[eng] Thread about polyamory, non-monogamous and non-exclusive relationships beyond possessiveness and that engage other communicational approaches—sharing vulnerabilities, set boundaries, and through decolonial, queer, crip knowledge and experiences.

Some resources below—to dive in and introduce the subject. Testimonies and personal experiences are also very welcome!

#thread #polyamory #polyamour #nonmonogamy #threads #love #decolonialism #queer #crip #relationships #amour #relations #polyamour

[fr] Fil de discussion sur le polyamour, les relations non monogames et non exclusives au-delà de la possessivité et qui engagent d'autres approches communicationnelles — partage des vulnérabilités, définition des limites de chacun·e et à travers des connaissances et des expériences décoloniales, queer et crip.

Quelques ressources ci-dessous — pour plonger dans le sujet et s'y introduire. Les témoignages et expériences personnelles sont également les bienvenus !

Food for thought: Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

"It is essential to note that Palestinians have never rejected Jewish indigeneity in Palestine. However, the liberation movement has differentiated between zionist settlers and Jewish natives. Palestinians have established a clear and rational framework for this distinction, like in the Thawabet, the National Charter of Palestine from 1968. Article 6 states, ‘The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion will be considered Palestinians.’

When individuals misread ‘decolonisation’ as ‘the mass killing or expulsion of Jews,’ it is often a reflection of their own entanglement in colonialism or a result of zionist propaganda. Perpetuating this rhetoric is a deliberate misinterpretation of Palestinian thought, which has maintained this position over a century of indigenous organising."

https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/anti-zionism-as-decolonisation

#zionism #Decolonization #decolonialism #Palestine #Israel #PalestineSolidarity #colonialism #liberation @palestine @israel

Johan Grimonprez is one of the most thought-provoking filmmakers around.

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

#terrorism #media

https://ubu.com/film/grimonprez_dial.html

Double Take

#alfredhitchcock #

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYw-xON_Do

A Shadow World

#globalarmstrade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSznehCQBqI

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (trailer)

#colonialism #jazz #decolonialism #softpower #covertaction #coldwar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RwLdIiZk_8

screening Berlin www.lichtblick-kino.org, Feb. 3, 7:30 pm

mutual aid request

hey y'all, this request depends on various needs that change & so it will be updated with details as needed. isaac needs consistent support! his rent goal got met! HOWEVER... his dog now needs assistance with seizure treatment. $57 is all that's needed.

y'all met his last mutual aid request TWICE!

if you don't know, isaac is an afro-indigenous decolonial journalist & has been seeking funds for rent, utilities, food, & to continue to sustain a decolonial media network that's been going on for over 3 years. please continue to share. let's show up for him!

$sideshowguyo7
venmo: jasper-steinline
pp: @Isaacjasper

@mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #Journalism #UrgentMutualAid #Decolonialism #MutualAid #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackCrowdFund

The beauty of #Solarpunk is that there can be so many angles: #technology, social infrastructure, #nature, #trauma, #decolonialism, etc.

Realistically, a single story can't take all of those on at the same time (although a masterful author can be able to weave everything together). Yet it seems to me that all these stories are choosing the same angle with very little variation.

Perhaps we shouldn’t look at Grist like the paragon of solarpunk but rather, as they write themselves, just #Clifi.

THIS MUTUAL AID REQUEST HAS BEEN MET!

jasper is an afro-indigenous decolonial journalist & has been seeking funds for rent, utilities, food, & to continue to sustain a decolonial media network that's been going on for over 3 years.

$sideshowguyo7
venmo: jasper-steinline
pp: @isaacjasper

@mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #Journalism #UrgentMutualAid #Decolonialism

My French students do not know Franz #Fanon (that's ok, I am here to teach and doing that).
But an Algerian friend say that this letter (1956) is being taught in #Algeria's high schools.
Striking a bit, isn't it.
"Frenchmen" let others read letters addressed to them.
#France #colonialism #decolonialism #FranzFanon #Arabs #Racism #antiracism

“On the night following Marcellus Khalifah Williams’s martyrdom at the hands of the state, we went to the walls of the Orleans Parish Prison along I-10 in New Orleans, under a waning crescent moon, and scrawled a message:

“America is a prison! Abolition now!”

