Ever noticed how 'Indigeneity' functions as the only racialized category that has also "somehow" come to signal inherent accessibility/openness to...everyone? See phrases like "everyone is indigenous to somewhere"/"we were all once indigenous" as opposed to the special "closed circle" function of

The symbolism of National Day of Truth and Reconciliation does not translate into a deeper and broader understanding of settler colonialism. #trc buff.ly/uMJ2Fue

Commemoration is not Reconciliation

The symbolism of National Day of Truth and Reconciliation does not translate into a deeper and broader understanding of settler colonialism.

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Did you know Orange Shirt Day / National Day for Truth & Reconciliation still isn't a public holiday in some provinces, like Alberta & Saskatchewan? Which means the government officials who do the colonization get the day off but their Native workers don't & have to keep serving them as they shop?

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If Canadians are serious about "Truth and Reconciliation", they should stop supporting Israel's livestreamed genocide of Palestinians. It's hard to take Canadians seriously when they can't even acknowledge the basic truth that from Turtle Island to Palestine, colonization is a crime.

I think one of the most persistent illusions people in Europe are under is that "we already know." We already know about the atrocities done to Indigenous Peoples. We evoke this "history" so often. Anecdotally, to make an argument about sth. else. Especially with regard to Turtle Island, many are...

Images of white supremacists demonstrating near a former residential school in Kamloops have sent a chill across the country, just days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. An expert on extremist groups called it disturbing but not surprising.

Expert disturbed-not surprised by white nationalism demonstration

A demonstration of white nationalism by Second Sons of Canada near the Kamloops residential school site has sent a chill across the country.

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Is it just me or does Carney's speech to Europe sound like it's plagiarized from Indigenous sovereignty rhetoric? Not all of it obviously, but the bits about sovereignty sound very familiar, like they are chatbot outputs. Starting with this: "Our bonds are deeply rooted in our lands." o rly

Read Mark Carney's full speech to the European Parliament | CBC News

Read Prime Minister Mark Carney's remarks to the European Parliament on Thursday.

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Devastating. Must-read "These honours are meant to keep something more profound in place—whiteness and its ruling regime, which gets to select what actually matters. Think twice when you are tapped on the shoulder by it." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... @blacklikewho.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The university is the crisis

The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...

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I so wish everyone could do away with the pan-Indian larping in leftist spaces, i.e. the copying & pasting of Indigenous-coded lingo & ontology onto German political contexts. Some are really mistaking that behaviour for solidarity with anticolonial struggles. As important as it is to stop the...

Danger Dan & der andere wurden btw beim ZDF nicht ausgeladen weil sie „Links“ sind oder gar weil sie gegen Rechts sind, sondern weil der Song Text sich gegen den Staat richtet und der ÖRR Staatstragend agiert. Das ist Teil der deutschen Staatsräson: Kunst & Meinungsfreiheit endet da, wo es die

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We're very excited to announce the first of our Fall 2026 titles: TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION. Edited by Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair, this book is "an essential and timely intervention, guiding readers back to the historical record while challenging denialist myths." -Janice Forsyth, UBC

this article thankfully doesn't cite the hype literature that pretends we can 'braid' Indigenous knowledges into AI...and for this I am grateful. As I've said on other platforms, we cannot ethically 'braid, bridge, or weave' to systems/structures intent on the death of Black + Indigenous peoples.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"AI harm is not accidental but systemic and extractive. We call for rejecting AI inevitability and advancing community-led responses that disrupt algorithmic settler colonialism and reimagine intelligence beyond domination,” write Bronwyn Carlson and Tamika Worrell.

OK, it's my first time in amiskwaciwâskahikan & everyone I told in advance was like "wth do u want in Edmonton?" After 5 days, I gotta say: It's not too bad?! Loving the river valley, even the skyline is pretty. Book-store-approved. Maybe I'm also meeting the right people? Or is it bc it's Alberta?

Die @unileipzig.bsky.social untersagt eine studentische Vollversammlung in den Räumen der Uni, weil dort über einen akademischen Boykott israelischer Unis beraten werden soll. Respekt, dass die Studierenden trotzdem einen Boykott beschlossen haben!!

