When we consider the dangers of the underrepresentation of marginalized people, we can’t ignore the potential danger in the overrepresentation of people in power.
Colonizers show readiness to consign both their own children and ours to the flames of global warming rather than risk giving up global hegemony maintained primarily through capitalism.
I'm distasteful of the comic trope of for succeeding white men because I believe this is one of many strategies white people have adopted to cope with their mortality, and keeping us bound to them in servitude
We are agents and shapers of history, culture and discourse, not mere passive, thoughtless victims. We were sizing them up the same time they were sizing us up.
I don’t want more “respect” based on how much I contribute to a genocidal empire.
Fixating on the difference between others who "put on" our culture & those who create from "authentic" experiences obscures why we challenge appropriation in the first place.
