A message for José Republican, too

A message for José Republican, too.

-Angela

 

A Day in the Life of Joe Republican

January 2, 2017

John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.

He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills.
Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FDIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.

Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.

The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good.

He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.

Joe agrees:  "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

Poor old Joe.
 

Mark Cuban On Trump: "He Didn't Do The Work, He's Lazy"

A billionaire's perspective on another billionaire, Donald Trump.

He's so likeable.

Angela

Academia Cuauhtli Gets a Site Visit from FWISD Board Chair and Superintendent

We had a wonderful meeting yesterday evening on January 5, 2016 with Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) Board Chair Jacinto Ramos, and FWISD Superintendent Kent Scribner who visited us, Nuestro Grupo—the community-based organization to which a number of us belong—to learn about our community-city-district partnership that administers the Academia Cuauhtli Saturday school at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC) located at 600 River in Austin, Texas.

See KLRU/PBS 2-minutes segment titled, Academia Cuauhtli Works to Bridge History with Language.  You can also read a published piece on Academia Cuauhtli titled, Academia Cuauhtli and the Eagle: Danza Mexica and the Epistemology of the Circle by Angela Valenzuela, Emilio Zamora, and Brenda Rubio, here.

Saturday school teachers are bilingually-certified teachers in the Austin Independent School District that has already resulted in the retention of at least our teachers (this year, between 12 and 15).

Throughout the year, a rotating set of novice and expert teachers are paired in order to prevent teacher burnout.  This has resulted in a learning community that extends the curriculum into their regular, dual language classrooms.  With our curriculum also getting taught in the district's summer, dual language program, Nuestro Grupo has already prepared at least 50 AISD teachers in the curriculum.

Along these same lines, a  principal yesterday confirmed what we had been hearing from other principals and teachers in our other participating schools that after having received Spanish-language instruction at Academia Cuauhtli in civil rights, children manifest a strong sense of pride in wanting to speak Spanish more.  In that transition from the third to the fourth grade, those early years, she noted, children frequently become ashamed of being Mexican and speaking Spanish.  

Academia Cuauhtli helps to counter that phenomenon that I hear is ubiquitous not only in our district, but for our community statewide and beyond.  This is an artifact of the secondary language status that the Spanish language still holds but which we must systematically challenge, especially given the pedagogical and curricular challenges and opportunities that demographic change represents.

A trusting, open, often playful, spirit of partnership underpins the very serious work of founding and institutionalizing a "third space" where our community through its curriculum is able to speak its existential truths, while simultaneously educating our youth, teachers, and indeed, ourselves, in the history, language, aesthetic, values, and culture of our community.

Many thanks to Superintendent Paul Cruz for hosting us, as well as to AISD Board Vice President Paul Saldańa, Board President Kendall Pace, and AISD English Language Learner Director David Kauffman for their presence and participation. 

Thanks, as well, to our participating principals, Azucena Garcia (Sanchez El), Martha Castillo (Metz El), José Macías (Zavala El), and for joining us, as well.  Not pictured below are Principals Castillo, Macías, and García who had to leave early, nor principal Ellen Camarillo (Houston El) who was unable to join us yesterday evening.


A final word of thanks to ESB-MACC co-hosts Marina Islas, Frank Baca, Fabian, and Herlinda Zamora for always being so accommodating and helpful. 

We in Austin are hopeful that really good things are in store for FWISD and thankful that those of us in Nuestro Grupo/Academia Cuauhtli can be helpful.  Personally speaking, I'm feeling pretty happy and blessed right now to see that our work is getting recognized.

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Sí se puede!  Yes, we can!

Angela Valenzuela
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Chris Milk, David Kauffman, Jacinto Ramos, Greg Pulte, Emilio Zamora, Angela Valenzuela, Marky Ramos, Kendall Pace, Paul Saldaña, and Kent Scribner (left-right)

On the Problem of Whiteness at the University of Wisconsin Madison and Beyond

This piece titled, "In Defense of 'The Problem of Whiteness'" is vastly indicative of the reactionary force that whiteness has become within the context of a Trump presidency. To wit, a Wisconsin legislator uses his status and yes, white privilege, to go against a single course with this title that is scheduled for the Spring, 2017, semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

Columnist Miles Brown does a good job of defending it, however what should be added is that there actually exists a subfield within the larger—indeed, vast field of Race and Ethnic relations called "White Studies" or "Critical White Studies" that I would venture to say based on my expertise in the field of Race and Ethnic Relations in Sociology and a doctoral degree in it from Stanford University that the field has been largely spearheaded by white scholars themselves.  

Without having taken the course, my take on this is that "the problem of whiteness" is the problem of whiteness as an ideology that leaves no one untouched, regardless of race.  

It is a problem in my view in Mexican American or African American communities to privilege whiteness even in the intimacy of our families.  Babies barely take their first breath with parents and relatives commenting on their skin color, often in coded terms that we all know too well what they mean.  

"Salió güerito (he or she came out fair-skinned)," met with approbation.  "Salió morenito (he or she came out dark-skinned)," can be positive but is most frequently negative.  Light-skinned children even get nicknames like "Güero" or "Güera" that practically become their actual names.  Stories abound of lighter-skinned children getting favor over darker-skinned ones.

In the intimacy of my own family network, I was in that category of being among the darker-skinned cousins because my fair-skinned mother rebelled against her parents and married the darkest-skinned, good-looking Mexican that she could find.  I am, of course, glad that she made that choice, but it was not without its consequences. Boy, could I have used a course like this in elementary or middle school!  Among other things, it would have helped me to attain a positive sense of self which for so many of us, is a life-long struggle precisely because the problem of whiteness or race.

Among my larger family network in southern Mexico, there is this naturalistic, if jarring, discourse—somewhat jokingly and somewhat serious—that in marital choices,"hay que mejorar la raza" ("one needs to improve the race") which basically equates "marrying up" to "marrying white."  In Mexico, mind you, this is what is said in the most casual of conversations!  And it's probably experienced and felt throughout if not always said.

Another way to think about this is with what Mexican intellectuals in Mexico call, "el Malinchismo," capturing a phenomenon where Mexicans in Mexico, particularly of the upper classes, abhor things Mexican and prefer all things (white) North American or European.  Such individuals, oftentimes unknowingly, harbor prejudices not only against mestizos and indigenous people and their ways of knowing and being in the world, but they also eschew the identities that attach to that very blood mixture within themselves.  Very profound and yes, consequential.  

A little education and knowledge on the historicity of race as a construct could be illuminating, if not liberating.  Race is a modern concept that comes into existence with the wars, conquest, slavery and colonization of people on this continent.  The term, "white," comes into existence with the consolidation of slavery in the early- to mid- 1600s.

The problem of whiteness" is thusly a global phenomenon that tracks back to the Western European colonization of the world, beginning for us on this continent with Christopher Columbus' so-called discovery of the "New World."  

This historical experience of colonization resulted in enduring trauma and hierarchical social relations inflected by race, class, and gender that continue into the present.  Volumes have been written on this. El malinchismo comes from this exact same source, suggesting that no one on the planet is left untouched by the ideology of white supremacy. That's why courses like this are massively important—for whites and non-whites alike.

I remember in the early 1990s when White Studies first appeared on the scene and I was a bit skeptical that this, too, was and would be yet another reinstantiation of white privilege in the academy with whites taking jobs from faculty of color like myself specializing in race and ethnic relations.  I'm actually not sure how all of this has panned out, but I am pleased to see how White Studies has expanded and deepened our understandings of white identities, and most particularly illuminated whiteness as an ideology to which none of us are fully exempt.

All of humankind needs to take a course like this one so that we can begin to reflect deeply on this historical, socially constructed notion that continues to stratify and stigmatize, and in so doing, inflect social relations in profound, unspoken ways.  

In some ways, a Trump presidency makes "whiteness" more visible as a discourse, however, in other ways, it may also simultaneously render it invisible (or "invisiblize") to the extent that whiteness means that it can legislate or draw parameters for discussion, debate—and in this case, a course—that fall outside of what it deems acceptable.  Hence, the importance of just such a course....

