Ms. Que Banh<p>I listened to 3 different Moose Hide Campaign Day workshop recordings, including one by the mixed Indigenous guy who I'd dated briefly. I was upset during/after listening to his talk. He lied in it, multiple times & that upset me because people who attended didn't know they weren't given true stories. I promoted the event here before knowing he was going to be dishonest during it & before I burned the bridge between us on purpose.<br>In the recording, he shared some dishonest, embellished stories, which were based on some factual lived experiences & others were life stories full of lies of omissions.<br>I know because he spent 6 months telling me about himself, his family & his lived experiences, daily for hours. Some of the life experience stories he told me about, in depth with details, were the same ones he shared during the recording. He lied & made his past traumas sound even worse than they were - unnecessary to lie since the traumas were bad enough without any lies. I don't know why some people use lies to obtain more sympathy because life is brutal enough without any lies.</p><p>This revelation makes me wonder - did he lie to me about all those lived experiences too & what else was I lied to about? Everything?<br>It also makes me think - not being honest & being given a big public platform to lie to more people does harm to Indigenous peoples. No one should be using public platforms for Indigenous peoples to educate/facilitate cultural teachings, if they can't share/teach with honesty & authenticity.<br>There's many Indigenous peoples who would not lie at all & be better suited at helping to bridge cultural connections.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Integrity</span></a> matters a lot. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Truth</span></a> matters a lot.</p>