Author: Claudia Alick

Calling Up Understanding Land Acknowledgements

The Calling Up Justice practice integrates decolonizing greetings for our in person and digital gatherings. This is a performance of creating access for those who feel alienated by the denial of colonization. It is important to interrupt normalized white domination. This practice is more traditionally called “Indigenous Land Acknowledgment” but we like to distance ourselves from the idea of nation and ownership and also open it up to include all populations negatively impacted by colonization and Supremacy Culture.

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Cultural Appropriation and Cultural Appreciation

Cultural Appropriation involves the commodification or misrepresentation of cultural elements, perpetuates stereotypes, disrespects or distorts the original culture, and contributes to the erasure of the contributions and experiences of the culture being appropriated.

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The Urgency of Intersectionality

Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term “intersectionality” to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you’re likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

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