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Award-winning writer. Translator. Professor. Musician. Chicano. He/him. Pansexual. Repped by Full Circle Literary (books) & Inclusion Management (film/TV).

Donna, TX
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    1. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      -@jfkeeler has deleted this post, but this is no different than when Evangelicals claim AIDS or hurricanes are God's punishment for people's impiety. Chicano Catholics aren't a monolith. Neither are white protestants, Arabic Muslims, or Diné who follow traditional beliefs. 1/pic.twitter.com/NiUiD9Nxo2

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    2. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      I've been wanting to write about this for a while. I have friends on both "sides" of the #RebeccaRoanhorse "controversy," but I feel I need to speak out about the difference between prioritizing one's community / elders & following lockstep with attempts at homogeneity. 2/

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    3. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      Not being Indigenous / Native, I can only talk about this from my own perspective as a Chicano. There are as many ways of being Mexican American as there are Mexican Americans. But that doesn't stop many (often older) Chicanos from wanting to impose conditions on the rest. 3/

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    4. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      Traditional, conservative, Catholic elders want us to follow what the Pope/Bible says is proper conduct. Old-school Chicano revolutionaries have their opinions as to how Gen-Z ought to emulate THEM rather than finding new paths forward. But guess what? They aren't rulers. 4/

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    5. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      They don't get to dictate the behaviors or beliefs of members of their communities. Syncretic Mexican Catholicism isn't exempt from pushback or criticism just because it isn't Evangelical Christianity. Indigenous religious beliefs, at the end of the day, are RELIGION. 5/

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    6. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      Nobody should get to impose religion on anybody else in this world anymore. The agnostic children of Catholic parents can make horror movies about the Devil and Angels, about God being killed: whatever they want. Why should Native authors & illustrators be restricted? 6/

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    7. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      I get the desire to keep non-Native folks from erasing, appropriating, & profiting off sacred stories. But sacred stories, beyond their religious import, are part of shared *cultural* identity as well. Rebecca & others, seeking to create dynamic spec-fic stories, use them. 7/

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    8. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      The benefit is that (especially Native) fans of spec-fic get mirrors, windows and sliding-glass doors (respect to Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop) through these story that center the culture of Native peoples. Sure, some true believers will be upset their religion is disrespected. 8/

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      David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

      But not wanting to offend the faithful cannot be the guiding light of a writer of speculative fiction. The tension between the individual and the community, the young rebel and their tradition-bound elders, is a valuable part of a culture's collective growth. 9/

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        2. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

          We can both protect our BIPOC and otherwise underrepresented communities from outsiders' harm— AND —refrain from policing people INSIDE those communities. @RoanhorseBex has a right to do the work she does, free from cruel attacks and doxxing of family. Let her be. 10/10

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        3. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

          Addendum: Of *course* it's fine to criticize Roanhorse or to not recommend her work. I respect that. Debbie Reese, for example, has dispassionately laid out what she finds objectionable. But to presume to speak for all Navajo people then try to destroy Bex and her family? No.

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        4. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

          And to suggest that Roanhorse is responsible for the Navajo Nation's COVID crisis is beyond unethical and disgusting.

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        5. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

          Addendum 2. Above I said, "Debbie Reese, for example, has dispassionately laid out what she finds objectionable." People pointed me at June tweets Dr. Reese made that went over the line, so I retract that. In 2018 she *was* being dispassionate, but has gone 'way too far.

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        6. David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 6 Aug 2020

          David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈 Retweeted real cat mom shit™

          Important thread from a Diné individual:https://twitter.com/canoecanoa/status/1291450499871514624?s=20 …

          David Bowles (hiatus with Nezahualcoyotl)  🏳️‍🌈 added,

          real cat mom shit™ @canoecanoa
          this is absolutely dangerous on so many levels. diné people should not cosign or give space to folks who are anti-black. why do y'all still follow people who spew absolutely disgusting and untrue nonsense? who gatekeep? who literally use their own culture to harm others? jfc https://twitter.com/amsoufi_/status/1291384102441156611 …
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