Thread by @karlajstrand

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"I believe you." #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

"We are more than a catalog of penetrations." #nwsa2019 #nwsa19 #indigenousfeminisms #oceanicfeminisms

Speakers will focus on Mauna Kea. Wahine have been protecting Mauna Kea for generations. Now it's been proposed to build the thirty meter telescope (TMT) on the mountain. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

They are still protecting the mountain with sit-ins, protests, blocking traffic and police, etc. The amount of labor is extensive. This fight is to protect #MaunaKea but also a fight for sovereignty and autonomy, against occupation, law breaking, hetpatriarchy. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Asserting own forms of jurisdiction, reinvesting own governing authority. @NoeGK has provided a powerful historical context and understanding of the issues surrounding Mauna Kea. So powerful. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

They provided their own security, created blockades, chained themselves to gates, stopped traffic, placed their bodies in front of one another for protection. Dehydrated and sunburned, they formed a backbone together in unwavering love of the land. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

There was also a "feminist abolition praxis" - willingness to fight for real freedom in the face of police, oppression, etc. They blocked construction vehicles on roads. Created an encampment and staging area. #maunakea #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

I'm afraid I can't do this session the justice it deserves, so my apologies for misspellings, misuse of words of which I'm mostly unfamiliar. No disrespect intended. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Blocking of the access road of #Maunakea is at 130 days. Blocking occupation with bodies. Call for a toppling of power and rising of the people. Overcoming of shame of displacement, dance to reestablish genealogical connection to the mountain. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

This is a decolonizing project of unlearning. The tears are flowing but it's okay because "We're all of the ocean." #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

This session has used poetics, chants, singing to expand and reflect #Indigenous feminisms. Origin stories are important, language is important; settler colonialism dislocates one from the language, bodies, land, and #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Settler colonialism deadens the senses and shrouds cultures in ambivalence. Aesthetics for liberation are carried within you. Opposite of anesthetic or the deadening of senses. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

"We carry our islands as we move." Language, poetry, storytelling, aesthetics help to reconnect, reestablish relationships to self, body, land, others. Examine and learn from stories. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19 #oceanicfeminisms #indigenousfeminisms

What will you write next? What will you speak with your grammar of liberation? #oceanicfeminisms #indigenousfeminisms #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

The use of singing for de-escalation: holding space and holding others, calming others. Surrounding and allowing others to feel emotions, keeping them safe. #NWSA2019 #nwsa19