Native American children being physically and emotionally tortured under the banner of “reeducation” at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900

On the form of anti-colonialist literature

Shedding oppression sometimes requires shedding rules of standard spelling

It’s a real buzzy word right now. Anti-colonialist. It’s often paired with anti-capitalist, and sometimes swapped for anti-imperialism.

It conjures the image of a black-clad, umbrella armored hooligan busting bank windows to destroy the…