A--small-green-bird - Got My Old Account Back!

Universal categories and representations about pristine, people-free nature have emerged and powerfully informed the conservation of tropical habitats, from rainforests to deserts. These dominant narratives carry little, if any, regard for Indigenous and local ways of knowing, using, and living in these landscapes (i.e., Indigenous territories). The notion of wilderness is one such category that has arisen from the Enlightenment and imperial processes, and continues to cast high value, biodiverse spaces as pristine and people-free environments that are in need of preservation: supposedly, the very antidote to the Anthropocene. Despite decades of critique and resistance during and after the colonial era, a resurgence of the wilderness myth around the world has once again found traction among large international nongovernmental organizations, private philanthropists, major foundations, and corporations, and certain nation-states who seek to reimpose aspects of “fortress conservation,” whereby Indigenous and local peoples are excluded from land and the life it gives.

Wilderness: Origin. Old English wildēornes ‘land inhabited only by wild animals,’ from wild dēor ‘wild deer’ + -ness.

Rather than enlighten and save humanity, wilderness thinking has facilitated the perverse outcome of landscapes being idealized, imagined, and managed as intact, high-value biodiversity areas free from human disturbance. In many respects, such narrow interpretations of forest landscapes have justified the inhumane eviction of Indigenous and local peoples from their homelands following annexation as parks and protected areas, driving dispossession and conflict similar to the colonial period across the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Australia. The Wilderness Project and efforts to map and classify high-value, intact wilderness zones (many of which overlap with the tropics and regions with high Indigenous populations), continue to this day.

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

I got my old account back yay!! go follow @a-small-green-bird. this will be my backup blog in case this ever happens again.

Regarding politics especially, this may be my favorite tweet of all time:

unfortunately i want to make purchases :(

"I have to keep buying and doing Harry Potter stuff because it was such a big part of my childhood!!!" people baffle me. I'm sorry that 12 year old you couldn't find any actually good urban fantasy at your local library but you're an adult now, you have more options. You can read better fantasy that wasn't written by transphobes any time you want. Why does naming your stuffed owl Hedwig when you were a kid make you horny for the very badly made blood libel videogame. You can get new interests. Maybe play one of the other ten billion badly made games on Steam, most of which do not cost sixty dollars and many of which also feature wizards.

sometimes you look at someone’s art and you know EXACTLY what’s going on and you’re like

"rend asunder" is just a setting on a washing machine

Reminder for yall since we just had TDOV

Boy the collective tumblr boyfriend has had a really go of it lately huh

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