Pontifex Geronimo 13
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You are so Archie Bunker.It includes everybody. How can it be called more discriminatory?
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Yes. You don't fight discrimination with discrimination. But intersectionality isn't discrimination or some creative points system. It is the acknowledgement that there are complex situations where multiple disadvantages coalesce.
Pontifex Geronimo 13
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And the bible said: "stop, look and listen for I am" ...
Anyone get that the object is not here just now ... departed due to the powers of powerful darkness, unknowing and extended mystery of how did we get into discriminating against what we didn't know? Couldn't we have learned something in the Dai Lite ... come dic state!
Dark and horrid dreamers ... hoerd?
Anyone get that the object is not here just now ... departed due to the powers of powerful darkness, unknowing and extended mystery of how did we get into discriminating against what we didn't know? Couldn't we have learned something in the Dai Lite ... come dic state!
Dark and horrid dreamers ... hoerd?
Ritafee
Is Being Human
I identify as a human being ...
Factor in some complex situations where multiple disadvantages (or advantages) coalesce ...
I now identify as a 'individual' human being.
It seems to me that intersectionality calls for restrictive ideological conformity to 'group' identities.
No, quite the opposite. Colonialism (which is patriarchal) calls for restrictive ideological conformity to a group identity. That’s exactly the problem with it, and always has been - residential schools were a now well known result of colonialism, for example. Intersectionality is a lens through which to see a perspective that includes all, with a bottom-up rather than a top-down view, as a remedy for colonialism and its damages.
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Ritafee
Is Being Human
Intersectionality and Indigeneity ...
The language of intersectionality is alienating to Indigenous communities because of its academic framing.
'New' academic terms such as ‘intersectionality’ de-legitimize 'generational' Indigenous knowledge.
Academia's fancy words for things indigenous have long had their own words for serves only to create an additional layer of complexity to the Indigenous worldviews where their own concepts of intersectionality had already existed long before colonization.
Indigenous epistemologies have always allowed for diverse forms of knowledge to be valued including the wisdom of elders, dreams and spiritual guides.
Metaphors are used to describe the inter-relatedness of various aspects of life in Indigenous knowledge, such as ‘weaving our knowledge together’ and ‘standing on our own traditions’.
The language of intersectionality might be needed to make sense of western ideologies that categorize and break apart various aspects of life ... but in the Indigenous worldviews, understanding the animation and cross-fertilization of categories of race, gender, animal, human, law, etc. was always the foundation of Indigeonous 'all my relations' frameworks.
How, then, do theories of intersectionality account for Indigenous worldviews or experiences, when the categories within intersectional theories are not rooted in Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies?
Intersectionality might be useful for understanding how colonial systems or axes of power work together, but it is not needed to validate the inherent complexities of Indigenous knowledge concepts and ways of knowing.
I.E. Two Spirit ... Indigenous should be teaching western academia ... not the other way around.
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The language of intersectionality is alienating to Indigenous communities because of its academic framing.
'New' academic terms such as ‘intersectionality’ de-legitimize 'generational' Indigenous knowledge.
Academia's fancy words for things indigenous have long had their own words for serves only to create an additional layer of complexity to the Indigenous worldviews where their own concepts of intersectionality had already existed long before colonization.
Indigenous epistemologies have always allowed for diverse forms of knowledge to be valued including the wisdom of elders, dreams and spiritual guides.
Metaphors are used to describe the inter-relatedness of various aspects of life in Indigenous knowledge, such as ‘weaving our knowledge together’ and ‘standing on our own traditions’.
The language of intersectionality might be needed to make sense of western ideologies that categorize and break apart various aspects of life ... but in the Indigenous worldviews, understanding the animation and cross-fertilization of categories of race, gender, animal, human, law, etc. was always the foundation of Indigeonous 'all my relations' frameworks.
How, then, do theories of intersectionality account for Indigenous worldviews or experiences, when the categories within intersectional theories are not rooted in Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies?
Intersectionality might be useful for understanding how colonial systems or axes of power work together, but it is not needed to validate the inherent complexities of Indigenous knowledge concepts and ways of knowing.
I.E. Two Spirit ... Indigenous should be teaching western academia ... not the other way around.
