Tuck & Yang talk about Decolonization not being a metaphor in the sense that indigenous folks -- of the lands of colonio-nomenclature of the project of the united states -- are stating to coloniosettlers -- white, black, brown, et cetera -- to stop using the term Decolonization and instead use the term unsettling (https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/) as solidarity to #all land back. Any thoughts?
I’ve been engaged in the process of decolonizing my self/brain for a couple decades, so you know, I’m in that long game. On some of the surface levels, that hasn’t been so very difficult because my kind of entity just wants to kick against the pricks all the time, if you know what I mean. But, in recent years, through some non-ordinary experiences, the legs have been kicked out from under my chair, so to speak. And I find myself often without a framework for understanding or expressing my experiences. It can be very isolating, and leaves me without many people to really talk to (or a pervasive sense of disconnection with most people.) This, I know, is because of the systematic destruction of ancestral knowledge and traditional culture, that massive culture-combine grinding all it finds into mash. I’ve found some ways-of-being and understanding in traditional witchcraft, but I suppose ultimately it’s been inadequate/incomplete. It has given me a scaffold to climb further down, but then you have to live where you find yourself. I wonder how, if it’s even possible, I can find a framework of understanding that isn’t based on the plunder of others. I see you talking around this, and I hear you, but I don’t know how to find more. I think this must happen with others, in community, a co-creation. Also, I just want to not feel so alone all the time, and the warm comfort of people. Is this a question?
Tuck & Yang talk about Decolonization not being a metaphor in the sense that indigenous folks -- of the lands of colonio-nomenclature of the project of the united states -- are stating to coloniosettlers -- white, black, brown, et cetera -- to stop using the term Decolonization and instead use the term unsettling (https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/) as solidarity to #all land back. Any thoughts?
https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf
I’ve been engaged in the process of decolonizing my self/brain for a couple decades, so you know, I’m in that long game. On some of the surface levels, that hasn’t been so very difficult because my kind of entity just wants to kick against the pricks all the time, if you know what I mean. But, in recent years, through some non-ordinary experiences, the legs have been kicked out from under my chair, so to speak. And I find myself often without a framework for understanding or expressing my experiences. It can be very isolating, and leaves me without many people to really talk to (or a pervasive sense of disconnection with most people.) This, I know, is because of the systematic destruction of ancestral knowledge and traditional culture, that massive culture-combine grinding all it finds into mash. I’ve found some ways-of-being and understanding in traditional witchcraft, but I suppose ultimately it’s been inadequate/incomplete. It has given me a scaffold to climb further down, but then you have to live where you find yourself. I wonder how, if it’s even possible, I can find a framework of understanding that isn’t based on the plunder of others. I see you talking around this, and I hear you, but I don’t know how to find more. I think this must happen with others, in community, a co-creation. Also, I just want to not feel so alone all the time, and the warm comfort of people. Is this a question?