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"We are more than a catalog of penetrations." #nwsa2019 #nwsa19 #indigenousfeminisms #oceanicfeminisms
People have been asking me what I think about the University of Toronto’s statement on the TMT Project, so I will share some thoughts in this thread.
#MaunaKea 1/
#MaunaKea 1/
I was glad to be interviewed for this article, and to appear in the article alongside others trying to convince our universities to show leadership and divest from the TMT Project cbc.ca/news/indigenou… 2/
Many people at UofT are trying to bring about change in terms of the relationships between the university and Indigenous communities. People realize that research has been done in exploitative and nonconsensual ways, and that research practice needs to be transformed. 3/
1/ I have a degree in Astrophysics and two degrees in physics. I am Indigenous and Chicana. As an indigenous scientist absolutely in love with space and our ways of studying it, it has been very difficult watching what is happening to #MaunaKea and #TMTShutdown #ProtectMaunaKea
2/ Indigenous scientists walk in many worlds and understand the challenges of bringing our culture with us into colonial structured spaces. Our people have always been scientists. Our people have always studied the stars. This is not science vs culture. #ProtectMaunaKea
3/ our sacred spaces should hold just as much value as the Vatican or the Western Wall. It would never even be a question to think of desecrating that space in the pursuit of science and yet Hawaiian elders are forced to put their bodies in the path of trucks to #ProtectMaunaKea
this is NOT getting enough shares.
let's support our #NativeHawaiian family. #MaunaKea in Hawaii is sacred land and is being threatened by construction. There have been heated protests. Please read up and spread the word.
let's support our #NativeHawaiian family. #MaunaKea in Hawaii is sacred land and is being threatened by construction. There have been heated protests. Please read up and spread the word.
local Hawaiian reporter posted this video of the protestors trying to protect #MaunaKea
via @TheTomGeorge
via @TheTomGeorge
