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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
The image I decided to share for this week is a cartoon drawing by Marty Two Bulls who is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Marty Two Bulls depicted the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline as an evil, mythical black snake with four heads. The four heads represented all the forces the Native Americans had to fight against:…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
For this week’s theme of #SayHerName and #MeToo, I decided to share some tweets between rapper Cardi B and political reporter Stephanie Hamill. Hamill calls out Cardi B because she believes twerking and being half-naked sexually objectifies women and hurts the cause of the #MeToo movement. In response, Cardi B replies that women do not deserve to…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
For this week’s theme, I chose a comic strip on chainsawsuit by Kris Straub. In the comic, a man tells his friend that “all lives matter,” but proceeds to ignore his neighbor’s house in flames. The man hoses down his own home reasoning that fixing the dry rot and preventing his own home from catching fire were more important, which causes the…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
This is a photo of Janice Mirikitani, a Japanese American poet and activist. Mirikitani participated in Third World Liberation Front strikes at SFSU and was an editor for Third World Communications. She is also an important figure in Asian American literature as her poetry touches on the Japanese American experience.
I thought it was important to…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
For this week, I chose a photo of the Notorious B.I.G.’s album “Ready to Die” that was released in 1994. The Notorious B.I.G. is considered one of the greatest rappers of all time, and his album made him a central figure in East Coast hip hop. He was known for his skills as a storyteller and innovative lyricist. In “Ready to Die,” the Notorious…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
The image I chose for this week’s theme is the cover of James Baldwin’s and Yoran Cazac’s 1976 picture book Little Man. Little Man. The book was inspired by one of Baldwin’s nephews, Tejan Karefa-Smart nicknamed TJ. The story was about the everyday life of an African American child in Harlem facing grown-up situations like mass shootings, a…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
For this week’s theme, I chose a photo of Katherine Johnson taken in 1966 by NASA. During the Civil Rights Movement, Johnson changed the way women of color were viewed and treated within NASA. While working at NASA, she and other African American women were labelled as “human computers” because they would solve complicated math problems that even…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
The image I chose for this week is from Childish Gambino’s music video “This Is America” which shows the artist dancing with school children while chaos and violence take place behind them. I thought that Childish Gambino perfectly represented this week’s theme because he is one of the few artists today that addresses serious issues in the United…[Read more]
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KAITLYNN GABRIEL joined the group Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago