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A review by christalbotheindl
Zojaqan: The Complete Series by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
3.0
2.5/5 This introduction to Shan and Zojaqan was incredibly uncomfortable for me. The premise is that Shannon (or Shan) loses her son - in a way that is unclear - but it sounds like he was run down by a car, intentionally. Earlier, you see him with a Black Lives Matter sign, so I concluded that this happened in relation to that, but it isn't explicitly stated.
She may have committed suicide and this is her afterlife, or she may have retreated into her own psyche, or she may legitimately space/time traveled - that is also unclear, but she finds herself in a different world.
She seems well intentioned when she starts to teach the indigenous people how to protect themselves from predators, but then begins some serious colonizer BS - giving them rules to live by, becoming angry when they "misinterpret" her vague parables, and then beating them or killing them when they don't live the way she wants them to.
This was super troubling for me that a black woman - the daughter of an immigrant and the mourning mother of a son who was run down at a Black Lives Matter protest - would turn around and become a colonizer to the indigenous people. I was curious as to who had written it, looked them up, and they're both white men. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not. I think there are a lot of white folk who envision that given the same power position their ancestors had over indigenous peoples, minorities would behaved the same way. I reject that premise, and I'm disappointed in this story.
She may have committed suicide and this is her afterlife, or she may have retreated into her own psyche, or she may legitimately space/time traveled - that is also unclear, but she finds herself in a different world.
She seems well intentioned when she starts to teach the indigenous people how to protect themselves from predators, but then begins some serious colonizer BS - giving them rules to live by, becoming angry when they "misinterpret" her vague parables, and then beating them or killing them when they don't live the way she wants them to.
This was super troubling for me that a black woman - the daughter of an immigrant and the mourning mother of a son who was run down at a Black Lives Matter protest - would turn around and become a colonizer to the indigenous people. I was curious as to who had written it, looked them up, and they're both white men. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not. I think there are a lot of white folk who envision that given the same power position their ancestors had over indigenous peoples, minorities would behaved the same way. I reject that premise, and I'm disappointed in this story.