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The plural is deployed here intentionally, in the spirit of divesting from colonial thinking about temporality, and embracing the manifold of open futures “beyond the strictures of colonial modes of thinking” (Moulin, 2016), as well as Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF), an arts and research collective that curates “artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being, and gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.” To read more about GTDF, see: www.decolonialfutures.net.
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For more critical analysis and insights on the discourse of reconciliation, see “The Scam of Reconciliation” Red Nation podcast interview with Uahikea Maile and Eva Jewell: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-scam-of-reconciliation- w-eva-jewell/id1482834485?i = 1,000,505,615,815.
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