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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 8 months ago
Date: October 20th, 2016
Photographer: Unknown
One notion that resonated with me during our class discussions regarding Standing Rock was the idea of no absolute translation or meaning between different languages.…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 8 months ago
Source: Becoming Unbecoming Una Therman
The photograph is from the graphic novel Becoming Unbecoming by Una Therman. The novel tells the story of the author, Una, who is a sexual assault victim who navigates life as a ‘survivor’ while coping with the shame. To illustrate the structuralist bias against victims of sexual assault in a parallel to…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 8 months ago
Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/black-lives-matter-all-lives-matter
Date: July 19, 2016
Photographer: Scott Barbour
In class we discussed how ‘All Lives Matter’ is a blatant disregard to ‘Black Lives Matter’ social movements, as the term diminishes each races’ particular set of hardships. Specifically, the term exercises colorblind…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 9 months ago
Photographer’s name: Unknown
Date: 1969
Source: ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu
After witnessing a strike at SFSU, protesters established a Third World Liberation front at Berkeley that focused on studies of minority groups. The strike at Berkeley was one of the longest and most violent ones in United States’ history, but resulted in four und…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 9 months ago
Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2015/03/27/update-rapper-immortal-technique-arrested-accused-of-robbing-t-shirt-vendors-outside-santa-ana-concert/
Date: March 27, 2015
Photographer: Orange County Register
To focus on this week’s theme of The Afterlife Civil Rights Movement: The Hip Hop Generation, I decided to share a mugshot of rapper I…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 9 months ago
Date: Dec. 10, 2018
Photographer: Unknown
I wanted to touch on the importance of our classroom discussion that took place on Friday regarding racial solidarity. The photograph showcases white religious l…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE joined the group Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 9 months ago
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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 9 months ago
Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr
When the Civil Rights movement is brought fourth, we as an American society tend to collectively embrace the unsubtle leaders, while forgetting the everyday characters who are just as significant in the fight for equality. A more recent social…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 10 months ago
N.W.A on March 23, 1989: Ice Cube, far left; Eazy-E, center; standing from left, DJ Yella, Dr. Dre and MC Ren. (Douglas R. Burrows / Los Angeles Times). https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-nwa-parental-discretion-20171205-htmlstory.html
The image depicted above further exasperates the class theme of the week ‘leaders of a…[Read more]
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NICOLA SEARLE joined the group Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 10 months ago