#lilla watson

[plenilunada]

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

Lilla Watson

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"If you've come here to help me, you're wasting your time. But if you've come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." ~ Indigenous Australian Elder Lilla Watson "It's a long road we have come and it's a long road we can go. We have to walk together and talk together. If you never listen to me, I will never listen to you. I will not follow you. Walk side by side and let's get there." ~ Conrad Ratara, at a ceremonial handing back of ancestral lands to indigenous people in Australia

[thanks Ian Sanders]

[amor-rojo]

A decolonial feminism, by Françoise Vergès

Feminism involves so much more than gender equality, and it involves so much more than gender (Angela Davis)

Lilla Watson: If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

The essentialist argument of a female nature that would be better able to respect life and would desire a just and egalitarian society does not hold: women are a political category neither spontaneously nor in themselves. What justifies a re-appropriation of the term “feminism” is that its theories and practices are rooted in the awareness of a profound, concrete, daily experience of oppression produced by the state-patriarchy-capital matrix, which manufactures the category of “women” to legitimize policies of reproduction and assignment, both of which are racialized.

[seekhimfindhim]

If you have come here to help me, then you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Lilla Watson

[wellconstructedsentences]

If you have come to help me, then you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Lilla Watson

[ithelpstodream]

[philbildner]

I’ve been thinking about this expression more and more these days. Truth.