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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: guest98
Date: June 5, 2023, 4:00 pm
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HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/here-s-how-code-switching-can-hurt-black-indigenous-people-in-canada-1.6427374
Here's how 'code-switching' can hurt Black, Indigenous people in
Canada
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>
>
> In a dominantly whiteculture[business], racialized people in
Canada may "codeswitch", Selam Debs, an antiracism coach said.
>
> Code-switching refers to a person changing their behaviour,
expression or appearance Debs told CTV's Your Morning on Monday,
explaining the reasons for doing so can include safety, job
opportunities or quality service.
>
> "Black, Indigenous and racialized folks are often considered
'the other' when it comes to accents," she said. "So we might
change the way that we speak, recognizing that it is in
relationship with trying to fit into what is considered
professional."
>
> Other examples of code-switching include changing hairstyle
for a job opportunity, not wearing traditional clothing, or
having to consciously avoid being stereotyped.
>
> Black youth feeling they can’t wear certain fashions, due to
safety concerns are they types of subtle switches that can weigh
on a person, Debs said, which can cause further stress.
>
> "When you are constantly putting yourself in a pretzel, it can
lead to anxiety, it can lead to a sense of havoc, feeling
impostor syndrome, feeling like you have to work twice as hard,
but receive twice as less," she said.
>
> Stopping that pattern requires safe spaces for people to be
themselves, and that requires everyone’s consideration, Debs
says.
>
> "Who are we holding as the human universal standard? And how
can we begin to disrupt that and think about what we consider
professional and recognize that the diversity in the
representation of cultures and peoples actually makes our spaces
more beautiful and more impactful."
>
>
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If you try to act in a inauthentic way in order to be included
in the "white" business then your colonized.
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 13, 2023, 4:40 pm
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Ongoing success:
HTML https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-crown-act-formally-signed-by-abbott-in-ceremony/
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> AUSTIN (KXAN)— On Monday morning, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
signed the Crown Act into law in a formal signing ceremony at
the Texas Capitol. The law bans discrimination against someone
for wearing Black natural hairstyles like braids, locks and
twists.
>
> The CROWN Act is an acronym for Creating a Respectful and Open
World for Natural hair, and it prohibits school districts,
colleges or universities, employers or labor unions to
discriminate against any protected hairstyle as part of a dress
code.
> ...
> CROWN Act bills have been passed in 21 states including Texas
and are part of a national civil rights and anti-discrimination
movement started in 2019.
> ...
> The Texas representatives behind the bill hope people not only
do feel courage to move forward, but will take legal action of
they feel like their rights have been violated under the new
law.
>
> “I have suffered the same micro aggressions that the people i
was fighting to protect have and with every bit of every bit of
my soul it means so much to me that we can make this happen and
this will touch the generations,” Bowers said.
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Further information:
HTML https://www.thecrownact.com/
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 14, 2023, 4:01 pm
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HTML https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/06/wales-slavery-complicit-charlotte-hammond-cardiff/
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> Wales must acknowledge its complicity in “colonial
exploitation” because the nation’s wool was used in garments
worn by slaves, a historian has said.
>
> Dr Charlotte Hammond, a Cardiff University academic, recounts
in a new book how the wool, known as “Welsh plains”, was both
used as a commodity to trade for slaves and as the material for
enslaved peoples’ clothing.
> ...
> The “Welsh plains” wool was uncomfortably coarse, and was
distributed to slaves to fashion as they wanted, rather than
being given ready to wear clothes.
> ...
> the term ‘Negro Cloth’ appears frequently in colonial archives
to refer to the woollens used to clothe enslaved people.”
> ...
> “We have followed the cloth’s colonial connections to the
Caribbean and southern states of the US, where Welsh plains was
used to clothe enslaved field workers who toiled on the
plantations.”
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I never liked wearing wool. Besides being fundamentally a
Turanian material, it is highly insulating and thus unsuitable
for warmer habitats. It is not a coincidence that wool
production economically facilitated the Renaissance:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool#History
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> In medieval times, as trade connections expanded, the
Champagne fairs revolved around the production of wool cloth in
small centers such as Provins. The network developed by the
annual fairs meant the woolens of Provins might find their way
to Naples, Sicily, Cyprus, Majorca, Spain, and even
Constantinople.[21] The wool trade developed into serious
business, a generator of capital.[22] In the 13th century, the
wool trade became the economic engine of the Low Countries and
central Italy. By the end of the 14th century, Italy
predominated.[21]
> ...
