Yaya DaCosta Instagram – is IRISH and BRITISH. The English and Irish lived alongside one another for many centuries. Later, as the first of about 120 colonies around the world, Ireland was where the British imperial project began in the 15th century. The British Empire went on to terrorize more territories around the world than any other colonial entity. (IG captions are not long enough to fit the exhaustive list of countries). Britain’s arbitrary borders and mandates gave rise to many of the internal wars and conflicts that have plagued the peoples native to those lands, some of which we are obviously still seeing to this day. Celtic culture thrived in pre-colonial Ireland and England, which evolved around 1200 B.C. Between 1450 and 1750 A.D., we underwent mass hysteria, which led to thousands of so-called witches being hanged and burned for their relationship with the Earth and their pagan rituals. After “whiteness” was constructed in the 17th century, the Irish and every other group with “white” skin benefitted from white supremacist capitalist society, and from the continued oppression of people of color. What does it mean to “decolonize ancestry” when one has colonizer ancestry? What does this lineage have to offer to this work through me? (continued in next post…) 📸: @thaisaquinophotography 💇🏾‍♀️: @chiomanvhair 🎵: The Chieftains, “The Women of Ireland” . #AncestryDecolonized