distance screeching

A feeling when conditions from the past are haunting us and still make noises in our heads, although they seem to be distant. Can apply to historical conditions. Past events influence today’s minds and actions. E.g. our own past, as well as societal, institutional pasts inevitably shape theories and how we look at them. What we teach and learn today is intertwined with our past. Echoes reproduce power structures and reach into the present. The original sound can deform, how it is heard from a distance changes (e.g. become shriller). Although today many look on colonialism more critically, it still shapes institutions, worldviews, actions. It is visible in the books resting in our libraries, in the accessibility of institutions (Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? | Rolando Vázquez Melken 5:24), how history is told by western museums. We must recognize and draw attention to this screeching (e.g. as one can see in the actions Mwazulu Diyabanza does in Museums (Gimlet)). We need to question who owns, who tells stories, defines, has power, whose voices are being heard? To decolonize we must recognize that power structures are still active. We must question the sounds from the past without denying they exist, but by reshaping how we perceive them and making sure they are not repeated, by making sure they are not echoes.

Sources:
Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? Rolando Vázquez Melken. 2021.
Gimlet. I Want To Report A Theft.

“I still have a distance screeching.”

“I think you got distance screeching.”

“These theories are distance screeched. *”

*However, colonial power structures should be labeled as such as clear as possible. The proposed term should be seen more as an additional visualization.

by l;;;; December 10, 2023

Back Seething

Getting so angry because the streamer just doesn't get it.

I am back seething so hard, don't they realize they have to do X to get Y.

by DarkViking April 2, 2024

Mud Sketching

Mud Sketching is when one draws art with their own feces. This can be either on the floor, walls, ceiling, etc. Mud Sketching is considered frowned upon in most 1st world countries, due to it's inherently unsanitary nature, but many 3rd world countries like India heavily partake in this unorthodox pastime

"I'm a grown man, and I love mud sketching!"
"Mud sketching is really fun once you get past the 'ew factor'"
"Mud sketching is so gross, man! People can only suffer so much for their art"
"Mud sketching make me willy hard!!!"

by Mudsketchman420 April 24, 2025