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4:00-4:20pm
Gather Yourself Up
  1. Look over the day's agenda
  2. Grab some tea/coffeee... get comfortable (as best as possible)

4:20-4:30pm
Connect
Zoom room opens so that we can say hello and enter as fully as possible in such a space.

Presentations
​(4:30-5:35pm)
  1. Erick presents (4:30-4:45)
  2. Ruba presents (4:45-5:00)
  3. Erick and Ruba talk back and forth (5:00-5:10)
  4. Open Discussion with whole group (5:10-5:35)

BREAK: 5:47-6:02pm

Open Sessions
5:5O-6:40pm
1. Announcements, Reminders & Check-In . . . 
  • Zoom will ping for everyone when someone enters or leaves the session-- please notice when someone has been disconnected and help them re-join conversations.
  • If I am not noticing someone's comment/question/issue in the chat, please jump in and  interrupt.
  • On the days that you present, you do NOT have to do the RR.
  • I have commented to RRs #1-4 now.  Please look at the folder in your drive.  The latest that RR #1-8 can be submitted is October 20.  Check the D2L site to see how your points are getting added up and to determine what grade you are looking towards (this is mostly an exercise for grad students as an example of assessment).
2. SYNTHESIS  WRITING ACTIVITY
Part I
In your google folder for this class, open up a new doc.  Start writing.  What connections are you making now between all of the readings and discussions we have had?  Where is your thinking now?  Notes from last week's zoom chat box are below.  The bottom of last week's agenda also has a re-cap.

Feel free to turn your cameras off to do this writing.  You won't need to paste this in chat. I'll read you google doc writing later.  ​I will let you know when writing time is up.
Part II
THE AVATAR...
​Yes, as in pick your own avatar for your work as teacher/scholar/academic.  Name them.  See them. Be them.  Theorize AS them, not like them.

I will read the directions out loud here... a few times.  Write what comes to mind.  Ignore the prompts that don't work for you. Put aside any self-doubting.  What comes to you is perfection, as is.
3. Sharing and Open Discussions

These are your points from last week on
​la paperson.

​Names have been removed since this is a public website centering folx in a surveilled department.
"I desire against the assemblage that created me." ~la paperson

Colonial universities rely on the abstraction of their violence… call them "systems" when it's a really specific person or office doing the harm.
 
Ahmed writes a lot about how sometimes (oftentimes) a structure is a very specific person or act or organization. Coming up against a structure can be coming up against the weight of the violence that university or institution wants to control, both in terms of exposure but also in terms of liability. We see this right now with how TCU is putting the entire Fort Worth community at risk, at how they have been leading the charge to be exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act, and how they have prolonged any sense of reconciliation or repair at the department and university levels for the harm still being done to Black women at our university.
 
These people have names. Decolonization is complex, yes, but there are instances when coloniality has a very specific name. 
 
If we aren’t scyborgs, but we’re “here,” what are we and what are we doing?
 
It’s a modest proposal: a third university “is possible,” but it does carry a particular disposition and presents imaginative possibilities.
 
A "'fourth,' autonomous form of civil society" is entirely distinct from the university.
 
I question my privilege of being here, among other things.
 
Colonial technologies can work for your “decolonizing enterprise” while you let the university “tick its own countdown.”
 
How do we not fall into the pit of hopelessness of working within colonial structures?