The Center is in the Margins
An accidental collective chatbook - Antiracism Wellness Check for CARE - 3/26/2024
we shared a woolen rainbow - bound by spiderwebbed snow
We shared the stories
Of our woven names Multifaceted names Disdained names
Traveling names
Webbed names
Treasured names
Illegal names
Our names
How do we remodel the house?Demo job liberation story
of aliens of the land
in our own land.
Gamin:
Unprivilaged?
Disruptive compassion
Disruptive collaboration
Stories: curiosity of us not U.S.
Shared liberation comes together.
Authenticity of connection
Beginning to overcome and sustain.
Learning,
Striving to let go of perfect Collaborative act into living Live into action
Lifelong learning story
So practice how to do anti-racism Everyday...
Everywhere....
Grief;
Reclamation.
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Land Acknowledgement
We cry water, lakes, rivers, agua.
Reclamation
Energy liberation!
I WILL NOT ACCEPT SCRAPS!
Compassion?
Performative action?
Contributions?
LACKING!
● our names are erased
● money means access (to)
TRADITION
ANCESTRY
Are "wild" ➡ wildflowers
⬇
ancestral/native
flora/fauna?
GROW:
through ART practice
through expressing cultural value
to our anti-racist educators
● Honoring
● Humility/Humble
● Action as nothing —sitting still
● Reflection
● RECLAMATION!
● Disempower?
WORDS REQUIRE ACTION - WRITING ISN’T JUST WORDS
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It’s only just noise, until it isn’t...
Money is really tiorbbd
Concofani
Cacofonía
Cacophony
Not knowing words is okay Boisterous community collaboration Disruptive
Cultural humility
Marginally-centered
Listen to our students; don't ghost them
$1,000
$150,000
self-awareness
self-care
self-reflection
collective liberation
$4 k
$150 k
economic justice
for mental health services
mental health care
international and domestic
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hate wall
2016 💥 hate
wall removal
those sentiments
are still here.
PROBLEMATIC -
we took that down
but ideas persist.
✨
The now
and the not yet
⭐Trying and failing
is part of the journey.
Healing
And
re-conciliation
re-membering
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Evidence Of Collective Action
Us
Them
Mine Ours
Acquire:
🌀 Fingerprints
Visionary
in
community-
building
ways
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Where?
Antiracism - where?
→ connection
→ equity learners-teaching
→ interest in doing better
Where lacking ?
Where is antiracism lacking?
→ perception of campus not being safe associated w/ color
→ binary thinking
How to grow it?
→ Meeting structures
→ to ↑ all voices
ELEVATE
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Our Names
This is a collective creation.
This is the work of our hands,
our minds, our story and spirit:
Ruthanna Souhee Kim - Kevin LaNave - Natalie Copeland - Janet Tilstra - Mónica Segura-Schwartz - Stephanie Rivera Gomez - Stephanie Felland - Mary Clifford - Emily (Ming Ming) Jeannette Teresa Booth - Vas Littlecrow Colón-Ortiz y Wojtanowicz
And thank you to CARE and Lyricality for helping the above-named share their stories. Taiguey.