tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17742255200562949742024-03-13T18:42:06.732-07:00Writing at the End of the WorldWriting, reflecting, and curating resources as a practice of resilience...Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-11816534811947283402020-07-26T22:23:00.000-07:002020-07-26T22:33:45.522-07:005 Strategies for Surviving the Age of Ambiguous LossI recently listened to Pauline Boss's <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/pauline-boss-navigating-loss-without-closure/">interview with Krista Tippett </a>on one of my favorite podcasts, On Being. Boss long ago named the feeling I've been having around COVID that I haven't had a name for-- the million thousand heartbreaks, from national to trivial, that I can't square or reconcile. I have been struggling to figure out how I'm feeling about the state of the world and what we're living through. I didn't realize how helpful it would be to have a name for it-- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ambiguous-Loss-Learning-Unresolved-Grief/dp/0674003810">ambiguous loss</a>: that feeling of unresolved grief that comes with a tragedy that has no reconciliation or ritualistic processing.<br />
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Without a big election to overturn the rampant evil of our time, without a vaccine to help me hope for the end of this lockdown, without any resolution to all of the deaths and economic suffering from COVID, and the trauma of all of the losses for my kids, I have been feeling a pent-up sense of sorrow, despair, dashed faith, and anger at the people causing all of it. Ambiguous grief as a concept helps me realize that the feeling I'm having is grief.<br />
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Yesterday I called one of my best friends, Betsy Rosenbaum (who happens to write a<a href="https://notasteofhome.com/"> brilliant blog</a> when she has time and inspiration), and she shared the first of my cries with me. She was the first person to help me think of my feelings as grief. I was explaining to her that I felt an overwhelming feeling of sorrow and anguish, and that I was desperate for a friend to hold my heart for me. I explained to her that I worry that I would never see my parents again. I worry that my daughter would be traumatized by this. I worry that I may lose my job. I worry that so many people will suffer so badly. I worry that the country is devolving into an authoritarian state. I worry that the election won't work. I worry that martial law is happening in Portland. I worry about the myriad forms of violence, suffering, and even death that this president has put in motion. I'm so angry, so worried, so sad. Many of us are, I know, but I hadn't really grasped how intensely I was feeling these things. (When it all began, I wrote about <a href="https://writingattheendoftheworld.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-million-tiny-heartbreaks.html">"A Million Tiny Heartbreaks,"</a> but this feeling has only gotten worse.)<br />
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But if what we're feeling is grief, as Boss and Betsy reminded me, there are strategies we can use to cope, and I guess I have to start using them. Here are the ones that make the most sense to me. I don't do them as much as I should. But I know they help when I do.<br />
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1. <b>Connect authentically with loved ones. </b>Even though zoom and Skype aren't the same as being with people in person, COVID offers an opportunity to remember that our wellbeing relies on human connection. We aren't individual islands, as capitalism and the American Dream would have us believe. We are ecological and social beings. Get to know your neighbors. Get to know your non-human neighbors. Let those you love know it, and tell them why. Under COVID, this is the hardest one; it's ironic! We are beset with a condition that makes us suffer and disallows us from using the tool we most need to navigate suffering-- relationships. Don't let this defeat you. Relationships are all around us anyway. With fierceness, build them. Birds, parents, children, molecules, bacteria, comets-- all of it.<br />
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2. <b>Create rituals. </b>Our habits may be becoming very boring. I know that I feel really bored by my life right now. There's no purpose, no Thing to Look Forward To, no mission. My kids and I just languish languidly through the days, trying desperately to find value in anything, and mostly getting jazzed by a new movie or recipe. When I wake up, I try to think of how the day will bring many boring things, and I try to ritualize them-- dishes, laundry, the sun coming out, meals, my daily shower. I try to make these rituals feel really meaningful by being grateful that I have the privilege of having them at all. I imbue them with a redolence of sacredness, despite their mundaneness. I do this by noticing them and being grateful for them. That's all it takes to make something a ritual. "Here is this thing I get to do. It may feel mundane, but I'm so lucky to feel that way about it. In fact, making this meal is an act of faith, an act of love, an act of weaving people together, an act of honor for the people who made it possible...." Injecting sacredness into my mundane life feels good.<br />
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3. <b>Focus on what you can control. </b>I really, really, really hate our president. I am so resentful. I am so worried. I am so FREAKED OUT. How can this person exist? How can so many people love him? How can he be the person in charge of our country in the middle of COVID? Rabbit-hole warning.<br />
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Deep breath.<br />
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I can control my garden. I can control my body. I can control my kids' filter on their world. I can control my friends' and family's feelings of connection and support. I can control the feeling of hope and support in the people in my circle. One day at a time. Some days are worse than others. Some days I languish in sorrow. I wish I could cry more. But when I'm in those states, I turn to the people directly around me and realize I have a HUGE impact on them, starting with my kids and partner. Starting with <i>myself</i>.<br />
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4. <b>Understand how chemicals</b> work in your brain to create emotions. Remember oxytocin, endorphins, and dopamine? Oh right! FUCK YEAH!!!! I LOVE THOSE FUCKERS! Eat good food, love on animals and people, exercise. It's really that simple. (No, it's not, but if you focus on these things, it will help launch you into other amazing things).<br />
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5. Answer some <b>"grounding questions"</b> for yourself. My grounding questions vary, and I don't answer them every day, but on occasion, it really helps me on a really bad day to write some answers down, just to anchor myself. A few examples of grounding questions are:<br />
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<li>what is one thing I can do today to give me pleasure?</li>
<li>what boring thing may happen today (e.g. the sun coming out) can I imbue with sacredness?</li>
<li>who is one person I can reach out to today?</li>
<li>what is one thing I can do today to honor those who have helped me?</li>
<li>what would it take to find peace in the midst of what is going on?</li>
<li>what do I do in my day that does not serve my wellbeing?</li>
<li>what can I do to move my body?</li>
<li>what can I do to invite or create beauty or humor in my day?</li>
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Recently, I felt really low. I realized I needed to write a few grounding questions out. I focused on the sun coming out-- I decided I would mark it by stopping whatever I was doing and just recognize it.<br />
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I knew that I would have to make dinner for my family. I decided I would make a ritual out of it and try to appreciate all the labor and nature that went into the meal.<br />
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These are examples of that Robin Wall Kimmerer calls in her book <i><a href="https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass">Braiding Sweetgrass </a></i>"practical reverence." It's a practice, and I'm feeling the need for it ever more in this time.<br />
