RESOURCES

groups

media

videos

books


We support and promote decolonial perspectives presented by the following groups, collectives and organisations:

Indigenous rights

Peasant rights

Animal rights


Systems change


White supremacy and coloniality


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We recommend the following journalistic approaches:

Africa

Asia

  • can we make an app that creates a news feed from these curated sources?



Americas


Europe

Transnational/ Global Networks

Why We Don’t Recommend Academic Perspectives

Academic perspectives are often the first stop for people beginning to explore decolonisation, but we don’t recommend them. Their language is usually inaccessible, their concepts overly intellectual and rational, and their framing disconnected from lived realities. Most academic writing on decolonisation is written for other academics and cultivates an intellectual detachment that focus on theory without context. Engaging with these perspectives before understanding how the world actually operates leaves you ungrounded in the realities and lived experiences that decolonisation demands engagement with.

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We don’t feature Indigenous perspectives in our resources because engaging with them without first understanding the colonial world order we operate within carries a high risk of co-optation. Too often, Indigenous and BIPOC perspectives are offered on a silver plate to sustain and polish violent, white-supremacist systems, rather than to abolish them altogether. True decolonial work demands justice and reparations for harms past, present, and future, and a commitment to ending those systems, not improving them.

In response to the failures of dominant sustainability, there’s a growing rush to “borrow” Indigenous practices and spiritual frameworks, because that is way more comfortable than confronting and healing one’s own disconnection from heritage and land.

Such appropriative gestures further entrench colonial relations, turning Indigenous wisdom into a commodity for Western consumption. Decolonial work demands something harder:

  • Reckoning with one’s own colonial complicity.

  • Addressing heritage confusion and building contextual foundations for decolonial sustainabilities, rather than extracting from Indigenous worldviews.

  • Supporting Indigenous sovereignty instead of appropriating Indigenous lifeways.