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  1. Lilly Wachowski calls out right-wing appropriation of ‘The Matrix’ – Entertainment Weekly

     The Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski calls out right-wing appropriation of film’s real message: ‘This is what fascism does’

    The hit sci-fi movie’s famous “red pill” scene has taken on new meaning on the far right.

    By Ryan Coleman, December 1, 2025 8:46 p.m. ET

    Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in ‘The Matrix’. Credit: Jasin Boland /Warner Bros.
    • Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed The Matrix, is criticizing right-wing misinterpretations of the hit sci-fi film.
    • “Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything,” Wachowski said on a recent podcast. “They appropriate left-wing points of view, and they mutate them for their own propaganda, to obfuscate what the real message is.”
    • She and her sister, Lana Wachowski, have taken issue with some conservatives twisting the meaning of the film’s famous “red pill” scene, which they conceived as a trans allegory.

    Lilly Wachowski has had it with misreadings and misinterpretations of  The Matrix.

    The sci-fi classic she co-directed with her sister, Lana Wachowski, in 1999 tells the story of a lonely computer programmer named Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), who suddenly wakes up to the fact that his drab reality is in fact an advanced computer simulation keeping humanity repressed. The movie’s prescient exploration of the choice between a familiar yet crippling illusion and a scary yet liberating truth has proven to be an enduring cultural touchpoint.

    But lately, Lilly isn’t happy with what some viewers are doing with The Matrix‘s message.

    “Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything. They appropriate left-wing points of view, and they mutate them for their own propaganda, to obfuscate what the real message is,” Lilly said on a recent episode of the So True podcast. “This is what fascism does.”

    The red pill and blue pill scene in ‘The Matrix’. Credit: Warner Bros.

    She continued, “They do it with absolutely everything. They do it with ‘Make America Healthy Again,” referencing Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial public health initiative, which claims a mission of “pursuing truth, embracing science, and enacting pro-growth policies” but has targeted services like transgender medical care and vaccine programs.

    “This idea of… there is only two biological genders,” Wachowski said. “They’re calling it science, but it is not science. And that is what fascism does. It takes these things, these ideas that are generally acknowledged as questions or investigations, or truisms about humanity and life, and they turn them to something else… They remove the weight of what those things represent.”

    Will Smith will not star in ‘The Matrix 5’ despite cryptic teaser‘Matrix’ star Joe Pantoliano says the Wachowskis ‘f—ing lied’ to him about Cypher’s fate

    Lilly Wachowski came out as trans in 2016, giving “thanks to my fabulous sister,” who had “done it before, but also because they’re fantastic people.” Indeed, Lana Wachowski came out as trans in 2008, reflecting later on her trepidation about going public with her identity, “When I say it’s a matter of life and death, I’m saying that some people who have problems with transgender people suddenly recognize [us] as transgender, and that can have dire consequences when you live in a culture that’s so uncomfortable with gender variation.”

    The Matrix scene that has gained the most traction in right-wing circles is the one in which Reeves’ protagonist is given a choice between taking a blue pill, which will return him to the ignorance of his normal life, and a red pill, which will forever wake him up to the harsh realities of living within the totalitarian control of a surveillance apparatus.

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    “Red-pilling” has been interpreted by many conservatives as waking up to the “truth” of prohibitive views on cultural issues like LGBTQ rights. But in fact, both Wachowskis have revealed in the years since the film’s release that its deeper meaning, encapsulated in the pill scene, is a trans allegory.

    “That was the original intention, but the corporate world wasn’t ready for it,” Lilly explained in 2020, noting that the very concept of the Matrix “was all about this desire for transformation, but it was all coming from a closeted point of view.”

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Lilly Wachowski calls out right-wing appropriation of ‘The Matrix’

    Tags: 1999 Film, Appropriation, Carrie-Ann Moss, Entertainment Weekly, EW, Facism, Film, Keanu Reeves, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Politics, Propaganda, Red-pilling, Right Wing, Right-Wing, Ryan Coleman, Transgender

    #1999Film #Appropriation #CarrieAnnMoss #EntertainmentWeekly #EW #Facism #Film #KeanuReeves #LanaWachowski #LillyWachowski #Politics #Propaganda #RedPilling #RightWing #RightWing #RyanColeman #Transgender

  2. The persistence of heteronormativity is not only due to the weight of social conventions and norms, but also to material conditions of existence: being in a couple means having more resources. Sophie Lewis asserts that the conditions of heterosexuality are inseparable from economic realities: ‘Most women are too overworked, too exhausted by the demands of capitalism and its culture of compulsory enjoyment to even have the opportunity to learn to love.’

