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Embrace your Bunga. youtu.be/qQBEJQJ7_JQ

It would be impossible to answer these questions without focusing on colonialism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism.

@erikmcentire Just tell us you're PRO-WHITE already. Get your white fragility the fuck out of here.

COLONIALITY OF CURRICULUM Last night, my 15 year old son told me that in school he recently learned that the most developed regions in the world are the ones colonized by the UK. He is being taught about the so-called benefits of colonialism.

A '60s topo map of Niuafo'ou features blank areas with the enticing label 'Obscured by Cloud'. When Garth Rogers produced a thesis on the island he had to draw his own maps. They are works of art, as well as collections of data. In our digital era the hand drawn map is in decline

1/18 Richard Dawkins & his allies have been attacking the idea that Polynesians gained scientific knowledge during their thousands of years exploring the Pacific & settling lands like Aotearoa. Dawkins et al regard such an idea as a 21st C, 'woke' phenomenon. They're badly wrong

Those who have been historically and systematically excluded from academia are constantly policed & pushed out, especially when their work interrogates the capitalist, heteropatriarchal, white supremacist, racist, & colonial order the university legitimates & actively reproduces.

Check out my new substack post! Here I translate the introduction of one of Aníbal Quijano's most elaborate essays on the coloniality of power and social classification. jairofunez.substack.com/p/coloniality-…

Happy to announce the SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory Call for Proposals. Share widely! TIMELINE Abstracts due by March 27, 2023 Decision by May 1, 2023 Chapter drafts due by October 2, 2023 INQUIRIES: jairo.funez@ttu.edu docs.google.com/document/d/1s8…

Columbus died on May 20 😂❤️

2023 Tonga Research Association (TRA) conference will be held in Tonga 5-7 July hosted by the Tonga National University. @ASiulua @2cups0fSOUL @KaloMafi @RFaleolo @zaramasinaclark @CarolineMatamua @FunakiHine @TracieMafileo @EmaWolfgramm @sonia_fonua. facebook.com/groups/Tonga.R…

Today is the release date for my first book (Princeton UP)! The book provides an entirely new framework for understanding settler colonialism, ranging from the Assyrians all the way to contemporary China, Indonesia, Australia and Israel/Palestine. bitly.ws/z2FL

A reminder that "Universities were created for the sons of rich colonizers to continue the colonial project" This doesn't mean, however, that the work we do within the "belly of the beast" isn't important. As García Peña teaches us, our work is situated within this contradiction

People actually believe the US and Western European powers conquered and colonized the world because they're benevolent, seeking only to develop & civilized us. They're looking out for our best interest. After all, they built railroads in "unclaimed" territories...terra nullius.

National Library of Australia’s free digital archives may be forced to close without funding #Trove #saveTrove #fundTrove theguardian.com/culture/2023/j…

RT @KJA_2_: 4 favourite books of 2022

Trust me when I say I detest going to the very upscale Khan Market. The only reason I’d go is for the bookstores. And it was definitely worth it. I’ve been waiting for this book ever since end of October!! And seeing it next to Vuong just made it worth the trip.

The ancestor Toni Morrison said, “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being…

In Latin America, we're all mixed and that's why we have racial democracies, unlike the United States.🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

1/5 Willie Jackson says co-governance has to be put on hold. If it can't be done now, when Jackson's party has an absolute majority in parliament, can it ever be achieved? For me, these words show the alternative to co-governance, & a viable way to Tino Rangatiratanga.