Angela Valenzuela
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A new round of political uproar has emerged with education in the state of Wisconsin. But this time, people aren’t taking umbrage over draconian cuts to public education and teacher benefits. Rather, some seem to be up in arms over a course to be taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring.
African Studies 405, or “The Problem of Whiteness,” is a course that explores “how race is experienced by white people,” but also looks at how white people “consciously and unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism.” These are very important issues that do not get nearly enough attention. But not everyone sees the class in this manner. State Representative David Murphy has said of the class, “I am extremely concerned that UW-Madison finds it appropriate to teach a course called, ‘The Problem of Whiteness,’ with the premise that white people are racist.”
Okay. Let’s start with, “the premise that white people are racist.” That would be pretty problematic. Luckily for Rep. Murphy, the course does not do that. At all. Nowhere in the course description does it say that white people are racist.
The stance of Rep. Murphy and others regarding this course is not only patronizing and deeply hypocritical. It is also dangerous, because people as delusional as Murphy is on race relations will forever hold power, and will forever try to prevent reality and logic from latching onto the forefront of how we communicate with one another. If what this class is teaching is “garbage,” as Murphy has stated, then it should not be an issue for him to refute the notions this class was built upon, instead of bullying the university into scrapping it entirely.
Rep. Murphy also mentioned the existence of the class as making race relations worse in this country. This is one of the dumbest arguments I’ve heard spewed out in opposition to racial progress. What alternate universe does he live in where talking about and bringing awareness to a problem makes the problem worse? His attitude is akin to someone yelling at their mechanic because the mechanic talked about their loose brake pads, and according to them made the brake pads worse by doing so.
Ultimately, it just sounds like Rep. Murphy simply does not want to have an honest, respectful dialogue about race in this country. I guess it’s fine if he wants to live life with his hands over his eyes and ears. But these are legitimate issues that a lot of folks are feeling the effects of. The course in question is one that tells the story of American society through a different lens than what we are used to. It is a course that many white students should jump at the chance to take because it is one meant to challenge their perspectives and preconceived notions of racial issues.
I understand that to some this class seems to be an act of piling on. Like the chocolate syrup on a white guilt sundae, if you will. But if you think it’s frustrating to hear it, try having to constantly say it, live it, and repeatedly have your existence and humanity questioned by people who clearly don’t have your best interests at heart. It’s exhausting, and a class like African Studies 405 goes a long way toward bridging the communication gap that exists with race relations in this country.
It’s not about white people being racist. It’s about a societal system in which people think it’s okay to question the intelligence and qualifications of someone just because a white person wanted their job. It’s about a societal system that writes off black boys and girls before they’re even out of their diapers. It is about getting people to see the legacy that things like slavery and Jim Crow laws have left behind, and how they both helped to build up societal systems that look out for certain people in ways they don’t for people of other races.
The most crucial part of this class is its aim to break down the notions embedded within our society that list whiteness and white people as a default standard bearer, and examining who the true beneficiaries of these systems are. There’s nothing racist in that, only a lot of uncomfortable truth. The sooner Rep. Murphy and others open their eyes and ears and start embracing said truths, the better off we’ll be as a state and as a society.

California Latin@ Water Summit Resolution: Pls Endorse Resolution

Powerful resolution.  Water is life. This is and should be a top issue in California.  Folks can click HERE to endorse this resolution.
Angela

 
Mindful of the fact that Latin@s as California's emerging majority need to play a prominent role in California's water policy debates, the California Latin@ Water Summit of 2016 gathered on December 9, 2016 at the La Kretz Innovation Campus and developed the following resolution.  As Latin@ leaders we endorse this resolution and urge your approval as well.

Endorsed By:
Ivan Enriquez, Santa Ana
Antonio González, William C. Velásquez Institute, Los Angeles
Jose Gonzalez, LatinoCare, South Gate
Howard Hernandez, 1st Vice Commander California State American GI Forum, Montebello
Nativo Lopez, Hermandad Mexicana, Los Angeles
Ellen Lubic, Joining Forces for Education, Los Angeles
Raul Macias, Anahuak Youth Soccer Association
Jesse Marez, Los Angeles
Alfredo Nuño, Planning Commissioner, City of El Monte
Mayor Sam Pedroza, City of Claremont
Richard Ramirez, Fullerton
Maria Riojas, Los Angeles
Carson Mayor Albert Robles, Director, Water Replenishment District of Southern California, Lakewood
David Rodriguez, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Camarillo
Javier Rodriguez, Director, ZAZ Communications, Los Angeles
Jorge H. Rodriguez, Rodriguez Group, Pasadena
Angela Sanbrano, Mexican Network of Migrant Leaders and Organizations, La Verne
Jose Solorio, Assembly Member Emeritus
Maria Elena Yepes, Monterey Park


Whereas persistent climate change has altered the way Californians must approach water management;

Whereas California is in the fifth year of its worst drought on record;

Whereas in September 2016 100% percent of California was in drought with 62.27 % in severe drought;

