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Research Director of AI Ethics & Health, Joint Centre for Bioethics at University of Toronto. Social Scientist, Women's College Hospital (WIHV). Tweets my own.
Jun 9, 2021 13 tweets 5 min read
Colonization- Racism- Poverty- Climate crisis- Homelessness- Precarity- NIMBYism- Xenophobia- Hate- Apartheid- Corporate imperialism are all deeply connected. I am learning from Sylvia Wynter (see @WynterArchive) and Katherine McKittrick (@demonicground) about this. Long🧵(1/13) Wynter explains that active ignorance about human origins is the root of the problem. We live a lie about what we are as humans. And that lie is that biology is the only real, foundational truth about us. We ignore the ways that stories make us what we are.
McKittrick p. 11: