#colonisation

[words-and-coffee]

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

[ID: A poem titled: Kupu rere kē. [in italics] My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you're expected to understand the rest of the text, it's fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in -[end italics]- Aotearoa -[italics]- and which do not.

Next image is the futurama meme: to shreds you say...]

(Image ID by @bisexualshakespeare)

#powerful right off the bat #Alice Te Punga Somerville #Always Italicise #Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised #new zealand poem #Always Italicise How to Write While Colonised #Kupu rere kē #aotearoa #quote #quotes #poem #poetry #Māori poetry #Māori #colonization #colonisation #Decolonisation #Te reo māori #Decolonization #new zealand #new zealand poetry

[mahoganygold213]

#freedom #signal boost #free palestine #media #western media #drc #democratic republic of the congo #sudan #oppression #history #facts #colonisation #imperialism #iraq #afghanistan #syria

[amadeus-lmao]

I'm not mourning the queen AT ALL. She directly benefited from the colonization of Yemen, India, Ireland, Rwanda, Uganda, the Maori, Scotland, Pakistan, the Indigenous of Australia and North and South America etc. A lot of you are real fucking quiet about how they were treated. Her and the rest of the monarchy weren't just some "pop icon" their actions had consequences and the world lives through it. Call me disrespectful all you want, the rest of the royalty can cry with all the money and artifacts they stole.

#queen Elizabeth #colonisation #Ireland #yemen #scotland #india #Pakistan #rwanda #maori

[userdocumentary]

QUEERSTRALIA (2022) Episode 1 dir. Stamatia Maroupas

#queerstralia #documentaryedit #todd fernando #zoe coombs marr #lgbtqai #aboriginal #history #colonisation #aboriginal history #australian history #queer history #lgbt history #australian queer history #racism tw #homophobia tw

[women-throughout-history]

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley's journey began when she was seized from Senegal/Gambia at the age of seven and brought to Boston as a domestic servant. Despite her circumstances, she displayed exceptional intelligence and was taught to read and write by her owners, the Wheatley family. Her talent for poetry emerged early, and she gained recognition with her published elegy for English evangelist George Whitefield.

Facing obstacles in America, Phillis and the Wheatleys sought a publisher in London, where her collection "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" was published in 1773, making her the first African American to publish a book of poetry. Despite her literary success, Phillis faced personal challenges, including the deaths of her benefactors and financial struggles. She married John Peters, a free Black man, but their life together was marked by economic hardship and tragedy.

Throughout her life, Phillis continued to write and express her views on freedom and equality, addressing themes of slavery and injustice in her poetry. Despite facing increasing hardship and poverty, she remained committed to advocating for social justice until her death at the age of 31.

Phillis Wheatley's legacy as a celebrated poet and voice for the oppressed continues to inspire generations, reminding us of the power of literature to illuminate the human experience and advocate for change.

#phillis wheatley #women in history #history #slavery #colonisation #enslaved #american history #us history #segregation #poetry

[aiteanngaelach]

ive been thinking about language a lot recently and doing a lot of studying of my irish grammar books and one thing that is always in the back of my mind no matter what is the grief over not being able to speak my own language, having to learn it in schools and at home, picking up a book in irish and feeling this unassailable choking frustration guilt and grief that i cant understand it at all. i can parse bits and pieces, stray words and phrases, but thats it. watching things on tg4 and not understanding a word and drowning in guilt over it. ive always felt this huge impenetrable wall in my mind separating me from from irish. and the prevailing attitude of most everyone i meet and talk to about irish is that yeah its sad that we got colonised and dont speak it anymore, but its dead and useless and redundant. the goverment puppets its corpse on roadsigns and documents and titles, paying lipservice to this unimaginable violence done to us as people that we cant speak our own language, but does nothing substantial that would actually help. is fearr gaeilge bhriste ná béarla cliste yeah but is there not a need for gaeilge cliste as well? this surrender to inability across the nation is such a disservice to the language and the people who speak it. im not talking about people not having perfect irish and still speaking it, of course not like i barely have any irish myself, im talking about the disrespect given to irish that it doesnt need to learnt and loved, only bastardized. my family have spoken english for a hundred years, irish for thousands of years before that, and even in that english, vestiges of irish have lingered in hiberno english form. irish hovers just out of reach for me, i surround myself with it through music poetry tv books, but i never am fully apart of it. and the thing is, something that im only just realising in recent years, is that (white) english people dont feel this! theyre not assaulted from a very young age by the knowledge this grief and inadequacy and the injustice done to their people. they dont even learn in schools about what they did to us! to every peoples across the world they colonized brutalised and exploited, every culture they massacred and did their very best to erase! they have the luxury of not caring! and thats incomprehensible to me, that people can live in this world free of the inherited grief of history, that they dont have to carry the weight of their families history on their shoulders, dont have to live with the fact that something intrinsic to them has been stolen! i have always felt like something was missing, and i cant even imagine living with a sense of wholeness, but for these colonisers that is their life! they dont have to face consequences for what theyve done to the world, they dont even have to remember! i wish i could speak irish, i wish i didnt have to know the ugly harsh syllables of this language. tá brón an domhain orm

#gaeilge #ireland #irish #colonisation #sorry this is really long and disorganised and incoherent #long post #im just so angry and frustrated and guilty all the time and it sucks!

