femmetis: But I am SO ready to call Valentines...

femmetis:

But I am SO ready to call Valentines Day on its shit. I call bullshit on the card industry, I call bullshit on fluffy, flowery love, and I call bullshit on a nation that continually shoves christian rhetoric down our throats despite not only the immense cultural diversity of our communities but also the fact that we are on Native Land! When my people talk of love they say yaw-uk-miss which also encompasses pain. In a world view where everything is connected you cannot enjoy good feelings without the hardship that allows your love to grow.

Today, we live right up against so many different histories without ever being properly introduced. The inter-mingling of all of our traditional beliefs has opened our relationships up to a case by case discussion. Dating, monogamy, open marriages, gender’s that come in every colour of the rainbow, BDSM, toys…… if you can think it up, someone is doing it. It is up to us to define how we want to love ourselves and show others we love them.

To me the truest form of love that has emerged through the disneyland chaos is the Annual Women’s Memorial March. It is held each year on Valentines Day, downtown in the epicenter of our modern day social justice issues. This march is held in memory of all the missing and murdered women across Canada who’s lives have been systemically shoved aside by our racist, sexist and colonial government. People walk the streets in solidarity, vigilantly demanding justice with the friends and families of our most vulnerable life-givers. They come with the purest form of love in their hearts. A love that has compassion and sees how the issues we are facing are connected. We are reminded of the universal picture, we see clearly how these issues of addiction, sexual abuse, poverty, and disconnection are prevalent for a reason.

Thanks to http://rpmfm.tumblr.com for sharing this awesome project from the time of the Olympics. Go check it out.

(via adailyriot)

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