Colonialism
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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We Belong to the Land
Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Bronze-Verdigris: a Colonial History
Seeking liberty in stolen bowls, historical mansions, deadly wallpapers, and fugitive greens.
#Politics of Display
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Fabricating the Dodo: the Making and Unmaking of a Bird
Revealing natural history museums’ politics of preservation and representation through an uncanny encounter with the most famous extinct bird.
#Living Archives
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
#Earthshaking
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When a Stone Says No
Following willful stones and the creative potential of refusal against cultural colonialism.
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#Living Archives
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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
#Politics of Display
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Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha
Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.
#Epistemic Activism
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A Rejection of the Term “Vernacular”
An analysis of the colonizing word coined for the sake of othering design languages that dare to challenge Eurocentric norms.
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#Politics of Display
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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
#Epistemic Activism
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Wokefishing
The pretensive premise of progressive views, and the false activism in the fashion industry.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.