For this week’s photo share, I wanted to spotlight the issue of violence against indigenous women that we discussed briefly in class. It is true that indigenous women face increased rates of sexual violence, and that the specificities of criminal jurisdictions make it so that the perpetrators of these violences are not held accountable for their…[Read more]

This photo is from an interview that Terry Crews gave on Andy Cohen’s talk show. Crews was sexually assaulted by Adam Venit, a “Hollywood executive” while at a Hollywood function in 2016. Here, Crews speaks about both the support and criticism that he faced after he shared his story with the public. He speaks to the ways in which, following his…[Read more]

This entire week, I have been reminded of a 2015 Democratic presidential primary debate wherein the candidates were asked “Do Black lives matter or do all lives matter?” I remember being so frustrated when watching this for the first time. To start, the entire foundation of “all lives matter”, engrained in its inception, is one centered on…[Read more]

For this week’s assignment, I wanted to share something specific to UCSD. I’ve attached a photo from our library archives of a 1965 protest in Revelle plaza (unfortunately not much context is given). Given our discussions this week, I thought it pertinent to post something that speaks to UCSD’s involvement in activism. I think that many of us have…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to center my discussion around Digable Planets, a 90s hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York. Digable Planets’ music is, overarchingly, infused with a leftist and radical spirit. They have rapped about Marxism, reproductive rights, war, and the AIDS epidemic, among other things. The photo attached is the cover…[Read more]

Because it is particularly topical, I chose this image of a tweet composed by Ava DuVernay. DuVernay tweeted a video about her boycotting the Super Bowl, specifically because of the NFL’s treatment of Colin Kaepernick (and, more generally, the way that the League works to exploit black bodies at large). We already discussed Kaepernick’s activism…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to choose an image that would allow me to continue our conversation about James Baldwin and his leaving the U.S. Here, Baldwin is pictured standing on a banister at Kilyos Beach in Istanbul. The caption provided describes Baldwin as “clowning on a banister”; I like this photo so much because there is…[Read more]

I’ve attached a photo of the 2018 San Diego Women’s March. The Women’s March is obviously very topical, being that the 2019 march took place so recently (this Saturday), and that this is in our community. I chose to speak on the Women’s March because I think that it is important to see these struggles as connected to other struggles; the activism…[Read more]

I’ve decided to attach a photo of Pedro Pastor and Erick Alexander Duran at their symbolic wedding in Tijuana, Mexico. Pedro and Erick are one of seven LGBTQ+ refugee couples from Central America that decided to have one of these celebrations in Baja, California. Pedro and Erick, like their fellow queer refugees, are fleeing violence that has…[Read more]

This week’s photo I have chosen is in conversation with DiAngelo’s piece on white fragility. It is a screencap from a video by AJ+ called “White Fragility in the Workplace”. The video is satirical and pretty comical, poking fun at the way that people of color have to deal with white nonsense in their work environments. In this particular scenario,…[Read more]

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I’ve attached a photo of asylum seekers from Central America fleeing the tear gas that U.S. Border Patrol Agents launched across the border fence. While obviously egregious to us, actions such as these are normalized and justified by the rhetoric espoused by people such as Trump. The notions of criminality that Trump…[Read more]

This image is from a protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline which occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the photo, a young child holds up the sign “People Over Pipelines”. I chose this image for this week’s photo share because I thought it highlighted the neoliberal context in which this is all taking place. Corporations are increasingly valued over…[Read more]

The picture I’ve attached is a screen cap of a ramble given by Trump on November 1st pertaining to the group of Central American migrants moving through Mexico. In the speech he asserts that the migrants are “tough people” and that “women don’t want them in our country” (I must have missed that opinion poll). Right out of the gate, Trump invokes…[Read more]

For our discussion about Flint, I decided to post a photo of Mari Copeny, also known as “Little Miss Flint”. This young girl, a Flint resident, wrote a letter to President Obama when she was only eight years old, asking him to meet with her and other Flint activists when they were in D.C. Mari has been outspoken about the crisis in Flint since…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I chose this still of Bill O’Reilly on Fox News during a “monologue” about Islam. As can be seen in the photo, he is being deeply islamophobic, questioning the validity of an entire religion, about which I am certain he knows absolutely nothing. It is the state sanctioned efforts to vilify and demonize Islam, Muslims,…[Read more]

The picture I’ve attached below is a thread tweeted by Donald Trump shortly after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. The tweet demonstrates the callous and indifference that welcomed the suffering of Boricuas in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Trump’s complaint that “they” are not doing anything for themselves just perpetuates the…[Read more]

This week, we spoke at length about segregation in schools and the harmful way it impacts black and brown students. This reminded of the research done on the psychological impact of school segregation during the Brown v. Board of Education era. I have attached a photo of a young boy taking the “doll test”. This experiment was conducted by Dr.…[Read more]

WARNING: Racist anti-Japanese caricature of a man

For this week’s discussion of Japanese concentration camps, I wanted to post something that communicates the highly racialized climate that characterized Japanese incarceration. After hearing Judge Posner speak about national security on the podcast, I was affronted by the neutrality with which he…[Read more]

This week’s discussion of reparations reminded me of the Black Panther Party’s Platform, a document that I read a few years back. In the document, the Black Panthers demand the 40 acres and mule that was promised to each newly freed black person post-Civil War. I’ve attached an image of a man in a field, accompanied by two mules, with a headline…[Read more]