#Decolonial

[palestinegenocide]

Music and resistance after October 7

The Palestinian people practice resistance through "sumud" and steadfastness in every aspect of their lives, including in music. After October 7, Palestinian music can serve as the moral compass pointing toward decolonization.

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[bfpnola]

Decolonial Book Club

Join us for a text-based (meaning there's no video/voice call this time) decolonial book club TONIGHT, led by one of our Palestinian youth. Since it's text-based, even if you can't join us right at the start time, you can still participate by offering your thoughts within the next 24 hours! We're especially encouraging the participation of white folks who have no experience with decolonial literature, beginners in the field! We'll be discussing the poem below (the author is Iranian!):

Here's the event link to participate! See you soon at 9 pm CT / 10 pm ET:

[lightofthedarkdarkofthelight]

I got a new patch made. What do you think?

I’ve grown to be quite proud of my ancestral roots that lay before and beyond the colonially enforced two-way gender system of European culture. Most cultures have a history of acknowledging masculinity and femininity and focusesed on the connections.

They never had a need for the man woman language that concentrates on segregation/individualism= binary identities.

That’s why it was so easy for them to hold space and hear those who flexed masculinity and femininity in ways the majority may not have. As their perspective was not a limited one, like the two way gender system was built to be. This enabled the ability to see and engage with the entire spectrum.

I’ve learnt first hand how the binary perspective coaxes a dangerous arrogance one of ownership. (As we know this also tends to be patriarchal). To own ones labels and own all others. Whereas the indigenous histories with their perspectives of masculine and feminine energies permit a more symbiotic view rather than individualistic-

you do not own an identity so much as you are part of a certain energy- you occupy a space within a spectrum and as much as you may get to know your own space, there will always be something to learn of all the others. The latter has always made much more instinctual sense to me.

It feels empowering now, and certainly radical, to find ways to display my understanding where it is still mocked as some new meaningless invention. Whilst acknowledging that of all the silenced ancestors who expressed and embodied such knowledge for eons longer, in a world and time that now only acknowledges languages that wrote our ways of being out of any definitions.

[speaknahuatl]

Decolonial Praxis Conference - Jan 19 & 20, 2024 at UC Riverside

[yoursonlucifer]

@screamingbingusthecromulentone i am making informational videos reading feminist texts from my classes (cause im getting a degree in women's studies). I've only made one so far cause I'm still working on the subtitles and the video is over an hour. but it's meant to be a resource for people being formally educated on feminism and queer and trans related topics without needing to have to be a part of an institution to learn. heres a link if you wanna watch the video. the first one is about how anti-Black racism and homophobia developed in conjunction with one another through scientific racism

[acyborgkitty]

"...including the Eurocentric legacies incarnated in incarnated in U.S.- centrism and perpetuated in the Western geopolitics of knowledge." On Decoloniality, p. 2.

I think this explains why Europeans get so upset about US-centrism (which is not to say that US-centrism, like Eurocentrism, is a huge problem). Eurocentrism is what they're comfortable with, it's the context they're educated within, and then when they are confronted with US-centrism it makes them feel as displaced and irrelevant as Eurocentrism makes the rest of the world. US-centrism is modeled on Eurocentrism, and has displaced it in a lot of popular media contexts, which makes Europeans feel as irrelevant as they've treated everyone else. And they don't like it. The decolonial response should be to recognize the legacy of Eurocentrism embedded in US-centrism, and divest from both of them.

[kamalamackerel]

[La version FR suit] Heartfelt and warm thanks to everyone who has visited 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚? so far. The gallery tells me there were a few hundred of you. Thank you so much for the love of support ❤️💙💛💚 If you want to catch the exhibition, you have two more days: this Friday and Saturday. · · · Je tiens à remercier toutes les personnes qui ont visité 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚? à date. La galerie me dit que vous êtes quelques centaines. Merci beaucoup pour votre amour et votre soutien ❤️💙💛💚 Si vous voulez la voir, il ne vous reste plus que deux jours: ce vendredi et ce samedi. Photo: Guy L'Heureux #queering #island #body #islandbody #mauritius #queermauritius #transmauritius #ecology #art #relationship #relationality #reinvent #reimagine #poetry #performance #visualart #video #photography #decolonial #mapping #ritual #sound #installation #exhibition #textileart #mcclure #mtl #queerart #lamackerel #kamalamackerel (at Galerie McClure - McClure Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLUpJ4s-on/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chey-rewrite]

Thankstaking

Right now at work, we’re at the tail-end of developing and finalizing our organization’s mission, vision, and values — and this has led to this week’s topic of the definition of decolonization. We hear the word all the time now. Decolonize your mind, decolonize your diet, decolonize the workplace, decolonize your syllabus, your classroom. But what they’re really talking about is unlearning racism, sexism — but it’s not actually decolonial because it doesn’t include Indigenous land trusts, sovereignty, or autonomy over the land. The practice of true decolonization must hold Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship at its very center.

