Loose Thoughts No. 9 - Collaboration as decolonization: Or what can we learn from the Indigenous textile arts of Abya Yala

12/20/23 • 10 min

Collaboration, when successful, is actually quite powerful and life-changing. I could spend a lifetime sharing all the positive experiences that have come out from successful collaborations with colleagues—many of whom have become close friends—even though they, naturally, had their own challenges.

In this episode, I reflect on the power of collaboration as a strategy for decolonization.

**This was first published as an audioblog on September 20, 2022.

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In this episode, I reflect on the power of collaboration as a strategy for decolonization.

**This was first published as an audioblog on September 20, 2022.

Visit my blog: https://laurabelru.com/

Find me on social media: @laurabelru

Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/laurabelru

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Loose Thoughts No. 8 – Interrogating fashion: Or why we need to be more critical about everything we’re told about fashion

In this mini-episode, I Today I return to the list with which I started this podcast, sharing some action steps towards learning how to constantly think and rethink Latinx fashion in order to strengthen the fashion systems of Abya Yala. My mission today is to highlight the need to question absolutely every narrative we’re told from Euro-North American perspectives about what fashion is and should be—whether it’s Latinx fashion or not.

**This was first published as an audioblog on August 16, 2022.

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Loose Thoughts No. 10 - Decolonizing Quiet Luxury

In this episode, I reflect on quiet luxury and offer a short overview of the expressions of luxury in the colonial Spanish Americas. While they were certainly influenced by early modern European thought, ideas about luxury in the colonial Americas were also necessarily tied to Indigenous knowledge and worldviews. As such, they might help us devise alternative (and more inclusive) forms of conceiving luxury worldwide.

**This was first published as an audioblog on May 12, 2023.

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