#anti colonialist

[pricklypear1997]

This country (🇺🇸) is satanic and evil. I can’t wait to leave.

[raspberrywiskey]

one thing i think people forget about kira is that shes not necessarily progressive - yes she's radically anti colonialist but shes very traditional when it comes to other issues. she initially agrees with kai winn that bajoran religion should be taught in the school on ds9. shes prejudiced towards other species and judgemental towards jadzia for dating ferengis. she nationalistic and uber religious. shes complicated !

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

sorry if you've already answered this (i searched ur blog) but if it's okay to ask, do you have any recommended readings for modern marxism (with a racism or colonialism lense)?

ok so prefacing this real quick I am high as hell. and also before i say anything id like to make it clear that i am not an authority on marxist communist theory, honestly i barely consider myself familiar with it. i went to school to study history so i interacted with marxist thought primarily in a historical/historiographical context, and generally in the context of colonial and postcolonial history. even then i studied mostly pre/early colonial american (in the broad sense not the USAmerican sense) & medieval islamic history. my knowledge of modern marxist theory is far from comprehensive.

with that said, I can certainly offer some suggestions, though some of them aren't necessarily marxist theory. but what the hell, lets get intersectional. for funsies. heres a few contributors to colonial/post-colonial/marxist thought that worked a little more recently than the 1800s

Fanon - Frantz Fanon was a french afro-caribbean marxist who, along with his wife Josie (who was the actual one writing, he dictated most of his works to her), wrote Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, and The Wretched of the Earth. From the portions I read while in school I would heartily reccomend all three. The Fanons were masters of decolonial theory and their commentary on whiteness, primitivism, anti-colonial historiography, and colonial class violence (among a billion other things, they were really prolific theorists) is the first place i would recommend people go if they want to start decolonizing their marxism.

Che Guevara - I really hope I don't need to explain who Che Guevara is. Anyways read Guerrilla Warfare and his motorcycle diaries. Oh and while I haven't read any of his work personally, I would imagine Fidel Castro would also be a good one to read for 20th century anti-colonial marxism.

Subcomandante Galeano - Previously known as Subcomandante Marcos, this guy was the figurehead/spokesperson for the EZLN until pretty recently. Our Word is Our Weapon is a collection of some of his writings translated into English.

Eduardo Galeano - Eduardo Galeano was an Uruguayan Journalist and his book The Open Veins of Latin America is a cornerstone of 20th century colonial theory even if it might not strictly be marxist thought.

Edward Said - Said was a palestinian academic and journalist whose book Orientalism is required reading for any colonial historian and should be for any self-proclaimed communist as well. It's perhaps marxist in the broadest sense but it is first and foremost a book about peeling the white supremacy goggles off of your face when studying the history of SWANA, which is a practice you should then apply to every intellectual endeavor you undertake for the rest of your life forever including your marxism.

anyway thats hopefully a good list to get you started. I know a few of my mutuals can probably add recommendations and provide a more educated communist perspective. Like I said before I'm a marxist historian more than I am a marxist in a communist sense.

[pricklypear1997]

You do realize that our ancestors moved from Asia to Europe too right? Idk what kind of Balkan you are, but I’m Bulgarian, and the bulgars were a semi nomadic Eastern iranic group that settled in the Balkans and mixed with the thracians and Slavs. The Slavs also migrated from the north to that region as well… even Serbs moved around before arriving in the Balkans as well… I’m well aware that our people were enslaved by ottomans 👀 don’t need to tell me twice. I never once said that the Targaryens are EXACTLY like the ottomans, but partially um yeah. There’s definitely some similarities. For starters, they were literally foreigners who force their way in to rule a continent that doesn’t belong to them lol. The Baratheons mixed with the targs because that’s what royals do. The people of Westeros had settled into Westeros long before the Targaryens showed up. Just because they too were once foreigners, doesn’t give the Targaryens the right to just show up out of nowhere and force their rule upon the people. Yeah, the people supported the rule after 300 long years because they were weakened. How else do you think that happened? The Targaryens LITERALLY had DRAGONS lmao. Robert took back the throne and many supported him, including the Starks who were always semi independent for starters.

I really hope that the racist pattern of depicting Arya and Jon as unspecified POC while Arya's full-blooded siblings are the whitest white that has ever whited doesn't become the new "Dornish are POC". I wish this series had racial diversity as well and it's fun to racebend the characters. But there is a clear pattern of only making certain characters POC while characters they share the same ethnicity couldn’t be paler. And this better not start being treated as a faux social issue where people start demanding that Arya, Jon, and Ned can ONLY be fancasted as random POC while the other Starks MUST be FCed with white actors.

With the unfortunate trend toward racism blended with faux wokeness ramping up, that's the likely direction that crowd is going to push for soon.

