Tag: Colonisation

Elijah Luke Michel eyes the proposed curriculum changes to the teaching of gender identity and reflects on the pre-colonial normality of trans identities. Life was very different for indigenous nations around the world prior to the arrival of visitors, who brought with them their religious worldviews, monogamy, binary gender constructs...

Nī Dekkers-Reihana weaves their way out of colonial binaries into an authentic ‘unctie’. In 2021, I got a new job. In preparation for the mahi, I had been reading the organisation’s mission statement and the word decolonisation kept coming up. Decolonisation. It’s a hot buzzword everyone’s talking about. I found myself...