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Rootamental Skateboards:HexaSexa
People ask me: “Why do you wear the Jewish Star” or “Are you Jewish?”
The six pointed star does not only represent Jewish identity; Star of David symbol.
It is used in historical, religious and cultural contexts, for example in Jewish identity, Hinduism, Occultism and Islam.
A HEXAgram or SEXAgram is a six-pointed geometric star figure. It is the compound of two equilateral triangles. The intersection is a regular hexagon. Continue reading
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The Idle No More Movement for Dummies (or, ‘What The Heck Are All These Indians Acting All Indian-Ey About?’)
Gyasi Ross January 16, 2013
INTRODUCTION
Lately, Native people have taken to the streets malls in demonstrations of Public Indian-ness (“PI”) that surpasses the sheer volume of activism of even Alcatraz and the Longest Walk. There’s a heapum big amount of PI going on right now! Many people, non-Native and Native alike, are wondering what the heck is going with their local Native population and how this so-called #IdleNoMore Movement managed to get the usually muffled Natives restless enough to be Indian in public. I mean, like Chris Rock said, he hasn’t ever even met two Indians at the same time. He’s seen “polar bears riding a tricycle” but he’s “never seen an Indian family just chillin’ out at Red Lobster.”
Yet, now people can’t seem to get away from us. Continue reading
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