[riacte]

update on hermitgals precure au: i’ve decided to make the mascot kingdom the hermit kingdom and they protect the genesis block (?) which is the macguffin that facilitates communal creation and sharing of art and inspiring each other with their own creations in their peaceful hermit kingdom, which then ripples out to the human world.

the evil corporation (yes it’s a corporation) wants to steal the genesis block so they can control all the art output and mash it together like a soulless meat grinder for capitalist profit. pearl is a particularly creative person, the evil corporation viewed her as a big threat to their evil monopoly, so they straight up brainwashed her from birth. she still broke free because her adventurous and free spirit cannot be contained!

i’ve decided to make ren have a human form because the logistics nightmare of making the cures carry the mascots to safety every time they fight is… not good lmao. anyways he can be a human because he’s the king and the tiny crown of the dog gives him extra powers. he easily transforms back though. his main job is to run to safety with iskall and protect the genesis block. (eventually he lends the crown to cleo in a cleo-related arc and they’re both 🥺)

towards the boss fight, the corporation captures four cures and drains their vitality from them and keeps them captured/ otherwise frozen, and gem is the one who has to save them all and she laments about being so powerful that she’s the one who’s left behind 🥺 (but there is at least one mascot with her for moral support)

i want to make stress turn evil temporarily so everyone’s gonna be disheartened that their cheerful pink cure has succumbed to despair but they save her with the power of love and hugs.

the cures throw ren around like a stuffed doll and hold him up by the scruff of his neck. he’s just a guy. false keeps on forgetting she can’t punch ren in human form because he’ll transform back if he’s weakened.

[brick-van-dyke]

So, I've been doing some thinking. This could either be a meaningless little ramble that no one will care about, or something seen as really dangerous and putting a target on my back.

So, what if we, those most weary of the far right created an international group of activists in light of the US election? See, the thing is that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are very dangerous, but they are also very incompetent and could lead the government down a path that weakens it. It could create a very unique opportunity to address the far right problem and the US Imperialist system itself in one go. Or maybe I'm being overly ambitious.

This group I have in mind would have several purposes, such as keeping communities safe and protecting people from the harm the far right would do in the name of winning the election. Or, most importantly of all, connecting activists from all over the world and allowing us to dismantle the system as a concrete and united movement. Maybe it's just me being naive and hopeful, but maybe it's also something we've all wanted deep down but been too afraid to initialise? If so, maybe this is a sign to really stand up and start trying to make those connections.

[runawaycarouselhorse]

You're questioning whether or not it's a genocide when hospitals are being targeted? Civilians? Aid trucks?! Food kitchens?! Are you serious? The little girl, Hind Rajab, the paramedics who went to save her, all were cleared by Israel then shot dead. The flour massacres. Please be serious. They even killed a camel delivering aid. Which is... not new. Not new.

Libraries and all colleges and universities are being bombed. These are attempts to erase a culture and hold back a people. Doctors killed in their homes. Palestinians in hospitals tortured and buried alive, their bodies found zip-tied, staff still in scrubs. You seriously still believe this isn't a genocide?!

(Unfortunately, no independent investigation is being done, so it's just going to be Israel investigating itself and clearing its own name, time and time again...)

Palestinians get told to travel "safe passages," then bombed by Israel.

It's a genocide. It's not anti-semitic to acknowledge this is a genocide.

[degeneratedworker]

"US Constitution" Soviet Union c. 1970s

[specialagentartemis]

tbh what I ACTUALLY think about content warnings is that the author should not be the one writing them. I have encountered multiple stories where the events the author warned for were kind of bland and predictable, but there was stuff baked into the narrative that was really uncomfortable or disturbing and the author seems to have not considered that a problem at all. Becky Chambers’s fish scene STILL haunts me.

[weldnas]

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[rubyklaasje]

i think severance is such an impactful story to me cos it speaks so directly to the violent non consenual experience of being born into the authoritarian white supremacist occupation of the so-called united states and the expectation to 'contribute' to it by throwing our bodies and minds in that forge - i think helly r/helena eagan as a character specifically encompasses that horror/frustration/despair in a way that speaks to me very intimately (especially her link as a literal child, specifically a daughter, born into the company) - the fact that the aesthetics are so fucking white and affluent is very funny, and we'll have to see where they end up taking the story... but ultimately, storytelling and narratives are so important and This Story has such a capacity to be so anti-colonialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian.......... but again..... yknow... we'll see hehe

[chosetoseethebestinyou]

maybe the real hero is the racist eating slugs we met along the way

[troythings]

checkmate rightoids. how’s that “america first” working out for you? or does that rule not apply when it comes to apartheid israel.

gal gadot desecrated a holocaust museum, turned it into a place for exclusive propaganda screenings, and incited average people into violence. buckets upon buckets of more blood on her hands.

“where is the humanity” indeed.

[remnantglow]

currently reading The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa and yallll i think it might be coming in clutch as one of my fav books of the year

[callmedrwyrm]

hey also regarding that reblog about all the other forms of art from other art is like. The idea that any use of someone’s art to make a new piece of art without going up to them and directly asking is a Violation Of Consent is kind of concerning to me, like when is art ok to use in a collage and when is it not, I guess the idea is that it should always be used with credit? It seems like legally it’s questionable but the Law on this really doesn’t mean anything morally to me.

Anyway, my point is, with this being a possibility, and with much of AI art being completely unidentifiable as Some Guy’s piece (outside of the Mona Lisa eg or in an img to img Thing) I kind of. Don’t really understand how it’s a thing to Consent to other than just not liking image generators in general, especially if they’re not recreating your work to espouse something terrible or anything.

[mueritos]

> claims to be anti-colonialist > claims to be Mexican > born in the US > never been to Mexico Hypocrisy much?

my mexican ass parents who attempted and failed crossing the US mexican border multiple times and risked their lives in the desert running and hiding with the coyotes who were literal children would laugh in your face for trying to claim that just because their kids were born in the us that means they arent mexican. Youre so stupid and happily so that you completely forgot about ethnic identities. Also ive literally been to Mexico, i have family there, and me being born in the us doesnt negate that i am mexican and that i am anti-colonialist. Ur just some stupid ass anon typing like a little twerp.