The classifications of race, the binaries of gender, human superiority, consumerism and entitlement are all direct products of colonialism and they’ve been key pegs in achieving both colonialism and capitalism. This means that they would require a dismantling of in the decolonial process. Europeans looked at Africans and put them into a category of race that they deemed to be less-than in order to justify their enslavement, put the tribes of Indigenous peoples into a category of race that deemed them to be savages and then they taught this concept of race and the superiority of whiteness to the Indigenous peoples back on Turtle Island. But we can’t solve colonialism’s product of racism by simply redistributing power. While diversity in the workplace via putting women, people of color, and queers into positions of leadership creates an environment of inclusion, it doesn’t address the root issue of race being a European-invented tool of oppression. While individuals can work to re-calibrate their diet away from fast foods and towards the native and seasonal foods of the land they’re on, it doesn’t it doesn’t populate reservations or other food deserts with access to the same food options, as the land has been stripped of its natural resources and replaced with strip malls, prisons, and privatized natural land.

Decolonization is nothing without a direct, clear specification of what it’s meant for Indigenous peoples and their homelands to be colonized.

Take the federally recognized holiday at the end of November, for example. Few people (that I’ve encountered, at least) have made and embodied the decision of not recognizing it as a holiday at all due to the history behind it. More people have learned and come to terms with that history and adjusted their perspective on the holiday, acknowledging the atrocities that are directly correlated to it, but still celebrating it in a somewhat traditional manner. I’m not here to shit on that. I think that it’s really difficult to separate the atrocity of the history of Thanksgiving from the feel-good, warm and happy modern times that many folks spend with their families on that day. It’s difficult to figure out how, if at all, we can still gather on this day while also holding true recognition of the history that we’ve been lied to about.

I don’t have a clear answer for this one. For me, the day of Thankstaking and the weeks leading up to it consist of grief and mourning. On the day of, I wake up at three in the morning to go to the sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz Island where I am around other my fellow Indigenous loved ones and I get to take in the medicine of culture and collective mourning and healing. In the evening, my mom, sisters and I make fry bread Indian tacos, eat on my mom’s couch and watch a movie or two — again, collectively healing 500 year old ancestral trauma, even if it is only one single bite of fry bread at a time.

[black-tongued]

// Majmua by Madiha Sikander for PICKUP NOTES / through 'assemblage', she weaves and connects cloves, beads and microfilaments into a curtain of many windows, the thickwarm scent of cloves reaching you long before you see it / how the colonists followed their noses towards it /

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'Naked capitalism and internationalism, sometimes masked under the guise of religion and development aid, continue to drive networks of power controlling the globe' - Madiha Sikander //

[nando161mando]

Avec la société ukrainienne : perspectives antifascistes et décoloniales

With Ukrainian Society: Anti-Fascist and Decolonial Perspectives

https://mars-infos.org/avec-la-societe-ukrainienne-7707

[palestinegenocide]

Zionism and colonial modernity 

Palestinian resistance is a decolonial struggle against Israeli settler colonialism and U.S. imperialism. This resistance is also confronting the brutal nature of colonial modernity, which is exemplified in Zionism.

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[brunojordanposts]

La jerga reaccionaria de la decolonialidad

   Por Neil Larsen Neil Larsen es profesor emérito de literatura comparada en la Universidad de California, Davis, y trabaja sobre marxismo, teoría crítica, literatura latinoamericana y política. El artículo que sigue es una reseña de The Politics of Decolonial Investigations, de Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University Press, 2021).      Envuelta en una jerga impenetrable, la «decolonialidad»…

[sensessences]

newsflash perhaps... but decolonialism is violent. independently of how one feels about it, it is uncomfortable and it is violent because it is the deconstruction of systems, structures, and acts of violence that were built on (and for) the perpetration of violence that has been piling up (and exponentiating) for centuries of exploitation, cruelty, suffering, and more from the most explicit to the most elusive kind. i don't know what to say when people say they want change or alternatively behave nihilistically as if it is gleeful, comical, or cosy. decolonialism is not easy and it makes sense not to be. doesn't make it any less necessary nor inevitable.

[lightofthedarkdarkofthelight]

This is my eldest 🥰 I loveeee them

I let them choose their descriptors in life of they want any. I give them all the info I can including what society might project their way depending on how they express themselves and that its all, at the end of the day. Their own dang choice. Because as we learn from biovrntricism everything that is real is totally subjective. Illusion is the real real. What we gonna try be every random persons perfect illusion? Which in itself will be what that person has put on to impress other strangers ideals? And we wonder why we grow up with such self esteem and anxiety issues

Hell no not for my pups

Decolonise parenting!! And if trying such an approach leads you to feel too uncomfortable... decolonise yourself!!

[soulseeklola]

argument in Music as Atmosphere: Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds 

[furiagorda]

La credibilidad del índice de masa corporal se basa en el racismo y en la eugenesia.

El índice de masa corporal es racismo y eugenesia.