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Apr 29

Biological wolves identify as sheep in sheep’s clothing: On large private foundations

Today’s global landscapes of white supremacy and colonial hegemony are designed and dictated by private wealth, too often in the form of private foundations in too-close relationships with intergovernmental organisations and multinational corporations. Let’s say such a private foundation suddenly grew conscious of this fact, so conscious that they became…

Charity

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Biological wolves identify as sheep in sheep’s clothing: On large private foundations
Biological wolves identify as sheep in sheep’s clothing: On large private foundations
Charity

11 min read


Feb 25

If thinking is too hard, just #dontdoit

Health & Safety Warning: This is a bullshit timewaster piece. Proceed at your own risk. To properly experience this article, hit play on the video below and allow it to deftly set the mood as you take in the vomit-diarrhoea essay that retired healthcare executive and loud and proud white…

White Supremacy

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If thinking is too hard, just #dontdoit
If thinking is too hard, just #dontdoit
White Supremacy

4 min read


Feb 22

A eulogy for Zoe Cohen’s Institute of Directors membership

Zoe Cohen is a prominent member of the infamous at-large “Barclays 7” group of climate activists who recklessly, unfathomably caused violent criminal damage to Barclays Global HQ in Canary Wharf in April 2021 — and was convicted in December 2022, receiving a suspended sentence in January 2023. The Institute of…

Colonialism

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Eulogy: Zoe Cohen’s Institute of Directors membership
Eulogy: Zoe Cohen’s Institute of Directors membership
Colonialism

9 min read


Feb 7

Urban Doughnut shortlisted for ‘Top 10 Most Promising Urban Planning Design Companies in South East Asia 2023’

Dear Samantha, Greetings from Aisa Bsuniess Oultoko! I am Squidward from Aisa Bsuniess Oultoko Magazine, I am excited to inform you that our selection panel has shortlisted Urban Doughnut to be featured as one of the ‘Top 10 Most Promising Urban Planning Design Companies in South East Asia 2023’ in…

Pyramid Schemes

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Urban Doughnut shortlisted for ‘Top 10 Most Promising Urban Planning Design Companies in South…
Urban Doughnut shortlisted for ‘Top 10 Most Promising Urban Planning Design Companies in South…
Pyramid Schemes

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·Jan 22

An open letter to the “post-growth” movement

Post-growth is described as a stance on economic growth concerning the limits-to-growth dilemma, i.e. on a planet of finite material resources, extractive economies and populations cannot grow infinitely. Post-growth advocates try to encourage, connect and further develop already existing ideas, concepts, technologies, systems, initiatives, and actions. The vast majority of…

Postgrowth

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An open letter to the “post-growth” movement
An open letter to the “post-growth” movement
Postgrowth

7 min read


Dec 14, 2022

Regeneration Central: Colonisers gonna colonise

On normalised white supremacy and ecofascism — personal reflections on having quite possibly roughly survived the last few months with my dignity somewhat intact There are so many ways I could’ve gone with titling this piece. The runner-up was “Season’s Greetings: Casual co-optation with a dash of ecofascism” and in…

Colonisation

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Regeneration Central: Colonisers gonna colonise
Regeneration Central: Colonisers gonna colonise
Colonisation

22 min read


May 21, 2022

Plantation Sustainability Starter Pack

Want a secure and comfortable career guaranteed in corporate and operational sustainability within the plantation economy that perpetuates development aggression across Southeast Asia through ecocide and ethnocide? — Look no further: Here is your FREE* Plantation Sustainability Starter Pack! Let’s start with some affirmations. Sit comfortably, adjust your posture, settle your arms loosely in your lap, open up your airways, take a few calming, knowing breaths, envision a beautifully healthy forest ecosystem lovingly enveloping the geological landscapes of…

Plantation

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Plantation Sustainability Starter Pack
Plantation Sustainability Starter Pack
Plantation

14 min read


Apr 12, 2022

How corporate “sustainability” evolves into hyper-colonial “regeneration”

Heavily featuring white male fragility displayed through patterns of behaviour that are surprisingly acceptable and relatable through an enforced and acquired palate for colonial hegemony — Coloniser human beings and colonised human beings are very trainable. With the right incentives, training just takes time. A reminder of our contexts White Europeans destroyed their ecocentric indigenous cultures a thousand years ago (“Burn her at the stake!”), pursuing a growth-based empire model centred upon the city of excess consumption for the ruling classes…

Corporate Sustainability

16 min read

How corporate “sustainability” evolves into hyper-colonial “regeneration”
How corporate “sustainability” evolves into hyper-colonial “regeneration”
Corporate Sustainability

16 min read


Dec 16, 2021

Casual, everyday gang rape

It’s late morning on a Thursday in mid-December in a sleepy middle-aged suburb on the edges of Metro Manila, Philippines. A hundred birds chirp cheerfully at the overcast sky. It’s not too hot to be out and about. …

Global South

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Casual, everyday gang rape
Casual, everyday gang rape
Global South

6 min read


Nov 7, 2021

2030: The Ends of Worlds

The Hindu Maha Puranas describe the present as the mere beginning of the worst of the four world ages: the age of conflict and sin, marked by strife, discord, quarrel or contention. The Kali Yuga lasts 432,000 years, and we’re 5,122 years in. It’s entirely plausible that the world began…

Regeneration

20 min read

2030: The Ends of Worlds?
2030: The Ends of Worlds?
Regeneration

20 min read

Samantha Suppiah

Samantha Suppiah

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Southeast Asian trickster. Design strategist for decolonial sustainability & regeneration. www.possiblefutures.earth/samantha

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