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2026-05-11 16:59 UTC

@foundseed@spore.social you mean górale, the most patriarchal cultural group in Poland who refused to accept the anti-domestic violence law saying it destroys their culture? I did study some of their history, how they opposed a lot of oppressive states, but I don't think they share as much of the liberatory spirit as the Ukrainian Cossacks did. I'm afraid that there is just no indigenous group in our region who can teach us sustainability, especially given that we lack a word for it.

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@foundseed@spore.social 2026-05-11 18:23

@alxd@writing.exchange gotcha, I figured it'd probably be some factor of internalized oppression that allowed their culture to exist as-is next to colonists for so long. It seems to me that there is not homogeneity in the górale culture, and anywhere there is patriarchy, there is unspoken feminism. But I can see why this feels like a poisoned well, to you.

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@foundseed@spore.social 2026-05-11 18:25

@alxd@writing.exchange My second question then stands, why exactly does the language and knowledge need to come from your exact region? Why not look to the Inuit or Ainu or a little further south to the Kurds? There is a lot of resistance to colonialism, everywhere. Casting aside "sustainability" do you have an equivalent term for "relationality" or "interrelational"?

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