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All of California’s agricultural land is fundamentally unsustainable and structurally self-destructive.

All of California’s agricultural land is fundamentally unsustainable and structurally self-destructive. The entire San Joaquin valley was a lake until very recently; Lake Corcoran was one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes. (Wong) It was fed with rainfall from the sea, and its evaporation created a cycle of precipitation which fed both sides of the… Continue reading All of California’s agricultural land is fundamentally unsustainable and structurally self-destructive.

On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics

CJ Trowbridge 2021-10-18 AIS 440 Week 8 Literature Review: On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics Choose 2 of the lectures from the first 7 weeks of class and write a minimum 2 page response by answering the following questions: 1. What was the main topic of the lectures? 2. What did you learn from the lectures?… Continue reading On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics

Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony

CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People 2021-09-28 Prompt: Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are necessary to rewrite this area of colonial and settler analysis.  This response needs to be a minimum of… Continue reading Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony

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.… Continue reading Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer

Collective Ownership is Key

CJ Trowbridge 2021-07-03 USP 560 – Urban Poverty Final             I have spent a lot of time this year traveling to radically sustainable experimental communities across the country and asking countless questions about infrastructure, ownership models, and governance models and now I’d like to propose a solution to urban poverty. The Community Development Corporation model… Continue reading Collective Ownership is Key

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Seize Housing Now

CJ Trowbridge 2021-07-02 USP 580 Housing Policy & Planning Term Paper The solution to the housing problem in San Francisco (And beyond) is the Community Development Corporation model, and the newly created arts districts are the perfect lever to make that happen. I spent much of the pandemic meeting with the boards of the arts… Continue reading Seize Housing Now

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Urban poverty is Not an Accident

CJ Trowbridge 2021-06-30 USP 560 Urban Poverty Term Paper It’s no mistake that there has never been a capitalist city without poverty. In his essay, “The Urban Process Under Capitalism,” David Harvey explains that cities are a process, not a place. Cities under capitalism – by definition – serve to extract labor and resources from… Continue reading Urban poverty is Not an Accident

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