a
A word used to refer to a single thing, as in, a glossary term. Paradoxically, all things referred to as a thing are made of multiple things. This is a glossary, made of many glossary terms, that are themselves made of many words.
A also refers to a beginning or an origin--like the letter's origin, Alpha, in "Alpha and Omega," which means the beginning and the end. (Jesus refers to Himself as such in Revelations 1:8). For example, this writing can be read from A to Z--beginning to end, by clicking on the arrow below (--->). But the beginning of this is not the beginning of this story. So, I encourage the reader to make their own path, moving rhizomatically throughout the work by following the "see also" prompts or simply moving throughout the paper at will, to form their own map of this terrain.
acknowledgement
This paper is written on the stolen ancestral homelands of the Pueblo peoples in what settler-colonists named Albuquerque, New Mexico. The water, air, and mountains of this place sustain me while I research and write. I also hope that the gratitude, love, care, and respect held by these peoples is held by this work.
This paper is written about a part of the stolen ancestral homeland of the Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute), specifically the See'veets eng (Shivwits) band. This place has been named Washington County by the settler-colonists who are my ancestral people. The water, air, and mountains of this place raised me, showed me my spiritual path, and are the center of this story. I acknowledge the complicated place I occupy as a settler-colonist in love with stolen lands who seeks decoloniality. I am presently an outsider to both the originary peoples of this land and to the people who colonized these lands. I love this land with my whole self. I am in love with land stolen by a culture I no longer participate with/in. Therefore, do I have rights to this love? Is it ethical for me to write and make work about this land when I am not a part of the peoples for whom this land currently provides sustenance?
This paper is written with a structure inspired by Eve Tuck and C. Ree's, A Glossary of Haunting. Nina Elder gave it to me when I was looking for a way to write a paper nonlinearly. I loved reading A Glossary of Haunting and now this paper is like this.
special thanks to everyone who suggested and/or wrote some writing that end up in this paper, to Subhankar Banerjee, Ranran Fan, and Erin Gould for their help in shaping it, and to laura, my partner, for the unquantifiable ways in which they've influenced my thinking, research, and love, and for forcing me to learn to like writing.
see also: appropriate / appropriate, care, decolonization, ebb / flow, home, inside / outside, mountain / valley, map, myth, origins / foundations, path, rocks / stones, southwestern Utah, spiritual experience, stable / settled, there / their, this land, Ut(ah/opia), under / inner, "what is"
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A word used to refer to a single thing, as in, a glossary term. Paradoxically, all things referred to as a thing are made of multiple things. This is a glossary, made of many glossary terms, that are themselves made of many words.
A also refers to a beginning or an origin--like the letter's origin, Alpha, in "Alpha and Omega," which means the beginning and the end. (Jesus refers to Himself as such in Revelations 1:8). For example, this writing can be read from A to Z--beginning to end, by clicking on the arrow below (--->). But the beginning of this is not the beginning of this story. So, I encourage the reader to make their own path, moving rhizomatically throughout the work by following the "see also" prompts or simply moving throughout the paper at will, to form their own map of this terrain.
acknowledgement
This paper is written on the stolen ancestral homelands of the Pueblo peoples in what settler-colonists named Albuquerque, New Mexico. The water, air, and mountains of this place sustain me while I research and write. I also hope that the gratitude, love, care, and respect held by these peoples is held by this work.
This paper is written about a part of the stolen ancestral homeland of the Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute), specifically the See'veets eng (Shivwits) band. This place has been named Washington County by the settler-colonists who are my ancestral people. The water, air, and mountains of this place raised me, showed me my spiritual path, and are the center of this story. I acknowledge the complicated place I occupy as a settler-colonist in love with stolen lands who seeks decoloniality. I am presently an outsider to both the originary peoples of this land and to the people who colonized these lands. I love this land with my whole self. I am in love with land stolen by a culture I no longer participate with/in. Therefore, do I have rights to this love? Is it ethical for me to write and make work about this land when I am not a part of the peoples for whom this land currently provides sustenance?
This paper is written with a structure inspired by Eve Tuck and C. Ree's, A Glossary of Haunting. Nina Elder gave it to me when I was looking for a way to write a paper nonlinearly. I loved reading A Glossary of Haunting and now this paper is like this.
special thanks to everyone who suggested and/or wrote some writing that end up in this paper, to Subhankar Banerjee, Ranran Fan, and Erin Gould for their help in shaping it, and to laura, my partner, for the unquantifiable ways in which they've influenced my thinking, research, and love, and for forcing me to learn to like writing.
see also: appropriate / appropriate, care, decolonization, ebb / flow, home, inside / outside, mountain / valley, map, myth, origins / foundations, path, rocks / stones, southwestern Utah, spiritual experience, stable / settled, there / their, this land, Ut(ah/opia), under / inner, "what is"
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