Today the United States celebrates the bloodiest war in its history by ritually and collectively forgetting it ever happened
A genocide took place where I now live; the Pocumtuc, Nonotuck and Nipmuc peoples were slaughtered and driven from this place I now call my home
Thousands of people were killed; thousands more were sold into chattel slavery, to be worked to death growing sugarcane as some white man's 'possession'
Today I am teaching about speech act theory and subordinating speech at the DC Jail. I have not done prison or jail teaching since before the pandemic, and I am super excited. I have always had absolutely amazing experiences doing this kind of thing!
Slightly nervous because we will be discussing slurs a bit, and I feel like that could get out of hand in that setting. Plan to use @cassieherbert 's rules of engagement for slur use.
Mathilda Grace
Cassie Herbert