Teq

I am a researcher 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 examinations of technical concepts, as well as my professional experience implementing qualitative research methods and curating resources for specific audiences.

While I tend towards this process for my own learnings, I sometimes share resource-collections and write-up my learnings to share with others. These outputs reflect my limited perspective - including 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.

This knowledge garden is where I keep the resource-collections I've prepared for myself, my friends, and various communities (in varying stages of draft form).

More polished forms of my resource collections have been shared on the Commons Social Change Library. (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 - 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 - 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.

My participation in these projects is informed by, and contribute to, my broader interests in:

• the ways in which we can practice commoning by collectivising our basic needs
• the role of prefigurative politics in nourishing our capacity for other forms of activism
• learning to show-up for the work involved in co-creating intentional relationships and participatory governance practices.
• connecting efforts at collectivising our approaches to managing different resourcs (housing, food, livelihood, etc.,) to create reslient solidarity economies.

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 and broader contexts:

• Seed Mob, an Indigenous youth climate network which is building a movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people for climate justice.
• Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation, 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, providing strategic, coordinated and culturally appropriate support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families whose loved ones have died in custody.
• Black Rainbow Futures Fund - an Indigenous-led organisation investing in the futures of the Indigenous LGBTIQ+ community
• IndigenousX, an Indigenous owned and operated media, consultancy, and training organisation.
• First Nations Hub, providing a culturally safe, co-working space to advance grassroots campaigns for Country and Victorian Aboriginal community.
• First Nations Futures, a way to contribute to redistributing wealth and collectively investing in First Nations initiatives that are creating intergenerational change

I pay respect to Elders of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, on whose lands I currently live, and honour their enduring connections to culture, kin, and Country. I am in an ongoing process of learning about of the wide range stolen lands I and my ancestors have lived on, and extend this respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across this continent. I aim to act in solidarity with decolonising efforts, and follow First Nations leadership in cultivating systems for collectively generating and communicating knowledge in ways that contribute to better futures.

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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) 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