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Since Aimee is on maternity leave, Jenny is going to interview a series of amazing educators.In this episode, Jenny interviews a high school dean: Soonja. The conversation discusses challenges in transitioning from a faculty to an administrativ
This workshop introduced the idea of Indigenous Feminism to our faculty. This topic is expansive; we did not try to cover it all in one workshop. We decided to narrow our focus to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's definitions of Indigenous theory a
In this workshop, we focused excerpts from Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Specifically, we defined and discussed her theories of the borderland and mestiza consciousness. We also engaged in dialogue to determine why
This podcast focuses on one of our recent in-school workshops. In our last workshop, teachers had many questions about some of the terms we were using. We decided to create this workshop in order to answer those questions and to provide time an
Welcome to season 2! We are excited to be back after a nice relaxing summer. Today we discuss our most recent workshop for faculty about fostering relationships at the beginning of the school year using culturally responsive teaching methods. W
This workshop focused on resistance as shown through feminist art. We watched clips from Beyonce's Netflix documentary Homecoming and viewed some of Mikael Owunna's incredible photos from is "Infinite Essence" series.Points to consider:Recogniz
We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas. These workshops provide time and space to discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. This episode is about our most recent workshop.This workshop
This episode is focused on Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's book: Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. In this text, Simpson advocates for reconciliation between Indigenous People and Can
Welcome to the twenty-sixth episode of the podcast! Today, we're sharing a little bit about ourselves in an effort to build community with you, our listeners! We will ask each other ten questions and respond as openly and honestly as possible.
We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas. These workshops provide time and space to discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. This episode is about our most recent workshop.We defined dif
This episode is focused on Patricia Monture-Angus' book: Thunder in My Soul, A Mohawk Woman Speaks. In Thunder in My Soul, A Mohawk Woman Speaks, Monture-Angus shares deeply personal experiences as a woman, law student and professor living in c
This episode is focused on an amazing anthology of creative work by women of color, edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga. Anzaldúa and Moraga created a space for women of color to share their experiences and stories. Each author labored
Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989. It has since been used and appropriated in many different circles, notably by white women. Now, 30 years later, a new wave of woman of color feminists seek to push back on the ter
Like we mentioned last week, our teacher, Kimberly, created a multi-media module for us where we read a book and watched two connecting movies. Today we discuss the book we read. (Check out last week's episode for our discussion of Daughters of
Today we discuss two wonderful black feminist movies! The first one we talk about is Daughters of the Dust directed by Julie Dash. Daughters of the Dust is set in 1902 and follows a family as they prepare to leave the Sea Islands, on the coast
Hello podcast listeners! We wanted to send a quick update since there will not be a new episode out today. Because of our many snow days, we are finding ourselves busy with curriculum changes, grading, etc. So instead of a full podcast, we are
We are sharing workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. Last week, we held
Hello podcast listeners! We wanted to send a quick update since there will not be a new episode out today. A rare occurrence has happened in the greater Seattle area: we are snowed in! We thought that since we are snowed in at our respective ho
Today we will discuss two wonderful and foundational black feminist texts by Barbara Smith and by Barbara Christian. Both of these women have put a tremendous amount of labor into creating theory from black lived experiences. In these two texts
We are so excited to be joined on the podcast by our friend and coworker James who is going to walk us through his experience taking classes from Kimberly and his journey with this material as a white male. We reference bell hooks' wonderful te
Today we will discuss the introduction to Hortense Spillers' article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book". Spillers created this 1987 text to critique current day academic discourse. She proposes that we need new language to de
Today we will discuss the introduction to Saidiya Hartman's book Scenes of Subjection. Hartman creates this text to dive into her embodied generational trauma as a black woman. She examines the perpetual display of violence towards black bodies
We are going to share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues.Three week
Today we will discuss Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's amazing article Decolonization is not a metaphor. In this episode we will think about indigenous studies and the term "decolonization". We will discuss how decolonization is layered, complex, a
We are going to share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. Two weeks
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