#teloche #appropriation #celinedion J’essaie d’écouter le film « Aline » qui est tellement mauvais, si kitsch! Oh la la! Mais comment peut-on avoir donné un César à Valérie Lemercier pour ce succédané aussi idiot qu’odieux? Clystère et goule de bum.

Paging fellow queers:

Is it only ever cishets (who call themselves things like #Urbanists) who use the term #motonormativity?

#LGBTQI #Pride #appropriation

Catching up on news for the week and learned about Iggy Azalea supporting Tory Lanez. Fell down an internet hole and read this fascinating explainer of academic inquiry into Azalea's appropriation of African American English: How Iggy Azalea mastered her ‘blaccent’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/04/how-a-white-australian-rapper-mastered-her-blaccent/

Happy 50th birthday, hip hop!

#language #phonetics #popculture #culture #hiphop #appropriation #BlackMastodon

I soft-launched my new Patreon a couple of days ago. I'm trying to renew my art practice and give people a way to encourage me to do more. (I also do need the money to support a few ongoing projects that have turned out to be unexpectedly pricey) Here's my first (public) post there: https://www.patreon.com/posts/here-we-go-86794109

#art #crowdfunding #sculpture #performanceart #videoart #appropriation #recycledculture #subscribetosteev

"Born to a Chinese mother and English father in Montreal, Canada in 1875, the writer – said to be the first novelist of Asian descent in North America – also penned Hollywood scripts long before women had any presence in the male-dominated industry...by the time she died in 1954, had written 18 bestselling novels, 80 stories and more than 60 works of non-fiction and poetry; and written and edited 50 film scripts."

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3228329/novelist-hollywood-screenwriter-half-chinese-why-winnifred-eaton-gave-herself-japanese-name-onoto

#aapi #aanhpi #literature #culture #appropriation

A School for Eagles Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
#eagle #appropriation

Put an eagle in your tank. Eagle gas has to be potent.
#eagle #gas #appropriation

Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton

#Science #TheGuardian #Appropriation #Jamaica #CortProcess

Now I know the history of the #ProgressPride #flag and will not use it:

#Profiteering #Appropriation

https://gaycitynews.com/we-need-walk-away-progress-profit-flag/

#appropriation and the tainting of #occult traditions with racism and other bigotries demands a general cleansing and exploration of possible new traditions. it's impossible to clearly distinguish original and otherwise stolen influence, it must be a project of creation.

https://ezrarose.itch.io/fyma-a-lesser-key

The perpetrator of this injustice describes himself as a Native American hobbyist in the Czech Republic. They want so bad to BE Native American that they steal culture & don't let Native American people have it.

He is featured in the film, “If Only I Were an Indian” or “Becoming Native American ” in the Czech Republic. "Becoming Native American in the Czech Republic"

It's totally weird cosplay. Next level weird.

#BecomingNativeAmerican #Appropriation #Native #Indian

https://vimeo.com/24033319

@chema @thepoliticalcat
She is still at UC Berkeley, & still doing her thing.

According to a letter made on behalf of Indigenous scholars & former students "We demand that Elizabeth Hoover resign from her position as Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management (ESPM) & leave UC Berkeley."

Eloquently said: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQBXq0rEI1qygmecbqjZtIBWORZc9ovd-Sl88SQcQ1OKyCXwOCkp18FVsO8MiGq3EstBSq1HN4YcKhN/pub?urp=gmail_link

#ElizabethHoover #LizHoover #UCBerkeley #Appropriation #PretendIndian #Pretendian #Indigenous #ESPM #Native

@chema The world needs more memes.

#LandOFakes #PretendIndian #Indian #Native #Appropriation

People on cohost were discussing mindfulness and how mindful apps and corporations have ruined the term.

Which got me thinking on why that is so and how it came to be.

I ended up writing the following:

Mindfulness has been a crucial aspect of a lot of religions and spiritualities. It's part of the core of Buddhism and its neighboring religions. This stripping of the core elements of mindfulness was deliberately done, starting with Jon Kabat-Zinn who was a Buddhist teacher. Kabat-Zinn recognized the only way to get this practice into medicine was to strip away its spiritual components and focus only on the bare bones: "paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally." Other people then created retreats and/or courses to teach this stripped down version more widely.

This art of paying attention in this particular way can be very beneficial, and studies do show that this style of mindfulness, when taught well, can aid people with their healing.

The problem is when when corporations wield mindfulness *not* as a way to help people, but as a way to *control* people.

And therein lies the difference. Corporations appropriating mindfulness, making all these "mindful apps," stripped the essential core of mindfulness and remade it as a form of control and to make it marketable.

This is why when corporations push employees to "meditate" or do other mindful activities, it can backfire instead of help. In corporate settings, its a form of control, which is the exact opposite of Right Mindfulness.

(Note: the term 'right' is from sanskrit and pali words that denote 'wise,' 'wholesome,' 'skillful,' and is not an implication of this is the only right way to do it. The Eightfold path and how to apply it's teachings is more of a guide on the path toward enlightenment, as how each person adapts, learns, and practices the path is often unique to their needs and experiences.)