> The value of exports of English raw wool were rivaled only by
the 15th-century sheepwalks of Castile and were a significant
source of income to the English crown, which in 1275 had imposed
an export tax on wool called the "Great Custom". The importance
of wool to the English economy can be seen in the fact that
since the 14th century, the presiding officer of the House of
Lords has sat on the "Woolsack", a chair stuffed with wool.
> ...
> Before the flowering of the Renaissance, the Medici and other
great banking houses of Florence had built their wealth and
banking system on their textile industry based on wool, overseen
by the Arte della Lana, the wool guild: wool textile interests
guided Florentine policies. Francesco Datini, the "merchant of
Prato", established in 1383 an Arte della Lana for that small
Tuscan city. The sheepwalks of Castile were controlled by the
Mesta union of sheep owners. They shaped the landscape and the
fortunes of the meseta that lies in the heart of the Iberian
peninsula; in the 16th century, a unified Spain allowed export
of Merino lambs only with royal permission. The German wool
market – based on sheep of Spanish origin – did not overtake
British wool until comparatively late. Later, the Industrial
Revolution introduced mass production technology into wool and
wool cloth manufacturing. Australia's colonial economy was based
on sheep raising, and the Australian wool trade eventually
overtook that of the Germans by 1845, furnishing wool for
Bradford, which developed as the heart of industrialized woolens
production.
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(see also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg13234/#msg13234<br
/>)
and with it, the colonial era itself:
HTML https://www.raisingsheep.net/history-of-wool
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> Sheep herding was a booming success in medieval England and a
highly sought after career. Demand for wool was monstrous.
Because of this, many governments placed a heavy tax on wool
imports and exports to support their own agendas. This funded
military ventures and expansion efforts.
> ...
> Bringing Wool to Other Parts of the World
>
> In the 1700s, European tradesmen began to take their sheep and
wool products to other parts of the world. It was around this
time that sheep’s wool made it to both South Africa and
Australia.
>
> In fact, the wool industry was so lucrative during this period
wool import and export taxes funded Christopher Columbus’
journey to the Americas. Columbus even brought sheep with him on
his multiple journeys, and introduced them to this new land.
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The worst victims of the wool industry are of course the sheep
themselves. Wild sheep did not grow such copious quantities of
wool; woolly sheep are the product of selective breeding for
wool growth. Woolly sheep should never have existed; those left
unshorn are prone to overheating inside their own wool:
HTML https://video-images.vice.com/articles/6038276038fc91009d3b6fbf/lede/1614295271287-00093q4vd.jpeg
while those who are sheared are subject to the whims of the
shearers:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_shearing#Animal_welfare
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> Animal welfare organizations have raised concerns about the
abuse of sheep during shearing, and have advocated against the
selling and buying of wool products.[16] Sheep shearers are paid
by the number of sheep shorn, not by the hour, and there are no
requirements for formal training or accreditation.[17] Because
of this it is alleged that speed is prioritised over precision
and care of the animal.
>
> In 2013, an anonymous shearer reported instances of animal
abuse by workers, an allegation to which an Australian Worker's
Union representative added that he had witnessed "shearers gouge
eyes and break sheep jaws."[18]
> ...
> video footage that PETA said was taken in more than a dozen
shearing sheds in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
The Guardian reported that the video showed, "sheep being
roughly handled, punched in the face and stamped upon. One sheep
was beaten with a hammer while another was shown having a deep
cut crudely sewn up."[19]
> ...
> More recent footage and images of Australian workers abusing
sheep have been released by anonymous sources
> ...
> Sheep shearing and wool handling competitions are held
regularly in parts of the world, particularly Ireland, the UK,
South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.[25] As sheep shearing
is an arduous task, speed shearers, for all types of equipment
and sheep, are usually very fit and well trained. In Wales a
sheep shearing contest is one of the events of the Royal Welsh
Show, the country's premier agricultural show held near Builth
Wells.
