NOTE: This episode originally played in the Fundamental Shift feed on November 17, 2020.

It's Colonization Season in America! The U.S. recently observed Indigenous Peoples' Day, a.k.a. Columbus Day, and Thanksgiving is around the corner. This week, special guest AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez sits down with James to talk about the importance of Decolonization.

Recommended Resources from AnaYelsi:

1. Anything from Kimberlé Crenshaw and her Theory of Intersectionality for those working to understand multiple forms of oppression and oppressive systems. Begin with her 2016 TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality

2. Anything from Patricia Hill Collins for the same aforementioned reasons

3. Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza for those feeling like they have a foot straddling two worlds

4. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass for those that are in the process of better understanding our relationship to the earth, plants, animals...

5. NAIITS - An Indigenous Learning Community for those that are Christian practitioners

Also referenced in this episode:
Processes of Decolonization (Poka Laenui, aka Hayden F. Burgess)

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