For this week’s photo share surrounding Standing Rock and #NoDAPL, I wanted to center the focus of my writing on the significance of water to indigenous peoples, and water’s critical role in indigenous people’s lives.

This week, I followed the hashtag #MniWiconi on Instagram, and read through different reflections surrounding the significance of…[Read more]

A concept from this week’s themes that I would like to focus on for this week’s photo share is the concept of intersectionality, and the different ways in which I see it operate in my daily life.

Because the concept of intersectionality is such a crucial one, it deserves the acknowledgement and space in all avenues of discussion and thought. One…[Read more]

My greatest takeaway from the theme of the week, the Black Lives Matter movement, is the emphasis of the movement on reparations and healing. In our discussions in lecture, we talked about how this movement is unique in this aspect and how this has allowed for the Black Lives Matter movement to stand unique amongst other movements. In my own life,…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I wanted to relate the concepts that we discussed in class to something personal. Our discussion of student activism and protests surrounding the fight for the department of Ethnic Studies can be compared to relatively recent action that took place on our campus around three years ago.

Our University’s campus is…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I really wanted to discuss a hip hop artist in the music industry whose music requires a lot of dissection and investment in order to understand the messages in their pieces. As an individual who choses one artist at a time to invest a good amount of energy into listening, understanding, and reading their work, I…[Read more]

One aspect of this week’s theme that really resonated with me was from our discussion on Friday in defining what it means to be a good ally, and interracial solidarity. I tried to relate these questions to myself on a personal level and reflect on how I see interracial solidarity act within my community, and within individuals that hold similar…[Read more]

When reflecting back on this week’s themes, one aspect that really stuck with me was in regards  to James Baldwin, and him leaving the United States to reside in a foreign country due to the racism he was facing endlessly. I thought it would be interesting to compare the departure of James Baldwin to the arrival of refugees to the United States…[Read more]

The photo that I chose was taken on March 26, 1964 at the U.S. Senate after a hearing for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The picture captures Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X meeting for the first time. At this time, Malcolm and MLK both had different philosophical views and approaches to their activism. Even though their interaction was short…[Read more]