#Indigenous Lesbians

[twotwotwospirit]

reminder that indigenous queer folks do not need to fit your colonial definitions or conceptions of queerness in order to be valid, worthy, and spectacular.

if your concept of what a lesbian looks like requires that all lesbians have shaved or short hair, then you’re excluding ntv lesbians who honour our ancestors by growing our hair long.

i’m no less of a butch for having hair that goes down to my tailbone. i’m no less of a butch for wearing my hair in a braid. i’m also still butch when i wear beaded earrings, a ribbon skirt, and moccasins.

if your idea of queerness is tied to whiteness, that’s just a shame. indigeneity and queerness go together like inhaling and exhaling. one cannot exist without the other.

#indigenous #indigenous lesbian #indigiqueer #butch #lesbian thoughts #lesbian #butch thoughts #two spirit

[decolonize-the-left]

This is not a drill

This is IMPORTANT especially if you live in the USA or use the internet REGULATED by the USA!!!!

Do not scroll. Signal boost. Reblog.

Reblog WITHOUT reading if you really can't right now, I promise all the links and proof are here. People NEED to know this.

( I tried to make this accessible but you can't cater to EVERYONE so please just try your best to get through this or do your own research 🙏)

TLDR: Homeland Security has been tying our social media to our IPs, licenses, posts, emails, selfies, cloud, apps, location, etc through our phones without a warrant using Babel X and will hold that information gathered for 75 years. Certain aspects of it were hushed because law enforcement will/does/has used it and it would give away confidential information about ongoing operations.

This gets renewed in September.

Between this, Agincourt (a VR simulator for cops Directly related to this project), cop city, and widespread demonization of abortions, sex workers, & queer people mixed with qanon/Trumpism, and fascism in Florida, and the return of child labor, & removed abortion rights fresh on our tails it's time for alarms to be raised and it's time for everyone to stop calling us paranoid and start showing up to protest and mutual aid groups.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

These are the same feds who want to build cop city and recreate civilian houses en masse and use facial recognition. The same feds that want cop city to also be a training ground for police across the country. Cop city where they will build civilian neighborhoods to train in.

Widespread mass surveillance against us.

Now let's cut to some parts of the article. May 17th from Vice:

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an invasive, AI-powered monitoring tool to screen travelers, including U.S. citizens, refugees, and people seeking asylum, which can in some cases link their social media posts to their Social Security number and location data, according to an internal CBP document obtained by Motherboard.

Called Babel X, the system lets a user input a piece of information about a target—their name, email address, or telephone number—and receive a bevy of data in return, according to the document. Results can include their social media posts, linked IP address, employment history, and unique advertising identifiers associated with their mobile phone. The monitoring can apply to U.S. persons, including citizens and permanent residents, as well as refugees and asylum seekers, according to the document.

“Babel data will be used/captured/stored in support of CBP targeting, vetting, operations and analysis,” the document reads. Babel X will be used to “identify potential derogatory and confirmatory information” associated with travelers, persons of interest, and “persons seeking benefits.” The document then says results from Babel X will be stored in other CBP operated systems for 75 years.

"The U.S. government’s ever-expanding social media dragnet is certain to chill people from engaging in protected speech and association online. And CBP’s use of this social media surveillance technology is especially concerning in connection with existing rules requiring millions of visa applicants each year to register their social media handles with the government. As we’ve argued in a related lawsuit, the government simply has no legitimate interest in collecting and retaining such sensitive information on this immense scale,” Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, told Motherboard in an email.

The full list of information that Babel X may provide to CBP analysts is a target’s name, date of birth, address, usernames, email address, phone number, social media content, images, IP address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, employment history, and location data based on geolocation tags in public posts.

Bennett Cyphers, a special advisor to activist

organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Motherboard in an online chat “the data isn’t limited to public posts made under someone’s real name on Facebook or Twitter.”

The document says CBP also has access to AdID information through an add-on called Locate X, which includes smartphone location data. AdID information is data such as a device’s unique advertising ID, which can act as an useful identifier for tracking a phone and, by extension, a person’s movements. Babel Street obtains location information from a long supply chain of data. Ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones provide data to a company called Gravy Analytics, which repackages that location data and sells it to law enforcement agencies via its related company Venntel. But Babel Street also repackages Venntel’s data for its own Locate X product."

The PTA obtained by Motherboard says that Locate X is covered by a separate “commercial telemetry” PTA. CBP denied Motherboard’s FOIA request for a copy of this document, claiming it “would disclose techniques and/or procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions”.

A former Babel Street employee previously told Motherboard how users of Locate X can draw a shape on a map known as a geofence, see all devices Babel Street has data on for that location, and then follow a specific device to see where else it has been.