    Sophie Lewis wrote ‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation’

    #relationships #domesticWork #sociology #heteroNormativity #materialistFeminism #feminism #love #subjugation #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #patriarchy #subalternStudies #family

  3. “I simply do not see why the nation has to have an official sexuality, especially one that authorizes the norm of a violent gentility; that narrows the field of legitimate political action; that supports the amputation of personal complexity into categories of simple identity; that uses cruel and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate.”

    ― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship"

    #heteroNormativity #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #queer #Berlant #LaurenBerlant #literature #fluidity #patriarchy #subalternStudies

  4. "We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."

    – Corine Pelluchon

    #ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes

  5. "Nous contraignons les animaux à s'adapter aux contraintes d'un élevage calqué sur la production en série d'objets manufacturés, alors que l'élevage devrait respecter les besoins éthologiques des bêtes. C'est une transgression car nous nous octroyons un droit absolu que nous n'avons pas. Cette violence envers les animaux nous accuse. Pourtant, le rapport aux animaux pourrait être l'occasion de penser une manière d'habiter la Terre qui rende possible la coexistence avec les autres espèces. Cela exige d'autres fondements de l'éthique et de la politique."

    – Corine Pelluchon

    #propriété #coexistence #eugénisme #capitalisme #extractivisme #appropriation #accaparement #plantations #esclavage #nature #séparation #épistémologie #spécisme #antiSpécisme #animaux #philosophie #croyances #écrabouiller #habitabilité #pleurabilité #citation #citations

  6. "Fondation des systèmes politiques modernes, la dualité nature/culture eut des conséquences fondamentales sur la production d'une "science de l'homme", distinguant hommes et femmes, corps et esprit, civilisés et sauvages, et sans doute humains et semi-humains.
    (...)
    À la "bioprospection coloniale" qui, depuis les premiers pas de Colomb, inventorie espèces végétales, minérales et animales à des fins de profit, s'ajouta ainsi une "ethnoprospection" c'est-à-dire un recensement et une classification universels des espèces humaines dont on pense qu'elles ont elles aussi des "natures différentes". En devenant "aussi diversifiée que la nature elle-même", l'humanité se décline en phénotypes plus qu'en origines géographiques, et l'on glisse d'une vision descriptive à un regard normatif, prédisposé à la hiérarchie."

    "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne", Sylvie Laurent

    #SylvieLaurent #racialisation #eugénisme #capitalisme #extractivisme #appropriation #accaparement #Découverte #Rencontre #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #Amérique #histoire #esclavage #NouveauMonde #racisme #propriété #coexistence #nature #séparation

  7. "Ce qui distingue le projet théorique, politique et littéraire de Wittig et en fait aujourd’hui un incontournable pôle d’attraction intellectuelle. C’est assurément la radicalité de son antiessentialisme que Wittig applique à la croyance la plus crédible qui soit en raison de la force de sa naturalisation : l’idée que les hommes et les femmes seraient des « groupes naturels » et naturellement complémentaires.

    "Pour Wittig, en revanche, les hommes et les femmes sont des groupes sociaux naturalisés, des classes antagonistes créées par des rapports de pouvoir, le sexe anatomique est une marque qui cristallise ces rapports sociaux (sans eux, il n’aurait aucune pertinence sociale), l’hétérosexualité est un régime politique qui opprime les femmes, les personnes nonhétérosexuelles et les personnes racisées, et pour cela il faut la détruire dans son double fondement, matériel et idéologique. Car pour Wittig le régime hétérosexuel repose, d’une part, sur un système de rapports sociaux d’infériorisation et d’aliénation des femmes, des personnes non hétérosexuelles et des personnes racisées, et, d’autre part, sur une structure de perception essentialiste – que Wittig appelle la « pensée straight » – dissimulant l’oppression derrière la notion de « différence », permettant ainsi à la domination de se reproduire si aisément."

