100% Indigenous Canadian me listening to my light skinned city Indian cousin with 1/8 blood ancestry.
For the record, I am a 100% Ojibway from all sides from my family (there might be one European in there somewhere about four generations ago), I grew up a traditional lifestyle and my first language is Ojibway which I still speak (but I have no one left to talk to in my area). I am a big brown long haired Indian that you can’t mistake for someone obviously being different … and seldom seen as an actual Native person … I’m often told that I’m Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or my favourite an overweight Thai.
You have no idea how close to home this comic is to me.
Marvel has always used “mutants” to talk about people who are different without directly talking about the actual real world we live in. They’ve used anti-mutant bias to talk about racism, sexism, religious discrimination, etc. Sometimes people are unable to see their own biases, but when you talk about it being anti-mutant bias, they get it.
100% Indigenous Canadian me listening to my light skinned city Indian cousin with 1/8 blood ancestry.
For the record, I am a 100% Ojibway from all sides from my family (there might be one European in there somewhere about four generations ago), I grew up a traditional lifestyle and my first language is Ojibway which I still speak (but I have no one left to talk to in my area). I am a big brown long haired Indian that you can’t mistake for someone obviously being different … and seldom seen as an actual Native person … I’m often told that I’m Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or my favourite an overweight Thai.
You have no idea how close to home this comic is to me.
Marvel has always used “mutants” to talk about people who are different without directly talking about the actual real world we live in. They’ve used anti-mutant bias to talk about racism, sexism, religious discrimination, etc. Sometimes people are unable to see their own biases, but when you talk about it being anti-mutant bias, they get it.