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When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the v ery possibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocence to the settler, it entertains a settler future. Decolonize (a verb) and decolonization (a noun) cannot easily be grafted onto pre -existing discourses/frame works, even if they are critical, even ... See more

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang • "Decolonization is not a metaphor"

Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

offloaded on to others whose experiences are less visible or less privileged.

Lis Hubert • Camera Obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design

Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time

Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism

In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.

Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures

The pandemic has demonstrated how legacies of racism and colonialism and patterns of inequity continue to pervade our urban ecologies, and how those ecologies extend well beyond the city limits.

Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing

from behaviors that create inequality, environmental

Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism

f humans are to make new ways forward in partnership with nature and technology, we must first take a close look at and upend the concepts, histories, institutions and systems that support the inequitable distribution of resources and power.