Decolonization is not a metaphor
2012 · PDFA foundational relational text on what decolonization demands — and what it refuses to become when turned into metaphor.
READ THE PDFAcknowledgment of Country
We gather on Country.
We gather on Country shaped by the care, memory and knowledge of those who came before us. We honour the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we meet, and our ancestors, whose stories, struggles and ways of knowing continue to travel with us.
About R+R Salon
Reading / Relation / Return
Est. 2026
Accra · Melbourne · Elsewhere
R+R Salon (2026→) is a reading and gathering space devoted to relational texts, shared attention, and the pleasure of thinking together. Across Accra, Melbourne and elsewhere, we stay with difficult sentences, listen across difference, and carry questions between tables so context compounds — and the room learns how to return.
ENTER THE SALONA READING SALON FOR RELATIONAL TEXTS, SHARED ATTENTION, AND THE IDEAS WE CARRY BETWEEN US.
Designing gatherings around books, essays and other relational texts, so context compounds and conversation deepens over time. Every salon draws on what the room carries — strengthening how we read together, and enabling return.
+ LEARN MOREREADINGS
RELATIONAL TEXTS.
SHARED ATTENTION.
OUR APPROACH
READ INSIDE THE RELATION
GATHER THE ROOM
01R+R Salon brings people and texts together across Ghana, America and Australia — naming who is in the room, what we are reading, and what each gathering asks of us before we begin.
STAY WITH THE TEXT
02We read slowly. Shared attention holds the sentence open long enough for context to compound — listening across difference without rushing to resolve the difficulty.
CARRY THE RELATION
03What stays after the page closes travels with us. Questions, refusals and returns move between Accra, Melbourne and elsewhere, shaping the next table.
04 / METHODOLOGY
What we carry
into the reading.
Reading begins before we gather and continues after we leave. These are some of the practices that shape how R+R Salon reads together. Open a card to follow the thought further.
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Give the text enough time to become complicated. Return to the sentence that keeps pulling you back.
The same page reaches each of us through different histories, languages, places and experiences.
Someone will notice what you passed over. Stay with what they saw.
Confusion, discomfort and disagreement can tell us where closer reading is needed.
Read across differences of language, generation, geography, politics and experience.
A paragraph may lead to a song, memory, photograph, place, conversation or another book. Follow it.
Every pause does not need filling. Sometimes somebody is still finding the words.
The gathering ends. The reading keeps moving through conversations, memories and other texts.
R+R SALON
HOLDING
COMPLEXITY
SHARING
ATTENTION
Members and readings move between Ghana, America and Australia. The table is where that complexity becomes shared attention.