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

Call these numbers plz

Pressuring works, keep pressuring them

#free Palestine #Palestine #us imperialism #colonisation #occupation #apartheid #genocide #save gaza #free Gaza #attack on titan #social justice

[nanamins-overtime]

Settlements and annexation are illegal under international and human rights law.

Apartheid is illegal under international and human rights law.

Collective punishment is illegal under international and human rights law.

The use of excessive force is illegal under international and human rights law.

Ethnic cleansing is illegal under international and human rights law.

Genocide is illegal under international and human rights law.

Withholding food, water, electricity and essential medical aid is illegal under international and human rights law.

Palestinans have the right to armed struggle and self-determination. Resistance is not terrorism. Colonisation is.

#palestine #free palestine #genocide #illegal settlement #occupation #colonisation #colonisation is terrorism #terrorism #international law #human rights #human rights law #law #legal #illegal #collective punishment #ethnic cleansing #self determination #armed struggle

[probablyasocialecologist]

“The rise of plantation capital spawned the drying of the west side of Maui,” said Kamana Beamer, a historian and a former member of the Hawaii commission on water resource management, which is charged with protecting and regulating water resources. “You can see the link between extractive, unfettered capitalism at the expense of our natural resources and the ecosystem.” Drawn to Hawaii’s temperate climate and prodigious rainfall, sugar and pineapple white magnates began arriving on the islands in the early 1800s. For much of the next two centuries, Maui-based plantation owners like Alexander & Baldwin and Maui Land & Pineapple Company reaped enormous fortunes, uprooting native trees and extracting billions of gallons of water from streams to grow their thirsty crops. (Annual sugar cane production averaged 1m tons until the mid-1980s; a pound of sugar requires 2,000lb of freshwater to produce.) Invasive plants that were introduced as livestock forage, like guinea grass, now cover a quarter of Hawaii’s surface area. The extensive use of pesticides on Maui’s pineapple fields poisoned nearby water wells. The dawn of large-scale agriculture dramatically changed land practices in Maui, where natural resources no longer served as a mode of food production or a habitat for birds but a means of generating fast cash, said Lucienne de Naie, an east Maui historian and chair of the Sierra Club Maui group. “The land was turned from this fertile plain – with these big healthy trees, wetland taros and dryland crops like banana and breadfruit – to a mass of monoculture: to rows and rows of sugar cane, and rows and rows of pineapple,” she said.

[...]

In Hawaii, water is held in a public trust controlled by the government for the people. But on Maui, 16 of the top 20 water users are resorts, time-shares and short-term condominium rentals equipped with emerald golf courses and glittering pools, according to a 2020 report from the county’s board of water supply. The 40-acre Grand Wailea resort, the island’s largest water consumer, devoured half a million gallons of water daily – the amount needed to supply more than 1,400 single-family homes.

#maui wildfires #maui hawaii #maui #hawaii #plantations #colonisation

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

Stupidest take on Israel i saw was an Israeli spewings stats about how like 75% of israelis are refugees or children of refugees and then proceeded to say:

" We are not Colonizers We are Refugees We are Indigenous"

like logic for a second. I literally beg you not to continue the doublethink.

Like obviously a large number of Israelis aren't colonisers, but that doesn't make you indigenous nor does it mean Israel isn't colonising Palestine.

Like I as a first gen Australian am not a coloniser, but i am living on colonised land where the indigenous are affected by colonisation. The minute i stop recognising that, the minute i start pretending I'm indigenous cause I was born here *cough Pauline Hanson-core cough* I become a coloniser, because not only would i be complicit in colonisation, I'd be actively erasing indigenous history.

#palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine 🇵🇸 #from river to sea palestine will be free #free palestine #palestinians #genocide #palestinian genocide #gaza strip #colonisation #settler colonialism #apartheid #colonialism #decolonization #isreal #fuck israel #indigenous peoples #first nations #indigenous #my post

[words-and-coffee]

Kupu rere kē My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you’re expected to understand the rest of the text, it’s fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in Aotearoa and which do not.

