Towards Braiding

Summary

Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti, with Sharon Stein, on why Indigenous inclusion in institutions so often fails. Brick ways of being stress “individuality, fixed form and linear time”; thread ways, interweaving and relation. Too often “threads are included into the organization on the condition that they contort themselves into the shape of a brick.” Braiding them needs long groundwork first.

Rationale

Its bricks are the kind of assumption we ask about in “the organisation of the work”; its conditions, from facing historical harm to paying for expertise, turn borrowing into obligation.