From a Mohawk community member…
“Never thought I'd see the day! Kids all across Turtle Island are hearing Kanien’kehá “Mohawk language” on screen! A whole Marvel episode filled with our language and stories?!
This is more than just entertainment, it's a celebration of our culture and identity.
Nia:wen, Marvel Studios, for this incredible gift!”
Big shoutout to Devery Jacobs for her OUTSTANDING performance as Kahhori in S2E6 of “What If…?”, it’s been an honour to bring these characters to life along side you!
Stream the episode NOW exclusively on Disney+! 🪶💙
Just finished watching tonight’s episode of #WhatIfS2 and all i have to say is welcome Kahhori, loved this episode so much and can’t wait to see and learn more about her 💙
Just finished a 15 page paper about Hawaiian Colors and why it’s important to teach Hawaiian colors from an indigenous perspective instead of an English one-to-one equivalent method because it removes us from our stories and our connection to ‘āina.
Who wants to read it 🤪
I took my child to the humane society in order to gauge what kinds of kittens he was drawn to, because I was thinking about adopting two kittens in a few months. Was intending on bringing his older brother the next day after school.
Well.
a pro-Israeli fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the Israeli occupation regime, and is applauded by the audience. Here's a thread of Galloway's response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end
"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."