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IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE

Danielle Coffyn

There would be a parade,

a celebration,

a holiday to commemorate

the day he sought enlightenment.

We would not speak of

temptation by the devil, rather,

we would laud Adam’s curiosity,

his desire for adventure

and knowing.

We would feast

on apple-inspired fare:

tortes, chutneys, pancakes, pies,

There would be plays and songs

reenacting his courage.

But it was a eve who grew bored,

weary of her captivity in Eden.

And a woman’s desire

for freedom is rarely a cause

for celebration.

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“There’s a famous passage in the Dao De Jing (ancient Daoist text) which says:

“The Way that can be expressed is not the eternal Way.

The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

I love this line as human language thus far, as an act of description, has been entirely insufficient and actually quite harmful in capturing reality.

On a social level, for example, language is used as a tool of the oppressor to describe the deviant, the criminal, the Other.

This is why Judith Butler had to deconstruct the word ‘woman’ in Gender Trouble. It’s why Frantz Fanon had to deconstruct Blackness.

Unlearning and decolonising language is a necessary part of our re-education.

But increasingly I’m focused on the question of how language can help us create the future.

I’ve been really intrigued by Noam Chomsky’s transformational grammar and how we have surface structures and deep structures of meaning.

But fundamentally I’ve been inspired by the realisation that in our discourse, there is a language and a grammar of true recognition and affirmation that literally does not yet exist.”

— Alexander Zirui Zhang

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Some thoughts on our discursive future #decolonize #linguistics #theory #grammar

@alxzhg

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‘the epistemic force of place’... the preeminent foundation for popular-communal feminist politics of place that confronts heteropatriarchal and racist relations while fostering relational modes of re-existence centred on justice, healing, and care”

— Laura Rodriguez Castro (2020). Decolonial Feminims, Power and Place

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030594398

This book critically examines how colonial feminism has ignored the voices of women in the Global South and draws on participatory, ethnogra