Thread by @FrancesMFDanger

Hi.

Most of you aren't wearing an orange shirt today and if you are it's probably not about the reeducation/death camps.

So what are you doing today to actively decolonize and support Indigenous Peoples?

If you can't answer that question because you haven't thought about it or aren't doing anything then all you did yesterday was put on a shirt. It was performative allyship and it's not worth the time it took for you to take it off the hanger.

Performative allyship is harmful as it uses our trauma to make you feel like you did something. Putting on a certain color shirt one day a year isn't going to solve the pervasive and systemic issues that are still harming us today.

Without follow up or follow through every day then what you did yesterday doesn't matter.

It takes true commitment and hard work to actively address the power structures and privileges you were born into and benefit from,

power structures and privileges that we as Indigenous Peoples must learn to live in spite of from the day we're born.

Anyone can put on a shirt. Don't just be anyone. Be someone who honors our lost relatives, survivors, and those of us living today

with the unresolved intergenerational trauma whose seeds were planted in those death camps by tearing down the system that allowed for thousands of us to end up in unmarked graves.

Be who you thought you were while you were wearing it.