Right Mindfulness requires giving up control. The four frames of reference for Right Mindfulness (as stated by Buddha):

1. Mindfulness of body (kayasati).
2. Mindfulness of feelings or sensations (vedanasati).
3. Mindfulness of mind or mental processes (cittasati).
4. Mindfulness of mental objects or qualities (dhammasati).

The practice of mindfulness cannot be separated from these frames of reference nor from its connection to the rest of the Eightfold path without it losing some of its most crucial and liberating aspects. Thus, when we are taught a stripped down version, we're often not receiving the full possible benefits because of the loss of these core elements.

So what the health industry and corporations peddle isn't necessarily mindfulness. It's an altered form focused on paying specific attention often in an effort to control one's reactions, thoughts, and feelings. (DBT does teach more of the 'letting go' aspects than any other form of this 'paying attention' meditative exercises, but there is still that essence of 'controlling' one's state that still crept into its application. Part of that is Western Psychology can't be separated from its origin of control.)

Right mindfulness requires us to let go, to be aware of our body and its processes, our feelings or sensations, or mind and thoughts, or mental objects or qualities -- to look at each and let them pass through oneself. The activities inherent in the practice of Right Mindfulness:

Mindfulness reminds us of what we are supposed to be doing. Our thoughts can often mask over reality or decenter us away from the actions we are actually performing. For example, daydreaming while doing chores. Mindfulness brings the mind back to the process of doing chores, to be fully present and aware in that moment of each aspect of the task. This full awareness aids us in completing the task well.

In mindfulness, we see things as they really are. Thoughts can often distort what we see, feel, hear, experience. So mindfulness strips away those distortions. This aspect of it is what corporations don't want us to learn, because then we were see them for what they really are: seeking control to use us in their profit making machine.

Mindfulness sees the true nature of phenomena. This essential aspect of the activity of mindfulness brings us to the root of the true nature of existence: imperfect, temporary, egoless. This awareness of the true nature of phenomena also followed from the prior activity, and it allows us to look past the distortions corporations peddle to us and to see their true nature - their power-hungry, profit-driven, and ego based exploitation of human, animal, and nature. To see this true nature can often lead people toward liberation from the corporation's hold on us.

For liberation and enlightenment to be realized, we must see the true nature of the situation we are in currently.

Often times the meditation taught by apps like Headspace isn't Right Mindfulness, but more of an exercise in awareness and interoception (awareness of one's body). These are still crucial skills to learn, and definitely can help us heal and better manage our health. However, the other aspects of mindfulness is often neglected, partly because it requires far more discipline and practice than what corporations allow their employees.

Right Mindfulness, when practiced in the correct frames of reference, will lead people into the other seven aspects of the eightfold path because Right Mindfulness, when practiced with respect to its original intent, is entangled in the other aspects of the Eightfold path.

As Thich Nhat Han wrote in The Heart of Buddha's Teaching: "When Right Mindfulness is present, the Four Noble Truths and the other seven elements of the Eightfold Path are also present."

One cannot practice one without the others also being present to some extent. That is something Corporations don't want to happen.

Why? Because the Eightfold path leads people to a higher awareness and understanding of themselves, their place in the world, and the world in general. That push toward enlightenment breaks the corporation's hold on our minds and makes us less easily controlled workers. Our enlightenment leads us toward liberation.

So mindfulness is stripped down and appropriated, so it can be a tool to keep workers calm, productive, and less likely to rise up.

Except, we don't have to keep it that way. We can take mindfulness back from the corporate toolbox. We can restore it to its roots, but that requires us to understand its roots, understand how we got to where we are now, and act upon that knowledge to realize our collective liberation.

#Buddhism #EightfoldPath #Mindfulness #Liberation #AntiCapitalist #Appropriation

Global News BC: Should non-Indigenous people buy, wear Indigenous art? Creators say it depends https://globalnews.ca/news/9638698/appropriation-appreciation-indigenous-art-beadwork/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #AuthenticIndigenousart #firstnationsart #appropriation #IndigenousArt #Perspectives #appreciation #AuthenticArt #CopyrightAct #CopyrightLaw #FirstNations #beadwork #Artists #Canada

@ProPublica

Continued #Colonization and #Appropriation of the indigenous Inuit people by America and #Republicans must end. The only #Racists are the colonizing invaders.

#HawaiiToo
#CallOutFragility

Tweet Tweet #satire #SpaceX #ElonMusk #popart #appropriation

christ writing nerds do but also just tell me

#FoundHaiku #HaikuFlarf #haiku #BadHaiku #senryu #appropriation #MicroPoetry

Did Lichtenstein create art or copy it? A new film stokes the controversy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/05/roy-lichtenstein-documentary/ #art #appropriation #copyright #comics #fairuse? #infringement?

"...social anthropologist Dr. Analyn Salvador-Amores noted that what was once a place-based ritual has been transformed into a commercialized practice. 'Culture is an increasingly prized commodity, aggressively appropriated by other entities,' she said. 'Instead of asking who owns culture, we should ask how we can promote respectful treatment of native culture and indigenous forms of self-expression within mass societies.' "

https://vogue.ph/magazine/apo-whang-od/

#culture #colonialism #appropriation