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March 8, 2019 at 9:07 pm #4684Diana TrujanoParticipant
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Source: Science20.com
This sign was in protest of UC San Diego for not returning the bones of indigenous people that was found under the Chancellors home. This picture speaks volumes because currently indigenous people make up 0.5% of the student population on campus. Not only are we occupying indigenous land, but the UC system still had the audacity to disrespect something so sacred to the Kumeyaay people by not returning the bones to them until they did research on the remaining. This is why decolonization should not be used as a metaphor. We cannot “decolonize our minds,” while occupying land. Especially, when indigenous people are constantly being disrespected and not being recognized as a vital part of our community.
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March 2, 2019 at 2:26 pm #4486Diana TrujanoParticipant
This week we talked a lot about the way that women specifically black women are mistreated and are racialized in multiple ways simply for having emotions. I connected this to the way that black women are not listened to in the health care industry. Studies have shown that women are more likely to be dismissed about their symptoms and are made to feel like they are overreacting or being dramatic, which leads to the doctor misdiagnosing the patient. This is very dangerous because the lives of women of color are at risk due to the biases of white doctors. I believe this relates to our conversation in class because it is important to recognize that black women are not only oppressed due to their race but also their gender.
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February 23, 2019 at 2:01 pm #4248Diana TrujanoParticipant
Image: @ vyre on Instagram
Since we talked about Black Lives Matter I chose these picture because I want to focus on the intersectionality of social movements, gender, and sexuality. I tend to see a lot of homophobia and transphobia in communities of color. The work that queer people do is often undermined and not recognized. It is important to see the way that your own community can perpetuate oppression towards a group of people. So many movements that have happened are ran or started by queer folx, such as Black Lives Matter, yet this is erased. I have noticed the ways that people excuse people from the “hood” from being homophobic but they forget that queer folx are also from “the hood.” The hood is not one dimensional. We should stop excusing these actions and start holding our family, friends, and strangers accountable for their actions.
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February 15, 2019 at 3:08 pm #4041Diana TrujanoParticipant
Someone has previously mentioned the documentary Precious Knowledge in our class but I feel that this documentary fits in very well with this weeks discussion about why Ethnic Studies is necessary. In the film Precious Knowledge the teacher and students talked about how the class and course content finally represented their lived experiences. Ethnic Studies is important because history is taught through a Eurocentric point of view, in which people from different ethnic backgrounds are never truly able to learn about themselves, aside from the negative/inaccurate attributes that are taught. Another reason that Ethnic Studies is very important and that was touched upon in the documentary is how this class served as a form of retention. The school noticed that the graduation rates went up among the population of Latinx students who took the course. This shows how when a student is represented in the curriculum they are more likely to engage, which increases retention among that group.
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February 10, 2019 at 11:42 am #3864Diana TrujanoParticipant
Since we talked about Hip-Hop this week, which can be a very male dominated field, I wanted to highlight Tierra Whack. Tierra Whack is insanely creative and there is honestly no one in the industry doing what she does. Whack World, her most recent album is composed of 15 songs, 1 minute each, and she made a 15 minute music video for each one of her songs, each one so unique and creative. Not only is her artistry so creative but her lyrics can have so many meanings. In her song Bugs Life, she says “Probably would of blew overnight if I was white.” Tierra Whack is a black women trying to make it in a white male dominated space and she is honestly making her mark in the industry, along with many other great female rappers.
Whack World Album Cover, 2018
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February 2, 2019 at 2:11 pm #3600Diana TrujanoParticipant
Source: @ lizziemsuarez via Instagram.
I chose this image because I believe it relates to our conversation on Friday about being a good ally. Shaun King is a very popular social justice activist, who has a large platform on social media. Although he claims to be for the people, he has been accused of elitism, exclusion, stealing money from organizations and threatening to sue other activist, such as Clarissa Brooks. I chose this case because I believe that self titled social justice activist can be very elitist and only include people who have access to a certain academic language. I believe King represents what an ally should NOT be. Although he is a black man, he does not practice an inclusive and intersectional framework to the work that he does. In order to be a good ally, we must be inclusive with our social justice work and deconstruct elitist power dynamics.
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January 26, 2019 at 8:46 pm #3410Diana TrujanoParticipant
The photo I chose this week is from an interview of Angela Davis in 1972 from California State Prison. I chose this picture because Angela’s description of the everyday violences that black people face really resonates with the reasoning behind the Black Panther Party and Malcolm X’s push for self defense. Angela Davis responds to the interviewer who asked if she believed that the BPP could achieve revolution through violence by saying, “And that’s why, when someone asks me about violence, ah, ah, I just, ah, I just find it incredible. It– because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what Black people have gone through, what Black people have experienced in this country since the time the first Black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.” This relates to the quotes of Malcolm X about how the U.S. expects them to inflict violence overseas but they are not allowed to defend themselves in their own homes. The U.S. is inherently violent and for media to represent black people as the ones who are violent, further proves the point why black people have to constantly protect themselves.
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January 19, 2019 at 2:52 pm #3140Diana TrujanoParticipant
I chose a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. because I learned a lot about him this week, more than I expected to. I realized I had a single story of him for which I judged him on. I often compared him to Malcolm X and criticized MLK for not being as ‘radical’ as Malcolm and for often playing respectability politics. I thought that he was only trying to please his white audience in order to be accepted, but after reading “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “Beyond Vietnam,” I realized that he had a shift in politics and became aware that speaking the truth instead of staying silent was better than him being accepted.
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