Revoluciana
Yesterday I spent 250 years in my garden. My GPS doesn't register it by its proper name, especially as this land was never ceded. My garden explodes with color and life while my neighbors celebrate explosions and glorify the taking of lives.
Yesterday's post:
https://www.revoluciana.net/250-years-in-my-garden/
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"My ancestors used to use it, too, for thousands of years. The weed, I mean, that I use to roll my joints. Although, for most of that time they didn't usually smoke it, they ate it. I started with edibles, too, before I started smoking it. The first time I smoked it was on the beach at Coney Island with a lesbian friend of mine, up to our knees in the water, the waves getting the bottoms of our skirts wet. After that, she took me to the lesbian bar for the first time. The second time I smoked it was the next night as we walked to Stonewall, and I thought about how many of us have smoked on that walk to the bar over the years, how many of us smoked that day, when they arrested people for being queer in the land of the free. My friend told me that trip that these were my spaces, like she was welcoming me home."
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"My grandmother was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. My other grandmother qualified, but never applied. In order to qualify, a person must be able to trace a familial line to someone who fought in the USian Revolutionary War these 250 years ago as of today. The DAR just took a vote on whether or not to disqualify trans women from membership. I was shocked to find out that the measure failed, and trans women are allowed to become members.
I still won't. The organization has historically been a very conservative one. Which is why I'm so shocked that the vote went the way it did. Nonetheless, I'm not interested. I take no pride in my relation to these ancestors. What pride should one take in this?
This is N'dakina.
My goddess I hope I'm getting that right. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is N'dakina."
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"We bought this land from someone Native. US dollars, of course. We pay the property taxes in US dollars, too, of course. It was bought and sold by white people before that a few times, but it was stolen before that.
An individual tribal member selling us a house and land under colonist rule hundreds of years since their genocide started doesn't change the fact that this is still N'dakina, and this land was stolen from the Abenaki. One Native person selling it to us does not speak for the tribe from the time it was stolen, nor the tribe of today. The only thing it says is that we live here now, and under conditions that are inextricably linked to violence, as is all land on Turtle Island."
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"Linden and I were watching a hummingbird just now in the lilac bush as we smoked. So many other birds on our property. Chickadees, goldfinches, woodpeckers, so many I can't remember. There's an oriole. We think there might be some Purple Martins nesting in the sailboat trailer. They're so rare, but the oldest species of birds managed by humans in North America, as I recall. Native people would hang dried out gourds for thousands of years for the specialized rounded housing the birds prefer. There are only nine colonies left in Maine, but they're close enough that it might be the case.
On this land that would have been the Abenaki, of the Wabanaki Confederacy. They called this land N'dakina. That's where I live. I live in N'dakina. They never ceded this land."
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"It's beautiful out here. One of the people who drives by and yells slurs at us is out enjoying driving their dirt bike down the road. Looks like he's too distracted to pay us any mind. So much is blooming here in the garden, but I know so much more will continue to make the garden explode with color as the summer wears on."
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"I'm sitting in the garden. I haven't smoked yet, but I will. I have a beautiful new metal case to hold my joints. Here comes my spouse wearing one of those cool t-shirts with the wolves and the moon on it, cut off as a crop-top. My spouse is so cool.
I gave them a joint from my case. Sitting on the garden swing, I took a small puff, but I wanted to get back to this, so I don't really want to smoke much more, at least for now."
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"Tomorrow people will continue to call it the land of the free, but I will still be "anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist," a trifecta of some of the greatest threats identified by the US Counterterrorism Strategy in 2026*, 250 years since the first US Independence Day. In the land of the free, where anti-fascism is considered a terrorist threat."
Revoluciana
Excerpt:
"Tomorrow people will continue to call it the land of the free. My kids will still get scolded for not standing for the pledge to promise their unconditional allegiance to their government authorities."
Mr. Bill
@revoluciana ❤️ ~ It goes against that lovely heart, walking away is just good justice my friend. I applaud your decision.
Revoluciana
@bmacDonald94 appreciated, but to be honest it never really occurred to me as a decision, it's just something I'm not interested in having. Honestly, I would be embarrassed to have, let alone apply for, membership in the organization.
I'm anti-USian and take no pride in these connections.
Revoluciana
@bmacDonald94 haha yes. I always love a Groucho reference :)
Mr. Bill
@revoluciana ~ Understood completely, as Groucho Marx replied to SAG: "I choose not to belong to any organization that would have me" let them figure that out. Be well my friend. 💕
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