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This shift from origins to style means that authenticity itself “becomes a tool of power.”
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
humans have a multitude of cares, of passions…trying to lockstep us into one predictable way of being is the essential desire of corporations, because if you can predict what people will
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
In their critiques of colonialism and neocolonialism, feminist scholars of the Pacific have discussed how female bodies have been deployed for colonial and neocolonial ends.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
shiftspace.pub • On Gathering
shiftspace.pub • On Gathering
We sought to make sense of our unique paradox: We have never been more empowered and yet, in many ways, are still so disenfranchised. Social media has granted Black folks a platform to tell our own stories, but it has also made us subject to a new brand of surveillance and unprecedented co-option. How can we find innovative ways to define ourselves
... See moreJenna Wortham • Black Futures
Standing in a swirl of words and things, such an account positions relations at the forefront, whether between (un)knowers, (un)knowledges, or (un)knowns.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
She wanted faculty and students to join her and guide her in reclaiming and retrieving what had been broken into pieces and scattered to the wind—the sounds, sensibilities, wisdom, knowledge, and life strategies of multiple peoples made black by a colonialist brush. But no one understood this as theological work to be done.