    Sara Garbagnoli expliquait en 2023 : moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u

    #clarté #radicalité #croyances #subjuguer #essentialisme #appropriation #sexisme #hétérosexisme #hétérosexualité #saphisme #hétéroNormativité #féminismes #histoire #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #antiracisme #littérature #homosexualité #MLF #féminisme #internationalisme #matérialisme #patriarcat #linguistique #universalisme #queer #antagonisme #utopie #histoireDesIdées #idéologies

  8. "Ce qui distingue le projet théorique, politique et littéraire de Wittig et en fait aujourd’hui un incontournable pôle d’attraction intellectuelle. C’est assurément la radicalité de son antiessentialisme que Wittig applique à la croyance la plus crédible qui soit en raison de la force de sa naturalisation : l’idée que les hommes et les femmes seraient des « groupes naturels » et naturellement complémentaires.

    "Pour Wittig, en revanche, les hommes et les femmes sont des groupes sociaux naturalisés, des classes antagonistes créées par des rapports de pouvoir, le sexe anatomique est une marque qui cristallise ces rapports sociaux (sans eux, il n’aurait aucune pertinence sociale), l’hétérosexualité est un régime politique qui opprime les femmes, les personnes nonhétérosexuelles et les personnes racisées, et pour cela il faut la détruire dans son double fondement, matériel et idéologique. Car pour Wittig le régime hétérosexuel repose, d’une part, sur un système de rapports sociaux d’infériorisation et d’aliénation des femmes, des personnes non hétérosexuelles et des personnes racisées, et, d’autre part, sur une structure de perception essentialiste – que Wittig appelle la « pensée straight » – dissimulant l’oppression derrière la notion de « différence », permettant ainsi à la domination de se reproduire si aisément."

    Sara Garbagnoli expliquait en 2023 : moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u

    #clarté #radicalité #croyances #subjuguer #essentialisme #appropriation #sexisme #hétérosexisme #hétérosexualité #saphisme #hétéroNormativité #féminismes #histoire #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #antiracisme #littérature #homosexualité #MLF #féminisme #internationalisme #matérialisme #patriarcat #linguistique #universalisme #queer #antagonisme #utopie #histoireDesIdées #idéologies

  9. "Ce qui distingue le projet théorique, politique et littéraire de Wittig et en fait aujourd’hui un incontournable pôle d’attraction intellectuelle. C’est assurément la radicalité de son antiessentialisme que Wittig applique à la croyance la plus crédible qui soit en raison de la force de sa naturalisation : l’idée que les hommes et les femmes seraient des « groupes naturels » et naturellement complémentaires.

    "Pour Wittig, en revanche, les hommes et les femmes sont des groupes sociaux naturalisés, des classes antagonistes créées par des rapports de pouvoir, le sexe anatomique est une marque qui cristallise ces rapports sociaux (sans eux, il n’aurait aucune pertinence sociale), l’hétérosexualité est un régime politique qui opprime les femmes, les personnes nonhétérosexuelles et les personnes racisées, et pour cela il faut la détruire dans son double fondement, matériel et idéologique. Car pour Wittig le régime hétérosexuel repose, d’une part, sur un système de rapports sociaux d’infériorisation et d’aliénation des femmes, des personnes non hétérosexuelles et des personnes racisées, et, d’autre part, sur une structure de perception essentialiste – que Wittig appelle la « pensée straight » – dissimulant l’oppression derrière la notion de « différence », permettant ainsi à la domination de se reproduire si aisément."

    Sara Garbagnoli expliquait en 2023 : moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u

    #clarté #radicalité #croyances #subjuguer #essentialisme #appropriation #sexisme #hétérosexisme #hétérosexualité #saphisme #hétéroNormativité #féminismes #histoire #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #antiracisme #littérature #homosexualité #MLF #féminisme #internationalisme #matérialisme #patriarcat #linguistique #universalisme #queer #antagonisme #utopie #histoireDesIdées #idéologies

  10. "Ce qui distingue le projet théorique, politique et littéraire de Wittig et en fait aujourd’hui un incontournable pôle d’attraction intellectuelle. C’est assurément la radicalité de son antiessentialisme que Wittig applique à la croyance la plus crédible qui soit en raison de la force de sa naturalisation : l’idée que les hommes et les femmes seraient des « groupes naturels » et naturellement complémentaires.