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

#Alice Te Punga Somerville #A few people mentioned wanting a text version for accessibility... #powerful right off the bat #Always Italicise #Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised #Always Italicise How to Write While Colonised #Kupu rere kē #aotearoa #colonization #colonisation #Decolonisation #Te reo māori #Decolonization #quote #quotes #poem #poetry #Māori poetry #Māori #new zealand #new zealand poetry #new zealand poem

[annecriedpower]

I'll always remember Hozier as a writer of protest songs and Swan Upon Leda has just strengthened that feeling. Lamenting the loss of an ancient land, its culture, and people due to illegitimate colonial occupation needs to be sung about more often because state-sponsored media routinely suppresses these brutalities, and imprisons whistleblowers and activists who dare bring the truth to light. I'm also in awe of how he tied the occupation of a country to the occupation of a body, the encroachment of sovereignty to the encroachment of reproductive autonomy. It's beautiful, profound, and heartbreaking all at once. I have never heard a person sing so tenderly about something so sadistic. It is a rare talent. I can't wait to hear what other treasures he has recorded for Unreal Unearth. Revolution and decolonisation are eternal processes. Yet, I hope in this lifetime, childbearers reclaim their constitutional right to abortion. I hope women and other hijab wearers of Iran win their freedom. I hope I see a free Kashmir, a free Palestine, a free Ukraine, a free Tibet, and that all other occupied territories may see the walls of their open-air prisons demolished.

#hozier #swan upon leda #military occupations #colonisation #women movement of iran #free tibet #free palestine #free kashmir #free ukraine #unreal unearth #roe v wade #reproductive autonomy #death to all carceral regimes

[itsmenefertiti]

FREE PALESTINE 🍉

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #فلسطين #free the palestinians #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #barbarism #غزة #ethnic cleansing #colonialism #colonisation

[lilithism1848]

#great britain #leftism #anti capitalism #socialism #communism #anarchy #the uk #usa #england #united kingdom #britain #settler colonialism #colonialism #colonisation #colonization #colonizers #colonial violence #colonial america #anti imperialism #imperialism #imperial guard #imperial agent

[anarchistfrogposting]

Hey just wanted to quickly ask if you could maybe explain what settler colonialism is, I'm a bit confused by the term because it seems like it doesn't really apply anymore in places like the US. There aren't really colonies, but fully developed capitalist states that oppress both the people who were originally colonized as well as the working class there.

Colonialism is an aspect of imperialism which focuses on an imperialist state (most obvious examples of this are Britain and France, for example) extracting natural resources from conquered/bought/stolen land abroad, wherein the country that forms the core of said colonial empire takes those resources and uses them to develop their own industries and thereupon its productive capabilities. Many places in Africa experienced considerable colonial oppression, but comparatively little settler-colonial oppression (although I will be clear; there were and are many large-scale settler colonial operations that aimed and some to support and protect European hegemony over Africa).

Settler colonialism is a specific form of colonialism wherein settlers from the imperial core travel to and form significant communities within colonial nations, stealing land from and displacing the local, native populace and replacing it with the native population of the imperial power. These projects inevitably and necessarily involve attempts to wipe out native culture and heritage and replace them with a new settler identity. Prominent examples of this can be seen in former colonies of the British empire; the US, Canada and Australia, e.g., but settler colonialism is a critical aspect of the success of colonial projects; the impacts thereof can be seen in a huge way in Latin America, India, all across Africa (prominently Algeria), and Oceania. In all the aforementioned native populations were displaced and their culture and identity intentionally erased.

Israel is certainly a settler colony, but it stands out as having a somewhat unique background and history. If you are interested in what I mean by this, I’d recommend you to watch this video by crash course (now quite old), which seems to do a decent job of quickly providing a brief overview.

Without significant decolonisation efforts, many of these places are, in a sense, still settler colonies. America will arguably always be a settler colony, but notably still colonises Native Americans in its borders. As does Canada. You could argue that these are postcolonial nations, but I feel that obscures the fact that many of these nations still actively engage in colonialism.

The line between colonialism and not colonialism, I would posit, is not a matter of development but a matter of policy and direction.

There are many many people far more qualified to talk about colonialism and settler colonialism than me, a white person from the UK, but I hope this helps. If you’re interested in exploring black and anti-colonialist anarchism, I would recommend Andrewism on YouTube, and would look into Angela Davis, who, along with being a prison abolitionist has also written extensively on colonialism.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchocommunism #praxis #communism #communist #revolution #leftism #leftist #politics #colonialism #colonisation #settler colonialism #Israel #palestine

[constantlylearning]

An important thread concerning Isr**l's intervention at the ICJ today - lies, propaganda, manipulation etc. Their "proofs" have been debunked already, they have no credibility considering their numerous incredibly stupid statements ("There is a list" wink wink - for those who are late, they showed a calendar written in arabic and claimed it was a list of Ha mas terro rists found in a hospital)

https://twitter.com/AsimCP/status/1745734554160128278?t=VvgUPQNG331I92ptBw7Gdg&s=19

Oh, and it's Friday - look up what the IOF is doing at Al Aqsa, in Jerusalem !

Hint 1: what they've been doing for a long time

Hint 2: on friday, muslims go to the mosque

#palestine #gaza #freepalestine #free gaza #studying #studyblr #constantlylearningmyposts #icj hearing #international court of justice #falesteen #falestine #celebrities #colonisation #justice #war crimes #war criminals #al aqsa mosque #al aqsa #jerusalem #al quds #iof #apartheid