Decolonizing Time and Relearning Indigenous Cyclical Time with Ixchel Lunar

Many of us are accustomed to viewing time as a resource we never seem to have enough of. The pace of our lives pushes us to constantly “make the most” of our time.

That pace has a profound impact on us physically, emotionally, and spiritually. But other ways of relating to time, outside the colonial paradigm, are possible.

Ixchel Lunar and Erica discuss decolonizing time, relearning Indigenous cyclical time, and how to build a relationship with time where it is a friend, rather than a pressure.

In this discussion:

The four categories of colonial time How colonization and dominator culture separate people from place How to begin to build a friendship with time through prioritizing joy, pleasure, and connection to the natural world Why we have to accept the discomfort of liminal spaces as we journey toward decolonization

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Resources:

Watch Dr. Brittney Cooper on The Racial Politics of Time, and read Eloquent Rage Learn more about Australian Indigenous thinker Tyson Yunkaporta