Disciplinary Decadence: “Becoming ‘right’ is simply a matter of applying the method correctly...By highlighting the tendency for a discipline to become solipsistic and thus ‘decadent,’ Gordon’s work opens up a way of critiquing a theological approach that develops in order to sustain itself against internal critiques, yet which cannot adequately respond to external critiques.”

- Decolonial Love, Joseph Drexler-Dreis

i.e. practice humility. Practice humility in academia. Practice humility in theology. We explore the ‘what if?’ and should not have the hubris to assume we know how to consider the ‘what is?’ about the divine. Look outside of your own niche to find resources. Revelation comes from the margins.

It's so funny how So'lek is such a huge part of FOP's marketing/reputation even though (from my perspective, anyway) when you get to the meat of the story he really just. disappears or moves firmly into the background for big sections of the story so you can focus on speedrunning processing obscene amounts of childhood trauma and helping your nerd buddy break up with his creepy older boyfriend.

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation.

Decolonizing Wellness and Therapy!

I'm so glad my friends are (mostly) not book lovers bc holy shit I hate she who became the sun so much and if I was surrounded by people who love it I would not be able to talk to them until they got over the hype. I only liked abt half of it and I would explain my feelings but I don't feel like doing that rn.

Tldr though: I didn't think it was feminist at all and going in thinking it was a feminist piece of literature made it a bad read for me. I liked how the author explored another gender class through the eunuchs though. Should've contested the other main character's misogyny & toxic masculinity (maybe that's not the right term here but idgaf this is just a tumblr post) though (can't remember their name bc i read it so long ago. The monk)

Ok. I don't think this is like, a pressing, major issue, but I saw a claim the other day that "the French voluntarily left Algeria after it won independence," and in context it was framed as like, an example of peaceful decolonization.

And like. I'm not sure if this is a widespread misconception, but the remaining Algerian-born French left Algeria during its revolution under the threat of violence. And the Algerian Revolution itself was extremely bloody (Wikipedia says estimates vary but about a million, mostly Algerians), with the French government/military committing war crimes. In fact, the 'Death Toll' and 'Atrocities and War Crimes' (with a little bit from the Algerian side too) literally have their own Wikipedia sections.

So uh. in short. Algeria: not an example of peaceful decolonization.

Caithfidh mé tús a chur leis an mblag seo ag pointe éicint 🤷

Bhí mé ag iarraidh blag Gaeilge tumblr a dhéanamh le fada an lá. Tá cion agam ar an suíomh seo as gan bacáil leis an lucht corparáideach (agus tá súil agam gur choíche a ngabhfaidh an muintir an tsuímh seo ina n-éadan! ✊), agus as a bheith chomh oscailte le chuile shórt beo - ó thaobh roinnte smaointe, cabhair, 7 eolais de, ó thaobh na ráiméise a mbainimid uilig taitneamh as 🤪 ar bhealach éicint - go hábhair fíor-thábhachtach, cosúil le sábháilteacht chollaíochta, cosaint ó fhoréigean gnéis, plé ar dhaonlathas 7 ar dhíchóilíneachas, idir eile.

Go bunúsach, creidim gurb í an áit is oiriúnaí le tús a chur le blag Gaeilge - ba mhaith liom spás a chruthú anseo ar son a leanas:

leideanna foghlamtha teanga a chur ar fáil 😛

an cultúr a bhaineann leis an teanga a roinnt🥳

Plé ar an nGaeltacht ☘️, ar an nGalltacht 🫖 agus ar Éirinn uilig 🥁

Canúintí uilig na Gaeilge 7 an Domhain Ghaelaigh a cheiliúradh 7 a chur chun cinn - ní hamháin na trí mhór-chanuintí (Corca Dhuibhne, Conamara, Gaoth Dobhair)

Na lipéidí cruinne a thabhairt ar chuile cheann acu (gan ainm na gcúigí ina n-aimsítear iad a thabhairt ar na trí mhór-chanúintí agus dearmad a dhéanamh ar gach canúint eile 😢)

Mo chuid smaointeoireachta féin 💟

So, fáilte romhaibh uilig a bhfuil fonn oraibh a bheith i dteangmháil leis an nGaeilge sa mbealach seo, nó a bhfuil suim acu ar a bhfuil ag an mblag seo le tairiscint 😁🤗🎉.

