- The Icarus ProjectNonprofit Organization
- Settler deCOLONIZATIONEducation Website
- Hampton InstituteNonprofit Organization
- DecivilizedNonprofit Organization
- Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent PoliticsPolitical Organization
- Native Resistance NetworkOrganization
- Frente FotográficoMedia
- Friendly AnarchismPodcast
- It's Going DownOrganization
- Critical ResistanceNonprofit Organization
Unsettling "America" shared NM Con Mujeres's event.
"[T]he process is more complicated than you might think"
It's almost like settler-colonial private property laws are designed to keep it from happening or something. 
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"[I]t’s useful to connect the imposition of colonial gender systems to the need for reproductive labor under capitalist systems. In other words, the reification of two fixed gender categories, the framing of these categories along teleological reproductive timelines, the exclusion of women from public life, serve specific purposes within a capitalist system: the division of labor into productive and reproductive. If capitalism is a driver of colonization, and if colonization transforms gender systems, it’s worth investigating how capitalism and gender might relate. Oyěwùmí is keenly aware of this connection, exploring how the subordination of newly discovered women coincided with the expropriation of communal land and installation of slavery and wage labor in Yorubaland."
Unsettling "America" shared a link.
"The culture of white people is the culture of death. It is a culture of endless war, desensitization to human suffering, and the upholding of a brutal individualism fueled by greed. It is a deep, dark hole of grief and of loss. We don’t even know what we lost. We don’t know our ancestors. We don’t have stories of creation and hope and family; only stories of destruction and genocide. Our coming of age ceremony is a school shooting. Our song is a ballad about rockets and explosions. Our elders die alone surrounded by their stories of family members who no longer visit them. Our cities were built by the blood of slaves, on top of the graves of native people."
Unsettling "America" is seeking essay, article, poetry, & art (etc.) contributions and content suggestions regarding the theory and praxis of decolonization from below.
Want to suggest or submit content to Unsettling America? Submissions & content suggestions can be sent to unsettlingamerica [at] riseup [dot] `net
We are also seeking translators to translate texts and articles into other languages. Please get in touch if you’re interested!
"When settlers came over, they deemed the land unproductive despite the complex use of the land by Indigenous people. Following this, they believed they were entitled to the land because they thought themselves superior to manage land and labor. This white supremacy ideology initiated the Indigenous genocide, Indigenous land dispossession, and the enslavement of the African people."
Unsettling "America" shared a post.
Unsettling "America" shared Natán Rebelde's post.
Go to the original post for poignant debate and caricature-like demonstrations of white fragility.
The thing about "learning from indigenous people" is that folks want to learn selectively. They want to learn the philosophy and life ways in some respects, or ...at least toxic mimicry of them, but they don't want to listen and learn when native people tell them to stop stealing their ways and wisdom and instead to regain their own ancestral ways and wisdom in a good, genuine way. People don't want to listen and learn when native people tell them that the theft and mimicry is not only dishonest, but literally harmful to all involved. And people particularly don't want to listen when they're told to stop doing what they're doing. People want to learn the good feeling half of the lessons that native people and indigenous cultures can teach non-native people, but not the unsettling, uncomfortable parts. So long as this remains the case, the dynamics of settler-colonialism will continue to be replicated on the social and inter-personal level, and the cultural theft will continue.
See MoreKilling the Settler to Save the Human: The Untidy Work of Unsettling Klamath River Thus Far
Unsettling "America" is listening to Rustbelt Abolition Radio.
Nick Estes of The Red Nation talks decolonization, the carceral state, police and prison abolition, and more in a recent interview with Rustbelt Abolition Radio.
Unsettling "America" shared a link.
Unsettling "America" shared Tankie Vellum and Vinyl's post.
Unsettling "America" shared K'É Infoshop's event.
Join K'É Infoshop as they host Stella Martin for their #MatriarchMondays Womxn Circle on July 9th!
"Out of Settler Shadows: An Approach of Decolonizing Indigenous Queer Identities" w/ Stella Martin
Stella Martin is Diné from Tohatchi/Naschitti, NM Area. She is Kinyaa'aanii and born for Dzil tl'aahnii. She is a Native transgender advocate for the rural populations of the Navajo Reservation. She has spoken on issues affecting our marginalized communities including systemic oppr...ession, colonization, white privilege, racism, Transphobia and homophobia.
If you can't attend, please share the event far and wide!
