Racism
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Racism
Perhaps you’ve known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Colonialism has fundamentally altered our relationships with the web of life, and we are all living with its consequences. When Europe began its pillage of the Western Hemisphere in 1492, Indigenous cosmologies of reciprocity, relationships with and duties of care for water, land, and living beings were uprooted, replaced with a worldview animated
... See moreRaj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
why on earth would we believe that a colonizing impulse would magically lead to universal prosperity this time around?
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Sovereignty: Who is ultimately in control, and how? Is there too much reliance on external resources? What happens to the value that derives from labor and culture? How easy is it for individuals and communities to exit if they so choose? • Democracy: How can participants be part of the flows of power? Are those flows explicitly stated and widely u
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
and self-governing people would become ungovernable to colonizers.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Decolonizing reality consists of unlearning consensual “reality,” of seeing through reality’s roles and descriptions by what Don Juan calls acts of not-doing.
Gloria Anzaldua • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)
If we hope to end the disasters that the patriarchy has wrought, we have to begin within, and change the neural pathways that the patriarchy has carved into our thinking. In other words, we have to decolonize our minds.
Sherri Mitchell • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
"When we fail to critically examine dominant terminology and discourses, our worldview becomes shaped by external agendas, often without our consent. However, consciousness of language's constructive role allows us to reclaim agency over our self-perception and values and allows us to actively participate in reshaping language to articulate diverse
... See morePart of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints of people deeply in the current broken system to think differently, to expand their perspective, to exercise their moral imagination to look at a situation from a seven generations in the future, or fr... See more