Yvonne displays all of the powers and talents of a yak. Additionally, she has the power to change shape into a shark and she has the power to levitate through time using an uncommon tank, but only against crystal. Yvonne has been known to tunnel through solid titanium and she lords over a horde of antelopes. Shamefully, Yvonne is notorious for being unable to see germs.
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How does Darwin + physics = sociobiology?
A little light studying for graduate-level anthropological theory.
Ooooh, I get it now.
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WTF is wrong with people?! Someone is selling Trayvon-inspired shooting targets online. Seller says, “My main motivation was to make money off the controversy.” He sold out in two days.
(Source: motherjones)
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Manarchist Ryan Gosling says, I understand “occupy” is attached to a violent colonial history, but we need to keep the name consistent with the movement.
(Source: manarchistryangosling)
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Black Girl Dangerous: An Open Love Letter to Folks of Color →
I love your thick lips and your thick/curly/kinky/bone-straight hair. I love your slanted eyes, and your round and not-round asses, and your high cheekbones and your big/tiny feet. I love your brown eyes. I LOVE your brown skin.
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Academic Coach Taylor is uncomfortable with essentialized notions of gender identity.
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I Could Be Trayvon: a platform for men and boys of color to share with each other, and with the world, our “Trayvon Stories” — the times we were similarly racially profiled by police or vigilantes, and could have ended up dead after doing nothing more than the everyday activity typical of human beings living in a supposedly free society.
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Jeremy Lin, Cholafied. Que LINda!
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Research Justice 2012: Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals
Research Justice 2012
Allied Media Conference
June 28-July 1, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan
Submit a Proposal: http://talk.alliedmedia.org/
Deadline: March 15, 2012
http://researchjustice.com/
http://amc.alliedmedia.org/
Research is an essential part of creating the knowledge required to enact change. Communities have first hand experience of oppressions, and research is a tool to package those experiences so that it can be used strategically to affect change. For example, domestic workers in New York documented working conditions in their industry and used the data to pass the first ever statewide Bill of Rights. Students in Oakland interviewed their peers to create recommendations that were included in the school district’s strategic plan that would better serve students’ needs. Profiles of restaurant owners informed the strategy to win back wages for workers.
Knowledge is power; it has the ability to legitimate, establish, and undermine authority and the 1%. What we consider as common sense is socially constructed by the power elite, who skew facts to their advantage. We as the 99% can create new regimes of information by shifting the production of knowledge to the periphery of political and economic power and to refocus the critical gaze onto the 1%, as the subjects of inquiry.
Hegemony is established, according to Antonio Gramsci, through coercion and consent. Abroad, the shadow of the U.S. empire is shrinking. Here, at home, municipal governments and police have violently cracked down on the insurgent Occupy movement, while Congress and White House continue to bail out banks and corporations, so they can continue to wreak their structural havoc, in pursuit of profit.
Help us build a new regime of knowledge, that can empower communities now and into the future, as we collectively face global economic contraction and devastating ecological crises. We are looking to foment a revolution in research and knowledge production, starting with our gathering in Detroit this summer 2012.
We have three goals with the Research Justice track:
1) To create a community of radical researchers and expand our capacity to create liberatory knowledge through skillshares and hands-on workshops;
2) To support participant action research by and for indigenous communities, youth, low-income people of color, etc.; and
3) To encourage research targeting the 1%.
To that end, we call for sessions that fall into the following categories:
___How-to: Hands on, tools, methods, skillshares.
___Theory: theory, strategy, history, postcolonial, decolonial, militant coresearch, movement based research, liberatory knowledge, revolutionary inquiry.
___Examples: Existing research projects, such as Occupy Research, Excluded Workers, youth models. Case studies: challenges and lessons learned.
___Participant Action Research at AMC: Deconstructing Detroit, visions of a city of hope, what is media-based organizing, definitions of a community media economy.
___Future: National strategy/working meetings, ongoing research network.
To submit a proposal, go to http://talk.alliedmedia.org/. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2012. Contact info@researchjustice.com for more information.Track Coordinators:
___Kat A. Hartman, Data Driven Detroit
___Joe Rodriguez-Tanner, Detroit Future
___Saba Waheed, Data Center
___Yvonne Yen Liu, Applied Research Center/Colorlines.com