Cyphers from the EFF added “most of the people whose location data is collected in this way likely have no idea it’s happening.”

CBP has been purchasing access to location data without a warrant, a practice that critics say violates the Fourth Amendment. Under a ruling from the Supreme Court, law enforcement agencies need court approval before accessing location data generated by a cell phone tower; those critics believe this applies to location data generated by smartphone apps too.

“Homeland Security needs to come clean to the American people about how it believes it can legally purchase and use U.S. location data without any kind of court order. Americans' privacy shouldn't depend on whether the government uses a court order or credit card,” Senator Ron Wyden told Motherboard in a statement. “DHS should stop violating Americans' rights, and Congress should pass my bipartisan legislation to prohibit the government's purchase of Americans' data." CBP has refused to tell Congress what legal authority it is following when using commercially bought smartphone location data to track Americans without a warrant.

Neither CBP or Babel Street responded to a request for comment. Motherboard visited the Babel X section of Babel Street’s website on Tuesday. On Wednesday before publication, that product page was replaced with a message that said “page not found.”

Do you know anything else about how Babel X is being used by government or private clients? Do you work for Babel Street? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on [phone], Wickr on josephcox, or email [email protected].

Wow that sounds bad right.

Be a shame if it got worse.

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It does.

The software (previously Agincourt Solutions) is sold by AI data company Babel Street, was led by Jeffrey Chapman, a former Treasury Department official,, Navy retiree & Earlier in his career a White House aide and intelligence officer at the Department of Defense, according to LinkedIn.

🙃

So what's Agincourt Solutions then right now?

SO FUCKING SUS IN RELATION TO THIS, THATS WHAT

In essence, synthetic BATTLEVR training is a mixture of all three realities – virtual, augmented and physical. It is flexible enough to allow for mission rehearsals of most types and be intuitive enough to make training effective.

Anyway the new CEO of Babel Street (Babel X) as of April is a guy named Michael Southworth and I couldn't find much more on him than that tbh, it's all very vague and missing. That's the most detail I've seen on him.

And the detail says he has a history of tech startups that scanned paperwork and sent it elsewhere, good with numbers, and has a lot of knowledge about cell networks probably.

Every inch more of this I learn as I continue to Google the names and companies popping up... It gets worse.

Monitor phone use. Quit photobombing and filming strangers and for the love of fucking God quit sending apps photos of your actual legal ID to prove your age. Just don't use that site, you'll be fine I swear. And quit posting your private info online. For activists/leftists NO personally identifiable info at least AND DEFINITELY leave your phone at home to Work™!!!

#current events #capitalism #USA #politics #facism #public surveillance #anarchists #democrats #lgbt #direct action #leftist #ndn #indigenous #lesbian #gay #trans #bisexual #neurodivergent #Feminism #privacy rights #human rights #internet #tumblr #signal boost #desantis #florida #queer #refugees #immigration #threads

[vintagesapphics]

Photos of Nancy Valverde, a Chicana gender nonconforming lesbian who was routinely arrested for violating L.A.’s cross-dressing ban throughout the 50s and has been credited as helping overturn the ban. Valverde died at the age of 92 in March of 2024.

#lgbt history #lesbian #wlw #lgbt #vintage lesbians #lesbian history #lesbian activist #Nancy Valverde #RIP #chicana history #indigenous history

[crybabyboyscout]

Happy Juneteenth from your favorite Indigenous 2Spirit Hottie. Help me pay some bills and thrive the rest of the month.

Cash*pp 💓 V*nmo 💓

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#ocean #nonbinary #black tumblr #lesbian #black lesbian #punk #afropunk #juneteenth #indigenous #afro indigenous #pride #pride month #trans pride #two spirit #2 spirit

[eembulan]

hay naminhod kun he-a ya maid di kiingngohana (my love for you is beyond comparison)

happy international lesbian day <3

[mlm version]

#igorot #ifugao #ibaloi #philippines #filipino #artph #indigenous #gay #lgbt #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #digital art #original art #original characters #artists on tumblr #bare chest / #animal death / #eembulan #2023 #with id #companion piece to my gay mlm igorots drawing! will post together later :)

[shadeslayer]

just catching the end of lesbian visibility week but !!! ndn lesbian love <3

REALLY in love w this design, i had it sitting in wip for ages bc i wanted to get it done just right. tip me or cop this on my bonfire and inprnt !

#native american art #lesbian art #queer #sapphic art #wlw art #indigenous art #2spirit #two spirit #ikbili

[p-g-v-3]

Black trans lesbians everywhere, I love you! Black trans people everywhere, I love you! Black queer people everywhere, I love you! Black gnc/gender-weird/gender-fucked/gender-fluid and agender people everywhere, I love you! Black asexual people everywhere, I love you! Black and indigenous people two-spirit people everywhere, I love you! Indigenous two-spirit people everywhere, I love you! Queer indigenous people everywhere, I love you! Trans indigenous people everywhere, I love you! Indigenous lesbians everywhere, I love you!

