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newcomer, sincereposter, friend ~
(they/them) towards gender annihilation, failing
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— mutual-aid-focused anarcha-transfeminist; aspirant subversive teacher and loving community member
— neurosubversive, (in)visibly (dis)abled, white but tryna betray whiteness, genderqueer, gen z elder
— burning alive on annihilated land; born and raised in the so-called USA
dms always open 🖤
thanks 🔥
so true!! if you've a reference for your parenthetical, i'd really be interested in that! much of my studies so far have focused on capitalism's drive for school reform, but i've not read enough of the colonial/imperial import into schooling
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been well argued that educational progressives' focus on "fixing" education has always been a distraction from acknowledging and addressing root issues of inequality, etc..; too much insistence on conflating educational reform as societal reform
!!! timely; am about to start a book report on Anarchism and Education, so genuinely thanks so much for writing this. (seems like it'll be a fun hate-read)
am new but eagerly involved in education studies; would love to kindly dialogue about this
am curious on your thoughts about other teacher/researchers who claim anarchist education ~ in you opinion, who gets it right, if anyone? (your critique of academia is appreciated in this context). where should i be looking for folks who take seriously this work?
am appreciative of however you wish to engage with this; take care :)
(asking out of genuine curiosity) can you link some info about that huge amount of effort? v interested in researching this further
i think this is just so interesting
"Brazil" is named after an indo-pacific tree, brazilwood. Long before 1500, Portuguese traders and elites valued this tree because it could be processed into rare red dye.
Mistaking this "newfound" tree in the "new" world, Portuguese traders changed the coast's colonized name from "Land of the Holy Cross" to "Land of Brazil (trees)". God turned to Capital, misery, and death.
The coastal "brazilwood" would become the continent's first overextracted material for colonizer's gain. it is now considered an endangered species.
so Mejia's art/anthropology project is implicitly in dialogue with the history of colonization yet seeks instead bridges of knowledge and culture; she seeks not the exploitation of land and labor but the illumination of Indigenous life and practice; all oriented around dye.
i couldn't even get two paragraphs into the History of Brazil wikipedia page before falling face-first into an hour-long web exploration
check this out!
painfully relatable ~
in reflection, in these proximal praxis chats i've been tryna not say too much in my ideations, concluding with calls for imaginative critique/additions. have gotten more inclusion w this, and folks genuinely seem more aligned w the process. seen some sort of change in this hesitation and openness as process for forming enthusiastic consensus
take care ~
