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… Continue reading ETHS 100 Week 2: Ethnic Studies Then And Now
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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,… Continue reading AIS 440 Week 1: Introduction to Native Sexuality and Queer Discourse
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“Drunk one night, Sarah had told me Women are the race… No two ways about it. Male is just a mutation with more muscle and half the nerves. Fighting, fucking machines… To be a woman was a sensory experience beyond the male. Touch and texture ran deeper, an interface with environment that male flesh seemed… Continue reading XXI
Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
Prompt: Why are we so afraid of reproductive technologies?” Who is “we?” Intro Systems of oppression exist on three levels. First, the pervasive and ubiquitous sociocultural level which encompasses all the ideas (or discourses) in our society’s collective culture. Second, the institutional level, where people enact the sociocultural discourses as policy in order to make… Continue reading Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
The Magician
CJ Trowbridge Race and Resistance Studies 280 Race, Gender, and Science Fiction 2020-10-29 Future Voting Eutopia I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I had long since learned to trust that feeling. Keeping the pistol pointed towards the empty street, I looked over my shoulder and whisper-shouted for Mario to… Continue reading The Magician
Reading Reaction: Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™
Note: I deeply enjoyed reading “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” and in particular I enjoyed this version read by Levar Burton who also provides some analysis of his own. Our protagonist is a storyteller who creates elaborate virtual experiences to share “an authentic Indian experience” to tourists. This story follows a nascent relationship he… Continue reading Reading Reaction: Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™
Our History is the Future by Nick Estes
I wrote at length about each chapter of this excellent book. It is both a primer on the history of the struggle of native people and also a vision of the future. Estes shows many examples of what white settler colonialism is, how it has been successfully countered, and what a possible future might look… Continue reading Our History is the Future by Nick Estes
“The Police Killings No One Is Talking About”
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-20 Power and Politics in American Indian History Stephanie Woodward, “The Police Killings No One is Talking About” In 2014, police murdered a pregnant woman who was at a hospital for mental health issues by shooting her many times. (Woodward) These kinds of events are commonplace and there is no complete record of… Continue reading “The Police Killings No One Is Talking About”
“For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die”
Glen Coulthard, “For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die” (2013) The author begins by describing the tactics being used to silence native critiques of settler colonialism. This argument is basically the illocutionary silencing argument; language is reconstructed by settler colonists in an attempt to take away the power of words to have action… Continue reading “For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die”
Nick Estes: Liberation
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-20 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 8 Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 7. Liberation (pages 247-258) 11 pages The chapter begins by discussing the way the story of Custer has been twisted and misrepresented. In reality, native people were gathering together to celebrate the new… Continue reading Nick Estes: Liberation