To symbolize the extension of the genocidal, fascist carceral systems that permeate every facet of modern america, we wanted to remind commuters that fascism is not some looming specter on the horizon, but material reality right now for so many occupied communities. The orgy of surveillance, the disappearance of unhoused people in the lead-up to the Super Bowl, the social death of the poor as we struggle to afford basic necessities under an ongoing pandemic, the hollow spectacle of electoral politics.

The cages extend into schools, hospitals, mental health facilities, treatment centers, “low-income” housing, into the way we interact and police each other and ourselves.

We wish to remind people of the infinite possibilities for collective resistance against colonialism, of the world-making that continues ongoing in the face of fascism here in the US, in Palestine, and across the globe.

We remain vigilant in attending to Marcellus Khalifah Williams’s collective remembrance: his spirit lives on in our struggle and resistance.

As the genocide in Palestine rages on, we urge folks to escalate against the Zionist entities, and to reconfirm their commitments to decolonial struggles within their communities, collectives, affinity groups, etc.

Destroying Zionism, white supremacy, and capitalism is the only path toward liberatory modes of living, of being free.”

26 September 2024 – Anonymous communique – New Orleans:

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/28/america-is-a-prison-action-in-new-orleans-us/

#podcast Researcher & creative technologist Yasmine Boudiaf shares her 'tin foil hat research' practice, blending deep research with playful projects to expose the tactics of ruling powers & new technologies. In a recent podcast, she explores AI ethics, British class systems, & non-colonial cultural archiving.

https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-379-yasmine-boudiaf-2/

Helsinki Commission hearing on Russian Imperial identity. The 5 centuries of Moscow’s #colonialism that Russian people have never admitted or processed, and therefore never felt regret for.

Kremlin’s propaganda keeps touting Moscow as anti-colonialist. In reality it is perhaps the most brutal of all european colonial empires.

But the people they enslaved had white skin. This I think has thrown the #decolonialism activists off for a long time. I hope no more.

#NAFO
https://www.youtube.com/live/zKNxUx9_U9I?si=ZVfWV_mXYqS7YnTO

#AntiFascist zone. #FernwoodSquare ️
#NoNazis #NoCops

Have to go back soon & put up a bunch of new, assorted stickers
My #BoycottIsraeliApartheid #stickers are still up in a few spots in the Fernwood community square & surrounding area. No one has tried to damage those ones.

Critique of theories on #postcolonization and #decolonization

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=-2Z3M9O6ixA

#Postcolonialism #Decolonialism #CritiqueOfIdeology

Hundreds of #CommunityLeaders, #scholars and allies in #Indigenous post-secondary #education from around the globe will be gathering at the fourth #STEṈISTOLW̱Conference at #CamosunCollege’s Lansdowne campus.

Over 430 attendees from #Canada, the #UnitedStates and #NewZealand, will attend the event from Aug. 20 to 23.

The #conference aims to build and strengthen relationships and networks in reciprocity by fostering shared learning and exchange.

Hosted by Eyēʔ Sqȃ’lewen: The Centre for #IndigenousEducation & #CommunityConnections, this year’s conference theme is ‘Where the Waters Meet’.

https://stenistolw.ca/

Hearts Based #Education and #AntiColonial #Learning in #Healthcare (H.E.A.L) Project is using the #arts to combat #HealthcareBiases.

“The H.E.A.L. #HealthcareProject provides #SystemicChange that is long overdue. I often think about the extractive ways that we talk about #CulturalSensitivity and #CulturalCompetency,” said Nicole Halbauer, H.E.A.L. Healthcare Project Manager.

The project will use #poetry, #storytelling, and #VisualArts to better understand patient experiences with a goal of #humanizing the healthcare system by bringing together #FirstNations #creators and #activists based in #PrinceGeorge.

They will work to create #ArtsBased and #AntiOppressive learning materials for healthcare staff including #nurses and #doctors.

The #FreeLessons will be available on the H.E.A.L Healthcare website.

The program is being organized by the Health Arts Research Centre in partnership with the Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health.

The project is part of the federal government’s plan to create better and safer health systems for Indigenous people with $126.7 million being committed to the project over three years.

https://healhealthcare.ca/

#RoyalRoadsUniversity recently unveiled its new #Indigenous #MedicineGarden – a project designed to give #students and #community members a chance to learn about #plants that the #Lekwungen speaking peoples have used since time immemorial.

