Kink Praxis

"Settler colonial power and anti-Black racism/slavery structure the social order in the US and North America. As an ongoing form of domination, settler colonialism requires the genocide of Native people in order for the Settler to accumulate Native people’s land and turn the land into property. Settler colonial relations are maintained through various forms of repressive and discursive power. For example, the physical extermination of Native people is accompanied by the cultural genocide of Native peoples. Not just Native peoples, but their entire worldview must be erased from the face of the earth. One of the discursive forms of genocide and colonization in settler colonial states is the imposition and institutionalization of Western gender, heteropatriarchy and the notion of the individual or Enlightenment’s human. The imposition of a Western gender order and its attendant racialized sexuality ushered in sexual violence as a tool of settler colonialism. In the Clearing examines the spaces where both settler colonialism and slavery/anti-Black racism shape the landscape."