Babaylan, Bye Bye Lang : The National Colonial Amnesia
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Babaylan, Bye Bye Lang : The National Colonial Amnesia
Epistemicide is at the heart of colonization, but we cannot decolonize our minds by unknowing modernity. Like it or not, your belonging is dependent on a reclamation of the dismissed ancient and a reconciliation with the dominant modern.
Sebene Selassie • You Belong: A Call for Connection
Most of us have been displaced from those cultures of origin, a global diaspora of refugees severed not only from land but from the sheer genius that comes from belonging in symbiotic relation to it.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
We didn’t learn this in Sejarah.
But over 100 years ago, a system was built not just to bring Indian labourers to Malaya, but to keep them stuck.
And when the estates disappeared, the damage didn’t.
This part of our history still shapes lives today.
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