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Similarly, Annie Dillard has written,<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">“How </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">we spend</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">days</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> course how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">we spend</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> our lives. What </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">we</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> do with this hour and that one is what </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">we</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> are doing.” </span></i><br />
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Sometimes, I feel Dillard's quote is too much pressure-- really, you want me to find existential value in standing in line at the DMV? At other times, like in COVID, I find this to be a guiding light, breaking things down to the basics. When all things are up for grabs, when all that is solid melts into air, when the ground we stand on is shaky, when everything is falling apart-- who are we, and what do our lives mean? The only answer to that is in how we spend our days. Each day is our life in miniature. Some wasted time, some debauchery, waaaaay too much wine, some illumination, some connection, some awe. Some of this we have control over. If you knew that how you spent your day was the meaning of your life, what would you do?<br />
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5. <b>Spread it.</b> Good vibrations are contagious. There is science that proves this, but I'm just going to leave it at this: in spite of all of the shit going on, your love, compassion, and skillful actions will make others want to do the same. The planet, social justice, your family, and the future of democracy all require you to imagine the radical awesomeness that this rupturous moment is creating. If there ever was a moment to rise to the occasion rather than shrivel into despair, this is it. We see it in the George Floyd protest streets, we see it in AOC's speech about Rep. Yoho's assault, we see it in our teachers, we see it in our kids. Some days, we can just wallow. But on the others, our ability to cultivate optimism is not just a matter of self-preservation; it is a matter of societal viability. After you've had a good cry with your best friend, take your vulnerability and faith in progress on the road; we are here to hold your heart.<br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-49346211255818026722020-04-16T23:00:00.000-07:002020-04-16T23:00:44.830-07:00A Million Tiny Heartbreaks
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You know that feeling when you’re on the precipice of a
cliff, and you’re looking down, and up, and around, and you start to lose the
ability to perceive scale, distance, or what the artists call perspective? Scientists
call it vertigo. That sense of dizziness that happens when you can’t tell what’s
close, what’s far, what’s big, what’s small, and the liquid in your eardrums responds
to your perception of reality as if you’re falling.</span></div>
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There are so many heartbreaking results of coronavirus. The
deaths. The canceled graduation ceremonies. The doctor parents who lose custody
because they’re working long hours. The canceled conferences and new book
tours. The kids who need the structure (or lunches) at school. The birthday
parties suspended. The lifelines of socializing at nursing homes. The inability
to access technology among those who need it the most, like grandma, or that
kid in your class who has no internet. The most marginalized becoming even more
marginalized because our country values money more than humanity. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A few heartbreaks from today: a sense of panic during the previously
mundane activity of walking my dog at the beach. Going to the store. The plants
dying in my abandoned office. My child’s sixth birthday celebrated alone. Seven
zoom meetings where my beloved colleagues are all on the brink of tears, while
my children fend for themselves. I forgot snack time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The majority of my college students who, for reasons of
sanity or perhaps disability, require face-to-face instruction and are now
floundering in anxiety and depression, and cannot carry on “continuity of
instruction,” much less eating and sleeping.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><img alt="How to Help Kids Cope with Canceled Graduation - PureWow" src="https://purewows3.imgix.net/images/articles/2020_04/Graduation-canceled-hero.jpg?auto=format,compress&cs=strip" /></o:p></div>
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A million tiny heartbreaks spiral out from each other. That
canceled birthday party turns into a canceled alternative at the zoo, which
turns into a canceled alternative at the park, which turns into a canceled play
date, which turns into a canceled birthday. Rites of passage, poof. Two of my
cousins were supposed to get married in April. Both canceled. All of those
seniors graduating. The mini-traumas of all those kids separated from their
classes and teachers, never going to finish the grade they were in, wondering
if they’ll be held back. Proms, tests, afterschool <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lord of the Flies</i> daycare, and all those other signs of humanity’s
inability to be humane-- canceled. And yeah, it feels weird to be nostalgic
about even those things, but it’s because I can feel the anxiety it is
producing in all of the young people about how unstable life really is, even if
they hate those things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shock doctrine is happening across the land with higher education.
The precarity of a year ago feels quaint now, compared to the current attack on
quality education. Faculty, staff, face-to-face classes are all “fat” that
needs to get cut, so that higher education can regain its credibility in the
current anti-intellectual climate. COVID is the perfect excuse. But wherefore
administrator salary cuts? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When pigs fly.
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All those million tiny heartbreaks of all those students across
the land, going online, losing their contact with peers, campus staff, and faculty,
wondering whether next semester will be the same, wondering whether a degree in
anything matters anyway. My colleagues whose jobs are contingent upon a working
visa or their health; the precariousness of it all is earth-shatteringly stark
now. All the million tiny aftershocks—heartbreaking. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On the news: that cancer patient’s life is shortened by not
receiving “inessential” medical treatment during this time. A high school
senior’s athletic career has just been upended by this blip of history. A woman
whose home life is abusive now has to spend all…day…long…. at home. Elderly people
rely on social lifelines; their weekly bridge sessions and caregiver visitations--
canceled. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The fact that we’re talking about end-of-life plans with our
10-year-olds, and explaining to our 3-year olds the purpose of wearing masks in
public—incomprehensible madness. The thousands of our loved ones, dying. ALONE.
DYING ALONE. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A million tiny heartbreaks are making me dizzy. I can’t tell
whether the fact that my children won’t see their teacher again is equivalent
to my grandma never seeing any family member ever again, and whether that’s equivalent
to the fact that 22 million people are unemployed, and that people are lining
up by the hundreds for food. FOOD. Which is worse? My missed book talks or my kid’s
extroversion being traumatically thwarted, or the homeless in my community not
eating, or abortion rights getting chopped in the deal, or the fact that I can’t
take a break from cooking anymore, or that COVID is being embraced by some as evidence
of the rapture? The refrigerated morgue trucks lined up outside the New York
City hospitals to hold the dead, or turning a whole generation of children into
misanthropic germaphobes? <o:p></o:p></div>
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We are all sacrificing so much, even if it’s just time
alone. Scale out from there, and we’re sacrificing our professional lives, our
achievements we’ve worked hard on, the minimal benefits the state thinks we deserve,
our domestic relationships, our physical health, our values around family and
religion, our faith in institutions, our faith in leadership. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll never forget the moment in all of this when the thought
first occurred to me that I might not see my mom again. Remember that moment?