    "Pour Wittig, en revanche, les hommes et les femmes sont des groupes sociaux naturalisés, des classes antagonistes créées par des rapports de pouvoir, le sexe anatomique est une marque qui cristallise ces rapports sociaux (sans eux, il n’aurait aucune pertinence sociale), l’hétérosexualité est un régime politique qui opprime les femmes, les personnes nonhétérosexuelles et les personnes racisées, et pour cela il faut la détruire dans son double fondement, matériel et idéologique. Car pour Wittig le régime hétérosexuel repose, d’une part, sur un système de rapports sociaux d’infériorisation et d’aliénation des femmes, des personnes non hétérosexuelles et des personnes racisées, et, d’autre part, sur une structure de perception essentialiste – que Wittig appelle la « pensée straight » – dissimulant l’oppression derrière la notion de « différence », permettant ainsi à la domination de se reproduire si aisément."

    Sara Garbagnoli expliquait en 2023 : moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u

    #clarté #radicalité #croyances #subjuguer #essentialisme #appropriation #sexisme #hétérosexisme #hétérosexualité #saphisme #hétéroNormativité #féminismes #histoire #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #antiracisme #littérature #homosexualité #MLF #féminisme #internationalisme #matérialisme #patriarcat #linguistique #universalisme #queer #antagonisme #utopie #histoireDesIdées #idéologies

  11. "Ce qui distingue le projet théorique, politique et littéraire de Wittig et en fait aujourd’hui un incontournable pôle d’attraction intellectuelle. C’est assurément la radicalité de son antiessentialisme que Wittig applique à la croyance la plus crédible qui soit en raison de la force de sa naturalisation : l’idée que les hommes et les femmes seraient des « groupes naturels » et naturellement complémentaires.

    "Pour Wittig, en revanche, les hommes et les femmes sont des groupes sociaux naturalisés, des classes antagonistes créées par des rapports de pouvoir, le sexe anatomique est une marque qui cristallise ces rapports sociaux (sans eux, il n’aurait aucune pertinence sociale), l’hétérosexualité est un régime politique qui opprime les femmes, les personnes nonhétérosexuelles et les personnes racisées, et pour cela il faut la détruire dans son double fondement, matériel et idéologique. Car pour Wittig le régime hétérosexuel repose, d’une part, sur un système de rapports sociaux d’infériorisation et d’aliénation des femmes, des personnes non hétérosexuelles et des personnes racisées, et, d’autre part, sur une structure de perception essentialiste – que Wittig appelle la « pensée straight » – dissimulant l’oppression derrière la notion de « différence », permettant ainsi à la domination de se reproduire si aisément."

    Sara Garbagnoli expliquait en 2023 : moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u

    #clarté #radicalité #croyances #subjuguer #essentialisme #appropriation #sexisme #hétérosexisme #hétérosexualité #saphisme #hétéroNormativité #féminismes #histoire #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #antiracisme #littérature #homosexualité #MLF #féminisme #internationalisme #matérialisme #patriarcat #linguistique #universalisme #queer #antagonisme #utopie #histoireDesIdées #idéologies

  12. Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

    "Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
    … said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

    #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

  13. "The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."

    wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"

    #wilderness #progress #SylvieLaurent #capitalism #extractivism #capture #appropriation #grabbing #marchandization #Discovery #encounter #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #America #Americas #history #slavery #agroBusiness #agriculture #NewWorld #quote #quotes #beliefs #belief #labour #technoCriticism

  14. Bipartisan lawmakers, Wabanaki leaders propose next change to Settlement Act

    by Emma Davis
    Fri, April 4, 2025

    "A bipartisan group of lawmakers presented legislation on Friday to prevent the state from being able to seize #Wabanaki land for public use without consultation.

    "For the past several Legislative sessions, leaders of the Wabanaki Nations have worked with lawmakers to try to overhaul the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct that has resulted in the tribes being treated more akin to municipalities than #SovereignNations.

    "So far, sweeping change has failed due to opposition from Gov. #JanetMills, but the executive, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted adjustments, including expanding tribal authority to prosecute crimes last year.

