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🌿💞✨Join us at the 2023 Toronto Jam from May 3-7 🍃🔆🌺 In these times of desperate longing for nourishing rest, slowing down and authentically and meaningfully connecting with one another, the Jam offers a much needed reprieve. If you desire space to shift from broadcasting to receiving and allowing us moments to fully see and be seen, and to return to oneself, this might be the place for you. When I participated in my first Jam in 2019, I knew I was ready because I felt parts of me (re)opening to the softness and excitement that moved through me when being in relationship with others. The walls I had carefully built over the years of experiencing heartbreak, disappointment and harm were slowly cracking open as I reminded myself of my changing circumstances; that more safety was present. I would be okay if I replaced at least one of these walls with a curtain. And slowly over the years, as I continue to jam, more walls became curtains and in some instances, those curtains transformed to open doors and paths leading me to more love, more vulnerability and more safety. If a part of you feels ready for at least some of this, please join us as we build beloved community. ⏰ Applications are due on Feb. 26. Link in bio 🔗 And do reach out if you have any questions. If the invitation in the bio speaks to you, and you remain concerned about how to participate, please reach out. So excited to experience the Jammers who will join us ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5AtGerD_P8eokSqOcrCM2v9LUVdqZj-W65PY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Nontraditional & unconventional weddings are so beautiful💛🌼🌻🏵

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“The online resource Libcom has compiled an extensive PDF compilation of writings about black radical and revolutionary movements in the US in the 20th century, and it is now available for your reading pleasure here. The compilation - titled ‘The Black Radical Tradition’ - includes the writings of Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael (see the full contents list, below)." 

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Hi y'all! 

I’ve compiled a list of readings that speak to issues of nationalism, indigeneity, colonialism, and resistance/decolonization

The list is of course limited to what readings I’ve encountered at some point. They also come from a variety of academic disciplines and political movements (settler colonial studies, native studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist studies, trans studies).

And, with a few exceptions, these files were legally uploaded and shared… a lot of the time by the authors themselves, which I feel the need to point out because I love when authors can/do share their work online for free. (I say this not because I’m worried about the sanctity of ‘intellectual property’ but because I’m worried about things being deleted.)

Also re-linking to this list of pdf readings, “Natives Read Too,” from The Yáadihla Girls!  human rights/war/nationalism/sovereignty 

“What Do Human Rights Do?” by Talal Asad

“On Torture: Abu Ghraib by Jasbir Puar

”From Cold War to Trade War: Neocolonialism and Human Rights“ by Susan Koshy

”Necropolitics“ by Achile Mbembe

”Algeria Unveiled“ by Frantz Fanon

A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon

History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postmodernism by Patrick Wolfe

Who Sings the Nation-State? Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak

”Where Lawlessness is the Law: The Settler Colonial Frontier as a Legal Space of Violence“ by Julie Evans

”1492: a New World View“ by Sylvia Wynter

Frames of War by Judith Butler

”Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics“ by Patrick Wolfe

Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin 

transnational/native/postcolonial feminisms & feminist critiques: 

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism - Trinh T. Minh-Ha

”Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory“ -Hazel V. Carby 

”Transnational Feminist Pedagogy: An Interview with Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan“

”Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses“ by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

”Feminist Problematizations of Rights Language“ by Jasbir Puar and Isabelle Barker

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty

”The Subject of Freedom“ by Saba Mahmood

The Spivak Reader

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

”Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India“ by Partha Chatterjee

”Can the Subaltern Speak?“ Gayatri Spivak

The Politics of the Veil - Joan W. Scott

”Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy“ by Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill

”Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change“ by Andrea Smith 

decolonization, art, and resistance (not necessarily feminist):  

Edward Said and Critical Decolonization 

Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said 

”Decolonization is not a Metaphor“ by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

”Decolonizing Antiracism“ by Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua

Bury My Art at Wounded Knee / R.I.S.E  

The Boarding School Healing Project 

Center for Third World Organizing 

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid 

queer theory/sexuality studies/native studies/trans studies 

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock

”Homonationalism As Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities“ by Jasbir Puar*

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith

”Un-settling Settler Desires“ by Scott Morgensen Also the Unsettling America wordpress.

Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things - Ann Laura Stoler

”Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the 'Third Gender’ Concept“ by Evan B. Towle and Lynn Morgan

”Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran.“ by Afsaneh Najmabadi

”Queer Settler Colonialism in Canada and Israel: Articulating Two-Spirit and Palestinian Queer Critiques“ by Scott Lauria Morgensen

”Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism“ by Andrea Smith 

*Actually just going to link to this page of Dr. Puar’s work because it’s  great and relevant (and she also has a lot of work on Israel/Palestine). critiques of humanitarianism/developmentalism: 

”Stealing the Pain of Others: Reflecting on Canadian Humanitarian Responses“ by Sherene H. Razack

“The Rationality of Empowerment: Microcredit, Accumulation by Dispossession, and the Gendered Economy” by Christine Keating, Claire Rasmussen, and Pooja Rish

“Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism” by Talal Asad

“How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina

“Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns” by Elizabeth Bernstein

“Coca-Cola, Labor Restructuring and Political Violence in Colombia” Lesley Gill 

[Really wish I knew more about this kind of work.] 

Biopolitics, science, environmental justice 

“Peversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity” -Nayan Shah 

“Your DNA Is Our History:' Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property” by Jenny Reardon and Kim TallBear

“Displaying Sara Baartman” by Sadiah Qureshi

“The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now” by Scott Morgensen 

“Black Bodies, White Science” -Brian Wallis 

The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics by Vandana Shiva

“The Seed and the Earth” by Vandana Shiva

“Earth Democracy: An Interview with Vandana Shiva”

“Putting knowledge in its place: science, colonialism, and the postcolonial” by Suman Seth

and…. U.S. politics  

“Workfare–Warfare: Neoliberalism, 'Active’ Welfare and the New American Way of War” by Julie MacLeavy and Columba Peoples

“Women and Chile at the Alamo: Feeding U.S. Colonial Mythology” by Suzanne Bost

“The People of California are Suffering’: The Ideology of White Injury in Discourses of Immigration” by Lisa Marie Cacho

“American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State” by Andrea Smith 

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An old but still necessary goodie!

Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (link updated 1/14) 

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki (link updated 1/14) 

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks (link updated 1/14) 

Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks (link updated 1/14) 

Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell

I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

Black Feminist Thought-Patricia Hill Collins (updated 1/14) 

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

Four books by Frantz Fanon

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory  - edited by Michael Warner

Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba (updated 1/14)

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault

The Gloria Anzaldua Reader

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey (updated 1/14)

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey (updated 1/14)

The Disability Studies Reader (updated 1/14)

Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3

Michel Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge

  This blog also has a lot more.

(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)

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Talk about some truth!!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Posted @withrepost • @counseling4allseasons #Repost @fatchicanafeminist ・・・ 😭#Repost @author_tiffany_dionne https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz4a13NHLmC/?igshid=1v42ni9hnp0rs

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It was such a pleasure and gift, working with the talented @vidushiy on our #FeministRealities toolkit 💕 Posted @withrepost • @vidushiy Sometimes it's simply about saying we gloriously exist says artivist Shilo Shiv Suleman and it really spoke to me while working on it. @shiloshivsuleman 's @fearlesscollective is one of the case studies discussed in our toolkit with @awidwomensrights The toolkit is now live on AWID's website and it's completely free to download and use to start creative conversations on creating Feminist realities. Here's one of my illustrations from the toolkit 🍁 . . . #awid #thejealouscurator #thefearlesscollective #illustration #illustratorsoninstagram #illustrateddoris #womenempoweringwomen #womenwhodraw #womenorganisation #womenempowerment #lgbtq #bodypositivemovement #bodypositive #fatandfabulous #womenofcolor #browngirls #transwomenarewomen #disabilityjustice #feminisms #ourpowerinaction #powerinaction https://www.instagram.com/p/BxxvSZzHxID/?igshid=kb31auetntpr

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Posted @withrepost • @awidwomensrights Our new Feminist Realities Toolkit is a step-by-step guide loaded with detailed resources on how to spark creative conversations about Feminist Realities: from conducting interviews, to making public presentations, and organizing workshops, with even practical tips like getting over your fear of public speaking! ↪ Get your Feminist Realities Toolkit from the link in our bio #FeministRealities #OurPowerInAction #FeministPower #FeministResistance #FeministInspiration #Artivism #Activism #KnowledgeIsPower #Resistance #Toolkit #PracticalTool #FeministTips #FeministStories #intersectionality #FeministMovement #FeministResources #MovementBuilding ------------ Art by: @vidushiy https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxxuhx_nsQr/?igshid=12zwwq78h4n3o

