Author: cjtrowbridge
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Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer
CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer I was struck by the following quote from the Barbara May Cameron article, “Cameron’s refusal to be queer in one corner of her life, and native in another, is as radical and transformative now, as it was then.…
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AIS 440 Week 4: Gay American Indians
Read Barbara May Cameron Native Americans/LGBTQ+ Americans: 1528-1976 Listen Randy Burns’s Work Starting Gay American Indians Roger Kuhn: Decolonizing and Unsettling Pleasure Write Choose any of the readings, videos, or podcasts from the first four weeks. Papers must include two parts: a review of the readings, videos, or podcasts. A review is not a close reading…
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A New Paradigm For Web Hosting
I host dozens of wordpress sites for lots of different projects I am either actively working on or worked on in the past, or where I’m just helping others have a website for projects they’re working on. The Problems Serving a lot of wordpress installs can take a lot of resources, but most of these…
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ETHS 100 Week 3: Settler Colonialism and Indian Removal
Read/Write Dunbar-Ortiz Intro: This Land (Audiobook (8:32-), I can also share this) Please read Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’ “Introduction” from her book, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (attached below). Then, upload a pdf or word document with your responses to the following questions. In 2-3 sentences each, please respond to the following: 1. Define Settler Colonialism…
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AIS 440 Week 3: Learning From The Past
Read (All of these are behind academic paywalls but I can share PDFs. Please reach out if you need them.) Sabine Lang: Native American men-women, lesbians, two-spirits: Contemporary and historical perspectives Will Roscoe: Was We’Wha a Homosexual Roscoe – Bibliography Watch Two-Spirit People
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AIS 440 Week 2: Decolonize Sexuality
Read Abel R. Gomez – San Francisco Pride, Nation’s Largest LGBT Celebration, Takes Place on Indigenous Ohlone Land A Map of Gender Diverse Cultures Decolonization is not a metaphor “Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and…
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ETHS 100 Week 2: Ethnic Studies Then And Now
Listen NPR Code Switch: The long, bloody strike for ethnic studies at SF State Read The strike at SF State Watch On Strike! (At SF State) Post your reaction to this film: what did you find interesting? alarming? relevant for today? Your response should be a minimum of 6 sentences. It’s both stunning and unsurprising…
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The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
The Broken Earth book series was recommended by a close friend. It is an amazing read. Afrofuturism in general is always amazingly insightful, and I find that’s especially true when it’s distant-future Afrofuturism. These books paint a picture of a post-apocalyptic world, but it’s a world that has passed so many apocalypses that the landscape…
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Moisture Farming
Arizona, Southern California, and Northern Mexico are about to lose access to their main water source. Wells are drying up as rainfall decreases. Despite occasional deluges, many areas are now seeing half the rainfall they did historically. When I visited the Earthship Biotecture Academy at Taos, they said they are getting about half the annual…
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AIS 440 Week 1: Introduction to Native Sexuality and Queer Discourse
Read How Does Your Positionality Bias Your Epistemology? Listen Write Using the free website or free app (find on Apple or Google Play) Native Land research the land(s) where you grew up. If you grew up in several different places feel free to list the most relevant. If you grew up outside of the US or Canada,…