    "#LD958 represents the next area of focus, although an omnibus bill is still expected to be considered during the second regular session of the Legislature next year.

    "Sponsored by House Minority leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) and bipartisan co-sponsors, LD 958 would amend the #SettlementAct and the 2023 #MikmaqNationRestorationAct — as the Mi’kmaq Nation hadn’t been included in the earlier act — to prohibit eminent domain, a protection already afforded to almost all other federally recognized tribes.

    " 'Much of our land contains irreplaceable cultural, spiritual and ecological resources,' said #Passamaquoddy Tribal Rep. Aaron Dana, a co-sponsor of the bill who sits on the Judiciary Committee. 'This bill ensures those places are safeguarded and are not subject to #destruction or #appropriation. Too often in our history, our #TribalLands have been taken, divided and exploited under the guise of progress.'

    "The U.S. government can seize private property for public use, known as eminent domain, however that authority is restricted by the #FifthAmendment U.S. Constitution, which requires just compensation for land taken, as well as some federal laws.

    "Rep. Rachel Henderson (R-Rumford), a co-sponsor who sits on the Judiciary Committee, questioned whether the bill is in conflict with the Constitution. It is not, Faulkingham, tribal leaders and attorneys explained, because the Constitution outlines when eminent domain can be exercised but not that it can’t be further restricted.

    " 'There’s nothing in the Fifth Amendment that prohibits a state from enacting laws that says we won’t do that,' Faulkingham said.

    "LD 958 applies to land protected under federal law — trust and reservation land — but fee lands — private property for which the owner owns the title — would still be subject to state power of eminent domain. A constitutional amendment allows states to condemn individually owned plots within tribal reservations.

    "Maine has seized Wabanaki land from the start of their intertwined histories, as the state territory today had first been inhabited by the Wabanaki people."

    Read more:
    yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-lawm

    #MaineSettlementAct #FirstNations #WabanakiConfederancy
    #MaineFirstNations #Maine #MainePol #NativeAmericanNews #LandTheft
    #PenobscotNation #PassamaquoddyTribe #HoultonBand of #Maliseets #MikmaqNation #Dawnland #TribalSovereignty

  15. Bipartisan lawmakers, Wabanaki leaders propose next change to Settlement Act

    by Emma Davis
    Fri, April 4, 2025

    "A bipartisan group of lawmakers presented legislation on Friday to prevent the state from being able to seize #Wabanaki land for public use without consultation.

    "For the past several Legislative sessions, leaders of the Wabanaki Nations have worked with lawmakers to try to overhaul the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct that has resulted in the tribes being treated more akin to municipalities than #SovereignNations.

    "So far, sweeping change has failed due to opposition from Gov. #JanetMills, but the executive, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted adjustments, including expanding tribal authority to prosecute crimes last year.

    "#LD958 represents the next area of focus, although an omnibus bill is still expected to be considered during the second regular session of the Legislature next year.

    "Sponsored by House Minority leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) and bipartisan co-sponsors, LD 958 would amend the #SettlementAct and the 2023 #MikmaqNationRestorationAct — as the Mi’kmaq Nation hadn’t been included in the earlier act — to prohibit eminent domain, a protection already afforded to almost all other federally recognized tribes.

    " 'Much of our land contains irreplaceable cultural, spiritual and ecological resources,' said #Passamaquoddy Tribal Rep. Aaron Dana, a co-sponsor of the bill who sits on the Judiciary Committee. 'This bill ensures those places are safeguarded and are not subject to #destruction or #appropriation. Too often in our history, our #TribalLands have been taken, divided and exploited under the guise of progress.'

    "The U.S. government can seize private property for public use, known as eminent domain, however that authority is restricted by the #FifthAmendment U.S. Constitution, which requires just compensation for land taken, as well as some federal laws.

    "Rep. Rachel Henderson (R-Rumford), a co-sponsor who sits on the Judiciary Committee, questioned whether the bill is in conflict with the Constitution. It is not, Faulkingham, tribal leaders and attorneys explained, because the Constitution outlines when eminent domain can be exercised but not that it can’t be further restricted.

