Bearers of Discomfort

Bearers of Discomfort

If being such, means
That our message
Sinks in and resonates
Beyond the skin
Flesh deep!

Whiteness matters: on domination and seeing what’s not to be seen

"We may be on our way to genuine hybridity, multiplicity without (white) hegemony, and it may be where we want to get to – but we aren’t there yet, and we won’t get there until we see whiteness... put it in its place and end its rule. This is why studying whiteness matters". ~ Dyer, 1997

On the Kony-Hate Campaign

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege ~ Teju Cole

I've been thinking alot about, but haven't had a chance to fully articulate, why this KONY-hate campaign bothers me so greatly.

We need to talk about Injustice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2tOp7OxyQ8&feature=youtu.be
Bryan Stevenson

Exploding the Myths I: 10 things your history teacher never told you

The histories of native peoples are often silenced, relegated to 'pre-history ... My question here is simply this: What are the the little-known histories that disrupt the dominant idea that "if it wasn't for us, you'd still be running around in grass skirts?"

Downing the Brown: When two tribes go to war

Representations of Māori in the media: "The processes of colonization attack us in our most sensitive areas: in the way we perceive ourselves blind to the way those perceptions have been constructed for us initially" ~ Spokane poet and scholar, Gloria Bird, 1993

Frankenstein Science: The Creation of the Warrior Gene

It may seem a stretch linking Shelley's Frankenstein to an exploration of 'the warrior gene' 5 years on, nevertheless the links are clear and unmistakable...

Out of a liberal’s Africa

Misinformation about Africa has become a growth industry in the West.
~ Ama Biney

I think I need a new category called 'pissed off' pieces. Cos every now and then I stumble across an article that makes me so mad I just want to hurl fury and insults...

Occupy Wall Street & Tame Iti: The power of the image

Don't panic! Tame Iti isn't occupying Wall Street (unless Wall St have their sights on te Urewera for some sort of mining project, wouldn't surprise me) - there's a method to my madness...

Occupy Wall Street: The power of police

Brief thought: Earlier this year a colleague was describing a visit to the Australian Embassy in Wellington to renew a passport. She had been shocked to find a significant police presence in the surrounding streets to the embassy until she realised that the Australian Prime Minister was visiting. Still, I had to wonder...