The Anti-Apartheid Movement was not called The Deapartheidisation Dialogues
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If anti-racism had been called deracismisation it would never have made any progress. In museums and other spaces of enduring colonial privilege, let’s work for anti-colonial actions— —rather than just endless dialogues and gestures appropriating the language of decolonisation.
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The resounding echoes of this statement will not fully be grasped right now... I'm very certain that this conversation will take a sharp turn for good once it is understood and the 'anti-colonial' term is used in the context that demands it.
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@tuckeve and yang wrote about this type of co-opting of the language of “decolonisation” in 2012, highlighting how it is really a “settler move to innocence” which avoids the real work — it’s really a brilliant article, avail here for any interested: https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I do rather like the word deracismisation.
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Anti-Colonisation we lack the language to articulate our intentions but we are doing it!
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