“Isn’t this the purpose of education? To learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?”

—Robin Wall Kimmerer

IDEA DUMP

Imago DEIsign
Design Transference - Caution to educators about how the exposure to and excitement from seeing student work can influence your practice - check yourself before accidentally appropriating their culture.

GOOP
Privilege allows us to go back and pick up what our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and ancestors were forced to drop by colonial oppression. In America, this applies to every group of people, as 'The United States of AMERICA’ is an alien idea, a nefariously formed system of colonization and supremacy that has forcefully demanded that people—the indigenous population, and every immigrant/refugee who has come to this land since—assimilate toward its values and systems.

True assimilation would be that the immigrant populations drop their imperial colonial ways, and integrate learning/ways of being from native populations into their culture. Maybe I’m being overly idealistic here, but real assimilation would have preserved language, culture, ecosystems, and health, while also avoiding tremendous amounts of death and violence.

Everyday White Supremacy - the view from being of “American Born” Mexican, and white pedigree. AKA “Sh*t my white family says when there are no “pocs” around (this is also an illustration of the erasure I experienced as they NEVER considered what they were saying in front of me.) In my Latiné culture, Colorism and Gatekeeping are ONCE AGAIN white supremacy outsourcing its labor onto us.

BUTKER and Trad Wives are part of the plot to try and pretend that the failings of our government are in actuality—failings of womanhood and feminism.

“Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women.”

—Jessica Calarco

The wendigo story from Robin Wall Kimmerers book Braiding Sweetgrass illustrates the possibility to decolonizing the colonizer. See also Dori Tunstall’s “Whiteness without White Supremacy” concept which thinks about ways to undo supremacy without disappearing white people. Which seems to be what my white family thinks BIPOC people want. :P