#Decolonization

🍙 Pisukkaaq the Transient ❄

DanDanTransient

You can't decolonize something that wasn't colonized. Idky this seems so hard to get, like Christianity, communism, capitalism, academia, all of these took part in colonizing, they aren't colonized, so

Margaret Middleton

magmidd

I have so much respect for the Pitt Rivers Beyond the Binary team. Also I am struggling to understand how this museum can be "queered" or made at all queer-friendly

Arrogantly Black: The Negro Subversive

negrosubversive

Newton, brilliant as he was, is wrong here for several reasons. The main one is that no decolonization movement was ever premised on being able to roll back history and

Darren Byler

dtbyler

This thread reminds me of the time when a Han friend of mine from Xinjiang realized that she grew up in a place where the ethnoracial dynamics were similar to

Celine Nguyen 📖 ◡ 📖

mynameisceline

Really loved this discussion with @anamarialeo & A. Herscher of the Settler Colonial City Project on architecture and settler colonialism…such a good model for moving beyond land acknowledgments towards decolonization.(still

People's Freedom Assembly

gsopfa

unlearning, de-programming, or re-educating...it doesn’t matter what you call it, it must happen for any hard fought revolution to truly be won. particularly, white settlers will need to let go

Lei Mai Kahiki Hua 🦉

aewaiwhy

Princeton Univ. “Archival Silences” series continues now w/ Decolonizing Knowledges. Nishikawa greets. Sarconi brings Native territory knowledge of the Lenape nation “evicted” and persisting. Sarconi: “What does ‘decolonization

Hanna EK

HannaEK6

Why should a language scholar from Finland care about decolonization? “All I wanna do is study languages, and Finland never had any colonies. Why should I care?” I’m glad you

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

Imagine a world where labour and resources in the global South were available to provide for local human needs, rather than appropriated for the sake of excess consumption in the

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

So, @PeterBeinart endorses binationalism and imagines a future for liberal Zionism beyond Jewish statehood. This is an important piece. I'll outline what I see as its strengths and weaknesses. THREADhttps://jewishcurrents.org/yavne-a-je

socialist fraternal kiss

linaposting

the fundamental misunderstanding of decolonization is that it too like reaction seeks a return to a prelapsarian past; that us decolonialists are the left wing of blood and soil.This is

Stephanie Tait

StephTaitWrites

The amount of people attempting to shame and gaslight @mikemchargue for being so bluntly anti-genocide is certainly... something. Dear white progressive men: if deconstruction for you is mainly about no

Dr. Gerald Roche

GJosephRoche

It’s February 21, International Mother Language Day. LET’S POLITICIZE THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGE LOSS /thread/ Do what? To begin with, you need to know that AT LEAST 50% of

Samantha Pritchard

thucydiplease

Resolving the entire Palestine/Israel conflict by just calling everyone Canaanites Don’t argue with me, argue with the Bronze Age Levant The problem with denoting things like claims to land, or

Kiran P. Mansukhani

phaedotimaeus

On the topic of decolonization and white supremacy in Classics: make sure the histories&cultures studied to “expand” the field don’t reinforce local power dynamics/movements parallel to white supremacy Two things

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

Apparently the centrist dream is a university where academic ideas can be banned by the state but racial slurs can't be complained about. *NB This is also the fascist dream.

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