The first sources of the history of the people and regions that have been colonized, exploited, invaded, and stolen are oral and verbal sources. These are the primary sources; oral information passed from person to person explains what information has survived, as colonial records often silence or override them.
#OralHistory #DecolonizeArchives #IndigenousKnowledge #ColonialSilence #TruthTelling #AncestralVoices #HistoryFromBelow #PeoplePoweredHistory #MemoryAsResistance #CulturalPreservation
In 1958 the assistant headmaster did the Bible reading at the morning assembly of the Karachi Grammar School (Pakistan), founded in 1848 by the Church of England. The reading from Acts 17:23 concerned St. Paul’s declaration upon seeing the Athenian monument to an unknown God. “What you worship but do not know—this is what I
ECHOES OF HISTORY (THEN AND NOW):
Ranke: Primary sources and objectivity.
Modern historians: Sure — but whose story got archived?
History isn’t neutral. It’s contested ground.
#Brewminate #Historiography #HistoryFromBelow #EchoesOfHistory #Postmodernism
My friend @queerwriter put together this amazing project!
You Are Here – peer to peer survivor writing – is Jet's second survivor writers platform; building on the first: Playing With Fire which took place in 2021.
You Are Here offered an expanded series of workshops, a survivor writers group, and a series of interviews for the Wellcome Collection archives.
You can check out the zine, creative pieces produced by the writers group and interviews here: https://jetmoon.org/you-are-here/
#survivor #queer #crip #SMDykes #dyke #lesbian #LGBT #LGBTQ #SickFucks #ResilientAndResisting #QueerWriting #fiction #poetry #DisabilityRights #trans #migration #PerformingArts #UK #London #disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicFatigue #CreativeWriting #literature #QueerHistory #HistoryFromBelow #transfem #transmasc #WorkingClassWriting #WorkingClassQueers #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #addiction #PsychAbolition #trauma #BDSM #HIV #PTSD #HepC #ClassWarfare #genderqueer #kink
In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.
https://interregnum.ghost.io/workers-and-empire-2/
#imperialism #workers #decolonial #history #politics #peopleshistory #historyfrombelow
In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.
Join us THIS SATURDAY, July 6 at 3pm, for this official book release party! We'll be discussing episodes in Georgia's most radical history. Refreshments will be served!
#historyfrombelow #radicalhistory #anarchistbookstore #antiracism #atlanta
A hero of my younger self just passed away. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie showed us that we need not rely on the perspective of emperors and kings to understand our past.
#HistoryFromBelow #Montaillou
Kalvin 
Muir
Brewminate
Mink Stole
Interregnum
Larissa @ Real Scientists DE
Community Books, Stone Mtn. GA
Ken Smoker
Dr. A. L. Castonguay