>
> The world's largest sheep shearing and wool handling contest,
the Golden Shears, is held in the Wairarapa district, New
Zealand.[26]
>
> The shearing World Championships are hosted by different
countries every 2–3 years and eight countries have hosted the
event. The first World Championships were held at the Bath &
West showground, England, in 1977, and the first
Machine-Shearing winner was Roger Cox from New Zealand. Other
countries that have hosted the sheep shearing World
Championships have been New Zealand (3 times), England (3
times), Australia (2 times), Wales, Ireland, Scotland, South
Africa & Norway. Out of 13 World Championships, New Zealand have
won the team Machine contest 10 times, and famous New Zealand
sheep-shearer David Fagan has been World Champion a record 5
times.[27]
>
> In October, 2008 the event was hosted in Norway. It was the
first time ever that the event was hosted by a non-English
speaking country. The newly crowned World Machine Shearing
champion is Paul Avery from New Zealand. New Zealand also won
the team event, and the traditional blade-shears World Champion
is Ziewilelle Hans from South Africa.
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Superior people wear Aryan cloths:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton#History
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> The earliest evidence of the use of cotton in the Old World,
dated to 5500 BC and preserved in copper beads, has been found
at the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh, at the foot of the Bolan Pass
in ancient India, today in Balochistan Pakistan.[9][10][11]
Fragments of cotton textiles have been found at Mohenjo-daro and
other sites of the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization, and
cotton may have been an important export from it.[12]
> ...
> Cotton bolls discovered in a cave near Tehuacán, Mexico, have
been dated to as early as 5500 BC, but this date has been
challenged.[13] More securely dated is the domestication of
Gossypium hirsutum in Mexico between around 3400 and 2300
BC.[14] During this time, people between the Río Santiago and
the Río Balsas grew, spun, wove, dyed, and sewed cotton. What
they did not use themselves, they sent to their Aztec rulers as
tribute, on the scale of ~116 million pounds annually.[15]
>
> In Peru, cultivation of the indigenous cotton species
Gossypium barbadense has been dated, from a find in Ancon, to
c. 4200 BC,[16] and was the backbone of the development of
coastal cultures such as the Norte Chico, Moche, and Nazca.
> ...
> According to the Columbia Encyclopedia:[17]
>
> Cotton has been spun, woven, and dyed since prehistoric times.
It clothed the people of ancient India, Egypt, and China.
Hundreds of years before the Christian era, cotton textiles were
woven in India with matchless skill, and their use spread to the
Mediterranean countries.
> ...
> In Iran (Persia), the history of cotton dates back to the
Achaemenid era (5th century BC)
> ...
> Cotton (Gossypium herbaceum Linnaeus) may have been
domesticated 5000 BC in eastern Sudan near the Middle Nile Basin
region, where cotton cloth was being produced.[19]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#History
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> Hemp use archaeologically dates back to the Neolithic Age in
China, with hemp fiber imprints found on Yangshao culture
pottery dating from the 5th millennium BC.[128][132] The Chinese
later used hemp to make clothes, shoes, ropes, and an early form
of paper.[128]
> ...
> In Japan, hemp was historically used as paper and a fiber
crop. There is archaeological evidence cannabis was used for
clothing and the seeds were eaten
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linen#History
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> in ancient Mesopotamia, flax was domesticated and linen was
produced.[14] It was used mainly by the wealthier class of the
society, including priests.[15] The Sumerian poem of the
courtship of Inanna mentions flax and linen.[16]
>
> In ancient Egypt, linen was used for mummification and for
burial shrouds. It was also worn as clothing on a daily basis;
white linen was worn because of the extreme heat.[citation
needed] For example, the Tarkhan dress, considered to be among
the oldest woven garments in the world and dated to between 3482
and 3102 BC, is made of linen.[17] Plutarch wrote that the
priests of Isis also wore linen because of its purity.[18][19]
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: August 21, 2023, 11:06 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/OgbeniDemola/status/1693650829604008312
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> There’s a way we dress in Africa- we open our bodies sometimes
because of the weather, Europeans wear suit and tie because of
their cold weather. It’s only Africans that will wear suit and
tie inside a hot scorching sun thinking they’re civilized.
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 30, 2023, 6:08 pm
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Credit to the staff for at least trying to decolonize your
interior decor, but so what? The official's Western suit
instantly ruins it all:
[img]
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HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-response-uss-raimondo-says-011408126.html
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 3, 2023, 10:57 pm
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Continuing from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/france's-'anti-separatism'-bill8203/msg21767/#msg21767
Backup has arrived!
