Tag: anticolonial
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Decolonization is never done: a model for reflecting on decolonial parenting
Sitting down to write a reflection post on our journey so far got me thinking about how we measure success, both as parents and people working on decolonizing our minds and relationships. I propose a model for reviewing our parenting, that I’ll be using myself in the coming months.
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Battling the overwhelm
We are getting so good at taking the path of least resistance that we are losing the skills to hard things: critical thinking, creative writing, conversation. Are we really ready to let AI do the thinking for us? Is this the world we want to give our children, or can we take back our skills…
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Parenting in an age of genocide
This cannot be the world we want to raise our children in. Thankfully for now, my child is too young to observe, note, or understand the atrocities taking place (in Gaza principally but not solely), but how can we explain to them how we are watching this horror show unfold like it’s just another Netflix…
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Colonialism, capitalism, climate – and us
What can we do in the face of the power and resources of increasingly emboldened climate criminals? How can we fight for the planet and teach our children it’s worth saving?
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Learning from my own lessons
Speaking personally, the hardest thing to reconcile growing up mixed was the way my European (and religiously Christian) parent dismissed a lot of my Asian parent’s cultural observances with religious logic. Whilst faith and festivals are often intertwined, it’s still possible to celebrate the festivals and what they teach us about our history and culture.…
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Race and Culture, Race or Culture?
Recently, a couple of conversations have arisen in various circles I frequent that I feel kinda uniquely positioned to speak to. I grew up mixed both racially and culturally, and the extent to which both have shaped me is informing the ways I plan to navigate these issues with my own children. This will be…
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working on enjoying this moment
It can be all too easy to look for the good in a situation or get bogged down by the bad, but the key lesson I’ve been learning this year is accepting the full picture. And that goes for myself as well.
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a woman speaks by audre lorde
Audre Lorde’s words are such nourishment for my soul. “A woman speaks” is one of the most important poems in my life.
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the politics of wellbeing
As practitioners, it’s time we take our reclaim our words, our movements, our communities, and ourselves.
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of course i’m obnoxious part i
Sometimes words sound better structured as verse, the rhythm reveals the power of a language that shines in vernaculars.
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movement is free
How many of us have experienced something like this: We look up from what we’ve been doing, take a deep breath and/or a stretch of our neck or hips, and feel the effects immediately?
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reminder: i am not your personal trainer
Nobody knows your reality as well as you do, no matter how experienced or qualified they are.