We’ve all had it by now. The proximity of this threat encroached day by day,
closer and closer. Scaling in, dizzying, like those strobe light that cause seizures.
Even though I know nobody who has died, I’ve absorbed a million tiny
heartbreaks—relationships crumbling under the pressure, hard-won collegiality fizzling
in the moment of stress, my thirty non-graduating college seniors, and all
those kids becoming accustomed to the “new normal” of isolation and wondering
if they’ll ever see their grandparents again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What about the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i>
suffering, you ask? The ways this crisis is exposing the inequalities that
already exist? The ways that the virus is affecting incarcerated people, detained
migrants, the homeless, disabled, and people in countries with even worse
medical infrastructure and effective leadership? YES. A million times a million
times a million huge heartbreaks. Bring on the vertigo. One of my dear friends has
stage four metastatic breast cancer, and COVID is making it hard for her to get
her treatments, potentially shortening her life, not to mention her compromised
immune system and the feeling of having a contamination target on her back. <o:p></o:p></div>
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People may say it’s a time to be humane, compassionate, our
best selves. Meanwhile, companies, universities, and other employers are using
shock doctrine to streamline and consolidate resources in the name of “innovation”,
“synergy”, and of course, as if it even needs to be breathed, “efficiency.” Call
it what it is- the privatization of the university to produce employable workforces
in a neoliberal market economy. The structuralizing of disposable and
precarious employees. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Woe is me, an academic, I know, but if it’s happening in the
academy, you can bet it’s even worse elsewhere. It’s all over the news.
Carnage. As of today, 22 million people have filed for unemployment. Twenty-two
million heartbreaks are ripples in the pond, and we will all feel them vibrating
through our communities, wallets, hearts, lungs, schools, favorite restaurants,
hobbies, churches, and habits. We will feel them as a million tiny heartbreaks,
and no small amount of really, really big ones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><img alt="How Being Kind to the Unkind Sends Ripples of Positivity Around ..." src="https://www.goodnet.org/photos/281x197/30357_hd.jpg" /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">As the news about
coronavirus overwhelms us with worry and fear about our loved ones and the
spike in suffering around the world, it may be tempting to find “silver
linings” in news about how great the environment is doing, now that humans are
leaving it alone. Our news feeds are full of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-earth-pollution-noise/609316/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">these
scenes</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">: China enjoying a level
of air quality it has not experienced since it became the industrial heart of
the world, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/animals-cities-coronavirus-lockdowns-deer-raccoons"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">critters
braving landscapes</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> that
are usually occupied by lots of people, fuel consumption at an all time low,
less noise and light pollution, the list goes on. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Meanwhile, since the
U.S. President began calling coronavirus the “China virus,” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">incidents</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> of violence against Asians, Asian-Americans,
Chinese, and Chinese-Americans have skyrocketed. One family, including a 2-year
old and a 6-year old,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-stabbing-asian-family-coronavirus-fbi-hate-crime"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> was
stabbed by a person</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> who
thought they were Chinese and that ending their lives would help prevent the
spread of coronavirus. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Environmental
Studies Program at HSU firmly condemns such acts of violence. Further, we want
to expose the racism inherent in claims about the “silver lining” of nature’s
rebounding, and articulate the links between these claims and such acts of
violence. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Addressing racism and
violence against Asian-Americans in this moment is not the job of entities
focused on hate crimes; environmentalists and environmental organizations have
a profound responsibility to engage these conversations and reckon with their
complicity in legacies of “green hate” and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-ecological-other"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">eco-fascis</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">m.” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">A historical perspective
of the roots of American environmental ideas is part of this reckoning. Early
views of ecology and resource conservation in the mid-19th century were
deployed for the purposes of social engineering: America’s finite resources and
land was framed by leaders such as Theodore Roosevent and Gifford Pinchot as
needing to be preserved, but only for certain people--white, able-bodied,
upstanding Anglo-Americans. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">In the early
20th-century, these Social Darwinian, Malthusian values led to racist
anti-immigration laws such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, and became the
foundation for America’s eugenics movement, which resulted in the genocide of
Native Americans and other groups deemed “unfit” for life in an ideal
“America.” These values and policies were then emulated by the Nazis as they
spread their “blood and soil” ideology, connecting a geopolitics of “<i>lebensraum</i>”
(“living room”) with genocide. The </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/conservation-and-eugenics/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">earliest
environmentalists in America were</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> just as interested in designing what they perceived to be an
ideal society and race as they were in preserving and understanding
ecosystems. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">We can see resurgances
of the racist underpinnings of environmentalism in the 1970s debates about
overpopulation and immigration, and Earth First!’s hailing of AIDS as a boon
for the environment. In contrast to these moments, the environmental justice
movement was born, which aimed to center social justice in environmental
considerations, and distinguished itself from these racist arguments coming out
of the mainstream environmental movement. Social justice scholars and activists
have long observed the “greening of hate,” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opinion/sunday/far-right-climate-change.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">but it
would be a mistake to think </span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">the racist agenda of some environmental ideas are a vestige of the
past. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Environmental
Studies Program at HSU seeks to highlight this history in our moment of
pandemic precisely because of the growing violence and animosity toward
non-white Americans. Some of this aggression is couched in environmental ideas.
For example, the shooter in the El Paso mass shooting claimed in his letter
that one reason for his </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">desire to
kill Mexicans was because of climate change</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> and the resulting “Hispanic invasion of
Texas.” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">When we hear arguments
that a natural disaster (like a tsunami or hurricane) is nature’s way of
cleansing the planet of humans who are reproducing too much, or that a health
disaster (like ebola or AIDS) is</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Story-Origins/dp/0385479565"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> “nature
striking back”</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> at humans for their
evil ways, we must stand up against the ongoing use of “nature” to justify
violence against marginalized communities. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">People who say that the
coronavirus is good for nature are implying, perhaps inadvertently, that the
thriving of human life is incompatible with the thriving of nature. Such claims
create a zero-sum solution: if we want humans to keep living, then we have to
accept the destruction of nature, or vice versa. The latter position opens the
door to eco-fascism and reproduces unnecessary and potentially dangerous
Cartesian and colonialist ways of seeing the world. Indeed, the very separation
of categories like “nature” from “culture” has long been problematic as it has
allowed for some people to extract resources, labor, ideas, and more from other
people who they equated with nature. But many human groups have thrived
alongside nature, and nature alongside them. It is irresponsible and futile to
ask people to make a choice between nature or humanity. Asking whether we
should save humanity or save nature isn’t the right question, and it overlooks
the real problem--colonial-capitalism’s treatment of certain environments and
certain people as valuable, while others are disposable.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Touting the rebounding
of nature in this context may seem an innocent, non-racist appeal. However, in
the context of understanding environmentalism’s racist legacies, we can see
that such an appeal creates oversimplified divisions between nature and humans.