Solara Goldwynn, Royal Roads' farm and #FoodSystems lead, and Kenneth Elliot, #EthnoBotanist and #CowichanElder, chose the garden’s colourful mix of plants, most of which grow naturally in the traditional territories of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples (southern #VancouverIsland and the #SanJuanIslands and #GulfIslands

https://www.sookenewsmirror.com/local-news/new-indigenous-medicine-garden-blooms-at-royal-roads-university-7473608

Fight to save #PugetSound #KelpBed underscores NW #habitat challenges

July 25, 2024

"The #WashingtonState Department of Natural Resources and the #SquaxinIslandTribe have announced a partnership to conserve the #SquaxinIsland Kelp Bed, the last major kelp bed in South Puget Sound.

"DNR and the Squaxin Island Tribe will work to surround the kelp bed with a priority habitat zone, try to reduce #environmental stresses to improve the kelp bed’s health, and partner with #PugetSoundRestorationFund on future #restoration projects, according to a news release.

"Since 2013, DNR and Squaxin Island staff have seen a 97% decline in the kelp bed, which holds both ecological and cultural significance. In #Oregon, the #coastline lost more than two-thirds of its canopy of #BullKelp.

"'We recognize how important it is to protect this critical resource,' said #KrisPeters, Squaxin Island Tribe chairman, in a statement. '#Squaxins can’t do it alone; it takes us all coming together as partners. That is why this local inter-governmental agreement is so important and monumental.'

"The Squaxin Island Kelp Bed is the first habitat DNR is prioritizing in its statewide #KelpForest and #Eelgrass Meadow Health and Conservation Plan, which state legislation directed DNR to hatch in response to the loss of bull kelp and eelgrass on the Washington coastline.

"The plan’s goal is to conserve and restore at least 10,000 acres of kelp forest and eelgrass meadow habitat by 2040.

"Restoration efforts will initially focus on three pilot sub-basins: South Puget Sound, the Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca and Grays Harbor. As DNR works toward its 10,000-acre goal, it intends to explore conservation and recovery in all sub-basins, according to DNR’s website.

"'Squaxin people have been stewarding these waters and lands for thousands of years,' Peters said in a statement. '#KelpBeds have also been stewarding these waters for thousands of years, providing nourishment and a critical ecosystem for the many plants, animals, and fish of the #SalishSea.'"

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2024/07/fight-to-save-puget-sound-kelp-bed-underscores-nw-habitat-challenges.html?outputType=amp

#Northwest #LandBack
#NativeKnowledge #Nature #IndigenousKnowledge #conservation #sustainability #decolonization #PacificNorthwest #PNW #environmental
#IndigenousLedProject
#reclamation #decolonialism #Restoration #Landback #Rewilding #RestoreNature #Salish

The #ClamGardens #RestorationProject has reclaimed #W̱SÁNEĆ knowledge, improved #ecosystems and provided the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation with additional funding.

From 2014 to 2019, #ParksCanada, the #W̱SÁNEĆNation and the #Hulquminum #FirstNations participated in the Clam Garden Restoration project.

Clam gardens are #AncientSites along shorelines in W̱SÁNEĆ territory that #Indigenous people tended for thousands of years to enhance the production of #clams and related sea creatures. Clams were an important source of protein for W̱SÁNEĆ people. The Clam Restoration project spent 5 years working to restore clam gardens in W̱SÁNEĆ territory. In addition to improving the #ecology of two clam gardens, the project also aimed to reclaim W̱SÁNEĆ knowledge, practices and culture related to clam gardens.

Learn more & sign up to help out:
https://wsanec.com/the-clam-garden-restoration-project/

New #podcast Lebanese researchers Lara and Stephen Sheehi walk us through the day-to-day reality of psychoanalysis under occupation, Zionist psy-ops and (anti)oppressive praxis. They talk about psychological warfare and about Sumud, or the reverie of resistance.

https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-405/

Lara and Stephen’s work is grounded in a deep commitment to decolonial feminist, queer, and Indigenous practices of psycho-therapeutic commons in the context of Palestine.

“Ever since Arafat’s proclamation of statehood on November 15th, 1988 — considered an official holiday by the Palestinian Authority and an annual laughing stock for Palestinians in the West Bank — the ‘symbolic’ has replaced the decolonial. Statehood has replaced national liberation.” https://medium.com/@ameed.f/i-dont-want-a-state-and-i-never-did-971f62210728 #palestine #israel #europe #usa #colonialism #nationstates #decolonialism #un