Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Luisa De la Concha Montes and reminds us of the power of Resistance amongst the threat of demolition

Luisa De la Concha Montes is a visual artist, photographer and writer born and raised in Mexico City. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2017 and now resides in London. She holds an MA from the University of Sussex in Photography. Her work attempts to bring shapeless states, such as grief, diaspora, identity and memory into a physical form through documentary photography, digital explorations and visual poetry. Instagram: @erst.while Twitter: @L_D_C_M Website: https://iiconclash.wordpress.com/

• Follow @fight4aylesbury on Instagram to learn about the project’s latest developments
• Donate to Aysen’s crowdfunding campaign
• Read Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London by Paul Watt to learn more about the policies behind London’s state-led gentrification project
• Join housing struggle associations such as Homes for All, Defend Council Housing or Why Demolish?
• Read this article by Leah Cowan: What is the Hostile Environment?
• Read more articles on the topic of migration HERE

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Aileen Angsutorn Lees and teaches us How the language and ideals of white environmentalism reinforce fascist narratives.

Aileen (she/her) is a writer, photographer and activist based in Scotland. Passionate about dismantling narratives of dominating and extracting nature, she set up the project Decolonising The Outdoors and organises community events @decolonisingtheoutdoors

Do:

• Support intersectional environmental organisations lobbying government and industry for climate justice, such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace
• Find out more about Pesticide Action Network UK

Read:

• Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
• How Have the Forests of “Israel” Swallowed Our Unpopulated Land?
• Beyond the War on Invasive Species by Tao Orion
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plantsby Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Other shado articles on decolonisation, climate justice, indigenous movements and Palestine

Listen:

• shado-lite’s podcast episode on settler colonialism in historic Palestine
• The Botanical Mind podcast episode on the coloniality of planting

Watch:

• Foragers (2022), a Palestinian documentary which interrogates settler colonial power and narratives of conservation

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and describes his Reflections on motherhood as a revered singular category with no equal

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He analyses the cultural and socio-political dimensions of various subjects, from mainstream pop-culture, politics, art to academic debates.

What can you do?

• Read What Gender is Motherhood by by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
• Read The Invention of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
• Read Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass by Lorelle D. Semley
• Watch Journey of an African Colony on Youtube
• Listen to the Reconceptualising Rotimi Fani-Kayode podcast by queer/disrupt

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