This binary ignores the ways that communities of color are disproportionately
suffering coronavirus outcomes, and have and will continue to
disproportionately suffer the effects of environmental degradation, even as
they are often the communities who least contribute to that degradation. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Furthermore, such a
binary fails to account for the many ways that many indigenous communities have
long lived in ways that enhance ecosystem health, and how colonization has
impinged on their ability to continue to do so. A virus like coronavirus is not
nature’s way of inoculating itself against all humanity, and when we imagine
this to be so, we create conditions for ignoring all of these ways that
inequality and difference shape different communities’ access to environmental
goods, like the ability to breathe, and costs, including infection.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">As we celebrate the
planet getting a break from emissions, the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://time.com/5808726/trump-administration-epa-rollbacks-coronavirus/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">EPA is
busy rolling back</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> many
hard-won environmental protections and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/climate-crisis-villains-oil-industry-big-banks-pipelines"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">moving
forward the keystone</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> and
other pipelines. This news is nothing to celebrate. Moreover, the fact that
more </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2020/03/11/coronavirus-lockdown-may-save-more-lives-from-pollution-and-climate-than-from-virus/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">peoples’
lives will be saved</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> by
the reduction in emissions than by anything we can do to prevent coronavirus
infection suggests that we are focusing on the wrong problem, and ignoring the
far larger problem of colonial-capitalism’s reliance on some people being more
disposable than others. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The problem isn’t that <i>nature</i>
has been disposable; the problem is about </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://guante.info/2020/03/19/thanos/?fbclid=IwAR0rTw0QoQ24cNAi6FgAN8dfAU30tsnB_CH5u0D7C1mw11I0u8XLnylATiI"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">who gets
to decide</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> which <i>humans</i> are
the most disposable. The coronavirus is not an equalizer. It is exacerbating
existing inequalities; the bodies of black and brown people are
disproportionately in the jobs that </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/opinion/coronavirus-social-distancing.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">are on
the frontlines of risk</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">, such as health workers and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=farmworkers+are+essential&oq=farmworkers+are+essential&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.5338j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">farmworkers</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">, are already in positions of legal and medical
disenfranchisement (such as in detention camps or prisons), and are </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">suffering
the worst health outcomes</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">We must stop demonizing
a monolithic notion of “humanity” as bad for a monolithic notion of “nature,”
and combat the deployment of “the environment” to fuel fears of virus-spreading
“others.” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Instead of thinking
about nature temporarily bouncing back, we must be using this dire moment to
work for that post-fossil-fuel future, where people are no longer more likely to die
of pollution than pandemic. We look to the vision and action of groups like </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://movementgeneration.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Movement Generation Justice and
Ecology Project</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.ienearth.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Indigenous Environmental Network</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://climatejusticealliance.org/just-transition/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Just
Transition</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">, and admire the local
work of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://cooperationhumboldt.com/covid-response/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Cooperation
Humboldt </span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">in organizing for the
world we are now all the more called to build in this crisis. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The ENST program at HSU
stands with communities of color whose oppression has long been achieved in the
name of “preserving nature.” We call on other environmental groups to take
action against such violence, and to take the lead on drawing these
connections. We amplify the work of groups like </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://theavarnagroup.com/2020/04/01/some-resources-on-covid-19-jedi-conservation-the-outdoors/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Avarna</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> and the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.asle.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Association
for the Study of Literature and Environment, </span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">who are taking such actions. We urge our
students, faculty, administrators, and peers to see this moment of crisis as an
opportunity for further support of decolonial, abolitionist, and liberatory
world-making. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The following are words of encouragement and love for the 2020 graduating class of Humboldt State </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">University. These messages come from</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> some of the staff that work so closely you--advisors, mentors, and counselors--and a small handful of faculty from a variety of departments. These are just a few of the many people on the campus who love you and have accompanied you during your time at HSU. Faculty and staff at all universities are deeply saddened by the cancelling of one of the few rituals that reminds us why we all do what we do--commencement. We hope that some wonderful alternative to commencement will be planned, but in the meantime we wanted to put together some words of support for you. Our hope is that these words might also be a salve for graduating classes of 2020 at other universities as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Class of 2020:</span></span></span></div>
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Associate Professor and Program Leader, Environmental Studies</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">For some time now, I’ve
been giving public lectures about climate anxiety, and how students at HSU are
“coming of age at the end of the world.” Your generation is uniquely
disadvantaged--you will be the first to die younger than your parents, earn
less than your parents, and be more lonely, anxious, depressed, and suicidal
than your parents. And of course, not to mention, climate change-- the biggest
existential threat of your time. Nobody has had to face down that problem like
you will have to. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The point of me offering
this grim picture is to point out that if you’re feeling anxious and
despairing, you’re not crazy, and you’re not alone. And the current moment of
coronavirus will test your generation even further. As if you needed more
evidence that your generation is screwed. You don’t even get to walk the
graduation stage. Yes, it is a terrifying time to graduate from childhood to
adulthood. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">But you’re also uniquely
positioned to make the most profound changes we all need. And it is a matter of
your survival to focus on these strengths, not just the challenges. I have
studied your generation closely, and there is a lot of good news about you:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Did you need more evidence than those infographics showing how a virus
spreads exponentially from individuals to show you how important you are
in the world? An individual can make a difference, not just when they
“stay at home for the greater good,” but equally when they do seemingly
“small” things to make the world a better place. Scale is deceptive.
