#Colonial

Tyler M. Tully

TylerMTully

Instead of explaining why scholars of “Indigenous religion” are so indebted to colonial thinking, I’m really tempted just to accept their misplaced theories & use them to “interpret” normative religion.

هـانْ hanny

han8y

pride in englishness is inextricably linked to pride in the empire. colonial nostalgia and historical revisionism are central to englishness. and i wish empire could die without taking score and

GPAN

AfricaRepublic

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta heads to France signs Sh180bn loan after being dupped by "a guard of honour" which comes with giving contracts to French concessions.The PPP deal is for

Mallika

mallikamakkar

the medical system is a structure of violence in and of itself through the breakage of body and spirit. ~@HarshaWalia our view of #SDOH leaves out 1 critical aspect: inequity

Claire

ClaireRedacted

For centuries, Jews served as the "Other" for Europe’s Christians, as well as the objects of scholarly and ethnographic Enlightenment gaze. Within the Russian Empire, Yiddish publications were long banned,

JeannieLin

JeannieLin

Diversity in historical romance: The difficulty is this -- and you have to take yourself out of the context of any book for a moment and try to reframe historical

Makadiwata 🌿

makadiwata

Dear Filipinx-Americans, this isn’t how you celebrate pre-Filipino cultures and LGBTQIA+ history — not with anachronisms, not with bad takes, not with bad scholarship passed off as history. Pakiusap.(Images from

A•Z•E

azejournal

Reminder that ‘coming out’ is largely only a ‘global phenomenon’ because colonial ideologies violently problematized and targeted Indigenous peoples’ sexualities and genders (throughout the world) that did not conform to

David Fedman

dfedman

"Climb Mt. Niitaka!" (Niitaka yama nobore) is best known as the Japanese code signal for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Years earlier, though, it was also the rallying cry of the

Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

yarimarbonilla

Folks upset about how Trump deploys us/them language to refer to Puerto Rico would do well to remember that this is encoded in US law. Puerto Rico *belongs to but

favyx

Favy_c

My name is Chukwufumnaya Chukwudi. I'm an Anioma lady, we speak Igbo. We have igbo names, we have Igbo origin. The fact that we are not located in the

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comelybismuth

hi here's a thread about palestine !!! i hope they can help. more onhttps://free-palestine.carrd.co/ palestine is a country located in the levant in western asia. it borders lebanon, syria, jordan,

samuel Edward

SamEdwardd

What France did to innocent Algerians when they colonized Algeria [ A Thread ] French soldiers beheading innocent Algerians and r*ping Algerian women The skulls of 37 Algerians kept in

James tired of rain Green

J_Green_505

What is "primitive"? Is it subjective? Is it colonialism? Often a technology that works & fits a social or economic need is branded by outside cultures as primitive, backward, archaic,

Kunta Kinte

sarel_lee

African borders are only 135 years old as per the 1885 Berlin conference resolutions. In 1885 European leaders met at the infamous Berlin Conference to divide Africa and arbitrarily draw

Albannach

SaorAlbannach

So after; dozens of invasion/conquest attempts, murdering Wallace & Queen Mary & the genocides of Cromwell, then the Alien/Succession acts, the Kingdom of England decided to enact union with Scotland