My research partner and I are both academics studying our own communities and we're realizing that even though we're trying to decolonize our methodology, we're still operating within university systems that extract knowledge from our people. We want to do work that serves our communities but we also need these degrees to survive, and we're both feeling complicit in ways that are hard to talk about.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are caught between survival within existing systems and loyalty to communities those systems have historically exploited.
“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”
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