What Now?
Understanding the need to break the status quo.
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“White people need to listen and learn and then share the task of interpreting, instead of simply assuming that a history is available for our unlimited consumption or assimilation without a thought about what our use of it does to others who also share that history crucially and intimately” (McWhorter, 2009, p. 318).
(Foucault, n.d.)
We need to allow these buried stories to be heard.
How can we do this?
Resistance of subjugation is a crucial element in understanding and combatting racism of the abnormal. To subjugate an individual’s history, to distort or dismiss what they have lived through, is in itself an act of dominance over that group (McWhorter, 2009, p.317).
As an act of advocacy, dominant groups must amplify the whispers, and must bring these histories into the discourse. We MUST challenge the status quo, the definitions and the assumptions of the way things are assumed and accepted to be.
We need to recentre knowledge production around those with the lived experience.
(URevolution, n.d.)
Take a moment to scan through some of the stories on this YouTube channel. You will begin to see the vast array of stories that do not fit into what the dominant discourse considers to be "normal." Subjugated knowledge is everywhere.
Pursuing subjugated stories is an act of allyship. Subjugated stories help to break up normative spaces.
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