Archive for the ‘wacky’ Category
coinage
Settler specie is typically littered with imagery of animals: the exotic ones unseen before in Europe. Occasionally, they display ‘the native’. with help from Newspaper Rock
Filed under: Australia, United States, wacky | 1 Comment
Leroux’s recent article on the commemoration of settler colonialism in Quebec reminded me of some photos I took… inside one of Montreal’s McDonalds restaurants.
Filed under: Canada, wacky | Closed
scs flyer
Be a friend: print out one of our flyers and stick it up in your faculty or department wall.
Filed under: Africa, art, Asia, Australia, Éire, Call for papers, Canada, Empire, gender, Genocide, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, law, media, New Zealand, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Seminar, Southern Africa, Sovereignty, Uncategorized, United States, wacky, Website | Closed
curiosities
via Historical Indulgences via otisarchives medical museum
Filed under: United States, wacky | 2 Comments
The fuel-sucking RV – a direct descendent of the Conestoga wagon and voortrekker kakebeenwa – celebrates a hundred years in 2010. The formula hasn’t changed much: hop in, traverse the ’empty’ wilderness, pull up at that piece of untouched beauty (or national park), inhale ‘unbreathed’ air.
Filed under: media, United States, wacky | Closed
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND words and music by Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, media, Quote, wacky | Closed
macca
via the deliciously sceptical Newspaper Rock
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
uncyclopedia
An alternative definition of settler colonialism from uncyclopedia: Utilising the ‘Overstaying Your Welcome’ strategy, settlers enter a weaker nation’s borders, ask for a drink and begin scrutinising their CD collection.
Filed under: Quote, wacky | Closed
freshly ground black people
Rachel Olding, ‘Penguin reprints book, peppered with an error, wants it to be taken with grain of salt’, SMH: The publishing company was forced to pulp and reprint 7000 copies of Pasta Bible last week after a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” – instead of pepper – to be added to […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments, wacky | Closed
settler vs indians board game
Yet another game with settler colonial theme. While the post-Orientalism settler world has slowly moved towards the non-trivialisation of indigenous culture in the grown-up realms of culture, it seems that kids are considered okay targets for this continuing sort of nonsense. Eric Tucker, ‘Settler vs. Indians board game rankles tribes’, associated press: One player wins […]
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
