bananas. They were like, "every time I bring you fresh fruit, it makes you cry" lmaooo My ancestors just appreciate u sharing a bountiful harvest, homie 😭

I'm short on rent for this upcoming month, and my phone is 🤏🏼 this close to breaking, which will cut me off from all sources of income (besides my disability assistance). I spent the last two days basically sleeping. If anyone can help, I could really use it. Mîkwêc. PayPal.me/beadsagainst...

I'm back home on the east coast right now. Went for a lil trek down to the cove, and there are at least 2 dozen hawks and turkey vultures circling in silence 👀 I've never seen this many together at once... not hawks at least 💀 keeping my eyes open for whatever died around here, holyyyy

I've been asked a few times if I'm still doing beadwork 😅 the answer is a resounding YES! I haven't posted about it much because I've still been working on the orders for the @/maggiestoronto.bsky.social fundraiser I did, so I haven't made anything besides red umbrellas in a long time.

Nothing yet... I'm sorry to ask again, but I have to. If anyone is in the position to help, I would appreciate it more than I could ever tell you.

Side note: Julia Whelan is the best audiobook narrator in the world, hands-down. And if you read anything Emily Henry writes, you will be forever (positively) changed by how you view people and your relationships w others. You'd also have to actively try to not be a more compassionate person after

I finished an audiobook today, and it was the first time, at the end when they share the copyright info, that they included a piece about that audiobook being prohibited from being used to train AI. It made me simultaneously glad and sad. Glad they're protecting their work, and sad that they have to

I'm a broke, disabled, queer, trans Cree person who's been through some awful stuff and really hard times lately— grieving a friend's passing, dealing with multiple acute injuries plus a new chronic condition... PayPal.me/beadsagainstfascism

Throwing this out there into the world, in case it's of interest to anyone (It should be) www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zine...

An Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly was fluttering around me while I was sitting in the park today, and I know it was Sheila saying hello 🦋 I'm glad you're safe and okay, my wonderful friend. Thank you for checking in on me. 💙 We miss you so much over here.

I swear I fall in love about a hundred times a day. With people, places, experiences, things... all of it. My heart is permanently open and I wouldn't have it any other way. Life is so beautiful, and all we have is all we have.

Three of my friends— all young people who I cared about very much— have died in the last year and a half. Two are Indigenous and one is Black. I miss them all dearly and desperately. I feel like I'm a thousand years old. I'm absolutely weary in a way I've never felt before.

ICE abuse and violence isn’t starting from scratch. ICE officers aren’t new grads from ICE school. ICE abuses immigrants, because US law enforcement abuses residents. ICE facilities do human rights abuses because US jails and prisons do.

Me beloved friend and mentor, Prof. Sheila Colla, has passed away. She has a husband and two young children who are very much in need of support in this time, and after 20 long months of her illness and treatment. If you can help in any way please do. gofund.me/683fdea4

Still working on making my place safe, with privacy and protection from the increasing heat, especially with the wildfire smoke we been facing, while also trying to keep up with basic life needs. Ki ci mîkwêc. PayPal.me/beadsagainstfascism

I know I can't promise to be fully back, and at the same time, I can promise you that I am, and have been, doing my best. Destroying myself to the point of repeated burnout doesn't help anyone, and I learned that the hard way before. Thank yous all for your patience with me.

I been AWOL for a while now bc i been going thru some shit and trying to move to a better and cheaper apartment and have a hope for a future where I can still see myself housed. I haven't been avoiding what's happening, I just been reading, not posting.

My broken wrist is making life absolutely miserable. Waiting for an appointment with the hand surgeon. Can't cook, can't do fuck all with this cast, but I gotta do it anyways. No painkillers. Any help is *extremely* appreciated, just for decent food. I'm friggin dyin here

Initially, they couldn't find the break on the x-ray, but they could tell it was broken from my wrist itself. Then they came back after having another look and finding a break, and they gave me a splint that only prevents movement in one direction until I see the bone doctor in 2-7 days.

Had a lil crashout on twitter about it, but I'll share the Coles notes version: I gotta go back to the fkn ER. My wrist is either severely sprained, &/or, what seems more likely this time, is a scaphoid fracture. The pain is extremely acute. Any help with life things would be endlessly appreciated 😞

I been AWOL for a while now bc i been going thru some shit and trying to move to a better and cheaper apartment and have a hope for a future where I can still see myself housed. I haven't been avoiding what's happening, I just been reading, not posting.