This promises to be a great event as part of the Intifada Talks series.

🔔🔔🔔 "It is important to scrutinize how reconciliation efforts co-opted by the state [...] have collectively altered not only German national identity after the Holocaust but the state’s desired relationship with “the Jews,” whose hatred Lutz perceived complementarily to Indianthusiasm [...]."

Ch4rly (echte Leben Ära)@sprelacart.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It kind of feels to me that Germans "love" Jews and Judaism in quite a similar way that they "love" American Natives (who they refuse to stop using outdated colonialist terms to describe of course).

Yup! I try to bring these two "phenomenona" into conversation repeatedly in my dissertation. See in particular "Indianthusiasm and Philo-Zionism in Tandem" in Chapter 4 "From Undercurrent to Mainstream: Indianthusiasm, Self-indigenization, and (Settler) Nationalism during Times of Crises."

Deborah Feldman@deborahfeldman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is a definite analogy here to the “pretendian” phenomenon in the U.S. and Canada

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There's an English version of this brilliant article: "When academic scholarship on philosemitism began to emerge around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, historian Frank Stern expanded on Sterling’s diagnosis in a book appropriately titled Whitewashing the Yellow Badge, demonstrating how...

Glad to share that my dissertation "Beyond Indianthusiasm" is now accessible online! harvest.usask.ca/items/815996...

Anna Luisa@anlumaves.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Successfully defended my PhD dissertation "Beyond Indianthusiasm: Tracing Connections between Self-Indigenization, Nationalism, and Settler Coloniality in Contemporary German Public Discourse" last night......as Marburg got engulfed in snow. Good sign! Relief! Loads of gratitude! 🌨️💚❄️

Hello Sisters, Join my live online lecture titled QUEERS as in SEMITES! Register now for this live online lecture, based on findings from my PhD, on Germany’s Politics of Orientation. When? 27th March (Fr.), at 6:30 - 8 pm (CET). Where? Online. 🌸 Registration link in the 1st comment.

Just finished listening to this valuable conversation. As I could relate to many frustrations with "the Left" in GER alone when it comes to practicing anticolonial solidarities beyond essentialist "left and right" imaginaries, I recognize how much learning there is to do from my end. TY for this!

Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thank you for having me on YurtJurt, and for this conversation about the global rise of the far right and the ways to defy old legacies of imperialism—designed to divide and conquer us—while coming together to oppose their current forms and the propaganda that keeps pitting us against one another

New episode of YurtJurt podcast just dropped and it’s fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥 @terezahendl.bsky.social is one of the crucial voices of our generation talking about decoloniality, justice and colonialism. Check it out now!

It's about time experts on the topic(s) replaced the nth posturing of shock & disgust about how democratic leaders could tolerate this with some grit & clarity: our liberal institutions have merely succeeded in repackaging the content of Rubio's speech in more liberatory-sounding moral verbiage.

Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz@wannseekonferenz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Erinnerungspolitische Bezüge in Rubios Rede werden mit Gaulands "Vogelschiss" verglichen. Doch Rubio geht weiter: Europa liegt bei ihm völlig unvermittelt "in ruins", der NS spielt in seiner Geschichtspolitik nicht mal mehr eine Vogelschiss-Rolle, er bleibt ganz außen vor. "For five centuries, 1/5

Really liked this wrap-up. I'm often thinking about the constant need for multidirectional translation acts when observing dominant discourses re: Indigenous ppls & politics. Truth is: white folks will assimilate what we don't understand into legible frames that work for us either way. That is,...

MEDIA INDIGENA@mediaindigena.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🆕 NEW—our 5-part series on 'The White Possessive' wraps up with a jump into genomics, a realm rife with racialized thinking and practice, but as population scientist Noah Collins notes, Indigenous-led research projects continue to prioritize community over commerce 📻 LISTEN NOW: pod.fo/e/38d11e

Neue Reportage zur fragwürdigen Forderung des hessischen Antisemitismusbeauftragten Uwe Becker die Antizionistische Jüdische Gruppe verbieten zu lassen. Dazu habe ich den Vorsitzenden der Organisation der Jüdischen Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost Wieland Hoban interviewt.