Lest We Forget — #AustraliaDay Celebrations? No thank you.I don’t believe that destroying over 60,000 years of #Indigenous language, culture and history in just over 200 years of colonisation is…
Elon Musk’s Mars Colony — Doom or BoomElon Musk says it’s time to colonize Mars. As a South African, perhaps he should know better…
Real Provisión del 27 de enero de 1749.Ofrezco estos ejemplos para exponer, simplemente, que estas culturas de la antigüedad son más extrañas de lo que pensamos[…] -Isaiah BerlinUn hombre cruza a a grandes zancadas la silenciosa plaza del poblado de españoles de…
“.io — British Indian Ocean Territory”“The Chagos had a population of some two thousand inhabitants, known as Ilois — French creole for “islanders” — or Chagossians, who had lived on the islands, first as slaves and later as free plantation workers, for generations. Although they knew no other home…
Corruption doesn’t only happen in AfricaBack in December, I wrote a piece on the new data quality index developed by London…
“Protecting Mauna A Wakea: The Space Between Science and Spirituality”“Mauna Kea is special to the Hawaiian people because it represents the beginning of our oral history, what we call moʻoleo. The view of the white cap of Mauna Kea poking through the clouds is likely the first…
Is there a “Real Africa”, and Does Anyone (Need to) Care?[Note this post is part of an ongoing series. See Part I here.]There is a puzzle that asks, “How long is a piece of string?” Since strings can be any length, the best answer might be, “Twice as long as…
Tomgram: Eduardo Galeano, The Previous Sole SuperpowerRecently, Susan Bergholz, the devoted literary…
Introducción a la decolonización de la teoría trans/géneroAutoría de: b. binahoan (@mxbees). (Original)Bueno. Une co-filipin@ me preguntó recientemente si tenía o sabía de una introducción al género que estuviera centrada en los géneros de IyoPdC (Indígenas y…