You deserve better. You deserve to be acknowledged, respected and celebrated. Your history and accomplishments deserve to be talked about and highlighted. You deserve love and protection. You deserve unwavering support. You deserve the whole goddamn world!!

#lgbtq #black lesbian #black qpoc #queer indigenous #two spirit #black trans #trans indigenous #trans #queer #lesbian #black nonbinary #nonbinary #gnc #asexual

[yourdailyqueer]

Elizabeth Kerekere

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1965

Ethnicity: Māori, Irish

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Politician (Independent/Green), activist, artist

Note: In Māori language Elizabeth identifies herself as someone who is Takatāpui.

#Elizabeth Kerekere #Lesbian Visibility Week #qwoc #lgbt #lgbtq #lesbianism #female #lesbian #1965 #Māori #indigenous #Maori #poc #native #irish #biracial #new zealander #politician #activist #artist #popular #popular post

[prisonhannibal]

saami lesbians yeah!!!

#my art #original art #saami art #sami art #indigenous art #lesbian art

[goraesky]

its already sagaalgan/buryat-mongol new years here so here's munhetuya saying sagaan haraar, sagaalganaar to everyone ❤️

#new year 2024 #munhetuya #butch #my art #lesbian #transmasc #buryat #mongol #indigenous siberian

[twotwotwospirit]

creator free me from skinny masc propaganda and let me embrace beefy hunky butch love

#butch #lesbian thoughts #lesbian #butch thoughts #butch positivity #i say creator bc i’m INDIGENOUS pls don’t make this abt christianity

[thenatureofbutch]

Screengrab taken from the YouTube series ‘studs world’

#studsworld #black studs #studs #dykes #butches #black lesbians #bisexuals #black butches #poc #indigenous #black dykes #female masculinity #transmasc #mascs #transmasculinity #black gnc #black nonbinary #gnc #nonbinary #cinemetography #butch portraits #gay portraits #photography

[genderoutlaws]

Storme Webber, a Black Sugpiaq/Choctaw Two-Spirit Lesbian artist and poet, photographed by Diné artist Will Wilson for his ongoing Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange project. | 2018

Wilson employs a wet-plate collodion photographic technique, based on the nineteenth-century method that involves exposing and then developing a plate that has been coated in light-sensitive chemicals. He explores identity, the photographic medium as both art and science, and community. Wilson collaborates with his sitters, who determine their pose, clothing, props, and how they are presented. As a gesture of reciprocity, Wilson gives the sitters the original photograph, while retaining the right to print and use scans for artistic purposes. Originally, CIPX was Wilson’s way to work toward a re-imagined vision of Native people in response to historic photographers such as Edward Curtis and his The North American Indian (1907-1930).

#op #photography #storme webber #will wilson #indigenous #two spirit #lesbians #native lesbians #black lesbians #sugpiaq artists #choctaw artists #diné artists #2010s #2018

[princessefemmelesbian]

I hope all indigenous lesbians reading this are having a good day today! Drink lots of water and spend time with friends and family! I am here for you!

#lesbian #indigenous people's day

[crybabyboyscout]

Happy Black History Month, help me continue to thrive this month! Cashapp | Venmo | NovsEyeView

#ocean #black tumblr #black lesbian #lesbian #afropunk #punk #nonbinary #two spirit #2 spirit #indigenous #afro indigenous #black history month #black owned business #small business #black art #black artist #indigenous art #tripp nyc #11:11 #777 #black tourmaline

[labrynth-mp4]

hey everyone, I don't use tumblr very much but i heard there was some level of support for each other here.

My name is Ulysses, I am a trans indigenous lesbian who organizes and serves in my community in "Tacoma". on March 8th, I came out to see my car had been taken from the parking lot at my apartment building. It has been wrongfully repossessed by my original lender in California from when I originally bought it 4 years ago.

I use my car for so many things; to escape the world, to make desperately needed extra income, to give rides to members of my community, to drive 45 minutes to work as a caretaker, and at times, even to sleep and live part-time in. To get my car back, I am being asked for 1,700 by the original lender to cover "fees and repossession cost" potentially not including whatever fees the lot decides to charge. I am also asking for help recuperating some of the income I have been unable to make while waiting to regain possession of my car.

Thank you so much to all the members of my community who have helped and continue to help me stay afloat. I don't have any photos of the outside of my car because my phone with years worth of pictures broke, but have used some I have taken inside of it at different moments when I have found peace in the front seat.

#mutual aid #mutualaid #gofundme #indigenous #lesbian #fundraiser #community #emergency