For this week’s photoshare I decided to post the logo of a camp I went to when I was about 16. This camp is called Native Like Water which is a camp for indigenous youth. I decided to post this because the logo has very much to do with our conversation in class about how we’ve been trained to think about certain elements such as land and water as…[Read more]

Something that resonated with me the most about our class conversation this past week was that of who is left out or rarely heard from in regards to the #MeToo and #SayHerName, thus the motivation and the need for these movements and conversations. Terry Crews, a well known and respected actor most commonly known for his role on the show Brooklyn…[Read more]

Something that really stuck with me from our class conversation regarding Black Lives Matter was the idea about whose lives are grievable and whose are “disposable.” Like the readings discuss, Black Lives Matter is about more than putting an end to police brutality against black youth. I’d say that part of it is also about gun control. I feel in…[Read more]

In an Ethnic Studies class I took last quarter, we watched a mini-documentary called On Strike! about the threat of cutting the Ethnic Studies department at Berkeley in 1999. Not only was there a blatant depletion of the program a real threat but also the school administration, especially the chancellor at the time, did not take the protesting…[Read more]

For this week’s prompt, I have chosen an image of Chris Iijima. During the late 60’s and early 70’s was a time for unity, connection and pride for many ethnic groups despite the racial divide of the country at that time. The Asian American community was among those groups. Chris Iijima was a Japanese American activist who advocated for the Asian…[Read more]

In Malcolm’s message to the Grassroots, something that really stood out to me was the line that says something like “by any means necessary.” He was alluding to the physical, emotional and psychological violence that black folk have/had to endure and that there is no space to sit back and take it. There has to be a revolution, a push back of any…[Read more]

I’ve chosen this image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr with this quote because in addition to talking about Dr. MLK and reading Letter from Birmingham Jail, I feel this quote really exemplifies the element and essence of time we discussed in class. This quote highlights the fact that if one were to sit idly by and wait around for their freedom to…[Read more]