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/nike-designer-tells-french-schoolgirls-060000437.html
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> Nike designer tells French schoolgirls to defy Islamic abaya
dress ban
> ...
> London-based fashion influencer Saeedah Haque has designed
modern variations of the robe-like “abaya” garment, intended to
preserve modesty, which will be banned from state schools by the
French State in line with its policy of preserving secular
spaces.
>
> British Bengali designer Ms Haque has urged French schoolgirls
to attend school wearing abayas in defiance of the new
prohibition.
>
> The 25-year-old, who has partnered with the global brand Nike,
has told her large social media following that she may offer the
controversial garment for free to anyone who wears one to
school.
>
> “The abaya is not a religious garment, but a cultural one. It
is not a symbol of religion,’’ Ms Haque said.
>
> ‘‘Bans on an ambiguous garment leaves sanctions up to the
perception of head teachers and those in positions of power.
This will not always be fair and in most cases rooted in
discrimination of certain groups while allowing others such as
those that are of closer proximity to whiteness.’’
>
> Ms Haque also said: ‘‘Bans on modest clothing are dangerous
and oppressive – you are giving girls an ultimatum and forcing
them to uncover their bodies. They may be uncomfortable to do
this for reasons that are not faith-related – perpetuating body
insecurity and harassment. This creates a barrier to education
far more harmful than any piece of clothing can.”
>
> Ms Haque, who has been profiled in fashion magazine Grazia as
a leader in “modest fashion”, has told her social media
followers in video on Tiktok: “France’s ban on the abaya in
schools this week doesn’t make sense and will continue to
perpetuate the negative media narrative on conservative modest
clothing.”
>
> In the video cut with images of girls wearing the flowing
abaya, which typically covers the body from the neck to the
ankles, she added her new designs of the garment will drop
“exclusive to France”.
>
> It continues: “And if you send me a photo of you wearing it to
school I might even refund your whole order.
>
> “Streetwear was always a movement, so don’t act surprised, we
haven’t even begun. How’s that for neutrality?”
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HTML https://saeedahhaque.com/
[img]
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[img]
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See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/allies/bds-288/msg9378/#msg9378
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 8, 2023, 5:00 pm
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The US being American (instead of Western) for once:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-panel-denounces-france-abaya-192512659.html
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> US panel denounces France abaya ban as targeting Muslims
>
> A US government advisory panel on Friday denounced ally
France's ban on schoolgirls wearing abayas, saying the
restriction on the long, flowing dresses was meant to
"intimidate" the Muslim minority.
> ...
> "France continues to wield a specific interpretation of
secularism to target and intimidate religious groups,
particularly Muslims," Cooper said in a statement.
> ...
> Conservative French politicians have sought to widen
restrictions. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who came in second
to President Emmanuel Macron in last year's presidential
election, has campaigned for the banning of wearing veils in the
street.
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: =
Date: September 19, 2023, 5:52 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66848381
Schumer relaxes US Senate dress code to allow hoodies
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>
>
> US senators no longer have to follow a dress code when voting
on bills or debating in the senate gallery.
>
> Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has directed the sergeant
at arms to stop enforcing a requirement that lawmakers wear
"business attire".
>
> Senators have long dressed more freely in other parts of the
Capitol.
>
> CBS News also reported that the relaxed dress code only
applies to lawmakers' wardrobes. Staff members and others must
continue to wear office-appropriate clothes and shoes in the
historic chamber.
>
> Republicans have criticised the dress code change on X,
formerly known as Twitter.
>
> The House of Representatives has a more formal dress code that
lawmakers modify through voting. In 2019, for example, the House
approved allowing members to wear religious headwear such as
hijabs.
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: Z
Date: September 19, 2023, 6:09 pm
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--- Quote ---
> Republicans have criticised the dress code change on X,
formerly known as Twitter.
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Western suits are obviously the best way for western rightists
to hide their often grotesque physique and look some what
"respectable", "professional", and healthy. Not surprised
Republicans do not like the dress code change.
HTML https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12D44/production/_90842177_mediaitem90842176.jpg
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Re: Dress decolonization
DIR By: NoBrakes
Date: September 28, 2023, 3:59 pm
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Senate votes to reinstate formal dress code
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> The Senate unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday night
formalizing business attire as the proper dress code while on
the floor of the chamber.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30Fx1zAQO8
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