Visualize the spread of your positive impacts, like Buddhists describe in
a meditation called the <a href="https://workthatreconnects.org/resource/the-great-ball-of-merit/">“Great Ball of Merit”,</a> and don’t even hesitate to
get started on this work.</span></li>
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about social media for community organizing, which is evidenced by the number
of you involved in Mutual Aid and other forms of community support in this
moment, despite your own hard conditions. This is a crucial skill of resistance
and mobilizing for change.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 0in;">You have been trained to
cope with turbulence your entire college career, if not longer. Most of your
professors have been teaching you these skills-- resilience, community support,
self-care, analysis of power structures, using knowledge to change the world,
critical media analysis, and ways to push different cultural, economic, and
political levers to make larger-scale change. Our current moment is not the
time to abandon these lessons. On the contrary, this is what you went to
college to be able to address as leaders. Go forth! Do it! Fear is always part
of the revolution. Turn it into action.</span></li>
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largest population in the country. Imagine what would happen if you
participated in even just the most basic form of civic engagement possible to
all of us-- voting? Politicize your anguish. In November, we will have the most
historic election our country has ever faced, and more than any other
demographic, you have the potential to affect the outcome.</span></li>
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ethnically diverse population in the country. A new leadership is on the
horizon. It is the most significant reason I have hope every day. And I’ll bet
all of your professors feel the same way, which is why they keep teaching. Your
idealism, passion, and desire to improve the world are a beacon for all of us.</span></li>
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walking across the graduation stage would be the climax of all your hard work.
What if I told you that the hard work has only just begun? Who will you
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Coordinator, El Centro Academico Cultural de HSU </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Nebulous spring of 2020</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">From Alison O’Dowd,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It may seem like the end
of the world right now, but keep in mind that this too shall pass. We are
going to need to be innovative, creative and forward-thinking to weather this
storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will need to listen to each
other, cry with each other, and pick each other up again. We can not do
this alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We may be physically apart,
but we can still lift up and help one another from a distance.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You may have imagined
your graduation day as a glorious event, surrounded by your friends and
family. Even though your graduation from HSU may not end up the way you
imagined, you can still celebrate your achievements and feel the love of those
who have helped you along the way. Consider sending out a graduation
announcement electronically to your social network showing your smiling face
and listing some of your achievements while in college and your aspirations for
the future. This can also be an opportunity to thank your loved ones for
their support during your time in college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The virtual hug you receive in return may be able to lift your spirits
yet.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">With an uncertain future
and shaky job market, your venture into the ‘real world’ may take a different
form than what you originally dreamed. Again, creativity and innovation
will rule the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may need to move
back home and help out your family for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You may need to find a job where you can work from home or online.
Explore and think about ways you can get a jump on the job market for these
types of opportunities. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When this is all over
(and it will be over one day), you can look back on this time of isolation and
restrictions as the time when you built your resilience and drew on your social
capital to grow stronger instead of meaker. The world needs your spirit
and energy, your insight and skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
world needs you more than ever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">From Rob Keever, CARE
Services Coordinator:</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Can you remember a time
where you overcame a challenge that threatened your success? What was it
like for you when you overcame that challenge?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you can, sit in that moment of triumph for a minute.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">While I am sure this is
not how you all envisioned your time at HSU would wrap up, this does not
represent the entirety of your journey to receive a quality education. As
someone on campus that witnesses students overcoming difficult challenges
first-hand every day, I know the importance of remembering the journey it took
for you to reach this major success. You all have acquired the skills to be
outstanding whether you realize it or not, just through your resilience to
overcome challenging situations like the current state we are in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will just be another moment you can
reflect on in the future to remind yourself that you can be successful in the
face of adversity. We are proud of all of you and know that you are ready
to take on whatever this world will throw at you.</span></span></div>
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Director, Retention through Academic Mentoring Program (RAMP)</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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RAMP is borrowed from colleagues who use it in HSU’s amazing Upward Bound
program - “Flow Like Water….”. We say that to each other when the turbulence of
life feels like it’s trying to take us under. If we can flow with that
turbulence rather than fighting with it, if we can flow around the boulders and
rocks rather than letting them stop our progress….sometimes it helps. The
ability and decision to “Flow Like Water ” is empowered by holding tight to
those we love and cherish, having the courage to ask for help, crying as much
as we want, laughing as loud as we want, and reminding ourselves of our
purpose, now and in the future. Class of 2020, I believe in your strength, your
creativity, your courage and your perseverance. I invite you to flow like water
and hold fast to those dreams….you will make them happen. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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celebration. You completed a course of study, and you also sustained our campus
in bringing yourselves here. I am grateful for what you did at HSU, for the
ways you supported each other and for what you taught us as your faculty and
staff.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">That we aren’t gathered
together on graduation day in the Redwood Bowl is one indication of the
challenges you faced along the way—some fleeting, and some larger with
timescales difficult to chart in the mind: Earthly timelines of climate change,
crises of public health, legacies of continued oppressions suffered all over
the globe. We feel that suffering, but there’s also joy today. This time is not
one thing. This is a time of great uncertainty, but it is also a time in which
we can celebrate what you’ve done here at HSU. You took on an education that
will enable you to do what most needs to be done in this world.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In our classes, you
spoke of the problems you most want to solve in your lifetime: reversing
sea-level rise, enacting social justice, and repairing the social, economic,
and ecological harms and damages done over centuries and continued in the hours
of today. Going forward, you’ll be inventive and responsive as you take action.
