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

within shoveling distance

Being in close enough proximity to a person, place or thing that one could reasonably assume you could bury a body and still get away without getting caught or found out.

“Hey, where's Tom these days?” “Oh. he's within shoveling distance.”

by Trixie Lynn Freebush January 20, 2021

long distance relationslump

The toll on a couple normally kept apart by distance, now further separated by travel restrictions.

Their New York-L.A. thing had felt dynamic, sharing best-of-both with alternating weeks. After months of facetime but no actual faces, and no actual bodies, they were in a long distance relationslump.

by Monkey's Dad April 17, 2020

eyes are social distancing

when someone is cross eyed. describing someone who's cross eyed.

She's cute except her eyes are social distancing..

by Chucks5150chucks5150 August 29, 2022

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance,more know as KHDDD,is simply the worst KH game ever made!
Nonsense Story.
Hard As Fuck.
Sora Is Freaking Dumb And OOC.

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance is so bad why this game even exists?

by Zapto January 20, 2017

Social De-Distancing

The process of removing they socially accepted 6 foot invisible boundary between others, initially put in place to deny transmission of the Covid-19 "Corona Virus".

Chad: I can't wait to get out of the house and be near the bois again!
Jimmy: Yeah hopefully we can get rid of that dumb six foot stigma and do some Social De-Distancing.

by Justice Won May 4, 2020

Social Distancing

Staying a minimum of 6ft away for safety purposes.

“Get 6ft away or 6ft under”

“If you’re close enough to read this, you’re close enough to taste my sneezes”

“Please maintain a minimum of 2m distance for your safety.”

“I only bite when people invade my personal space.”

“If you can smell my farts, you’re social distancing wrong”

by MotherofMangos November 15, 2020