"I live in the United States, which is a brutal settler colony. And the brutality of it, the massiveness of it is that, that settler colonial intent pervades every activity, every sphere of life, everything, everything. And so whether you wanna call it 'anti-colonial' practice or 'decolonial' practice, it's really about recalibrating every day practices in such a way to disrupt that colonial intent.

So I think about it because I think about it in regards to my job. Cuz my job is, I'm a teacher. And I think, how does this coloniality express itself in the forms and protocols of my job. And what would be the ways to detach and work against those colonial forms and protocols. So I've got some ideas about that. And what I wanna do is talk with some other people about these ideas and see how they can be enacted and refined. We don't need to have the answer to start doing shit. I think we need to experiment and do it wrong and then try to fix it.

And I also think we have to do so especially in those zones where the coloniality, the colonial intent has become so invasive that they don't even watch us anymore. Right? Like. They don't come to my classroom to check and make sure that I am adhering to the colonial intent. And they are not particularly interested in the content of my class. Because it's not the content where adherence to the colonial intent is being played out, right? In other words, I have to now come to grips with the fact that I can teach all the Sylvia Wynter and all the Fanon and all the Malcom X I want, and I might still be adhering to the colonial intent. That it's really not about the content of what you read, maybe its' about how how you read. Maybe it's about how much reading you assign. Maybe it's about grading or not grading. Maybe the coloniality is given somewhere other than in the content. But these are all questions that i wanna investigate and experiment with other people. Recognizing that there's maybe some interesting leeway to be had in the classroom setting...because they're not really watching us."