We share the experience of dust, the tiny unseeable particles, forgettable, yet omnipresent, substances that we move around and that perpetually move around us. Within the amalgamation of this material, carried by tradewinds and ocean currents, are the toxic particulates of coloniality. What begins as local becomes far-reaching as experienced recently in Canada with forest fires that do not adhere to international borders, jumping highways and waterways as catastrophe travels. For these reasons, materials and the implications of them matter.

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