Dialogue On Intersectionality and Indigeneity: Summary of Themes
In April 2012, the Institute for intersectionality research and policy hosted a diverse group of Indigenous people on Coast Salish territories for an all day dialogue on themes of intersectionality and indigeneity. This document provides a summary of
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Decolonizing the Intersectional Blogosphere; A Settler's Perspective
There is a tendency within intersectional blogging discourse for settlers to ignore the ongoing colonial process occurring on Turtle Island. This pattern is bound up in a settler common sense that understands settler occupancy as inherent and
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Kimberlee Crenshaw, and other black feminists also examine colonialism’s role in slavery and the racism that still prevails. So, the point is...maybe the the indigenous and the black perspective should intersect, so too should the experience of other racial minorities with lived experience of discrimination inside a colonial context, and those of lgbt community can bring their lens of lived experience of oppression, and the experience of people with disabilities’ marginalization and dehamanization by the colonial class...and its then colonialism (which is patriarchal) that stands out as the oppressive force that has shaped the experiences of all those groups...and in the intersection of their diverse identities they find common ground against oppressive forces...and the oppressive forces are no longer the dominant forces. People power, bottom-up. And not some bloody revolution... it’s about learning and education and getting past colonial attitudes.
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Intersectionality, before it was a theory, could be seen in the past with gender equality and civil rights and labour unions standing with one another for different yet similar causes...seeing their common ground...common pursuit of equality. The branching off of black feminism from feminism in general, as another example, was recognition that the experiences that black women lived were not entirely the same as white women’s, because black women (as a whole...there will always be one random example of one individual and somebody who doesn’t want to unlearn prejudice will use that as proof that the idea is absolutely not true...it’s not meant to be an exact science) also carried with them their experiences of slavery and then segregation and other forms of dehumanizing racism and relative economic inequality, as well as gender inequality, both within their own communities; and even worse, in relation to the white men who dominated society. And, if I am not mistaken, intersectionality theory arose from that. The goal is not to fragment into competing marginalized groups, but to be one group of humanity connected by the intersection of many groups of equals working together to be free from the oppression of the lingering colonial attitudes that prevent them from establishing equality in our shared society. I’m envisioning a starburst shape with two way flares - that bust out but then lead back in to the centre as well - for some reason. I guess those who aren’t finding their way to that intersection would be more fractured.
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On top of this is endogeneity ... where some splits and divides occur when folk get too attached to statistics, data and information that detracts from what might be imagined from the data as it arrives.
Some people go too far with intelligence and others to the extreme with imagination ... and feel they are just the greatest storhous of information ever imagined. Thus economic collapse for those that can't stretch themselves when in a strain ...
Spatial expansionism when ink is run to death over a pageboy ... once known indigenously as a horsemen. or some man that is partially exposed to going to the woods to look for a horse in the sticks ... potentially a woman's story on the fabrication of all around wraps and warps!
It may be an island thing like Man nan ... a broken expression ... these disintegrate from excessive pounding of the sea into breeches ... indigo work Cloe's ... thus cover-ups!
The stories made up about things not to be felt because of taboos ... yet in altruism ... there's Moor --- Jane Eire! (a commonly misunderstood era). Self-control is difficult when stumped in an arid land ... nothing but sans of time ... when one runs out ... of time?
Rather intangible force ... by rites! Then there is the d/dt's .. differentialization ... or when spore are ejected from the source-err-heh of the taboo ... psyche IHC event?
The signs of expulsion are intensive as folks get over even walls of purple ... the UV strain!
The Lord of the Flies sees this clearly with multiple ayes ... one has to focus on the Annaeds ... well oiled gods ... with many Yans ... some Yin to go where forbidden.
Thus integral get-it-together folks ... eMs out there!
Some people go too far with intelligence and others to the extreme with imagination ... and feel they are just the greatest storhous of information ever imagined. Thus economic collapse for those that can't stretch themselves when in a strain ...
Spatial expansionism when ink is run to death over a pageboy ... once known indigenously as a horsemen. or some man that is partially exposed to going to the woods to look for a horse in the sticks ... potentially a woman's story on the fabrication of all around wraps and warps!
It may be an island thing like Man nan ... a broken expression ... these disintegrate from excessive pounding of the sea into breeches ... indigo work Cloe's ... thus cover-ups!
The stories made up about things not to be felt because of taboos ... yet in altruism ... there's Moor --- Jane Eire! (a commonly misunderstood era). Self-control is difficult when stumped in an arid land ... nothing but sans of time ... when one runs out ... of time?
Rather intangible force ... by rites! Then there is the d/dt's .. differentialization ... or when spore are ejected from the source-err-heh of the taboo ... psyche IHC event?
The signs of expulsion are intensive as folks get over even walls of purple ... the UV strain!
The Lord of the Flies sees this clearly with multiple ayes ... one has to focus on the Annaeds ... well oiled gods ... with many Yans ... some Yin to go where forbidden.
Thus integral get-it-together folks ... eMs out there!
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