🫖☘️🌈🌹🌧️♟️🎊

I've been wanting to make an Irish-language Tumblr blog for AGES - I've an affection for this site for the longest time having not got involved with the corporate world (and I hope they never do!) and for creating an platform atmosphere that is so open for anything.

For sharing thoughts, help and information - from the fantastic fanatical bullshit we all enjoy in one way or another, to really serious topics, like sexual safety, protection from gender violence, discussions on democracy and decolonisation, amongst so many other things...

Basically, I think this site is the perfect place to start a blog for the Irish language, and here I'd like to create the space for:

Language learning tips 😛

Sharing the culture that belongs to this language 🥳

Talking about the Gaeltacht (Irish-language Ireland), the Galltacht (English-language Ireland) and Ireland in its entirety 🎊

Celebrating and promoting all the dialects of Irish and the rest of the Gaelic-speaking world - not just the three biggest dialects (Corca Dhuibhne, Conamara 7 Gaoth Dobhair)

Giving each dialect its proper label (not labelling the three big dialects with the province wherein they're found, and forgetting about the rest 😭)

My own thoughts 🤠

So here's a big Fáilte romhaibh to all ye who'd like to interact with #Irish in this way, or have an interest in what this blog has to offer 😁🤗🎉

Go raibh míle maith agaibh 🥳

Wardrobe

I’m switching the camouflage of my shadow! I reckon, the past has met its plateau. Shame seems to be the source of spiritual vertigo.

Overthinking permits mental cobwebs to overgrow. With radical acceptance, I shall mow!

Reframing and validating the dark, I’m choosing my afterglow; Because the divine gave me the key to my crypto escrow.

Therefore, I will embody the golden ratio.

hating nasser in a "im egyptian living in the aftermath of his reckless and stupid and often corrupt and tyrannical policies" way and not in a "descended from feudal landowners who got their land redistributed" way or a capitalist way or a zionist way you feel me

i do not pity israel. never have, and never will.

each night that gaza experiences is deadlier than the last, as idf soldiers record propaganda tiktoks, make rave parties and grwms and fit checks, gloat over having food and water, and film themselves deriving sadistic pleasure from torturing their hostages and victims and desecrating the dead.

Palestinians have to display their martyred before the camera for you to believe the atrocities that the zionist entity has subjected them to. they cannot even mourn in private. the apartheid entity murders them in cold blood, and you deliver the killing blow by doubting them.

babies whose families have been killed will never get to know their own name.

i can't reshare a tenth of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. i have seen more dead children in the past month than i have known death my entire life.

israeli settlers burn olive trees, bomb bakeries and fishing boats, shower white phosphorus and earthquake bombs on the captive civilians of gaza. you already know about the disastrous effects of white phosphorus, but earthquake bombs were last used during ww2 to wipe out entire cities.

how holy is the land that seeks to be built over the mass graves of thousands of children? is it holier than the miracle of a child being born in this hypocritical world?

all 11 universities in gaza have been bombed. academics should be agitating right now, especially those who call themselves "decolonial thinkers." destruction of universities is a sinisterly deliberate act to sabotage the Palestinians who will survive this great catastrophe.

the act of cleansing your hands before prayer is extremely important to muslims. no part of us can remotely comprehend the grief of the mother who refused to wash her hands from the blood of her children after losing them in a zionist airstrike over gaza. "I swear I won't wash them, I won't wash my hands, how else am I supposed to sleep near my kids."

it is only both moral and right when one side defends itself. the other side are the price of war, no better than insects and cattle and sheep left to die within the four walls of the slaughterhouse.

this situation should not be up for debate, but let me finish with one final thing : do your research about Palestine. HOWEVER. you do not need a degree in middle east studies to object to an ongoing genocide. if someone outwits you in a debate about historical details and every nuance of a subject, you were and will remain entirely correct in objecting to a genocide.

may those martyred rest in peace and be reunited again with their loved ones in heaven's eternal vastness.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

glory to Palestinian resistance. from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris • January 2024

[To love is a decolonial verb, action and strategy.

