Readings to Pause & Consider: Our Voices Pt.2
Evelyn Alsultany: “Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves”
PAUSE & CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AFTER READING: the statement, “My body becomes marked with meaning as I enter public space”(107). How can this negatively impact one’s identity? How can this have undesirable, even dangerous, consequences for Alsultany without her even having to do anything at all aside from merely having walked into a public space?
Mary Brave Bird: “Civilize Them with a Stick”
PAUSE & CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AFTER READING: how colonial, punitive models of education have informed relationships between Native Americans and Whites. Consider as well how differently Native American children are brought up within Sioux families, and what is lost in having “survived” the do-gooders’ boarding schools.
Moustafa Bayoumi: “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”
PAUSE & CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AFTER READING: how the pursuit of imperialism abroad has manifested/had a bearing upon American society’s civil rights and liberties.
PAUSE & CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEOS: which of the videos made the biggest impression upon you and why it did.
EXHIBIT STORYTELLING VIDEOS:
Please watch the stories listed below which comprise My Dog Is My Home’s landmark exhibition of “The Experts”—those who actually live(d) the experience of homelessness with an accompanying companion animal:
- Brigitte + Nubeian
- Myra + Prince
- Judie, Melody, Anastasia, Roxy + Chris
- Spirit, Kyya + Miniaga
- Tony Sperl – An Oral History of Animals on Skid Row, 1987 – Present
PAUSE & CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO: consider that the officer involved was reported to have intended to shoot Rios Soto, the autistic man, and that shooting his caregiver, Charles Kinsey, was an accident. Which points in this section of readings does this incident bring up for you?
Video: Democracy Now: “All He Has is a Toy Truck”: The Shocking Police Shooting of Therapist Caring for Autistic Patient”
Video: Age doesn’t define you – Global Campaign to Combat Ageism – #AWorld4AllAges: https://youtu.be/5vIrL7fiNgw
The Retired Teachers of Ontario / Les enseignantes et enseignants retraités de l’Ontario: “The nuances of ageism: How intersectionality can impact the experience of aging”
PAUSE & CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING: the extent to which the Canadian publication “The nuances of ageism: How intersectionality can impact the experience of aging” and Global Campaign to Combat Ageism are reflective of Ageism in the United States. To what extent do you think we are defined by our age in the United States?