Category: Blog
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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,…
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Current Camping Gear List
My Favorite Tent (~$55) This tent is amazing. It packs down small and then all you have to do is unzip the bag and it pops up in literally two seconds. It’s unbelievably easy and it does great in heavy wind and rain. I have never staked it down or even used the guy lines;…
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OurSpace Examples: OurTube, OurTok, etc
Building on my ongoing work on Ourspace, I think it’s important to consider a whole range of alternative apps formatted just like major products on the market. Ourspace itself would be format agnostic. It’s a general purpose content distribution and sharing platform and protocol. But you could easily build a version of it which looks…
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Why and How to Build a Fiber Foamie
During covid, I built a fully solar-powered off-grid micro-camper called a squaredrop. I designed it to tow behind my Honda Civic. I traveled over 22,000 miles to 35 national parks in 28 states. You can see the whole adventure at movingcabin.com. What’s a Squaredrop? A squaredrop is sort of like a teardrop trailer but more…