Whereas climate scientists are predicting a decades-long drought for California, especially southern California;

Whereas Southern California is dependent on imported water deliveries from the Sierra Snowpack and the Colorado River, two increasingly unreliable and contested sources;

Whereas the Sierra Snowpack, was the lowest ever recorded in 2015;

Whereas about two thirds of all Californians and millions of acres of irrigated farmland rely on Bay Delta water;

Whereas Bay Delta water is increasingly contested by environmental, farming and urban needs;

Whereas the Colorado River provides water to over 40 million people in multiple states and Mexico including 15 Native American tribes, is used to irrigate nearly 4 million acres, supplies water to 7 National Wildlife Refuges, 4 National Recreation Areas, and 11 National Parks;

Whereas the Colorado River is the most contested river in the Country and is at its lowest deliveries in history;

Whereas the California drought has caused the death of 100 million trees since 2012;
Whereas California's population is expected to grow to 50 million by 2049, a near-majority (48%) of whom will be Latin@;

Whereas nothing is more important to the Latino community than clean safe drinking water;

Whereas for the millions of Latinos living in California securing water supply is a matter of environmental justice, human, and civil rights;

Whereas Latino voices have not been paramount in the California dialogue over how best to ensure adequate water supplies for all Californians even though when asked in surveys demonstrate substantial concern about drought issues and support for conservation and developing diverse new sources of water;

Whereas California is in the process of developing polices, rules and regulations on how to create new local water for communities throughout the state;

Whereas Governor Brown's California Water Action Plan calls for regional water supply self-reliance through the development of new drinking water supplies including waste water recycling, storm water capture and desalination;

Whereas in responding to the drought, communities throughout California have institutionalized such conservation & efficiency measures as: installing water conservation appliances, using drip irrigation, watering lawns in early morning or after sunset, landscaping with drought proof plants, washing with full loads, using a broom instead of water to clean sidewalks and driveways;

Whereas water districts throughout California are recycling wastewater as a source of new local water;

Whereas desalination is the only drought-proof source of new local water not dependent on rain or snow-pack and seawater and brackish groundwater desalination plants now exist or are being planned in 36 California jurisdictions, and water produced by new desalination plants are increasingly cost competitive;

Whereas California jurisdictions are moving away from simply diverting stormwater to capturing and purifying the water;

Whereas protecting California's public and economy from the devastating effects of long term drought will require substantial public and private investment that if done improperly could lead to inequitable access due to high water costs;

1. Therefore, be it resolved that the California Latin@ Water Summit supports an "all-of-the-above" strategy for drought resiliency that develops conservation & efficiency, wastewater recycling & recharge; stormwater capture; and both seawater and brackish water desalination;

2. Be it further resolved that the California Latin@ Water Summit supports   policies that lead to a near future of non-dependence in Southern California on expensive and increasingly unreliable imported water from Northern California and the Colorado River;

3. Be it further resolved that the California Latin@ Water Summit supports policies that restore adequate access to clean and reliable water for residents and agriculture in the Central Valley of California;

4. Be it further resolved that the California Latin@ Water Summit supports policies that stabilize and restore the Salton Sea, whose decimation comprises a danger to regional air quality and public health;

5. Be it further resolved that the California Latin@ Water Summit supports policies such as the California WaterFix that would upgrade the 50-year-old infrastructure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect this major source of clean water for two thirds of the state, and programs to restore the habitat and ecosystem in and around the Delta;

6. Be it further resolved that the California Latin@ Water Summit calls for the legislature and the 2018 state water bond to invest tens of billions of public dollars in multi-benefit projects that guarantees reliable quality water supplies that enable quality of life and economic development consistent with the best traditions of California society, especially now that California is an emerging Latino majority society;

7. Be it further resolved that the California Latin@ Water Summit calls for California's regulatory and water agencies to balance and calibrate the costs of water production, so that economic inequality does not manifest itself in substantially greater access to water for the comparatively affluent.

Few women run the nation's school districts. Why?

Few women run the nation's school districts. Why?: Even though K-12 education is largely a female enterprise, men dominate the chief executive's office in numbers that look especially bleak given that the pool of talent is deep with women.

"Even though K-12 education is largely a female enterprise, men dominate the chief executive’s office in the nation’s nearly 14,000 districts, numbers that look especially bleak given that the pool of talent is deep with women. Women make up 76 percent of teachers, 52 percent of principals, and 78 percent of central-office administrators, according to federal data and the results of a recent national survey. Yet they account for less than a quarter of all superintendents, according to a survey conducted this summer by AASA, the School Superintendents Association. But that number represents improvement since 2000, when 13 percent were women."

