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Yin Paradies

@paradiesyin

Wakaya, race relations professor, Indigenous knowledges / decoloniality, radical activist, anarchist, wilding; all expressed views are someone else's

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The word science originates in the proto Indo European root skei, leading to the Greek skhizein and Old English sceadan, which all mean split and divide. The word shit has the same origin. Hence, one can say that science is shit and facts are turds shat from the body of life.

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The sixth mass extinction, that we are now in, is not the unintended result of desirable human activities but, rather, the inevitable consequence of reprehensible relation-breaking violence.

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Today, let's remember when the most infantile, selfish, deluded, egoistic, impoverished and pernicious (colonial) culture that has ever existed obliterated one of the oldest, most exquisite, complex, discerning, balanced, sophisticated and sustainable societies in history.

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Decolonisation not something that you do by thinking or talking about it—and actually when you think you are doing it, especially when you are convinced or try to convince others that you are, this is a sign that, most probably, you aren't.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T.S. Eliot, 1934, The Rock

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Wellness is fluid, dynamic and everywhere, inside of us, inside others and around us, requires knowing who you belong to and who belongs to you and balances responsibility and autonomy as equally important.

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It’s not good enough to address racism, it’s not good enough to resurge and strengthen our Indigenous cultures. We have to bring along everybody on this planet into a new way of being… a way of being and becoming that kindles kinship with the cosmos.” croakey.org/writing-indige…

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We live in a shared world that holds itself together through holding everything apart. Conversely, If I am always and everywhere, then I am never and nowhere (Merleau-Ponty).