Tag: colonialism

Why Is the Genie in ‘Aladdin’ Blue? A colonialist legacy…

There’s a simple answer for why the genie looks the way it does

The Problem With Disney Trademarking Swahili Phrase “Hakuna Matata”

Zimbabwean activist Shelton Mpala has created a Change.org petition calling for Disney to release its trademark

The racist language of space exploration

The language of colonialism is infecting outer space, thanks to dominance by rich white businessmen and politicians.

“Thor: Ragnarok”: Marvel From a Postcolonial Perspective

LINK: Siddhant Adlakha for the Village Voice

Call For Submissions: Indigenous Futurisms & Imagining The Decolonial

ANOMALY is seeking poetry, short fiction, essays, art, multimedia, and hybrid work by indigenous people and colonized people of color.

LINK: Read About It In Medium

#POCtober: The Aswang Phenomenon (2011) A Documentary

“What would happen if a country of 97 million people were taught at a young age that the boogie man was real? In the Philippines, for the last 400 years, the ‘aswang’ has been used as propoganda and social control by Spanish Colonizers, the Catholic Church, the Philippine government, and even the CIA.”

~Read More At IMDB

British Museum publishes Amara West guidebook in Arabic

And it’s free!

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Salon.com: Why Disney’s “first African princess” is the spirit animal for global white supremacy

Click here to read at Salon.com.

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Sci-fi through lens of racial inclusiveness

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