    " 'There’s nothing in the Fifth Amendment that prohibits a state from enacting laws that says we won’t do that,' Faulkingham said.

    "LD 958 applies to land protected under federal law — trust and reservation land — but fee lands — private property for which the owner owns the title — would still be subject to state power of eminent domain. A constitutional amendment allows states to condemn individually owned plots within tribal reservations.

    "Maine has seized Wabanaki land from the start of their intertwined histories, as the state territory today had first been inhabited by the Wabanaki people."

    Read more:
    yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-lawm

    #MaineSettlementAct #FirstNations #WabanakiConfederancy
    #MaineFirstNations #Maine #MainePol #NativeAmericanNews #LandTheft
    #PenobscotNation #PassamaquoddyTribe #HoultonBand of #Maliseets #MikmaqNation #Dawnland #TribalSovereignty

  16. Bipartisan lawmakers, Wabanaki leaders propose next change to Settlement Act

    by Emma Davis
    Fri, April 4, 2025

    "A bipartisan group of lawmakers presented legislation on Friday to prevent the state from being able to seize #Wabanaki land for public use without consultation.

    "For the past several Legislative sessions, leaders of the Wabanaki Nations have worked with lawmakers to try to overhaul the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct that has resulted in the tribes being treated more akin to municipalities than #SovereignNations.

    "So far, sweeping change has failed due to opposition from Gov. #JanetMills, but the executive, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted adjustments, including expanding tribal authority to prosecute crimes last year.

    "#LD958 represents the next area of focus, although an omnibus bill is still expected to be considered during the second regular session of the Legislature next year.

    "Sponsored by House Minority leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) and bipartisan co-sponsors, LD 958 would amend the #SettlementAct and the 2023 #MikmaqNationRestorationAct — as the Mi’kmaq Nation hadn’t been included in the earlier act — to prohibit eminent domain, a protection already afforded to almost all other federally recognized tribes.

    " 'Much of our land contains irreplaceable cultural, spiritual and ecological resources,' said #Passamaquoddy Tribal Rep. Aaron Dana, a co-sponsor of the bill who sits on the Judiciary Committee. 'This bill ensures those places are safeguarded and are not subject to #destruction or #appropriation. Too often in our history, our #TribalLands have been taken, divided and exploited under the guise of progress.'

    "The U.S. government can seize private property for public use, known as eminent domain, however that authority is restricted by the #FifthAmendment U.S. Constitution, which requires just compensation for land taken, as well as some federal laws.

    "Rep. Rachel Henderson (R-Rumford), a co-sponsor who sits on the Judiciary Committee, questioned whether the bill is in conflict with the Constitution. It is not, Faulkingham, tribal leaders and attorneys explained, because the Constitution outlines when eminent domain can be exercised but not that it can’t be further restricted.

    " 'There’s nothing in the Fifth Amendment that prohibits a state from enacting laws that says we won’t do that,' Faulkingham said.

    "LD 958 applies to land protected under federal law — trust and reservation land — but fee lands — private property for which the owner owns the title — would still be subject to state power of eminent domain. A constitutional amendment allows states to condemn individually owned plots within tribal reservations.

    "Maine has seized Wabanaki land from the start of their intertwined histories, as the state territory today had first been inhabited by the Wabanaki people."

    Read more:
    yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-lawm

    #MaineSettlementAct #FirstNations #WabanakiConfederancy
    #MaineFirstNations #Maine #MainePol #NativeAmericanNews #LandTheft
    #PenobscotNation #PassamaquoddyTribe #HoultonBand of #Maliseets #MikmaqNation #Dawnland #TribalSovereignty

  17. Bipartisan lawmakers, Wabanaki leaders propose next change to Settlement Act

    by Emma Davis
    Fri, April 4, 2025

    "A bipartisan group of lawmakers presented legislation on Friday to prevent the state from being able to seize #Wabanaki land for public use without consultation.

    "For the past several Legislative sessions, leaders of the Wabanaki Nations have worked with lawmakers to try to overhaul the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct that has resulted in the tribes being treated more akin to municipalities than #SovereignNations.

    "So far, sweeping change has failed due to opposition from Gov. #JanetMills, but the executive, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted adjustments, including expanding tribal authority to prosecute crimes last year.

