#decolonialization

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

On Anti-Work, Mexican(American)s and Work.

Read it and a buncha other writings here.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not "marginals," are not people living "outside" society. They have always been "inside" -inside the structure which made them "beings for others." The solution is not to "integrate" them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become "beings for themselves."

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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[communistkenobi]

This is moreover complicated by the fact that the [South African] apartheid state did not acknowledge itself as engaged in a war. The apartheid state in the late 1970s saw itself as engaged in a ‘total onslaught’, preferring to refer to its ‘enemy’ as terrorists rather than declaring an outright war. According to Cock and Nathan, the choice for the apartheid state to define the conflict as unrest or terrorism as opposed to war implied that liberation movement fighters were denied the prisoner of war status granted by the Geneva Protocols to those engaged in war against colonial powers.

— Women combatants and the liberation movements in South Africa (2015) by Siphokazi Magadla

its refreshing to see this so plainly laid out in writing. a terrorist is just someone the state has decided has no rights

[thebellekeys]

[meandtheveggies]

trying to romanticize my phd (that I dislike very much rn!!)

[victusinveritas]

[ghoularchive]

"Questions to keep in mind with the coming news cycle."

Reposting this from @ savesheikhjarrahnow on ig.

Prepare yourself for a torrent of pro-Zionist colonial lies and obfuscations in the Western news. Do what you can to counteract it. Palestine needs your help, now more than ever.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[recreationaldivorce]

The settler's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler.

- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (trans. Constance Farrington)

[ind1g3n0us-lev1t3]

Israel is the most successful de-colonisation project in human history.

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

[diaryofaphilosopher]

Conditioned by the experience of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor travelled, much less listened to Beethoven. Any restriction on this way of life, in the name of the rights of the community, appears to the former oppressors as a profound violation of their individual rights−although they had no respect for the millions who suffered and died of hunger, pain, sorrow, and despair. For the oppressors, "human beings" refers only to themselves; other people are "things". For the oppressors, there exists only one right: their right to live in peace, over against the right, not always even recognized, but simply conceded, of the oppressed to survival. And they make this concession only because the existence of the oppressed is necessary to their own existence.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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[rue-with-the-tarot]

Yes, it is good as a witch to believe in modern medicine, but do you still respect and hold space for folk remedies?

It is actually very important that you do. Because what a lot of people don’t understand is that paganism and the “old ways” that many in the esoteric community hold sacred, wasn’t just eliminated by Christianity, but also by atheism, partnered with colonialism, racism and patriarchy.

There was an almost cataclysmic shift from the 18th to the 19th century that goes by many names. The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason are the most well known. In the world of Eurocentrism, the continent and its underlings had just come out of a barbaric age of witch hunts. Instead of blaming the true catalysts of patriarchy, misogyny, and religious extremism, it was blamed on superstition. In Europe in particular, the people were starting to “think”. The iron grip of the church was loosening over the populous. Over the decades science grew and grew as the true innovative force of the future. These fields were dominated by-you guessed it-men, purposefully and viciously excluding women who before hand had been the wisest in their societies. They had been the midwives, the healers, the social (not political) leaders. But they had also been a problem, and so, with all of them dead, the men took full advantage to seize their roles. This was when we started seeing men in gynecology, midwifery, medicine, etc; all fields that for centuries were dominated by women. You could argue that men were always in these fields, and it is true, but who would you have rather seen in the olden days of disease? The elder woman who concocted salves, tinctures and teas or the man who would drain you of 1/3 of your body’s blood? Would you rather see the woman who had given birth and delivered dozens of babies or a man that had maybe never even seen a live birth? People weren’t as dumb as we think of them, the results spoke for themselves. But these women were no longer alive, and so the age of “enlightenment” went forward full steam. If you pay attention to history, many ways these fields operated was through horrific means and cruelty. Especially among enslaved black women. I ache at the thought of what they went through. The remnants of those who carried the wisdom on were devalued and humiliated because of their “superstition”. Just look at the context used behind the phrase “old wives tale”. Don’t even get me started on indigenous beliefs. This could be an entire novel, but I digress.

So knowing this, how will you approach the folk ways? How will you look at the granny witches of Appalachia? Will you respect the Brauchers and Braucherins of the Pennsylvania Dutch? How will you utilize and understand Indigenous teachings? Will you scoff and roll your eyes at prayers to stop bleeding? Will you be a believer of all things strange and unseen but ridicule the tradition of eating a salt cake to dream of the one you’ll marry?

Really make this a feature in your work to decolonize.

[krista-venka]

We must not tell ourselves that the indeterminate, the uncertain, the un-obvious, is a weakness. We must say to ourselves that it opens our minds to unexpected forms of complexities. The Tremulous thought is not a thought out of fear, scared thinking, it is a thought that is opposed to systematic thinking. All the poets have said it. The gasping, the breathing, the pulse, the misfortunes, the fears, the insane hopes, and the sterile obsessions. All of these need to be relearned and remixed. The poetics of this endeavor seems more important than the categories of quick thinking, that lead to definitive and fixed conclusions. We understand the world better if we tremble with it.

Édouard Glissant in One World In Relation (2010), Manthia Diawara. Film.

[yasyassie]

As we enter pride month again,

let's remember that capitalism will never benefit queer people, as it is a system that will always prioritize profit over people.

Let's remember that corporate pride isn't real pride, that companies literally just see us as consumers and nothing more, that they don't care about our rights.

Let's support small buisnesses, small content creators, small writers and artists and musicians who make really queer and really good stuff, and who stand up against injustice.

Let's continue to boycott big brands for our palestinian, uyghur and congolese brothers and sisters.

Let our humanity guide us instead of the need to buy and fall into the capitalist trap of thinking that someone belongs more because they can buy more.

Please, boycott corporate pride and choose decolonisation this month.

None of us is free until we all are.

[straynoahide]

affirm jewish indigeneity