Destatue

Being giving the mobility in both but not only in the physical and mental - Not being tied down to a singular form or place.

The p&r makers have called the students who demanded the destatueing of the school delusional.

by shahlo555 October 31, 2023

Distailed

To explain something in great detail because, the entity doesn’t have a word

He distailed the situation.

by wordsmithies November 9, 2023

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

destalk

To learn a person’s routine in order to avoid them

Even if I do my best to destalk him, he somehow finds a way to meet me.

by Worthy97 December 16, 2023

Distalgia

Distalgia
Noun
The sensation of revisiting a work of media, place, or other nostalgic object, and realizing now that you like it much less than you remembered.

Man, I've got such distalgia for the sitcom FRIENDS. I loved it as a kid, but it's complete garbage if you watch it today.

by YuuDed March 23, 2024

distance docking

When you’re having a threesome with a girl and your boy, you take the back end and your boy takes the front end. You are both distance docking. Park that boat.

Dude, are we distance docking tonight or what?

by SL1NK June 29, 2024

destany

A "destany" is someone who takes forever to do anything because of all the stuff they
always has. Destanys have tons of bags and buckets of stuff carrying or needs to pick up or drop off. They will never be where they e said when your expecting them to be and when they do get there they will need you to pick up something of from somewhere or drop something off or if your going somewhere they will want to add endless amounts of extra stops, but the thing that makes destany so hard to resist is they are extremely nice and try to be helpful so you feel bad being frustrated over there inconsiderate time management.

Don't be a destany it's time to go already. They are such destanies we will never get anywhere at this rate. Why do you have to destany me everything we do something.

by His story Her editory July 21, 2024