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

internipplary distance

The distance between a persons nipples

She had pretty wide set boobs, I bet her internipplary distance is bigger than average.

by T-rox June 20, 2023

social distancing

the distance required to render your other party's Second Life avatar inside your augmented reality glasses.

"Please excuse me. I didn't realise you were an eight foot tall fairy elf princess because I wasn't practicing the proper social distancing."

by pseudoraphael May 23, 2020

longing distance

The space, literal and emotional, between yourself and another person, hoping for their safety and well-being, wishing you could be together when you are inescapably separated during the pandemic.

Unable to help in any way, hoping each day that she would remain well, wishing he could simply be where she was, the longing distance was at times unbearable.

by Monkey's Dad April 4, 2020

Cigarette distance

The unit of measurement that smokers use between destinations to determine if they should light up a cigarette, with the reasonable certainty it will be smoked by the time they arrive. White trash only use this measurement when giving directions to other white trash.

Jimmy to his common law wife: How far is the Walmart from the bar?

Common law wife to Jimmy: the cigarette distance is about 3 cigarettes.

by Grant Rampus February 15, 2019

Social Distancing

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Not clicking emojis, 'likes' or reply, on the ill considered comments of the angry, uneducated, self absorbed people you discover are in your social circle (especially during a time of crisis).

YOU: "I don't understand all this stock piling, I mean it's ridiculous and so selfish..........I better take 3 please (I have an

elderly mother / my wife told me to get 3 / I only eat wholemeal / what do you mean only 2)"

ME: Social Distancing

by Salop Sense March 20, 2020

hottie from a distance

When someone looks hot from a distance but when you get close they are almost always a butterface or hat hot or horse faced but that's harder to see from far.

"Oh man I thought that girl was fine but when she got closer she was hottie from a distance."

"OMG look at that hot guy."
"No, I know him, he's hottie from a distance. When he gets closer you'll see."

by Tarbrow November 27, 2013