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Relationship to the Land: Land Acknowledgements in Digital Spaces<\/h1>\r\nOur engagements, exchanges, knowledge makership, and mobilizations within this course reflect the intercorporeal and inextricable entanglements between land, spirit, mind, and bodies (this includes beings and non-beings, humans and non-humans alike). We understand land as kin (Simpson, 2017) and come to our political labours from new and old learnings, grounded in insights of Indigenous onto-epistemology and worldviews.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTMU is a settlement in Tkarontoa\u2014a Mohawk word and the original denomination of what is colonially known now as Toronto, meaning \u201cthe place in the water where the trees are standing\u201d\u2014on the unceded, expropriated, and stolen lands of the Mississauga\u2019s of the Credit, the Haudenasaune, the Anishinaabe and the Chippewa. Tkaronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory\u2019. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe also name that the computers and technology that allow us to traverse space, to exchange time and temperatures virtually is fed and fueled by Congolese blood in the DRC and the exploited labour of our Third World siblings.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn this space, we ask how our disability justice access activationist work changes in its actional, praxistical iterations when we understand the disablement of al-ard, or the Earth, as bound to the disablement of the earth\u2019s peoples and bodyminds. We refuse to merely name Indigenous sovereignty. We choose instead to orient ourselves and the architectures of care we build towards it, both here on Turtle Island and across Indigenous lands this world over. As disabled Palestinian and Southern justice poet Rasha Abdilhadi reminds us: \u201cWhat happens here and there are one.\u201d We are all but a hologram of (land) struggle everywhere.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAll our work towards Otherwise is rendered null and void unless and until the land makes a safe return to the stewardships of its original caretakers: our moments and movements and makings and meetings with madness and its outcroppings should act accordingly\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLandback, first, foremost and forevermore.\r\n

Activity<\/h1>\r\n
\r\n\r\nWrite, draw, orate, melodize, paint or just think and notate critically about (y)our positionality in relation to (y)our (individual and collective) body-mind-lands, whether as (diasporic) settlers, as arrivants, as Indigenous to here or elsewhere beyond the internal colonies, etc. Who\/what\/where informs your being? In what ways does this inform how you move toward landback and bodymind sovereignty? We invite you here to take on moments of self-reflection on positionality as related to the land, disability, and embodied\/enmindedness.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n
\r\n\r\nWhite and non-Indigenous disabled peoples may want to tend to the following text to inform these reflections:\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/activisthistory.com\/2019\/10\/29\/decolonizing-the-body-indigenizing-our-approach-to-disability-studies\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nOr watch this landback video here:\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RfEOB8JJSSM&ab_channel=YellowheadInstitute<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n\r\nYou can respond to this activity in class discussion, in your learning journal, and\/or on the Discord on Module One's lecture chat channel:\u00a0Module One Lecture Chat<\/a>","rendered":"

Relationship to the Land: Land Acknowledgements in Digital Spaces<\/h1>\n

Our engagements, exchanges, knowledge makership, and mobilizations within this course reflect the intercorporeal and inextricable entanglements between land, spirit, mind, and bodies (this includes beings and non-beings, humans and non-humans alike). We understand land as kin (Simpson, 2017) and come to our political labours from new and old learnings, grounded in insights of Indigenous onto-epistemology and worldviews.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

TMU is a settlement in Tkarontoa\u2014a Mohawk word and the original denomination of what is colonially known now as Toronto, meaning \u201cthe place in the water where the trees are standing\u201d\u2014on the unceded, expropriated, and stolen lands of the Mississauga\u2019s of the Credit, the Haudenasaune, the Anishinaabe and the Chippewa. Tkaronto is in the ‘Dish With One Spoon Territory\u2019. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We also name that the computers and technology that allow us to traverse space, to exchange time and temperatures virtually is fed and fueled by Congolese blood in the DRC and the exploited labour of our Third World siblings.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In this space, we ask how our disability justice access activationist work changes in its actional, praxistical iterations when we understand the disablement of al-ard, or the Earth, as bound to the disablement of the earth\u2019s peoples and bodyminds. We refuse to merely name Indigenous sovereignty. We choose instead to orient ourselves and the architectures of care we build towards it, both here on Turtle Island and across Indigenous lands this world over. As disabled Palestinian and Southern justice poet Rasha Abdilhadi reminds us: \u201cWhat happens here and there are one.\u201d We are all but a hologram of (land) struggle everywhere.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

All our work towards Otherwise is rendered null and void unless and until the land makes a safe return to the stewardships of its original caretakers: our moments and movements and makings and meetings with madness and its outcroppings should act accordingly<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Landback, first, foremost and forevermore.<\/p>\n

Activity<\/h1>\n
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Write, draw, orate, melodize, paint or just think and notate critically about (y)our positionality in relation to (y)our (individual and collective) body-mind-lands, whether as (diasporic) settlers, as arrivants, as Indigenous to here or elsewhere beyond the internal colonies, etc. Who\/what\/where informs your being? In what ways does this inform how you move toward landback and bodymind sovereignty? We invite you here to take on moments of self-reflection on positionality as related to the land, disability, and embodied\/enmindedness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

White and non-Indigenous disabled peoples may want to tend to the following text to inform these reflections:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/activisthistory.com\/2019\/10\/29\/decolonizing-the-body-indigenizing-our-approach-to-disability-studies\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Or watch this landback video here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RfEOB8JJSSM&ab_channel=YellowheadInstitute<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

You can respond to this activity in class discussion, in your learning journal, and\/or on the Discord on Module One’s lecture chat channel:\u00a0Module One Lecture Chat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-500","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":63,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/500\/revisions\/541"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/63"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/500\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/advancingculturalaccessibilitypractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}