Tomorrow, for the first time in a while, Tex and I won’t be heading down to Plymouth for National Day of Mourning. This is due to various and tedious health issues, i.e., bone-deep fatigue for me and chronic pain for her. It’s just been a shit of a year, and it has taken its toll on us both.
We will stream NDM, send our usual donation, be grateful for our young queer friends who will go to represent, and look forward to rejoining next year. It’s ok, even if really disappointing. That’s because we are not in this alone.
We will also be supporting Honor the Earth this year, whose mission statement reads, “Honor the Earth is an Indigenous-led organization fighting to dismantle settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, white supremacy, and imperialism by helping our communities resist exploitation, withstand crises, and prepare future generations of leadership. We envision a future rooted in Indigenous sovereignty and lifeways, where all Peoples live in right relationship with Mother Earth and each other.”
All day every day, year in, year out, Honor the Earth supports grass-roots organizers and more. A recent email from Krystal Two Bulls, the Executive Director, says, “As Indigenous organizers, it’s our sacred duty to protect each other and organize for the long-term. It’s up to us to invest in systems and structures that can endure beyond election cycles and electorism, create resilient networks, meet the material needs of our People, and invest in Indigenous leadership.”
Honor the Earth, you get one pingy-dingy! Thank you for keeping what matters in your sights, for holding steady with your love and generosity and support and for your deep understanding of connection, continuity, and peace.
I’m a typewriter whompin’, card catalogue lovin’ white girl from back in the day, and I yearn for a time before the covers of trade paperbacks were all squidgy, so you can imagine that I don’t actually understand what a pingback is. I do know that it can in some way be part of spreading the love, and since that’s what I’m all about at The Total Femme… every Wednesday, I pay homage to the laughter, love, and inspiration to be had elsewhere online. Is there someplace online that you particularly adore? Send it my way and I’ll slap it into the Pingy-Dingy lineup! thetotalfemme@gmail.com
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