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Decolonizing Love

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We educate on how colonialism changed relationships and offer strategies to reclaim decolonized intimacy. https://www.decolonizing.love/ https://www.instagram.com/decolonizing.love/ https://www.tiktok.com/@decolonizinglove #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 8

Shibari comes from hojojutsu, a martial rope techniques used to restrain and shame prisoners in imperial Japan. These roots include fascist policing. Post-WWII, artists eroticized them as kinbaku. Its origins, like Western BDSM, lie in carceral and colonial control.

Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 8

And more importantly, to reflect on what it means to speak with authority on histories they may not have studied. Some humility goes a long way in conversations this nuanced.

Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you’re citing 101-level texts to refute 500-level conversations, you might be missing the forest for the trees. I encourage people to meet these topics with the complexity they deserve.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 8

Sex in History is not a foundational text for decolonial relational work. It barely scratches the surface and reflects a white anthropological lens. Citing it today only shows how under-researched many online critiques are.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 8

That’s a book I read as a teenager—over 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve engaged deeply with hundreds of books and taken university-level coursework in gender studies, history, anthropology, and critical theory.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 8

Nick, with three biomedical degrees, brings a scientific precision to our collaborations. Recently, a small influencer attempted to “debunk” my statement about BDSM and colonialism by referencing Sex in History by Reay Tannahill.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 8

People often underestimate the depth of research that goes into our work. I have hyperlexia, which allows me to absorb and synthesize vast amounts of information quickly. Before I speak on any topic, I read everything I can find.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jul 7

Surving fascism as a polyamorist

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 30

They shot two people after Pride outside the Stonewall Inn. News is still coming in, but this reminds me of when Dylann Roof attacked the AME Church in Charleston, precisely because of its significance in civil‑rights movements. These people know what they’re doing

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Shooting outside of historic Stonewall Inn after NYC's Pride March: Mayor

The shooting occurred Sunday night in the Greenwich Village neighborhood.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 27

We could have just been like the bonobos but instead we decided to have a cognitive revolution

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 25

Protests today all over Kenya against Police Brutality

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Eight killed, hundreds injured in nationwide antigovernment Kenyan protests

Demonstrators rally against police brutality and government corruption.to commemorate last year’s youth-led protests.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 24

She backed the Palestinian genocide and before that extended prison slavery.

No matter who’s in charge, colonialism means endless hegemony and expansion.

Until we dismantle the disease, colonizers will keep colonizing.

Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 24

How long do you give this truce? It wasn’t actually ever about nukes. Israel is a death cult that wants regime change in Iran and a greater Israel. A continued war with Iran is inevitable because colonizers are always going to seek expansion + don’t tolerate ideological opposition to their hegemony

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 22

The West are colonizers and always have been and always will be until the colonialist mindset is uprooted.

Gaining independence isn’t enough, because colonialism is a disease that stays long after.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 22

I keep thinking about that moment when Gaddafi warned a room full of Middle Eastern leaders that what happened in Iraq would happen to all of them—and they laughed.

Colonialism always moves in fractals. What starts with one becomes a pattern.

Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 22

When attacks on nuclear sites are announced by the president on social media … dear god

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 21

The telegram founder Pavel Durov has 106 children!! What is it with tech bros and their breeding fetishes?

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Tech Founder Pledges to Leave $17 Billion Fortune to All 106 of His Children

Telegram founder Pavel Durov recently detailed the future of his tech company, including how he’s leaving his $17 billion fortune to all 106 of his children.

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jun 18

We should be able to buy adderall, testosterone & estrogen OTC at Walmart while buying a gun should require 6-12 months of intensive therapy beforehand and monthly reapproval from your psychiatrist

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Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 18

Missing Chomsky’s analysis right now because I trust no voice in all this

Decolonizing Love @decolonizinglove.bsky.social · Jun 17

Israel never called for entire cities to evacuate before just neighborhood…this is ominous

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Nefarious Filth Bird 𓅾 @sasquatch.bsky.social · Jun 16

Crazy that Luigi is charged with terrorism but the guy who had a hit list of democrats and shot 4 and killed two isn't

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