You’ll learn as you go. And as you do, I hope you’ll stay connected to each
other. You’ve been through something significant together as the class of 2020,
and you remain together. You’ll see each other through this time of change, and
together you have the ability to bring about a transformation of the
world. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</i>comes from the Latin <i>com,</i> meaning "with, together," and
the <i>initiare</i>, meaning "to initiate,” or <i>initium, </i>meaning
"a going in.” While we may not have a traditional commencement event this
year, you are together here in the moment of going in.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What does it mean to
celebrate in this time? I think of Lucille Clifton’s poem that is titled with
an invitation to celebrate: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50974/wont-you-celebrate-with-me"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Won’t
you celebrate with me”</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> is a poem that speaks to resilience and what it means to
celebrate amid pain. In Clifton’s poem, she writes of herself as “both nonwhite
and woman / what did i see to be except myself?” The poem reminds us of what it
means to shape a life, and what it means to give language to who we are. We
need all the languages that make us, to represent and be represented—and we
need to meet each other in our difference with compassion and humility, to
preserve each other’s dignity and participation against forces that dehumanize
and degrade, to account for and disrupt the histories of injustice that
continue today. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Clifton’s words, “on the bridge between / starshine and clay.” Here we are: our
feet on the earth and our minds taking in the starshine scope of our future. I
hope you’ll read Lucille Clifton’s poem and then write a poem of your own
today. <i>Won’t you celebrate with me </i>and acknowledge this important
moment.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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celebrating you. We are celebrating who you are and what you’ve done here and
all you’re going to do. </span></span></div>
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program; Energy, Technology, and
Policy (ETaP); Faculty Research Associate at Schatz Energy Research Center</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Can we radically
re-imagine the world we live in, to address climate change, eradicate global
inequalities, and lead more just and peaceful lives? Yes, we can. We can
imagine a better world, because I have seen you do it. We have been doing it in
all our classes: by disentangling how the contemporary world works, and by
connecting social and environmental injustices. You have been doing it in concert
with each other in your entire time in college. Global crises allow us to act
on our radical imaginations. Things that seemed impossible before, now become
possible, as the only sensible way forward out of this chaos. The coronavirus
pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the crazy logics of “business as usual”.
The crisis has shown us the underbelly of austerity, precarious labor rights,
just-in-time supply chains, and healthcare provided as a luxury for those who
do certain kinds of work. The way out of the crisis will be for us to
re-evaluate, as a society, what we hold dear. It could allow us to re-imagine
our relationship to the natural world. You will be an integral part of
constructing a better world. Your imagination will help all of us do better next
time.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Like you, I lost an
opportunity to walk across a graduation stage this May, and have my family,
friends, and faculty celebrate in my educational accomplishments. Our degrees
may have different words on it, but we are tied together because we, and our
loved ones, lost a milestone that we looked forward to for many years, that we
collectively struggled for. I acutely feel your disappointment, as it is mine
too. It is a strange time to be graduating. But I hope you will remind yourself
that a commencement delayed due to an unprecedented global health crisis is
just that – a commencement delayed. We will celebrate soon. Our loved ones will
celebrate soon. And we will rejoice in our accomplishments, now and in the
future again. Our accomplishments are real. And our work is just beginning.
Let’s imagine a better world together. </span></span></div>
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of Politics and Environmental Studies</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">One of the most
inspiring things about Humboldt students in general and Environmental Studies
students in particular is how many of you are motivated to create positive
change in the world. But one of the biggest challenges for all of us is to
develop strategies to make this work effective. We often have a sense that our
political and economic systems are monolithic and stifle change. Yet at moments
like this we are reminded of just how quickly previously unimaginable changes
can be achieved! </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I’m <i>not </i>suggesting that the social changes wrought by this virus are a
good thing. And we need to honor the loss that we are all experiencing now. But
I do believe that at moments like this -- when the standard rules of how
politics and society work seem turned on their heads -- previously unimaginable
changes become possible. With the skills, insights, and vision that you’ve
cultivated with us here, I’m confident that you can help us all make the most
of these possibilities. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Faculty Support Coordinator for the Academic and Career Advising Center and the
Center for Community Based Learning, Lecturer for Environmental Studies and
Political Science </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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four Environmental Studies capstone cohorts that you all embody the very hope
and meaning we want to see in so many ways. That statement is true of so many
of the students I get to meet and work with. In the face of the
existential crisis inherent in climate change, racism, inequality, systems
built on oppression, and so much more…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
found my hope in you, your generation and the passion that you bring to the
table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we need you more than
ever. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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graduating in normal circumstances across the nation, simply look to find jobs
that they enjoy and that compensate them with a good living. You are
choosing to find jobs that allow you to change the world, to make a difference
and it adds different elements, anxieties and strategies to what it means to
move from college to career. Those choices alone can feel difficult
enough, but doing so in a crisis and while facing a long-term shelter in place
order is a challenge I never even considered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the state of economy will be and who is hiring now, as stressful as those
questions can be. But what you can control, is who you are, how prepared you
are to engage in this time, and how you connect with those that are making a
difference and changing the world. Your transition into your career and
changing the world has not been derailed, it just became more complicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have seen our graduates get amazing jobs in
every economy since the recession, through thoughtful engagement, networking,
and demonstrating WHO THEY ARE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That you
can control, and it is what matters the most in these times. And, you can
control that you are not alone, we are a community and we are here to help you,
love and will stand by you in this time. You are the hope and we will
hold you up! </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-50585277092164689632019-05-15T14:47:00.001-07:002019-05-15T23:45:22.401-07:00Against Student Success? No, I'm Not a Monster<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Because I love my students, I am against student success. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">When I told a friend recently that I hated when I'm asked to do something in the name of "student success," she looked at me like I had just said the most blasphemous thing, and asked me, "but isn't that what we're all here for? Student success?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Let me explain. Of COURSE I'm a professor because I like students and I like to think that the work I do helps them succeed. OBVIOUSLY. It goes without saying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But I worry that institutions use "student success" to justify the demands they put on everybody who works for them. I worry they are taking advantage of the love we all feel for students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Work loads creep further and further into all the corners of our lives. I know too many colleagues who work upwards of 80 hours a week, and are just crumbling under the pressure. They love their students. When asked to do more, they are convinced that it supports student success, so they can't say no. