User:Louibu

I'm editing Wikipedia on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation in southeast Australia.

Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

I'm working to create a better representation of folk and events across Wikipedia, however I recognise that this work needs to be done carefully.

In 1597 Francis Bacon said "Knowledge itself is power" (ipsa scientia potestas est).

And in 1984 Emmanuel Levinas said seeking to know something is akin to "seizing something and making it one’s own … an activity which appropriates and grasps the otherness of the known."

And in 2011 Goenpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson shows how those with the power to create knowledge, define and historicise, and thereby assume ownership.