    "#LD958 represents the next area of focus, although an omnibus bill is still expected to be considered during the second regular session of the Legislature next year.

    "Sponsored by House Minority leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) and bipartisan co-sponsors, LD 958 would amend the #SettlementAct and the 2023 #MikmaqNationRestorationAct — as the Mi’kmaq Nation hadn’t been included in the earlier act — to prohibit eminent domain, a protection already afforded to almost all other federally recognized tribes.

    " 'Much of our land contains irreplaceable cultural, spiritual and ecological resources,' said #Passamaquoddy Tribal Rep. Aaron Dana, a co-sponsor of the bill who sits on the Judiciary Committee. 'This bill ensures those places are safeguarded and are not subject to #destruction or #appropriation. Too often in our history, our #TribalLands have been taken, divided and exploited under the guise of progress.'

    "The U.S. government can seize private property for public use, known as eminent domain, however that authority is restricted by the #FifthAmendment U.S. Constitution, which requires just compensation for land taken, as well as some federal laws.

    "Rep. Rachel Henderson (R-Rumford), a co-sponsor who sits on the Judiciary Committee, questioned whether the bill is in conflict with the Constitution. It is not, Faulkingham, tribal leaders and attorneys explained, because the Constitution outlines when eminent domain can be exercised but not that it can’t be further restricted.

    " 'There’s nothing in the Fifth Amendment that prohibits a state from enacting laws that says we won’t do that,' Faulkingham said.

    "LD 958 applies to land protected under federal law — trust and reservation land — but fee lands — private property for which the owner owns the title — would still be subject to state power of eminent domain. A constitutional amendment allows states to condemn individually owned plots within tribal reservations.

    "Maine has seized Wabanaki land from the start of their intertwined histories, as the state territory today had first been inhabited by the Wabanaki people."

    Read more:
    yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-lawm

    #MaineSettlementAct #FirstNations #WabanakiConfederancy
    #MaineFirstNations #Maine #MainePol #NativeAmericanNews #LandTheft
    #PenobscotNation #PassamaquoddyTribe #HoultonBand of #Maliseets #MikmaqNation #Dawnland #TribalSovereignty

  18. Bipartisan lawmakers, Wabanaki leaders propose next change to Settlement Act

    by Emma Davis
    Fri, April 4, 2025

    "A bipartisan group of lawmakers presented legislation on Friday to prevent the state from being able to seize #Wabanaki land for public use without consultation.

    "For the past several Legislative sessions, leaders of the Wabanaki Nations have worked with lawmakers to try to overhaul the 1980 #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct that has resulted in the tribes being treated more akin to municipalities than #SovereignNations.

    "So far, sweeping change has failed due to opposition from Gov. #JanetMills, but the executive, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted adjustments, including expanding tribal authority to prosecute crimes last year.

    "#LD958 represents the next area of focus, although an omnibus bill is still expected to be considered during the second regular session of the Legislature next year.

    "Sponsored by House Minority leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) and bipartisan co-sponsors, LD 958 would amend the #SettlementAct and the 2023 #MikmaqNationRestorationAct — as the Mi’kmaq Nation hadn’t been included in the earlier act — to prohibit eminent domain, a protection already afforded to almost all other federally recognized tribes.

    " 'Much of our land contains irreplaceable cultural, spiritual and ecological resources,' said #Passamaquoddy Tribal Rep. Aaron Dana, a co-sponsor of the bill who sits on the Judiciary Committee. 'This bill ensures those places are safeguarded and are not subject to #destruction or #appropriation. Too often in our history, our #TribalLands have been taken, divided and exploited under the guise of progress.'

    "The U.S. government can seize private property for public use, known as eminent domain, however that authority is restricted by the #FifthAmendment U.S. Constitution, which requires just compensation for land taken, as well as some federal laws.

    "Rep. Rachel Henderson (R-Rumford), a co-sponsor who sits on the Judiciary Committee, questioned whether the bill is in conflict with the Constitution. It is not, Faulkingham, tribal leaders and attorneys explained, because the Constitution outlines when eminent domain can be exercised but not that it can’t be further restricted.

    " 'There’s nothing in the Fifth Amendment that prohibits a state from enacting laws that says we won’t do that,' Faulkingham said.

    "LD 958 applies to land protected under federal law — trust and reservation land — but fee lands — private property for which the owner owns the title — would still be subject to state power of eminent domain. A constitutional amendment allows states to condemn individually owned plots within tribal reservations.

    "Maine has seized Wabanaki land from the start of their intertwined histories, as the state territory today had first been inhabited by the Wabanaki people."

    Read more:
    yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-lawm

    #MaineSettlementAct #FirstNations #WabanakiConfederancy
    #MaineFirstNations #Maine #MainePol #NativeAmericanNews #LandTheft
    #PenobscotNation #PassamaquoddyTribe #HoultonBand of #Maliseets #MikmaqNation #Dawnland #TribalSovereignty

  19. "Une femme qui existe d’abord par sa personnalité, avec son univers, ses projets, ses opinions, ses réussites, court le risque d’effrayer certains hommes. Mais une femme qui correspond aux fantasmes masculins, qui existe amoureusement et socialement d’abord par sa beauté, court le risque d’être ballottée au gré du désir des hommes, avec l’insécurité permanente, dévorante, que cela suppose. Elle risque de ne pas trouver une assise suffisante pour développer son estime d’elle-même et le sentiment de sa propre identité. Lors des premières désillusions de sa vie avec Doillon, Birkin évoque cette incertitude quant à son identité : « Finalement m’a-t-il connue moi ou une actrice ? Je ne me connais même pas, je me joue si bien. »"

    Mona Chollet, dans son livre "Réinventer l'amour" 🧶

    #citation #citations #appropriation #livre #livres #lire #patriarcat #hétérosexualité #famille #hétéronormativité #normation #altérité #féminismeMatérialiste #féminismes #féminisme #pouvoir #normalité #sociologie #dominationMasculine #MonaChollet

  20. En 1978, Monique Wittig tient un colloque aux États-Unis qu’elle conclut par :
    "Les lesbiennes ne sont pas des femmes".

    Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz explique l'appropriation par l'hétérosexualité :
    "Tout comme le racisme produit la race et non le contraire, le sexisme produit le sexe par l'effet du rapport de domination qui réduit les dominés à des choses ou des objets naturels, et donc au fondement de ces analyses, Wittig se trouve plutôt dans une critique de la manière dont l'idée de nature comme justification de l'appropriation individuelle et collective légitime l'assujettissement de la domination de certains groupes sociaux, ici principalement la classe des femmes. Et donc c'est ici où le concept de classe de sexe en tant que rapport social va être au centre de sa réflexion, mais là où elle va se distinguer des féministes matérialistes, en tout cas de certaines, c'est qu'elle montre comment ce qui structure l'ensemble de l'organisation sociale, ce ne sont pas les classes de sexe, mais c'est plutôt l'hétérosexualité comme régime politique qui constitue la racine du système."

    radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p

    #LaFemme #patriarcat #altérité #philosophie #philosophiePolitique #féminismeMatérialiste #féminismes #féminisme #hétéronormativité #hétérosexualité #saphisme #lesbianisme #lesbienne #lesbiennes #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #féminité #femme #femmes #devenirFemme #appropriation #pouvoir

  21. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
    • The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
    • In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."

    Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

    #progress #appropriation #enclosures #landGrab #economics #property #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #anthropology #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #domination #beliefs #manufacturingConsent #whiteSupremacy #India #colonialism #BritishRule #BritishIndia #BritishEmpire #UK #Britain

  22. "Une nouvelle relation au monde et à l'autre accompagne en effet l'expérience commencée en 1492, fondée sur l'idée inédite que la prospérité des sociétés humaines se trouve dans la soumission d'une nature sauvage et offerte au geste rationnel de valorisation. Désormais, l'ensemble du monde vivant est mis au travail et dans ce premier empire planétaire, hommes, plantes et bêtes deviennent des marchandises circulant d'un coin à l'autre de l'hémisphère."

    "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne", Sylvie Laurent

    #SylvieLaurent #capitalisme #extractivisme #appropriation #accaparement #marchandisation #Découverte #Rencontre #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #Amérique #histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #agriculture #NouveauMonde #citation #citations #croyances #croire #progrès #travail #technoCritique