#counternarrative

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I believe that truth and reconciliation are sequential. You have to to tell the truth first. You have to create a consciousness around the truth before you can have any hopes of reconciliation.

- Bryan Stevenson, “Truth & Reconciliation” in Aperture 230, p. 27

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Everything we believe is a story. That red in a traffic light means “stop” while green means “go.” The idea of Western scientific thinking as free of bias. That peanut butter and jelly is the perfect kid’s meal. The American dream. Everything. Whether they’re good stories or bad stories isn’t the point. What matters is that they’re all things we’ve collectively decided or have been taught to us as being true, and we don’t usually question them. We’ve all been shaped by the stories the world has given us from the day we were born. They’re wallpaper in the house of our minds. They subtly color how we think; they’re the lens we use to make sense of the world.

#beautifulresistance by Shveta Thakrar

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These works by Rhys and Keene, and my small contribution of "At the Lisbon Plate," take mapping as a strategy—of unearthing, unlayering, and revealing. Using, perhaps, the same structure of storytelling—mirroring and correcting or mirroring to correct. My concern is if that is enough for decentring. What if one ignores entirely that which has been produced so far as it exists along a colonial schema? A schema that makes the narrative of empire addressable always, that leaves intact the history and method of colonial narrativizing, and presumes a unitary subject of narrative production?

Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (2020), p37

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“But similar to the proliferation of rumors and falsehoods on social media platforms, the printing press also facilitated the circulation of rumors and fake news in sensationalist pamphlets and broadsides."

The Multiplication of Monsters: From Gutenberg to QAnon

Throughout history the introduction of new technologies has increased the circulation and acceptance of rumors and disinformation.

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Matt Braynard Planning Jan. 6 Counternarrative Rally

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#Repost @communityreadingroom ・・・ Please join Dr Denise Chapman and special guests Sista Zai Zanda, Maxime Banks, Amarachi Okorom and Achut Thuc for ‘(Re)Storying our Freedom’ - an evening of poetry and storytelling exploring the impact of oppression on the mind and the body.  The artists will discuss a range of methods for understanding / troubling / resisting / speaking to oppressive social structures and power. FREE and all welcome. . Image: a grainy black and white photograph of a microphone nestled in the curled mic lead. It sits on top of a PA speaker. Text in the top left corner reads: “tonight 6:30-8:30pm Testing Grounds, Achut Thuc, Amarachi Okorom, Denise Chapman, Maxime Banks, Sista Zai Zanda. . . Testing Grounds is accessible for people using wheelchairs. Bathrooms are gender neutral and there are baby change facilities. . . Black Tourmaline is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Carstairs Prize, funded by a private donor and administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). #navagrants . . #testinggrounds #communityreadingroom #counternarrative #readingroom #blacktourmalineproject #narrm #birraranga #melbourne #publicpedagogy #communityeducation #communitylibrary #archiveproject #discursiveproject #books #artbooks #margintocentre #decolonisetheacademy #poetry #storytelling #resistance https://www.instagram.com/p/ByaI487Acrq/?igshid=6ljbl11k28mp

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Juan's Shadow Box

Juan’s Shadow Box

My Shadow Box

By:Juan Mendoza Avila

I have chosen to include the U.S flag because it is one of my counter narratives for when people call me an illegal immigrant.Which,I am not because I have a U.S nationality.When people find out I am Mexican they jump to assumptions that I am going to drop out or even maybe be nothing in life.In my Shadow box I added pictures of my promotions.I am working…

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Alternative museum tours explore colonial loot, biased narratives

Art historian Alice Procter's 'Uncomfortable Art Tours' come amid renewed debate over Europe returning African art.

London, England - "The South Sea Company did not trade in fish," says Alice Procter, as she shows visitors around Queen's House, a maritime museum in Greenwich, southeast London. "They traded in something far more valuable to the English monarchy - slaves."

The 23-year-old Australian art historian is behind the "Uncomfortable Art Tours", a series of museum visits in the capital exploring history with a twist.

She focuses on what she describes as racist narratives and an ideology that underpins the objects displayed in European exhibitions from the colonial period, which isn't always mentioned.