gendercast Episode 40: Uiversity of Washington Disorentation 2013

Sean interviews Caitlin and Anggie, to students, about the upcoming University of Washington Disorentation event, which is a student led, social justice alternative to traditiona universtiy orientations.  Hear about the event, the vision behind it, planning underway now and how to get involved.  

Disorientation organizers invite students, new and old, to come together to tell a people’s history of the University of Washington; to critique our institution’s role in militarism; imperialism, and structural racism; and to imagine what a liberatory education might look like. As students, faculty, and community members connected to the University of Washington, we have the power to reorient the University’s path toward justice.

Caitlin describes the event and gives details about the four different parts, while Anggie discusses art in activism and the similarities and differences of organizing in different environments. Gendercast will post the campus tour audio recording as a follow up to this episode. To get involved please contact the organizers at [email protected]

A little more about the UW Disorentation 2013 and schedule here.

Guest bio 

Caitlin is a grad student, a cook and a baker, a container gardener, and a hoarder of library books; She is involved in Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (studentsuw.wordpress.com) and Disorientation (disorientationuw.wordpress.com).

Links

Disorentation UW Facebook

Students United For Palestinian Equal Rights (UW SUPER)

Movimiento Esudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán (MEChA de UW)

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA)

Amnesty International UW

Third Wave Feminist Seattle (3WF)

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) - UW

The Puget Sound District of The International Socialist Organization (ISO)