This community needs are few finishing touches, and I’d like Lemmygrad to help with deciding on them.

Firstly, a community profile picture is needed. What symbols, images, etc. represent either the concept of colonialism, or represent natives? What colours are commonly used for this purpose?

Second, the community needs a banner. What images evoke decolonization, rage against colonizers, or solidarity between colonized peoples?

Finally, the rules need to be set. What are some rules this community would benefit from having?

  • Rania Rudhan 🇩🇿🏳️‍⚧️M
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    1. maybe we could take something from like a poem or a quote from an anti-colonial figure then turn its silhouette into the symbol? Either that or a caricature of a colonizer getting hit with a yellow hammer.

    2. Rules: no justifying colonialism or defending it - no supporting facsist or separative groups pretending to be fighting against colonialism (word it better if you can, basically no support for stuff like Taiwan) - act respectful.

  • @cult@lemmy.ml
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    52 years ago

    Can we have like… explanations when mods randomly remove our comments? I got mine deleted an hour ago. It had 3 upvotes and no downvotes and some random mod accused me of “Trolling”? What exactly was wrong here? It was a genuine effort to push people to be more critical

    • @cult@lemmy.ml
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      52 years ago

      For context, this was on the thread alleging “all Indian tribes” made Stalin chief. Me and another user investigated further and found that this group also made a bunch of US presidents and generals chief and was far from representative of people native to Turtle Island

      All our other comments also got upvotes and no downvotes so it seems most users appreciated the investigation (we had to dig up decades old news articles) except for this one mod

  • commet-alt-w
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    2 years ago

    specifically american settler colonialism is represented well by the idea manifest destiny, the monroe doctrine, and when benjamin moore said /sea to shining to sea/. so there’s potential of representing colonialism there. not sure what colors are invoked with that, or what to use for symbols exactly tho

    decolonial art often focuses on the pillars of colonialism, and their toppling. the grappling with and breaking of chains/cages. something interesting might be tearing out colonial propaganda from history books, or correcting colonial propaganda akin to some memes that correct propaganda headlines. imagery of hands joining around the world is also often used a decolonial art.

    i did a dall-e mini image using craiyon just to see what would come up, might be something that interests someone:

    edit: wanted to mention that i find monroe doctrine pertinent as the usa is pushing it’s global monroe doctrine agenda and expanding neocolonialism