# Teq

I am a [conceptual analyst](https://hackmd.io/@Teq/concepts) and resource curator using this space to share what I learn as I learn it.

I enjoy the process of collecting, organising, analysing, and synthesising insights from existing resources to understand collective uses of contested concepts within and across specific contexts. This approach is informed by my training in historical, philosophical, and sociological research, as well as my professional experience implementing qualitative research methods, leading conceptual analysis projects, and curating resources for specific audiences.

I try to share resource-collections and write-up my learnings to share with others as part of a commitment to learning-in-the-open. This [knowledge garden](https://hackmd.io/@Teq) is where I keep the resource-collections I've prepared for myself, my friends, and various communities (in varying stages of draft form). Everything here reflect my limited perspective at the time of writing. More generally, my perspective reflects assumptions steaming from my experiences within several default categories that imperialist/capitalist systems privilege, as well as my experiences navigating these systems with disabilities and other marginalised characteristics.

More polished forms of my resource collections have been shared on the [Commons Social Change Library](https://commonslibrary.org/by/e-t-smith/). (I also have various academic writing that has been published - most is open-access, but if anything is inaccessible please reach out directly)

### Current projects I'm involved in include:

- [RAD Housing](https://radhousing.org/) - a learning-in-the-open project to explore one of the ways small emergent groups can pool resources to retrofit and decommodify housing and transition towards stewarding multi-site housing that enables living more collectively and acting in solidarity with broader justice-driven movements.
- [Earthworker](https://earthworker.coop/) - an ecosystem of worker cooperatives that seek to create democratic, just and sustainable livelihoods that enable us to deal with the challenges of economic injustice and ecological crisis.
- [Commons Social Change Libaray](https://commonslibrary.org/) - a free online library curating and amplifying resources to support people working for system change in a wide range of ways.

My participation in these projects is informed by, and contribute to, my broader interests in:
- the ways in which we can [practice commoning](https://commonslibrary.org/practising-commoning/) by collectivising our basic needs
- the role of [prefigurative politics](https://commonslibrary.org/prefigurative-politics-in-practice/) in nourishing our capacity for other forms of activism
- learning to show-up for the work involved in [co-creating intentional relationships](https://hackmd.io/@IntentionalRelationships/Overview) and [participating in collective governance practices](https://hackmd.io/@Teq/SkG18auHF).
- connecting efforts at collectivising our approaches to managing different resourcs (housing, food, livelihood, etc.,) to create reslient solidarity economies.

### Paying it forward

My work builds on what many others have shared with me - both intentionally, and via systems within which I benefit unjustly.

This includes, the privilages I gain living as a settler on lands the [Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung](https://www.wurundjeri.com.au/) and the [Dja Dja Warrung](https://djadjawurrung.com.au/) peoples. I acknowledge their soveriginity, pay respect to Elders past and present, and honour their care for [Country](https://www.commonground.org.au/article/what-is-country).

I extend this respect to all First Nations people, and I commit to learning to interrogate [my colonial complicity](/@Teq/BJ-WElpWD), and learn how to better act in solidarity with those fighting for [Land Back](https://www.commonground.org.au/article/land-back).

If you appreciate my writing and/or resource collections and can express that financially please contribute to some of the many resistance movements and better future projects in my [local](/kDiJKNVNS3yHd8_YRRaiiA) and [broader](/khR8lDT6Rk6HoOqFFC-z6A) contexts, such as:

> - [Common Ground](https://www.commonground.org.au/about) - "a First Nations not-for-profit that exists to centre First Nations people, Country and truth-telling [by building] on existing community power to strengthen the stories we tell ourselves and others, so we can reimagine stronger futures. Futures that are grounded in reciprocity, justice and truth-telling."
> - [Common Threads](https://www.commonthreads.org.au/), a not-for-profit building "national campaigns for truth, Treaties, land rights and climate justice - while providing support and resources to grassroots movements across the continent".
> - [First Nations Hub](https://www.firstnationshub.net.au/), an organisation providing a culturally safe, co-working space to advance grassroots campaigns for Country and Victorian Aboriginal community.
> - [First Peoples Disability Network Australia (FPDN)](https://fpdn.org.au/) - an Indigenous-led organisation for First Nations people with disability, their families and communities.
> - [Black Rainbow Futures Fund](https://blackrainbow.org.au/) - an Indigenous-led organisation investing in the futures of the Indigenous LGBTIQ+ community
> - [Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation](https://www.firesticks.org.au/about/), an Indigenous led network aiming to re-invigorate the use of cultural burning by facilitating cultural learning pathways to fire and land management. It is an initiative for Indigenous and non- Indigenous people to look after Country, share their experiences and collectively explore ways to achieve their goals.
> - [The Dhadjowa Foundation](https://dhadjowa.com.au/), an organisation providing strategic, coordinated and culturally appropriate support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families whose loved ones have died in custody.
> - [Seed Mob](https://www.seedmob.org.au/), an Indigenous youth climate network which is building a movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people for climate justice.
> - [IndigenousX](https://indigenousx.com.au/), an Indigenous owned and operated media, consultancy, and training organisation.
> - [The Land Back Org](https://thelandback.org/) - a national Impact fund that facilitates the transfer of land and property wealth back to First Nations people in this country now known as ‘Australia’.

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Attribution & Pronounciation Notes

*‘Teq’ is a nickname for informal settings and online spaces; my publications are usually attributed to some varient of E. T. Smith. I use [(they/them/themself)](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they) pronouns and happily respond to my nickname and either my first or middle names - you’re welcome to pronounce any of these any way that makes the most sense to you'.*

Contact:
email: [e-mail]
socials: https://mastodon.social/@[e-mail]

*Access to the markdown of my writing/resources are available on request*