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A collective and emerging practice of confronting colonial habits of being while cultivating new ways of relating, knowing, and becoming in service of more life-affirming futures.
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is an international collective of artists, educators, and activists committed to disrupting colonial-modern ways of being and imagining alternatives rooted in care, entanglement, and responsibility. GTDF is a deep practice of unlearning harmful modern-colonial habits and relearning how to be in right relation—with each other, with the planet, and with complexity. At its core, GTDF is about hospicing the worlds that are dying within and around us—tending to their decline with care and integrity—while midwifing emergent possibilities without projecting our desires or control onto them.
This practice asks us to face our complicity in unsustainability, to connect with collective pain across time, and to compost our emotional and cultural baggage with humility and care. It involves holding space for difficult conversations and silences, while maintaining relationships rooted in accountability and depth.
GTDF challenges our addictions to knowledge, certainty, control, critique, and self-actualization. It invites us to disinvest from illusions of superiority, validation, or purity and instead cultivate response-ability, intimacy, and collective healing.
By loosening our grip on personal agendas and self-image, we can begin to show up differently—prepared not just for the “end of the world as we know it,” but also to make “another end of the world” possible: one rooted in relationality, humility, and deeper alignment with the more-than-human world.
Links:
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Website
GTDF Card Decks - four unique decks of cards, each designed to support different dimensions of transformative practice, reflection, and conversation.
Book: Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Andreotti
Watch : Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
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