Staying With The Struggle* - looking for decolonial strategies of working together across privileges.
2018
Presented at: Astrid Noacks Atelier, Alt_Cph20, Hosting Lands/OXER
Editors: Barly Tshibanda, Nanna K. Dahler, Kipanga Typeson & Nanna Elvin Hansen
Proof-reading by: Rosie Collington
Illustrations: Barly Tshibanda & Nanna Elvin Hansen
Graphic design: Anders Gerning
A great thanks for input and comments to: Sophie Buzak-Achiam, Steve Edward, Lesley-Ann Brown, Nanna Kirstine Leets Hansen, José Arce & Black Lives Matter Denmark
Printed at: Det Kgl. Kunstakademi, Billedkunstskolerne with the help of Lars Grenaae
*Adaptation from Staying with the Trouble – Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016) by Donna Haraway
The pocket publication Staying With The Struggle - looking for decolonial strategies of working together across privileges (2018) came out of a residency in Astrid Noack's atelier in 2018 consisting of a series of public workshops and talk. The publication deals with issues of working together across privileges and is based on the groups experience of working together in the Bridge Radio and other migration political organisations in Copenhagen.
We are writing this manifesto based on the need to develop and use decolonial methods to work together across racialization, gender and state privilege such as citizenship in activist groups. In the groups we are working in, we are racialized differently, and because of colonial, racist and patriarchal structures this gives us different conditions that affect how we are able to live our lives. Colonial and state categorizations, such as ‘citizen’ and ‘non-citizen’, not only create borders, but also very diverse conditions and everyday realities for us.
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We have asked ourselves how we can work together in ways that breaks white supremacy and patriarchy? How do we do this in ways that do not result in individual guilt but collective action? How do we organize in ways that looks at resources and the distribution of these as a starting point? How do we develop decolonial relations that are caring and honest?
