Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Decolonial Resource List (provided by AZE)

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AZE's personal statement:

"AZE operates from the perspective that cisheteropatriarchy, along with white supremacy, capitalism, and ableism, are elements of the Western paradigm which have been disseminated throughout the world through colonial violence as cultural imports of non-Indigenous European settlers and colonizers. Through colonization, Western constructs of race, gender, and sexuality became socially understood as “natural” throughout much of the global population; racist, transphobic, homophobic / queerphobic, misogynistic, sexological (hetero[sexual] desire as “natural”), amatonormative (romantic love and coupling as “natural”), ableist, and capitalist ideologies function together and are empowered as “truths” through colonial violence, subjugation, and control over the dominant narrative. Because Western society holds the institutional power to condition these ideologies into many of us, even by a very young age, as a byproduct, and especially for those of us who are not privileged, we may often feel inferior, worthless, depressed, anxious, ugly, powerless, and “broken.” Putting aze (asexual, aromantic, and agender) identities in perspective means recognizing their position as components within this larger context. It is our responsibility to empower Indigenous ways of knowing in order to work to unravel the Western paradigm and decolonize our thought processes so that healing of the personal, communal, and global can expand throughout the world."