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So true! We all deserve that soft love 💕 Posted @withrepost • @beingupile Rebuke this spirit of ‘endure’. You deserve that hearty wholesome love. #softmagic ————————————————— What’s the worst piece of advice about love you’ve ever received? Share and we’ll rebuke it.⬇️ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvo9P0xndTK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ot5pysxvam1h

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Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”” based on her 1931 interviews with Cudjo Lewis, last living survivor [in the US] of the violent Middle Passage. At the time, Zora couldn’t find a willing publisher partly because the book is partially written using Black vernacular. We must write and tell our own stories.

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Soooo inspiring and a reminder of our global Black resilience! Thank you @pialovenow 💜 #Repost @pialovenow with @get_repost ・・・ Full video link in my bio!! More on African presence in Mexico. Although African relevance and it’s massive contribution to the Mexican history and culture is at the very least ignored, but more often is been under attempts to be erased all together. These efforts to hide the country’s “black” influence may have succeeded in the main media, but in small towns like Coyolillo, African history is as LIVE as ever and celebrated throughout the year! In this short video, I share my experience of the annual The Coyolillo Carnival that happens in February each year. Me, Barbara Morena Tuscott (the DP for the video) and Justine Ella stayed with the royal family in the ‘Casa Mariacruz’, her youngest son Jesus Guadalupe was being crowned the king of 2018 festive season. Maricruz is famous for her delicious food and outgoing personality. The first night when we got their, the neighbors came over and we talked about our brown skin and having a curly hair, I felt celebrated for my ‘blackness’, it was very different from my experiences in Mexico city where yes, being black is also very cool, but in a sense of as long as you are a ‘foreign black’ or ‘exotic black’, in Coyolillo is about being part of the community of other black Mexicans and feeling the sister/brotherhood with them. Let’s take it back shall we, some 200,000 (some historians estimates are as high as 500,000) slaves were brought to Mexico, compared to 450,000 in the U.S., and 4.5 million to Brazil. In the 1742 and 1793 censuses, the Black population of Mexico was roughly 10 percent. Also to that you can add the many uncounted slaves that escaped from United states to Mexico in hopes of freedom and better life. Letting that marinate for a minute, you can imagine how much of African culture and blood runs through Mexico, although if you don’t dig deep enough this may go unnoticed… It’s astonishing to discover these communities of Afro- Mexicans, but once you do, you feel so ALIVE and beyond grateful for their resilience and pride for Africa!!! yep it’s a whole vibe Camera work : @bartol

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Urama Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Duk-Duk is a secret society, part of the traditional culture of the Tolai people of the Rabaul area of New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Duk-Duk has religious and political objectives, and represents a form of law and order through its presiding spirits. In ritual dances, members of the society invoke the male spirit duk duk and female spirit tubuan depending on which mask the dancer wears. Women and children were forbidden to look at these figures. The society has secret signs and rituals, and festivals which were closed to strangers on pain of death. Justice was executed, fines extorted, taboos, feasts, taxes and all tribal matters are arranged by the Duk-Duk members. In carrying out punishments, they would burn houses and even kill people. Dancers wearing the tubuan masks were regarded as divine beings whose judgment and actions could never be questioned. Duk-Duk only appeared with the full moon.

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What a gift! 💜✨🌕 Preparing for tomorrow’s Full Cold Moon or #supermoon #fullmoon #fullcoldmoon

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The magnificent #Black brilliance that is Kosisochkuwu Nnebe and her #SomaticSatiation exhibition at #studiosixtysix. So thrilled I was able to catch the exhibition and purchase two of her pieces. So much love and gratitude to you @colouredconversations and @studiosixtysix for helping to make the purchase happen #blackart (at Studio Sixty Six)

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Kinda seems like a one sided conversation, doesn’t it? I’m tired of “conversations on race” whenever another innocent, unarmed black person is executed by the police. They’re as perfunctory as they are repetitive.

We need justice, not another hollow conversation that doesn’t change anything and does nothing to prevent the next shooting.

(original image credit: Clay Bennett)