the problem I have with decolonisation is the way it’s taken up by some as though you can just refuse the Western and replace it with some authentic form of Indigenous (being, knowing, I don’t know what) and call it liberation. That you can “decolonize” the colonising. https://twitter.com/indigenousx/status/1293445127403212802

As though we haven’t been caught up in knowing each other and relating to one other and changing each other all along the way. Taking after my dad, I’m interested in the critical tools required to think through the complexities & violences that colonisation produces & think...

about how that became possible and what it made possible in turn and then think through what forms of knowing are required to have that never happened again. I’m interested in the now and the (im)possibilities of what could be. Some insist that this can be called decolonisation

But I don’t know that I agree. Tuck & Yang are right to push back on its metaphorisation. I struggle to follow Tuck & Yang to the point of repatriation of life and land only because my own relationship to land is complicated. Complicated by colonisation. So it reminds me...

That decolonisation may well need to mean different things in different places reflecting the diversity of Indigenous peoples, the effects of our dispossession and the different futures and emancipatory desires that flow from that

I’m interested in what it means in the university and honestly... it’s a hard ongoing conversation with myself, let alone the conversations it leads to outside of my own head. But I think it’s one we need to have and need to try and do better.