Sunday, 3/23/2025, 9am - Radio 2050

Dominique Daye Hunter is an Afro -Indigenous storyteller, author, bi-poc advocate, and multidisciplinary artist who specializes in poetry and streetwear fashion. Hunter states, “Colonization tells us that we are not of the earth. Colonization says that we are separate and superior to the earth. There's a hierarchy of value amongst living beings, right? And then there's even the concept of what is a living being. In a colonized perspective, a rock is not alive, right? A tree is not alive or doesn't feel things. Why it's so important to remember is because that literally interconnectedness, that turn, we are all related. And in order to maintain a balance in any sort of balance to survive, right? Whether it's individually and community as a whole, as a species, I'm grappling with this right now because even as I'm speaking, I'm hearing the influence of colonization in my voice. Like why did I start out with the individual, right? Why do I only focus on our species, right? So, it's something that's a constant, constant reevaluation and retraining of the way that we see things and the way that we relate to things. And it's so important because we are not superior to the relations, to the two -legged and the four -legged and to the trees and to the rock. So, to, and that kind of goes into kind of going back to colonization, why there's been such an imbalance in our human society, right? Is because not only does the hierarchy separate humans from other beings, but it puts humans into categories, right? Why it's so important is because we've been influenced and operating in this colonized system for so long that it's unsustainable. It's completely unsustainable. And it's miserable, quite frankly”.