To love in times of hatred is a revolutionary act.]

so i study decolonization, as in i studied it as part of my degree, and i thought I'd make a list of some readings/films that might offer additional insight about decolonization (it also helps if you're tired of the christian moralistic thinking)

occupation 101 (can be found on youtube i believe, it's about the history between isreal and palestine, it focuses on palestinians and it is quite comprehensive. there's live footage, there's interviews with palestinian children, etc. it's a must watch i think, regarding palestine. it points the finger squarely at the united states.)

the wretched of the earth, franz fanon. fanon is really well known in the decolonization sphere because he writes about it in a very succinct and clear way. to him, decolonization can never occur peacefully, and i think that's a really important key lesson. he also talks about how colonizers don't just take land, they reframe ideas, they take language, art, thoughts.

the battle of algiers, 1966. this is a fascinating film, it's sort of a documentary, they got the actual people to play their parts. it describes and interviews the main individuals involved in the fight for independence within Algiers. i think understanding how a nation can gain independence over its colonial forces is really important in the grand scheme of decolonialism.

unthinking eurocentrism. if you can get your hands on it, i love this text. it's so poignant and it lays everything out so clearly and it really shows how we center our worlds around eurocentrism and westernism.

queer palestinian and arab content please

I love this, I will admit I am still doing research into queer Palestine, but here are some of the books I have been recommended to pick up so far!

Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Sa'ed Atshan

Decolonial Queering in Palestine

Walaa Alqaisiya

(Some of the links above are affiliate links, and I will be donating the profits of that)

As for other resources, there is Queering the Map, a project I have been a fan of for a while now.

🍉 Queer Palestinian Books 🍉

🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜

🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha 🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham 🍉 Birthright by George Abraham 🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad 🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman

🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy 🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi 🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro 🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As 🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya 🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou 🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers 🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad

In shadows cast by history’s hand,

We tread a path toward promised land.

Decolonizing hearts, we strive to heal,

The wounds of then, now time to feel.

Injustice sowed, in silence wept,

Generational pain, in ourselves, it’s kept.

But in unity, we find the way,

To break the chains of colonial dismay.

With hope and love, we’ll rewrite the story,

Decolonizing hearts, in all their glory.

From stolen dreams, and stolen lands,

We reclaim our roots, and we’ll take a stand.

The tears we shed, the battles we wage,

Will turn into hope for the next generational stage.

So, let our tears be a river that cleanses the past,

As we decolonize hearts, and find freedom at last.

if you just got involved in anti-imperialist and decolonial organizing I love you and am proud of you and your work matters. if you've been involved for years or decades and it sometimes feels like wringing water from a stone I love you and am proud of you and your work matters. if you live in a place without an established movement and you're trying to get something started I love you and am proud of you and your work matters. if you live in a place where the movement is internally dysfunctional and you're trying to pull it together I love you and am proud of you and your work matters. if you're disabled and your contributions are devalued I love you and am proud of you and your work matters. if you sometimes feel that the forms of action you can participate in are insignificant but you participate anyway I love you and am proud of you and your work matters. if you're struggling to figure out how to be involved I love you and am proud of you and you will find where you fit and continue to learn new skills and grow and become a more effective revolutionary over your entire life. ik this is kind of corny but it's important. we live under oppressive regimes that are actively trying to cultivate despair and nihilism to stop our work. they're lying, we can win, we will win, your work matters and I love you "It is our duty to fight for our freedom, it is our duty to win, we must love each other and support each other, we have nothing to lose but our chains" - Assata Shakur