#Repost @brownenvironmentalist (@get_repost)・・・Happy Monday y’all. Let’s start off the week with the

#Repost @brownenvironmentalist (@get_repost)・・・Happy Monday y’all. Let’s start off the week with the other half of our discussion: as in, what’s the counter to erasure? Well, if erasure is erasing or obscuring (etc etc), then its natural counter would be: to name or to voice. Last week, @beinggreenwhileblack sent us toward the Afrocentric concept “nommo”, which “refers to the powers of the word to generate and create reality” as conceived by Molefi Asante. The term recognizes the power of the spoken word. How does this apply to visual places like IG, other news forms, or even things we read? Even though we might not ever read a caption out loud, we’ll carry these images or narratives with us after we put our phones down, and eventually share them with our peers, colleagues, children, and others. Our reiterations then become spoken word. Our spoken word thus affects reality. Finally, when we name, then, it’s not only important that we do so, but that we do so accurately and wholly. More on this below.//\\//How is listening or giving space a form of naming? We’re open to discussion, but it has to do with allowing for this recognizing to happen and have its place. If we’re constantly dismissing how others experience the world, then we’re not giving the space to name, and effectively erasing or even limiting. In the last comments, @skynoire expounded on the dangers of the single narrative, or even the pressure one feels to reinforce a single narrative or fit a certain neat box or stereotype. When we do give space for new names to rise, new stories to be shared, and we listen and give validity to these experiences, then we’re letting old, rigid molds to be broken, and giving space for new narratives to shine.\////\#mondaymorning #mondaysamirite #monday #melaninbasecamp #writing #discussion #naming #nommo #BGWB #criticalecology #brownenvironmentalist #givespace #reclaim #rename #correct #decolonize #respect -- source link

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