Abolish is better but defunding is a start

I never managed to get enough help to get this done, unfortunately :/ and then I suffered a pretty bad injury, which is part of why I've been MIA. Any help is so appreciated 😓❤️‍🩹 I need about $400 to meet this goal and save myself a lot of suffering. Thank you, friends. ❤️‍🩹

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

I have never in my life, seen anything like this, and I would actually like to ask anyone else if they’ve ever seen whole groups of federal officials obscuring their names and replacing it with “the others” or if this is new.

I never managed to get enough help to get this done, unfortunately :/ and then I suffered a pretty bad injury, which is part of why I've been MIA. Any help is so appreciated 😓❤️‍🩹 I need about $400 to meet this goal and save myself a lot of suffering. Thank you, friends. ❤️‍🩹

Hi friends. I was asked by someone very close to me if I could share this— the Ottawa Indigenous community has tragically lost a young man, Dillon Warren Breed. His family, including his children, are in need of help and support. Ki ci mîkwêc 😞❤️‍🩹 gofund.me/bf28fc34

I created BeadsAgainstFascism in autumn of 2018, so it's been a bit more than 7.5 years, and I finally got my first long-term hater who's obsessed with me 😂💀 if you're still on twitter you would've seen it, but wow, I cannot believe it's taken this long?? Hahaha

HEY SPEAKING OF CANCER

Alt text. Eight years of broken spine, and yeah. I get it.

It feels kinda cruel, almost, that when your life gets even a little bit settled, all the stuff you didn't have space to even think about just starts hitting you like a Mack truck. It would cool if life would just, like, let you take a breather for a bit first, I guess?

I was... extremely naïve to think rent was gonna be the only cost to this move 😕 there's no window coverings and it's on ground level, so it's hot af with no privacy. I would hugely appreciate any help with this 😓 PayPal.me/beadsagainstfascism

(Been incredibly busy with my move, but since I hyped up Kneecap on here, I had to jump on to say some shit about this. Move is going good!! Be back soooon 💕)

@ Kneecap: "Níl fáilte roimh an RUC" (cops not welcome) includes internalizing cop behaviour. Níl fáilte roimh an RUC in your head, too. They're not actually your principles if you give them up when it's no longer easy to have them.

Thank yous all from the deepest depths of my heart and soul... It's happening. I'm moving as early as the end of the week. Thank you SO much— from the 31 kind folks who sent $$, every single person who liked & shared, and each of you who sent kind words of support & encouragement. I'm blown away. ❤️‍🔥😭

"The higher the connection that someone had to the natural environment at night, they felt happier and had a more positive outlook and a more positive wellbeing."

It's always interesting/important to me when tribal sovereignty is invoked for legal battles. I think it's very important— to challenge colonizer governments, and to reinforce the existence/reality of sovereignty of Indigenous peoples to both the colonizer govts, and to settlers themselves.

I met with my landlord today to see a cheaper unit in another building he owns because he actually does his job and that safety is something I really need, and I'm gonna be able to move into this other apartment at the end of the month ifI can scrape together $1600— PLEASE 🙏❤️‍🔥

Duality of BAF on full display on the TL rn 😂😅 Back-to-back threads: one on beautiful relationships and joy and community, and the other on self-defence and stabbing eyes with keys LMAO alfkskdkfk

A self-defence reminder from a homie with 6 total black belts in ju jitsu (4 in one kind & 2 in another) who's also been in street situations: if you're walking alone and your keys are your best/only tool for self-defence, don't hold one between each finger like knuckle dusters.

I just dropped my phone face-down in the mud and had no napkins or anything so I had to wipe it off with an oak leaf, and this is the first time in my life I've thought that maybe the song Nothing but Flowers by The Talking Heads made some points lmaooo

I could really use some help with my hydro bill that's due, if anyone is able (in addition to rent). Sigh. Hydro is $159. Thank you ❤️‍🩹😞

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Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

I could really use some help with my hydro bill that's due, if anyone is able (in addition to rent). Sigh. Hydro is $159. Thank you ❤️‍🩹😞

🚨 Jocey, a Wet'suwet'en Land Defender and daughter of Hereditary Chief Woos, has put out an ask for financial aid!! 🚨 If you're in kkkanada, etransfers can be sent to [email protected]. ❤️‍🔥

I'm not going to be able to make next month's rent. Any help is immensely appreciated. I'm trying to get a cheaper place with the same landlord because he actually does his job and the sense of security is essential for me, so I really don't want to miss any payments right now 😞