Decolonize Futures Vol. 1 "Anti-Racism, Feminism, and Decolonization"『反人種差別、フェミニズム、脱植民地化』

Patriarchy, white supremacy, and racism. Colonialism is lying beneath the inequalities in the world. Even though colonialism has ended in the form of physical occupation in many regions, a violent colonial system persisted through economic exploitation and cultural domination by Western nations and infiltrates our everyday lives. The colonial worldview is centered around Western culture and a hierarchy that assumes “White, (in Japan, Japanese) cis-hetero men” as most human while treating “women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, non-Western indigenous people, etc” as inferior who deserve exploitation. Vol. 1 alerts to such reality and walks readers through how feminism, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization connect to each other. To think about how social issues intersect with the history of colonialism, we hosted a lecture with Dr. LaRose T. Parris, Associate Professor at CUNY, Lehman College. This issue is an archive of a dialogue between Professor Parris and the participants drawn to the to