Abbey Elder 
And it's already time for the second keynote of #OpenEd23, from the incomparable Jasmine Roberts-Crews!
Jasmine starts her talk by discussing her concerns with land acknowledgements. While she believes in the importance of acknowledging indigenous peoples, there is also more that we could discuss than is often conveyed in such statements. Referring to the Land Grab Universities (https://www.landgrabu.org/) project, Jasmine goes on to quote indigenous people, who want more than a statements. They want action to follow those words.
In further discussion of what the U.S. has to account for, she shares that not until the year 2111 will Black people in the U.S. be free for longer than they were enslaved.
There is so much to convey here, so I will note that Jasmine's keynote is being recorded, and I welcome everyone to watch her talk directly once that is posted later this week. This talk is both powerful and personal, and my notes cannot convey all of it. #OpenEd23
As many of us have seen in the U.S., discussions about social justice and equity are often silenced or at the very least, "hushed" by those in power. Jasmine had to deal with this personally when a keynote presentation of hers was canceled earlier this year for touching on topics like "reparational justice."
Jasmine is presenting a new research framework on open education research, which is not the focus of her talk, but a great addition to it! The SCOPE framework, as it is called, looks into Social justice, Costs, Outcomes, Perception, and Engagement as major areas for research questions in #OER spaces.
Check out the pre-print now: https://osf.io/y596p/
While there is a lot of great work happening in #OpenEducation, Jasmine wants to highlight some concerns as well. She's concerned that we are approaching epistemic injustices today as if they are "new" problems, and not embedded into historical injustices, for example.
Jasmine quotes Toni Morrison: "I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom."
One major concern that Jasmine brings forward is that there is a growing "gatekeeping" of activism outside of Open Education. There is a notion that if you aren't "doing all the things," you aren't a real activist. And while there are concerns with those who talk the talk without walking the walk, there are also those who want to engage in meaningful activism and who are turned away.
And so, Jasmine introduces the topic of her keynote: post-oppositionalism. This term, coined by Analouise Keating, addresses the need for "radically inclusive communities," getting away from the binary of "for us" and "against us." https://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/04/post-oppositional-politics/
"For me," Jasmine shares, "post-oppositionality is like the air between tree branches... we focus on the branches that stick out in opposite directions, but not the air that flows between them." (paraphrased) There isn't one way to have liberatory open education. There are many options that are connected between and among pathways. And we should acknowledge those many opportunities outside of the constrained practices built into the bureaucratic higher education landscape.
One way where the binary of "this or that" often leaves something to be desired is in historical discourse surrounding open education. Often "histories of #OpenEducation" will give the open source movement a nod, but forget to note how black feminist movements contributed to growth in liberatory education. And this doesn't have to be an either/or! Once again, opposition isn't the goal here, but broader recognition for the contributions that have some from the communities which are often forgotten or silenced. (A bit of editorializing from me here, but I love that Jasmine brought up this point!)
Shout-out to Marco Seiferle-Valencia for his contributions to this discussion. Here I'll link a webinar he gave to the Iowa OER action team last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Dn0cnSMSU
Alternative Open Ontologies - Open Education and “El Museo Indigenista" with Marco Seiferle-Valencia
Finally, Jasmine brings #RadicalHope into the discussion, stating that we can understand the history of oppression in our communities and still envision equitable possibilities for better futures. Jasmine shares the story of Mary Lumpkin as an example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-enslaved-woman-who-liberated-a-slave-jail-and-transformed-it-into-an-hbcu-180979757/