12/11/2024
In this interview with Advaya, CfBS founder Ka Leny Strobel discusses diasporic identity formation; reconfiguring belonging in the context of empire, as a process of re-membering; how she draws from the well of liminal space; and more.
A short excerpt:
“…And when you look at coloniality, you have to look at the matrix, which is ontological, it's epistemological, it's legal, and there are structures that supported it. So, when you come to understand the global system, from that perspective, you know that it's been out of balance, and this is what Indigenous peoples have always said, that if we don't talk back, if we don't address modernity, then the world is going to be destroyed by the little brother, indigenous peoples call us their little brother. So I think this is part of the reason why indigenous discourse is also beginning to take centre stage in a lot of discourse. And a lot of folks that are trying to think outside of the Western paradigm, the modern paradigm, is to begin to look at the other sources of power, where do we draw that from, and what would the world look like if we begin to think outside of that framework?”
Ka Leny speaks with and from her personal history and experience of being a Kapampangan from Central Luzon in the Philippines, and (currently) a settler on Wappo, Pomo, and Coast Miwok lands.
https://advaya.life/articles/decolonisation-as-re-membering?
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