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The land remembers, not just the horrors of plunder at the hands of the colonizer, but the medicine, prayers, and rituals of those who care(d) for her. When we surrender ourselves to the earth, we are actively remembering and opening ourselves up to the gifts she has to offer. We are returning to the ancient, sacred wisdom of our ancestors who knew how to listen to what the land knows.

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Mutual aid reminds us that a new world isn’t just possible but is already in motion. It lives in the networks of care we are cultivating. It pulses through spaces of grief and healing where we gather. It ripples through our imagination. If we pay attention to what is happening around us, we begin to notice the ways in which a multitude of species practice worldbuilding, offering glimpses of the future possibilities we seek to nurture. 

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As the movement to decolonize our design practices continues to grow and emerge, I think it is important to reflect on how we can imagine, practice, and build outside the confines of the colonial imaginary. This requires us to implicate ourselves within the colonial systems we live under and recognize the ways in which we maintain and (re)produce colonial norms within the work we engage in.

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There are many kinds of love the state cannot legitimize, let alone protect. The love preserved in the prayers of our ancestors. The love held in how we care for and protect the earth. The love carried in queer entanglements. The love found in the dreams of our future kin. This is a meditation on that kind of love. The kind of love the state was never meant to hold and the kind we must refuse to let it steal from us

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We do not need better philanthropy—we need to end our reliance on it altogether and render it obsolete. This is not about reform, which merely rebrands the problem. This is about composting the logics that tether us to control and scarcity, and nurturing new ways of being rooted in dignity, reciprocity, and trust. We desperately need a radical reorientation of how power, resources, and responsibility are held and realised.

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There is rebellion in loving your bodymind without apology, in remembering that your grief and rage, too, are sacred and neither can be tamed. In these moments of defiance, we are not debating the terms of our existence but rightfully taking back our sovereignty. In doing so, we are creating our own blueprints and maps that are alive, layered, and messy. That refuse to distort the complexity the state tried to erase, that reject the legitimacy of borders drawn to displace us from our kin, that remember our bodyminds are living archives.

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Reclaiming our power requires us to create pockets of tenderness, joy, and rest. This is easier said than done, especially when our right to nurture ourselves and our communities is stolen from us. Many of us are conditioned to feel guilt, shame, and selfishness for protecting our peace and honoring our bodies. In reality, sustaining ourselves is necessary for survival and resistance, especially within spaces that are designed to demonize and discard us.

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In recent years, co-design has emerged as an increasingly popular area of interest to drive social change and transformation. Many practitioners hail co-design as the “solution” to community engagement as it fosters creativity, enables collaboration, and catalyzes innovation. However, what claims to be a way to democratize our design practices and share power ends up being a reproduction of whiteness and coloniality.