From Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
In that awareness, looking over the objects on my desk – the basket, the candle, the paper – I delight in following their origins back to the ground. I twirl a pencil – a magic wand lathed from incense cedar – between my fingers. The willow bark in the aspirin. Even the metal of my lamp asks me to consider its roots in the strata of the earth. But I notice that my eyes and my thoughts pass quickly over the plastic on my desk. I hardly give my computer a second glance. I can muster no reflective moment for plastic. It is so far removed from the natural world. I wonder if that's a place where the disconnection began, the loss of respect, when we could no longer easily see the life within the object.
From Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer standpoint theory: a social theory arguing that group location in hierarchical power relations produces common challenges for individuals in those groups. Moreover, shared experiences can foster similar angles of vision leading to group knowledge or standpoint deemed essential for informed political action.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition self-determination: the power to decide one's own destiny.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition self-definition: the power to name one's own reality.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition rhetoric of color-blindness: a view of the world that resists talking of race because to do so is believed to perpetuate racism.
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