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In watching the mainstream media’s coverage of these events (the Ferguson uprising in 2015, Idle No More in 2012, and the Oka rebellion by Mohawks in Quebec in 1990) it seems difficult for Canadian and American society to see that love and rage are justified – to see Indigenous and Black peoples as fully human. I am repeatedly told that I cannot be angry if I want transformative change – that the expression of anger and rage as emotions are wrong, misguided and counter-productive to the movement. The underlying message in such statements is that we, as Indigenous and Black peoples, are not allowed to express a full range of human emotions.
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Haritaworn, J. (2017). What’s love got to do with it? Queer lovers, hateful Others and decolonial love. In: Fereidooni, K., El, M. (eds) Rassismuskritik und Widerstandsformen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14721-1_5
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