A Sixty-Six-Year Journey to Tamal-Liwa — Theresa Harlan
This is a process of decolonization. Whether you are the descendants of colonizers or the colonized—or, like me, both—all of our peoples have experienced the loss of something essential to our liberated well-being. Whether that was taken from you or given away in the bargain to win power, it is loss.
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Why I don’t like Brian Cox
This essay is less to do with Brian Cox and more to do with the impulse white people have to forget.
To be a sane human in this time is to be continually reconciling with the truths we have been taught to routinely forget. To open your phone is to be bombarded with information about suffering: languages being discovered as
... See moreKalar, most racialized than ever, is a term in Burmese used to describe brown people. “Why would you surround yourself with dirty Kalars?” my Grandfather criticized me when my closest friends left, creating a seam of otherness between our evening tea discussions.
At fourteen years old, I was acutely aware of the violent ethnic cleansing campaigns
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