Not good. White, male privilege in the superintendency surely becomes obvious upon parsing these data by race/ethnicity.

Angela

Great resources from the De-Colonization, Indigeneity and Society Blog

Great resources, including books, open access academic articles; short online articles; and lecture videos from the De-Colonization, Indigeneity and Society blog.  

Check out their journal by the same name here.

Happy New Year, everybody!

Angela Valenzuela

c/s

Further Readings

Books

Howard Adams – A Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization
Taiaiake Alfred – Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
Jodi Byrd – Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Amilcar Cabral – Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
Aime Cesaire – Discourse on Colonialism
Glen Coulthard – Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Iyko Day – Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
Sarah Deer – The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Vine Deloria Jr. – Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Frantz Fanon – Wretched of the Earth
Mishuana Goeman – Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping our Nations
Sandy Grande – Red Pedagogy
Emma Laroque – When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990
Lisa Lowe – The Intimacies of Four Continents
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten – The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (open access!)
Lee Maracle – I am Woman
George Manuel – The Fourth World: An Indian Reality
Albert Memmi – The Colonizer and the Colonized
Walter Mignolo – Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges & Border Thinking
Scott Morgenson – Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
V.Y. Mudimbe – The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge
Pamela Palmater – Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens
Reiland Rabaka – Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization
Audra Simpson – Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Leanne Simpson – Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and New Emergence
Linda Smith – Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Huanani-Kay Trask – From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Matigari
Alex Weheliye – Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

 Open Access Academic Articles (beyond what we publish here)

Taiaiake Alfred & Jeff Corntassel – Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Colonialism
Taiaiake Alfred & Lana Lowe – Warrior Societies in Contemporary Indigenous Communities
Glen Coulthard – Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Politics of Recognition’ in Canada
Iyko Day – Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness and the Settler Colonial Critique
George Dei – Rethinking the Role of Indigenous Knowledges in the Academy
Sarah Hunt – Ontologies of Indigeneity: The Politics of Embodying a Concept
Sarah Hunt & Cindy Holmes – Everyday Decolonization: Living a Decolonizing Queer Politics
Freya Schiwy – Decolonizing the Technologies of Knowledge: Video and Indigenous Epistemology
Eve Tuck & Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández – Curriculum, Replacement & Settler Futurity
Eve Tuck & C. Ree – A Glossary of Haunting
Tryon Woods – The Fact of Antiblackness: Decolonization in the Chiapas and the Niger River Delta
Sylvia Wynter – Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom

Other (Short) Online Articles 

Siku Allooloo – From Outrage to Radical Love

Billy Ray Belcourt – On Moving Too Fast, or Decolonial Speed

Ashon Crawley – Otherwise Movements

Ellen Gabriel – Those that Carry the Burden of Peace

Luam Kidane & Jarrett Martineau – Building Connections Across Decolonization Struggles

K-Sue Park – Who are the Insurgents and Counterinsurgents?

Jemima Pierre – Reconciliation is not Decolonization

Jemima Pierre – Zionism, Antiblackness and the Struggle for Palestine

Raven Rakia – Black Riot

Junaid Rana – The Challenge of Decolonization: Palestine, Blackness & the Complexity of Racism

Leanne Simpson – I am Not a Nation State

Leanne Simpson – Politics Based on Justice, Diplomacy Based on Love

Zoe Todd – Relationships

Harsha Walia – Decolonizing Together: Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Toward a Practice of Decolonization

Lectures [Videos]

Sara Ahmed – Brick Walls: Racism and Other Hard Histories

Jodi Byrd – “Variations Under Domestication”: Indigeneity, Financialization, and the Logics of Dispossession

Sarah Hunt – Embodying Self-Determination: resisting violence beyond the gender binary

Joy James – Refusing Blackness as Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs

Rauna Kuokkanen – Indigenous Gender Justice

Dory Nason – Indigenous Feminist Resurgence, Love and Resistance in Indigenous Women’s Contemporary Storytelling

Audra Simpson – The Chief’s Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty

Kim TallBear – Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexuality

Alex Wilson – Coming In: Indigenous Resurgence, Body Sovereignty and Gender Self-Determination

(This list is, as with most things in life, a work in progress…)

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