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366) Daniel Heath Justice: Indigenous literature and decolonial libraries

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

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Is It Fair to Critique Imaginative Writing?

Yewl: How might the world look different if we didn't start with the corrosive and simplistic binary of savagism versus civilization? And what would fantasy fiction look like with women, indigenous peoples, queer folks and other stereotyped or marginal ise communities at the centre, rather than at the margins? Because fiction stories are really entirely up to the boundless imaginations of their authors, perhaps it can be hard to critique any individual story as being wrong or problematic. But i do wonder about the adactive and collective impact of the available fiction narratives out there - especially for our younger generations that may be engaging more with these stories. I think its incumbent upon us to challenge phantasy

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