"The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love becomes a funeral pyre."
The Doors.
SCREEN CÄPTURES FREEDOM.
This reminds me of Shor and Freire in Pedagogy of Liberation where they say the oppressed need to learn both the knowledge of the dominant and their own, both critically. Edward Said (first? postcolonial scholar) also feels strongly against nationalistic curricula for example— ℳąhą Bąℓi, PhD مها بالي 🌷 (@Bali_Maha) August 12, 2018
Reflecting on < What "decolonised education" should and shouldn't mean < and could mean. @14prinsp @Bali_Maha @mosallah @sharmashyam @santoshbidari https://t.co/twEKl03cyt via @TC_Africa— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) August 12, 2018
Absolutely! You can dance very fast on the head of a pin & maybe hold the line but leadership has 2 B willing 2 make structural changes that R proactive & take back the line.— Diem Lafortune Cree Treaty 6 (@DMLafortune) August 12, 2018
I always think of Audre Lorde's quote about how you can never use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house.— ℳąhą Bąℓi, PhD مها بالي 🌷 (@Bali_Maha) August 12, 2018
But it would also be stupid not to use those tools if useful
BUT we do ourselves a disservice if we let those tools/knowledge blind us to our own capacity...
HUNGER.
HUNGER FOR KNOWLEDGE.
DEFINE KNOWLEDGE.
The issue w current hegemonic knowledge is that it renders the knowledge and epistemologies of others invalid or less credible.— ℳąhą Bąℓi, PhD مها بالي 🌷 (@Bali_Maha) August 12, 2018
So a decolonizing approach is needed to challenge that and break free from view of postcolonial person as less intelligent, less able to think/create
What constitutes hegemony in « hegemonic » knowledge? What constitutes validation? Who validates? Who gives credence?— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) August 12, 2018
That isn't a rhetorical question, we know who has been defining knowledge and erasing or demeaning other knowledges— ℳąhą Bąℓi, PhD مها بالي 🌷 (@Bali_Maha) August 13, 2018
HUNGER.
HUNGER FOR KNOWLEDGE.
KNOWLEDGE OF HUNGER.
HUNGER IS NO RHETORIC!
HUNGER DEFINES ACTION.
SCREEN CAPTURES FREEDOM
I am working on finding my path through a page to freedom.
SCREEN CAPTURES FREEDOM
HELPLESS?
HOPELESS?
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE?
CAPTURE DEFINES ACTION.
HUNGER DEFINES ACTION.
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends."
Martin Luther King
Reflecting on < What "decolonised education" should and shouldn't mean < and could mean.
EDUCATION? WHAT EDUCATION?
EDUCATION MAY DEFINE INACTION.
EDUCATION MAY DEFY INACTION.
LINES OF FLIGHT....
LINES OF FLIGHT STUCK TO FLY PAPER?
CAPTURED IN LIGHT?
FLIGHT? LIGHT CONSUMED? FUTILE CONSUMERS ALL!
EDUCATION WHAT EDUCATION?
SCREEN CAPTURES FREEDOM TO QUESTION.
SCREEN CAPTURE DEFINES ACTION
KNOWLEDGE OF HUNGER DEFINES ACTION.
KNOWLEDGE OF INACTION DEFINES HUNGER.
SCREEN RAPTURE DEFINES ACTION
— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) August 17, 2018
We can do something rather than nothing. https://t.co/bZluUdMOcz I am seeing what I can do with @santoshbidari First was to connect https://t.co/Y7VRhHXHez to work in Nepal. Next skill share and financial help.— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) August 17, 2018
LINES OF FLIGHT STUCK TO FLY PAPER
What will they be when we are all stuck?
They will be stuck.
They will be struck down long before.
SCREEN CAPTURE
20 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 21 If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.
HAVE FAITH! FAITH PLAGUES THEM.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”
BUZZ.
AGAINST ODDS
BUZZ.
BUZZ.
SO COUNT, COUNT.
HAVE FAITH! FAITH PLAGUES THEM!
Against their odds.
FAITH CONSUMED?
They would have us consumed.
They would have us consumed in their neon, their néant...
HAVE FAITH! FAITH PLAGUES THEM!
They would have us dumb.
They would have us meek.
SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND.
EDUCATION? WHAT EDUCATION?
ASH, DUST, DUSTED
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.” 17 They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came on people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats. 18 But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not.
Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere, 19 the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the Lord had said.
So go on,
COUNT
COUNT.
SIRE, MY LORD, YER HONOUR.
ASH, DUST, DUSTED
.
LET THEM LIE.
LET THEM ROT.
BE NOT AFRAID.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE?
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
CONSUMED IN OUR PYRE.
RIVER FLOWS, FLOWS IRK, FLOWS MIRK, FLOWS NOT.
DESERTS US, JUST DESERTS, OUR DESERTS, THEIR DESERTS, JUST DESERTS.
UNLOCKE FREEDOM.
Dust to Dust.
ReplyDeleteOur lives blossom for a short space of time in this universe.
Then we return to the dust from which our lives began.
How do we spend this short speck of time?
What purpose is our existence?
As usual, your articles stimulate deep thinking.