Divesting from empire: Decolonisation at a time of collapse

Samantha Suppiah
8 min readMay 17, 2024

[I read this piece out here.]

Now this is a party worth attending.

What a time to be alive:
We made it to the official launch of the global class war.

Block Party #blockout2024 is officially upon us — the latest collective response from within the flawed but learning space of global activism to “israel”-US’s ongoing militant genocide against Palestine in the Gaza Strip as MET Gala celebrities cosplay The Hunger Games. Celebrities and other socially influential individuals who have not used their power in any way to engage in our ongoing global class war on the side of the people are being blocked — as Meta prioritises its algorithm to suppress the entire Block Party wholesale.

While, like every other movement, #blockout2024 is being applied by millennials, Gen Z’s and Gen Alphas in what might appear on the surface as contradictory, confused and convoluted ways, it does represent a global drill in rapid response on global platforms that exhaust incumbent power structures’ ability…

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Samantha Suppiah

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