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we working through this one in #therapy

imma be real chat, this is the first book I sat down and nearly finished in a sitting but holy shit did it trigger the living shit out of me lmao

What were they thinking with all those guns and those/
handcuffs/
In a size for babies?/
They just don’t choose to remember./
We’re here.

“The quantum physicists have it right; they are beginning to/
think like Indians: everything is connected dynamically/
at an intimate level.”

The question puzzled me then, and it still does, because I realize that as a writer, a Native and a woman whatever I write is inevitably informed by experiences that in turn are informed by the process of socialization and colonization. It is curious that I would be asked to isolate ... what makes up my being-and to simplify into bare terms what that means, glossing over process to discuss product

"What is understood is that our position within a system that is designed to deny us is tenuous and continually threatened, there is truly strength in the numbers of witnesses who can carry our stories outward"

"Thus witnessing and testimony become viable tools that serve the purposes of decolonization by providing details processing complexities of inheritance that living in the aftermath of colonization provides"

“Besides the fact that ignoring the scholarship central to basic writing is a gross affront to the field, you cannot talk about issues of race, desegregation, and literacy in higher education without seeing basic writing as a polemical battlefield. That so much educational, historical, and political research has studied this moment without basic writing has battled me.”

"As backlash swells, as budgets are cut, as jobs become even more scarce, many of the few progressive interventions that were made to change the academy, to create an open climate for cultural diversity are in danger of being undermined or eliminated."

hmm,, that sounds real familiar to a certain green and white institution and a certain state

"As backlash swells, as budgets are cut, as jobs become even more scarce, many of the few progressive interventions that were made to change the academy, to create an open climate for cultural diversity are in danger of being undermined or eliminated."

hmm,, that sounds real familiar to a certain green and white institution and a certain state

"What we are witnessing today in our everyday life is not an eagerness on the part of neighborhoods and strangers to develop a world perspective but a return to narrow nationalism, isolationisms, and xenophobia. These shifts are usually explained in the New Right and neoconservative terms as attempts to bring order to the chaos, to return to an (idealized) past."