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Student success is hard to say no to. Who wouldn't want it? It can make all kinds of sacrifices seem worthwhile. "Student success" is used as the reason we are asked to increase our class size, take on more advisees, learn a new software for early-alerts, make ourselves compliant with loads of new pedagogical best practices, learn a new software for assessing student success, measure success better, do more, and more, and more... you get the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In the context of my own work on a CSU campus, "student success" has become like "development" or "sustainability," a plastic word</span>. It gets rolled out at administrative meetings and extolled as the justification for every decision, even ones that seem to undermine student success. Like, "In support of student success, we will need to go ahead and defund a great resource called the Institute for Student Success, which inspires the entire staff, faculty, and administrators to come together once a year to collaborate and get pumped up to start another year of teaching. Too bad it was working so well for you!" Or, "For Student Success (because that's all we care about), we will need to get rid of half our janitors."** </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"Student success" seems to be used for all kinds of purposes that have either nothing to do with student success (although most students I talk to really do feel that clean toilets are essential to their feeling of belonging on a campus, and can you blame them?), or they seem to even undermine it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It raises the question, "who's defining 'success' here?" Like all plastic words, success is subjective, and without really clear, concrete, and narrow definitions, it can just swallow everybody up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I hope it's clear that I'm not against <i>actual</i> student success in theory and as a worthwhile goal. I think people who pick it up as the beacon to guide all our budget cuts and programmatic decisions are genuinely trying to turn the university's focus toward students, in protest of the ways some universities have become about other things, like making money or building big (corporately-funded) research centers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I appreciate that very much. Yes, please! Let's get back to why we're all here: students! How democratic and grassroots. How... refreshing. I wish this is the honest motive. For the most part, I think most administrators who cut student success initiatives in the name of student success, as crazy as it seems, genuinely think they're doing the right thing. But you can see the plasticity here, no?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">What I <i>am</i> against is how the term student success is used as a bludgeon to exploit my relationships with students to make me do more for an institution that keeps cutting resources. I am also against the fact that it seems like nobody sees how this is happening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reason student success is so hard to say no to is the same reason I have a hard time saying no to my kids. If I love them, I will do all the things they ask from me in order to prove it. This assumption about maternal love is at the root of patriarchy. Exploiting maternal guilt is how the world goes round. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just like moms in the arena of domestic labor and "care work" don't keep score about how much work they do to care for their kids (they'd seem selfish and heartless if they did), so too are teachers and staff at my university expected to go the extra mile without protest, for love of their students. Why ever would they not? Don't they want success for their students? Tisk tisk. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And, just like it is hard at home for me to say no to my family's requests for <i>more mom</i>, for fear they will not feel loved, it is hard for me to say no to any request made of me in the name of my students' wellbeing, happiness, good grades, full stomachs, feeling of being safe, access to educational resources, opportunities for mentorship, real-world applications of their education, fellowship, fun, clean toilets, and whatever else gets snuck under the plastic banner of "student success." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">There's an analysis of power here that I'm trying to offer up. Those in power use emotional appeals to extract labor. Such appeals distract us from the structural sources of the problem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I worry about being gaslighted for not caring about my students when there's an untenable structural arrangement that keeps pushing work onto the fewer and fewer people left standing after budget cuts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's like we're in a boat. Somebody (I won't name names. No need to get nasty. It's complicated anyway) poked holes in this boat. Then, those same people started asking us to plug the holes with the tool they know we will be unable to resist supplying in these moments of "crisis"-- our loyalty to students. Meanwhile, the boat is made of straw and there's a huge storm going on. No amount of love for our students will plug these holes, so please stop talking about how plugging the holes is going to do the trick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As much as I wish it did, loving my students (or my kids) doesn't magically produce more time or energy in my life. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Pressuring people with guilt is a classic move by people in power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">At some point, all of us who love students are going to get so burned out by the extraction of our care labor that we may start to ironically direct our resentment toward the very people "student success" is supposed to serve-- the students themselves. I, for one, confess to having started down this path more than a few times. Then, like I do at home when I get overloaded, I remind myself of the analysis of power: I don't have to sacrifice myself to prove my love of anybody. I cannot just love everybody's way out of these problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Maybe it's only the people who don't constantly battle internalized guilt about parenting who feel it's perfectly reasonable to weaponize love and guilt in work places. That's the only way I can explain why they think it's acceptable. When I hear the kinds of arguments at work that I hear at home to get me to do more stuff, I can't help but think there's something fishy going on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The problem isn't the students. Just like we shouldn't hate our kids for having needs, we ought to look at the structural conditions that make it hard to meet all of our students' needs. Why are we losing so many forms of support for them, and for all of us? We also need to challenge the myths we carry around in our minds that cloud our awareness of how those in power manipulate our emotions. Let's wake up to our own exploitation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To be really <i>for</i> student success, we needn't just become obedient when the word is waved around at meetings. Instead, we can:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Define what student success means in our own work and lives. Seriously, write it down! Even better, model student success and ask your students to define their own success for you. That'll blow everybody's minds.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Hold yourself accountable to <i>your own </i>definition, not to the top-down terms laid out as some amorphous plastic concept that can encompass any and all policy decisions made by the powers that be to put smoke and mirrors up around unsavory budget goals.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Take care of yourself so you can keep being there for students and not burn out or resent them. </span></li>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-19265031903638731852019-03-15T14:23:00.002-07:002019-03-15T14:42:57.057-07:00Greta Thunberg, Thanks for Getting Me Off My Lazy ButtI don't consider myself an activist. I am way too hypocritical and impure for that. I don't typically participate in direct action or marches. It's really not the arena I feel I have the most to offer. Also, I don't like the earnestness, the black-and-white rhetoric, and us-vs.-them stuff, and the chest-pounding spectacle of moral superiority.<br />
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Through my research on environmental justice, the environmental movement, and environmental politics over the past 20 years as a scholar, I would never have said that my work slipped into anything resembling "activism." Advocacy, yes, because I would always conclude things like "we should stop doing X, and start doing Y to protect human and environmental wellbeing," or whatever. But a march? No thank you.<br />
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And I don't really like high-schoolers. Nothing against any of them individually, but high school was not a good time in my life, and even seeing high schools triggers me a bit. I can do college students, barely, because at least they want to be there, and at least I can tailor my curriculum to their passions. They are ostensibly adults, so even on a high-hormone, poorly-developed pre-frontal cortex day, this pretense of maturity helps elevate the tone of our interactions.<br />
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So how did I end up speaking for the 30 or so Eureka high school students for today's Youth Climate Strike?<br />
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Sure, that's not a lot of people. But there was also once a time when Greta Thunberg was not a lot of people either.<br />
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What a march does is turns one person into thirty people into tens of thousands of people, right before your eyes, in the flesh, across the planet.<br />
