Tag: Everyday Orientalism

54. 
    As a witness to this genocide, I will never be the same – I no longer want to be the same, or part of the university, as much as I continue to work in and work to refuse the university. I no longer want to aspire to belong, since to belong is to be dismissive of genocide. Care should be about ethical consistency and anti-colonial solidarity, not genocidal consensus. Settler colonialism does not try to hide its genocidal intensions, its racism and violent extraction of land and lives – instead, what we have seen, is how it continues to openly mock those who identify with or as the “wretched of the earth” (Fanon). The settler colonial university (in Canada, in the US, in Israel) has been seen silencing and intimidating the voices of those who speak up against genocide and is therefore participating in ongoing colonial harm. University administrators resemble colonial administrators in their efforts to control and manage student populations which are mostly racialized. The only solace and solidarity I have found within the university, is in the magic of coming together with students, colleagues, and allies, out from the margins, in spaces where anti-colonial life is created.