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D.A.T.T. Freedom School: Summer Session
Purpose: DATT Freedom School’s purpose is to provide political education to those who want to learn online with a variety of platforms. DATT Freedom School is a dynamic online work study group that includes the basis of a book club, hosted tweet chats every other week, video lessons, & master posts. Goal: Provide people with…
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Intersectional Food Politics & The Failure of SNAP Challenges
Introduction Recently Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted a picture of $29 worth of food to equate to what a family on SNAP benefits has for a week with on food stamps. She isn’t the first celebrity to do this, we’ve even seen politicians do this to make a point to fight against cutting SNAP benefits. While they…
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Let’s Talk About Human Rights: The Failure of ‘Rights’ Rhetoric
INTRODUCTION The popular narratives behind civil rights have come to the forefront in light of the recent attention paid to extrajudicial murders of Black people by the state. What I find most interesting is the constant references back to the civil rights movement. Much of what has been in the media refers Ferguson, NYC, and…
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“The Blacker The Berry” Is A Black Pathology Anthem
Kendrick Lamar recently dropped the track “The Blacker The Berry”, what has been called a “Black Anthem” that deals with the hypocritical racial self hatred in the Black community. As a hip hop head I was hype to first listen to the song, hoping that it would say something critical, contextually accurate, reveal the true…
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Under Construction: Decolonizing Queer Masculinity(ies) Part II – Depatriarchalizing The Body
Introduction I have decided to turn my initial blog post “Under Construction: Decolonized Queer Masculinity(ies)” into a series where I deconstruct colonial notions of gender, sexuality, sex category, & the many intersections with other identities & systems of domination. In my first blog post in this series I discussed unhinging my identity from patriarchal notions of…
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Gotta Catch ‘Em ALL!: How Liberalism Turns Oppressed Peoples into Pokemon
This is something that a good friend of mine & I have been talking about for years! Years I tell you! We have had so many discussions with people about this. So I figured it’s about time for me to share this amazingly accurate (as well as hilariously entertaining) concept to help people understand the…
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Dear white anthropologists, I don’t believe you: When will #BlackLivesMatter & #BlackMindsMatter in Anthropology departments?
INTRO Historically academic organizations have made statements at times of peril in particular communities across the world to signify their official stance on the events taking place. From UNESCO’s statement on race in 1950 to the most recent academic organizations’ statements on the oppression of Palestinians and recent media attention brought to Ferguson and other…
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Under Construction: Decolonized Queer Masculinity(ies)
This is something that I have been discussing with close friends and working on what this means for myself. As somebody who is considered an academic in some sense, a lot of figuring this out means I’ve been reading loads of research articles, books, and articles online to look at loads of different perspectives and…
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Critical Thinking & Employing Education To Develop A Critical Consciousness
Introduction As a scholar and lover of learning I have constantly been asked how I manage to learn, remember, and understand so much. Quite honestly its through a very particular form of critical thinking that is heavily influenced by brilliant minds like Paulo Friere, bell hooks, and the research skills I learned from the amazing…
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Black Feminism(s) Taught Me
Introduction This past year I spent a lot of time working on me. There were some major events at hand that contributed to some key changes in my life. I for one took a step back from problematic and unhealthy friendships and relationships in my life. For 6 months I didn’t talk to 2 of…