{"id":12344,"date":"2023-02-13T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:35:25","slug":"opinion-the-passive-contributions-of-dehumanization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/2023\/02\/opinion-the-passive-contributions-of-dehumanization\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Opinion: The passive contributions of dehumanization<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by Starlit Simon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Wayfinding-27-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Wayfinding-27-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Wayfinding-27-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Wayfinding-27-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Wayfinding-27-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Wayfinding-27-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Wayfinding-27-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cAnkweywitew, Matues\u201d dress exhibited at the Saint John Art Centre as part of the group show \u201cWayfinding<del>.<\/del>\u201d&nbsp; Canvas, paint, porcupine quills, sinew, button snaps. 2022. Photo: Naomi Peters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">What Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) amplifies for me is the dehumanization of Indigenous people and that Indigenous women and girls are facing the deadly and horrific effects of that dehumanization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where does this dehumanization stem from? &nbsp;Racism, 100%! But even the problematic ally with a saviour complex wearing the guise of well-intentioned for an ego stroke is as problematic in the dehumanization of Indigenous people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokenizing, pigeonholing, trauma porn \u2013 are all ways in which there is a lack of care for how the individual\u2019s well-being is impacted. These microaggressions, disguised aggressions, or well-intended aggressions, also contribute to a collective dehumanization and a narrative that we are not <em>as<\/em> human.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These may not be the direct causes but they\u2019re the screws that secure and keep the well-oiled machine of institutionalized racism, control, and power running smoothly \u2013 remember there were people apart of the residential school systems who <em>thought<\/em> they were doing a good thing, they believed they were saving Indigenous children by giving them an \u201ceducation\u201d they were certain they would otherwise not receive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout all historical atrocities of genocides and democides, you can find people who partook or worked for the system in some capacity who declare that their intentions had been good, and they reflect in horror at what they partook in and say things like \u201cat the time, we thought we were doing a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping us as less than human keeps those with power and privilege comfortable. To ease the guilt and shame of that, Indigenous people are turned into a box that can be ticked through one or several actionable items. When the task(s) are completed, and the boxes are all ticked, the privileged can then remove themselves from the responsibility of what is actually required; an ongoing relationship that continuously gives voice, power, and autonomy to Indigenous people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dress-front-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12349 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dress-front-1.jpg 193w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dress-front-1-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">With this dress I\u2019ve made, I hope to stir up enough discomfort in those whose bodies <em>would be<\/em> privileged if ever they were missing or murdered, to take action through ongoing listening, inclusion, nurturing, and embracing of Indigenous people as autonomous human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cAnkweywitew, Matues<del>,<\/del>\u201d front of the dress (detail). Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:61px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I named this piece \u201cAnkweywitew, Matues\u201d which means in Mi\u2019kmaw \u201che\/she\/they will look out for me, the porcupine.\u201d The porcupine quills are the armour Indigenous women and girls must wear in order to exist and be safe in this world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">The heart on the chest is our mother earth\u2019s heart that keeps beating for us and is where we all return and are finally safe in her embrace.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cAnkweywitew, Matues<del>,<\/del>\u201d front of the dress (detail). Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12353 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12368 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-1-1.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">The back of the dress looks like a set of wings for the MMIWG who\u2019ve gone on to the next dimension, where I like to think there exists a playing field that is finally leveled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cAnkweywitew, Matues,\u201d &nbsp;back.&nbsp; Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">The oil spill is symbolic not only of how we must harvest our porcupine quills now \u2013 from roadkill &nbsp;\u2013 &nbsp;but is also representative of the oil rig man camps that have been identified as places where there are high rates of MMIWG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cAnkweywitew, Matues<del>,<\/del>\u201d front (detail). Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12358 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-3.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dress-photo-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The double curved motifs are emblematic of the beginning and the end of stories. The many Indigenous lives that began and ended abruptly in violence. The dress in its entirety is unwearable to symbolize the many who are still missing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MMIWG art creation, stories and poetry raise awareness that we are indeed human and valuable. They remind us in gentle and jarring ways to never stop looking, or advocating, and honouring. They scream that we have our own voices, and that we know what we need. They express that we are just as unique in our own individual personhood as we are as a nation with shared colonial trauma. They demand that the scales be tipped so that Indigenous women and girls\u2019 only options upon being born into this world isn\u2019t to be resilient, or die, but to live and to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To create this dress and to write this piece in a way that was mindful, patient, and reflective, I needed time, support and understanding, which <strong>artsnb<\/strong> offered me with generous funding through their Equinox grant program and through amazing open communication.&nbsp; Wela\u2019lioq \/ Thank You All.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Starlit-Simon-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12362 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Starlit-Simon-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Starlit-Simon-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Starlit-Simon-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Starlit-Simon-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Starlit-Simon-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">Starlit Simon is Mi\u2019kmaw from Elsipogtog First Nation and a full-time PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick in the Faculty of Education.&nbsp; She has previously worked as a Mi\u2019kmaw language instructor and as an academic advisor to Indigenous post-secondary students at UNB.&nbsp; Starlit received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UNB in 2006 and her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Saint Thomas University in 2012.&nbsp; She then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Kings College in 2015. Her writing has been published in the National Geographic Traveler, Dawnland Voices, Dawnland Voices 2.0 and The Fiddlehead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">She can often be found highway hunting for porcupine roadkill where she harvests the porcupine quills to create pieces of art that can be found on her website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlitsimon.com\/\">www.starlitsimon.com<\/a> as well as on her social media platforms on Facebook and Instagram as Mikmaq Matues.&nbsp;Simon has had her artwork on display at the Saint John Art Gallery and has been an award recipient twice with the artsnb Equinox Program.&nbsp; She has also been selected for a 10-day artist residency in Kouchibouguac in the Spring of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stay up to date with Starlit\u2019s practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facebook:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/starlitabonita\">@starlitsimon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instagram: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/starlit.ann.simon\">@starlit.ann.simon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlitsimon.com\/\">www.starlitsimon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Starlit Simon \u201cAnkweywitew, Matues\u201d dress exhibited at the Saint John Art Centre as part of the group show \u201cWayfinding.\u201d&nbsp; Canvas, paint, porcupine quills, sinew, button snaps. 2022. 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What Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) amplifies for me is the dehumanization of Indigenous people and that Indigenous women and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,25,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-blog","category-featured","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opinion: The passive contributions of dehumanization - ArtsNB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/2023\/02\/opinion-the-passive-contributions-of-dehumanization\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Opinion: The passive contributions of dehumanization - ArtsNB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by Starlit Simon \u201cAnkweywitew, Matues\u201d dress exhibited at the Saint John Art Centre as part of the group show \u201cWayfinding.\u201d&nbsp; Canvas, paint, porcupine quills, sinew, button snaps. 2022. 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