dismantling whiteness

September 6, 2022

Ways of Learning

Curiosity, Creativity, Compassion, and Cooperation are the 4 C’s of human nature. A fifth C is the darker side of our nature: Control. In past (and non-western or Indigenous) societies, they educated their youth through self-directed learning that required a high level of respect, cooperation, creativity, and mutual exploration. Adults guided the children rather than Continue reading

activism, Author, Blogging, Books, History, Philosophy, Race, Writing

capitalism, critical pedagogy, dismantling whiteness, education, equality, equity, justice, liberation, Paulo Freire, theory of social control, unlearning capitalism, unlearning colonialism, unlearning imperalism, unschooling, white supremacy
October 12, 2020

Indigeous Peoples’ Day: We Need to Show Up Year Round

Indigenous People’s Day. The wind blows fiercely as the leaves tumble down the sidewalk. At the capitol, Indigeous people speak their truths, broadcast it in a livestream. Around them and us, Western Society throttles on slowly, its gears mucked up with Mother Nature, the pandemic slowly everything down. Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff (Unangan Tunuu) and Libby Continue reading

disability, Race, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-racism, being in relation, disability, disability justice, dismantle imperialism, dismantling whiteness, indigenous, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Indigenous rights, relationship, white privilege
December 10, 2019

Crosspost from Patreon: Examining Whiteness

Crossposted from my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/examining-32183696 Examining Whiteness Our culture is saturated with whiteness; whiteness and its performative values are socialized within all of us from a young age. Those who are not white are socialized to react to whiteness in specific ways, and those who are white (or white-passing) are socialized to perform whiteness without Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

checking one’s privilege, dismantling bias, dismantling whiteness, racism, white fragility, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness

dismantling whiteness

Ways of Learning

Indigeous Peoples’ Day: We Need to Show Up Year Round

Crosspost from Patreon: Examining Whiteness