#Decolonize

[radicalgraff]

"No More Hotels"

Graffiti seen around Aruba in the Caribbean, denouncing the overconstruction of hotels and the extreme land loss the Indigenous people of the Island are facing.

[canisvesperus]

And we wouldn’t have to pay to see ourselves in museums.

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[woodsfae]

For usamericans who may not know how to support decolonization and indigenous people in their every-day lives, may I suggest checking this list of native-owned businesses, curated and maintained by indigenous folks. There's food, candles, cbd pre-rolls, clothes, jewelry, hats, baby things, handicrafts, art, and hundreds of other useful and wonderful things. I check this list before I buy non-native owned as often as I can.

Also check out the native-owned (pulitzer-prize winner Louise Erdrich started it!) bookstore and press Milkweed Editions (dot org) for an amazing selection of books by indigenous authors. I recommend Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (a collection of essays that will change your thinking if your mind is open at all) that's great for sitting down to read for bite-sized chunks. For book recommendations, check out this infographic!

Do you own property and want to support landback but still need a place to live? Odds are good that there's established precedence in your area to transfer its jurisduction to a local tribe and pay your land taxes and etc to them instead of the settler government!

Here is a list of charities and fundraisers for indigenous support.

Other ways to educate yourself and learn what indigenous people are working on nationally and locally is to follow indigenous people online! Many Native peoples on various social medias tag with #indigenous, #native, and by looking at those you will find many other tags and people to follow.

If you have extra cash, consider paying indigenous people's bail, donating to some of the causes linked above, or look for local initiatives to support in your own community!

[secular-jew]

[ladychlo]

[summergoodwife]

People misrepresent Plymouth Rock by claiming it's "just a rock." It is actually less than a rock. It is a symbol of colonialism with blunt, gray edges, that is now no longer allowed to be played on or built with or even fucking eroded, if the state can steal some authority over that.

However! There is one way to make it back into a rock—a beautiful, wondrous, extant chunk of flesh of the planet we all call home. This highly comprehensive one-step plan, proposed by, among others, @isuggestlandback,

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"Never Back down against the oppressors"

Anti-colonial graphic by Coffinbirth / Charlotte Allingham

[biophonies]

a new shirt to say that fire and the ecosystems of so-called California are inextricably tied.

in the wake of the most devastating Los Angeles wildfires to date, this is a wearable reminder to all that such harm is preventable, to support your local indigenous communities, to educate yourself on indigenous land stewardship practices, and to see how you can help heal the land. <3

100% of proceeds go to an Altadena family that is working to rebuild after losing everything in the Eaton fire of 2025. Read more for a fun fact about these plants~

Though there is no such thing as a fireproof plant, the species repped on this shirt are fire resistant, drought tolerant species native to so-called "California". they are excellent for native wildlife and pollinators, and endorsed for landscaping use by Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego county fire departments.

[a-typical]

But there is an alternative. In fact, there has always been one: 

A de-zionised, liberated and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea; a Palestine that will welcome back the refugees and build a society that does not discriminate on the basis of culture, religion or ethnicity. 

This new state would labor to rectify, as much as possible, the past evils, in terms of economic inequality, the stealing of property and the denial of rights. This could herald a new dawn for the whole Middle East.

It is not always easy to stick to your moral compass, but if it does point north – towards decolonization and liberation – then it will most likely guide you through the fog of poisonous propaganda, hypocritical policies and the inhumanity, often perpetrated in the name of ‘our common Western values’.

My Israeli Friends: This is Why I Support Palestinians – Ilan Pappe (10 October 2023)

[radicalgraff]

Anticolonial poster spotted potted in Hamilton, Ontario

[fairiedance]

Palestine Sunbird

The end of the ceasefire is heartbreaking but sadly not unexpected. I am still uploading Palestine designs regularly, ALL PROCEEDS will continue to go to my Palestinian best friend to help his loved ones through this war. He is the sweetest person in the world (and a truly brilliant scientist) and he deserves so much better than this. All designs found here.

The Palestine sunbird is a beautiful little passerine found around parts of the Middle East and Africa. They look somewhat like giant hummingbirds (though that is entirely convergent evolution, hummingbirds are actually in the same clade (Strisores) as potoos and frogmouths and stuff which is wild to me). These little guys were adopted as Palestine's national bird in 2015. My drawing is available on shirts, stickers, mugs and more.

...and I'm just realizing right after I posted this that the work isn't showing up right now since I tweaked the title in my shop. Hopefully it will be back promptly, until then my Redbubble has plenty of other designs to support my friend including a couple doves with keffiyehs. Sorry, Redbubble is a little neurotic about checking art with "controversial" keywords.

Edit: okay he's back

[alopesart]

The Irritator and the colonial culture: The importance of fossil repatriation

The Irritator and the colonial culture: The importance of fossil repatriation

Unearthing a new specimen may be one of the wonders of working with palaeontology, allowing us to grasp a piece of the history on this planet.

Now, a good amount of those 'time machines' are illegally commercialised, compromising the light it can give on reconstructing the geologic understanding of the evolution of life on our planet. But this illegality does not arise out of the blue: most of it is a product of a still-existing culture of domination and culture washing; the feeling that some have the right to usurp national heritages such as fossils. In Brazil, it is almost a conundrum to have a good amount of specimens being "relocated" to other territories in very shady ways, only to be found out when the said-so paper is finally published (a lot of those specimens may be forgotten in collections storages for decades). This time, the fossil who needs a new passport and is not-so-unknown is the Irritator challengeri.

Repatriating a fossil has not only a scientific importance, it also recognizes a whole cultural scope regarding the fossil's original location, reaffirming the significance of a country's geologic history. It also brings to the table all the legal problematics that paleontology faces today.

[secular-jew]

Israel Independence Day (Yom Haatzmaut) does not commemorate victory over Palestinians or Arab countries, but marks the day Jews earned their freedom from British rule. 2,000 years of colonial rule ended and decolonization became a reality.

[southernmermaidsgrotto]

The other day I heard someone say "europeans use the language of colonization as an excuse to insert themselves into indigenous and african traditions" and it's so true. The Colonizer continues to feel entitled to our work, our bodies, our ways, just because we may share a language (french, spanish, portuguese or other) when the only reason we share that language in the first place is the enslavement and genocides they inflicted on us.

Besides, we still have our own languages (indigenous languages, african languages, creole languages, AAVE and so on and so forth) and the "shared language" is only a partial and superficial resemblance. We use those spanish words because it's a way to share with other hispanic-colonized indigenous and black relatives. We use it because the language of colonization is a shared experience in the americas, as natives and as diaspora. As a way of making communication amongst ourselves easier. There is no deeper connection to Europe, no other tie, except the fact we had to use their language to speak because we were forced.

My Elders raised me on our oral history, on stories of spaniards cutting the tongue of anyone who spoke our language or self-identified as negro or indio, and then they would cut the ears of anyone who had heard them do so. So we stopped calling our things by our names, in public, and started using their words when we're in front of outsiders.

And that is not even the worst they've done, that is just one of the memories of violence we have, of them forcing their language on us. This is why you can't now turn around and say "but they're speaking spanish! I'm a bruja too!" as an excuse to force your way into religions and traditions that don't belong to you. Doing so is, once again, inflicting colonial violence.

And it's also why it's so important that you learn your ways directly from your people and in privacy, not from the internet. There's so much terminology and other things that we cannot say in public spaces like this. Talk to your Elders.

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

Abolish Canada