Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally (x)
not gay as in married but trans as in buried
“…for me, [colonization] has not ended and will not end until the culture of colonization has been dismantled. And that means not just a government process of treaty settlements, but a whole constitutional reorganization which acknowledges that Maori are the first people of this land, not just as some quaint metaphorical description, but are the first people in terms of authority, of law, of jurisdiction … And so part of ending the culture of colonization here is to have a proper and effective recognition of Maori jurisdiction and Maori law which then leads to a Maori-defined notion of Maori rights” - Moana Jackson
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
- 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
Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress across the stage at her graduation ceremony this morning. Sulkowicz and her friends have been carrying the mattress around for the whole academic year in protest of the way the school handles sexual assault issues. As New York Magazine explains, for her senior thesis in visual art, Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), Sulkowicz vowed that she would carry her dorm-room mattress whenever she was on campus as long as her alleged rapist remained on campus. “The piece could potentially take a day, or it could go on until I graduate,” she said.
For more on the project, check out our podcast “Feminism on Campus.”
Photo by Columbia Daily Spectator.
emma sulkowicz carried her mattress during graduation today, even after her rapist attempted a smear campaign in fucking reason magazine, even after she lost tons of supporters because they believed her rapist and denied that a victim could process events or cope like she did.
I’m proud of her.
When it gets noisy during New Zealand parliamentary debates
Added bonus of the sign language interpreter in the last gif
Fiction:
- Babyji by Abha Dawesar
- Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal
- Funny Boy, by Shyam Selvadurai
- Ode to Lata, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
- The Paths of Marriage, by Mala Kumar
- The Pregnant King, by Devdutt Pattanaik
- Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta
- She of the Mountains, by Vivek Shraya
- The Two Krishnas, by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
- The World Unseen, by Shamim Sarif
Non-Fiction & Anthologies:
- AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, by Amartya Sen and various authors
- Because I Have A Voice: Queer Politics in India, edited by Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan
- Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love, and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India, by Parmesh Shahani
- Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, by Gayatri Gopinath
- The Invisibles, by Zia Jaffrey
- A Lotus of Another Color, by Rakesh Ratti
- Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita
- Made in India: Decolonializations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects, by Suparna Bhaskaran
- Me Hijra, Me Laxmi, by Laxminarayan Tripathi
- Same-Sex Love in India, edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwal
- Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia, by Sanjay Srivastava
- Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You, by Devdutt Pattanaik
- Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics, by Naisargi Dave
- Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society, by Ruth Vanita
- With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, by Gaytri Reddy
SIS BROUGHT OUT THE SAGE, THO. I wish I knew who to credit because this is one of the most important images I’ve ever seen. #Baltimore #CleanseThem
A woman burns sage on the streets of Baltimore -
Shameeka Dream walks along a line of Maryland State Troopers stationed on North Avenue while burning sage in the wake of protests for the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland on April 28, 2015.19 (X)
John Oliver tries to make government surveillance relevant to the everyday American by asking Edward Snowden whether the government can see your dick pics.
So, this happened.
This is clearly how we (ie New Zealand) needed to be talking about surveillance a few months ago.
John Oliver uses a hilarious/painful set of voxpops to show that foreign surveillance doesn't raise hackles... but dick pic surveillance does. He makes Snowden talk about surveillance in a relatable way, because who doesn't care about the government creeping your nudes?
I should probably be less amazed when Last Week Tonight does "real journalism" well, but this is masterful and timely.
BONUS: John Oliver takes Snowden to task for “fuck up[s]” in the release of information he passed on (and for not reading it all before doing so)... But then tees him up to talk about the Dick Pic Programme rather than going negative!
I'm back!
That was an unexpectedly long period of radio silence. This blog is back to being public(ish) but local justice-related chat will be moving elsewhere so I don't lose my Big Girl Job.
Tags via anarchacannibalism:
#this is literally happening though #and to be fair gangs do this a lot #it's unfair to be like a GANG is doing this bc #idk
She makes an excellent point though: some gangs could give the government a run for its money in terms of providing welfare and social services for those living on the margins in this country.
Reyhaneh Jabbari was a 26 year old Iranian woman convicted of killing her would-be rapist when she was just 19. She was hanged yesterday after spending 7 years in prison. The man she killed was an ex-employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
(via qasaweh)