#Indigeneity

Personally, I don't agree here that Karuka's rebranding & reconceiving of settler colonialism as "continental imperialism" is 'more accurate'. If anything, it seems to lead to less precision & more
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If you don't understand why it's wrong to claim Indigenous identity when you are not Indigenous, here's my 2 centavos. An unbelievably long thread. If you're in the USA, it's
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A THREAD#1A prime example of the highly problematic media coverage on #Ethiopia by news, human rights & activist orgs is 2 Instagram posts made by @IndigenousPpls this past July.You can
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Nope... they’re more interested in pretending that the children of University educated West African civil servants doing better than the children of yorkshire coal miners (and English-Jamaican plumbers for that
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I think the history of @AmOrnith's approach to the standardization of English common names of birds deserves a little attention so I'm going to tweet about bird names a little
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One of the cool things about this field of study is an entirely new vocabulary that is coming my way. Starting a #thread of interesting new words I'm coming across
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Some real things I know directly from field research with Indigenous peoples in the Philippines -- Part 2 of my already mind-numbingly long thread on why it's wrong to claim
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Okay, so this has been RT into my TL a couple of times this morning and I want to talk about it. This is my field: I'm a geneticist who
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It's Indigenous Peoples' Day. Here's a thread by a settler South Asian scholar on Indigenous Studies texts we should all be reading, learning from, citing, and most importantly translating into
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this is the twitter version of the lecture I gave to an undergraduate wildlife management class, called "Conservation and How Colonialism Fucked Everything" (not really).short version: #bloodparks I was taught
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Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth! Throughout this month I’m going to highlight AAPI women leaders, teachers, creatives, writers, scholars—those who’ve impacted and inspired me, and those I’m recently discovering. The first book I
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Zionism is anti-semitic. Zionism has always been anti-semitic. And that anti-semitic violence is deployed against Palestinians first and foremost.https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/1125995059361583104 I refer to Zionism as anti-semitic a
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On Decoloniality, won the votes so here: "The proposition here and in the series is to advance the undoing of Eurocentrism’s totalizing claim and frame, including the Eurocentric legacies incarnated
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