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I. THE ALTER-EGO/AVATAR Writing Activity...
​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.
(after we share a bit of this writing, please turn to your neighbor and share last week's poster and/or an symbolizing image)
​II. General Bid'ness 
  • Course materials will always be under the tab that matches title of this class: ​"A 3rd University Is Possible": ​Anti-Racist/ Anti-Colonial Pedagogies… Beyond 2023 Performativities (look for the name that matches that week of the syllabus workshop)​. At the top of our semester's main page, you will find links to the days of class now.  Hopefully this helps more. You will notice that there are updated readings on the website from the paper calendar in your workbook. 
  • Next week, Marcellis and Victoria present.  ​
  • We begin BANNED BOOKS on October 9 with Lori and Caylie (we'll spend some time preparing amd talking next week in class).

All The Hype... from Lori

III. "Black Study, Black Struggle" & Note-Taking
On the left side of your handout, you will find quotations directly from Robin D.G. Kelley’s essay, “Black Study, Black Struggle.” Here are your tasks:
  1. Choose ANY two quotations on the left that speak most to you (negative or positive).
  2. Write your response to your two quotations on the right.
  3. Go to the bottom of the page and connect your two chosen quotes with today’s reading(s) and last week’s focus on la paperson.
IV. "Decolonial Riders" with la paperson (continued)
  1. Read everyone's land acknowledgment on our google doc
  2. Define decolonization for yourself using la paperson (and more)
  3. Define settler colonization--- both past and present
  4. How will you use these lenses? If you will not, why not? (not a judgement, just a request for clarity)​
Click here for our google doc
​(or go here: https://tinyurl.com/decolonial-riders)
Our Named Take-Aways 
  • Decolonization is nuanced, specific, contextual, and land-oriented
  • From "Matters of concerns" TO "matters of care"
  • Curriculum studies is married w/ settler futurity
  • Higher education is invested in colonization
  • Decolonization is intentional and mindful in its rhetorical purpose
  • Decolonization makes us ask: what/who is innocent? what is our responsibility for the past?