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It counteracts all the ways that capitalism would have us think of ourselves as individuals, operating in our bubbles, tiny nobodies with no power to do anything against the monstrous beast of climate change. Showing up is not my thing. But showing up today because I couldn't see the grey area in the issue of young people really freaking out about the planet they will be inheriting, showed me that the showing up is a bolt of energy to everybody around you. It's also just the beginning, a symbol of what's to come. When you surround yourself with people working on solutions, hope is inevitable. As Greta Thunberg might say, you can't wait around to feel hopeful before you act. Action brings hope. </div>
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I'm not likely to show up to a lot of marches or other showing up opportunities, but on occasion, especially when I'm offered a chance to, even in a small way bolster youth passion and help steer the narrative a bit as a speaker, I just gotta go.<br />
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Maybe it's the urgency of the situation, maybe it's the certainty of issues, maybe I'm getting older and feel like I have less time to dawdle over grey areas (though that's generally where you'll still find me), maybe it's having kids, maybe it's the Facebook algorithms. But I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I've become a bit of a climate justice advocate. I still don't like the mainstream environmental stance on climate change--it's all too much about science and facts and ice caps--and I really don't like the climate movement's inability to think about racial justice, but I am convinced that the movement is moving in the right directions. It's getting more intersectional, more savvy about identity politics, class, and justice, and more aware of how climate change is not about wilderness and rock-climbing, it's about urban infrastructure, access to resources, distribution of pollutants, and both human and natural resource exploitation. And guess who's fixing the climate movement to figure all this out? KIDS.<br />
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I'm blown away by the Sunrise Movement's language about social justice. I'm blown away by even what I'm seeing with the Green New Deal. It may not acknowledge colonialism, and it may not fully get the grassroots aspects of climate justice, but it really soothes my soul that this proposal is getting so much air time, and that it seeks to connect issues of social structure, class, race, geography, and justice with the environmental crisis. That's a revelation.<br />
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In the past, I would have said, it's not good enough. I would have put on my academic hat and criticized it line by line. I probably would have even called it oppressive, even bad for the environment. I would have argued that if mainstream politicians are backing it, then by definition it can't be good enough. My scholarship was perhaps more "radical" in my early days.<br />
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In the past, I would have poo-poo'ed marches as mere performances of self-righteousness. And of course, they don't themselves change anything. That is always the problem with getting people to show up for things-- showing up itself never changes anything, it just offers a space for people to vent about how bad things are. Who wants that? Not me. I'm already overwhelmed with thinking about how bad things are. I can't stand the thought of amplifying my inner voice by hanging out with others who feel the same way.<br />
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But I'm starting to get that marches can offer a crucial ingredient for social change. That's why they're called an "action," even though I've often disagreed with that characterization. Knowing you are not alone in your frustrations and fears, and that you can huddle up with this group before you charge onto the field, creates a kind of awareness of collectivity that I have only recently begun to study. It turns out that this "infrastructure" of collective resilience and solidarity is really important. Researchers are showing that it is <i>more valuable dollar for dollar </i>to repairing communities in the face of climate disruption than what we spend on improved dykes, repaired highways, and new buildings.<br />
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That juice you feel when you realize you're not alone? That's not just warm fuzzies, that's the most important ingredient for climate adaptation.<br />
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I was amazed the high schoolers didn't just use the march as an opportunity to ditch class. I am amazed they were thinking passionately about the fate of the planet. I am amazed that they are willing to respond to parents and critics who say they should be working out these problems in the classroom by saying that the classroom isn't doing enough, and that it will be too late when those solutions come to pass.*<br />
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I am just in total aw<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">e that the youth climate movement is taking the narrative and the politics in their own hands. Kudos to Stella Saba, <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Nigella Baur, and the high school students from Arcata and Eureka who had the courage to face climate change, their futures, and maybe even their parents, in the face. </span>It feels like change is a'coming.</span><br />
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<i>*Don't get me wrong, as a professor, I want students showing up. But it's ALWAYS a struggle. My students can barely stand being in class while the world burns and so much suffering is going on. I get it: though I disagree, I can see why students feel the classroom doesn't always feel like the place where solutions will emerge.</i><br />
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-88799632066944470072018-12-20T20:55:00.000-08:002018-12-20T20:55:03.468-08:00I'm co-hosting a podcast, "Big Planet, Big Feels"In thinking about writing Coming of Age at the End of the World: An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation, I wanted to interview a lot of brilliant people. Then I thought, why not record them and make a podcast so their ideas can be more easily shared? <div>
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I was lucky enough to find someone who shared my enthusiasm, and who wanted to learn to sound edit. One of my students who graduated a few years ago, Madi Whaley, braved the collaboration and has not only proved to be brilliant at yet another set of tasks, but also found some fabulous music and art, and made the website, and... and...<br /><div>
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Our hope was to have some levity around and provide some new ways of thinking about the heavy feelings people have about climate change and environmental issues. It's interview-based, and we expect to have one season of about 12 episodes.</div>
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Enjoy<a href="https://www.bigplanetbigfeels.net/episodes"> Big Planet, Big Feels.</a> It's rough, and our learning curve is steep, so forgive the errors. But we're just so excited to journey into this new medium!</div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-68310292627679100702018-10-02T22:04:00.002-07:002018-10-02T22:27:29.006-07:00Kavanaugh, Climate Grief, and BabiesThere have been a spate of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/climate/climate-change-children.html">news articles</a> of late that comment on the fact that millennials are choosing not to have children because of climate change.<br />
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Self-regulating to control population growth for the sake of the planet is not a new concept. One need only to Google "overpopulation" to learn all about how the planet's woes can be solved by what you do with your uterus. Please, let's not pretend that vaginas have nothing to do with environmental politics.<br />
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As a feminist who also cares about the environment, I, too, have struggled with the question about whether I should reproduce and become one of those dreaded "breeders." I've read, and even published on, the complicated dilemma of being an environmentalist and a mother. Having a child is the worst thing you can do to supersize your ecological footprint. Environmentalists rage over whether having kids is a deal-breaker, or whether those who advocate for reproductive justice (often women, and often women of color), and those who advocate for the environment (often white people, and often men) need to play better together. This post is not about whether having kids is good for the environment, and I'm definitely not interested in telling anybody what to do with their uterus.<br />
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I won't rehash these debates here, but they serve to show how the new discussion about abstaining from reproducing is so different. The new argument is not about whether you'll add another person to an already burdened ecosystem. It's easy to see why that goal might seem lofty and only appealing to elites. No, now it's about whether you can handle the grief of bringing people into the world who will experience it dying. That's a whole different existential question, if you ask me.<br />
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I'm of a generation that had children in the transition between these two rationales. By the time I had my second child, in 2014, I had stuck my feminist finger up at the populationist Malthusian fascists, but was fully immersed in a bad case of eco-grief.<br />
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Why did I have a second child? Total emotional and cognitive dissonance is my answer. But I can assure you that not a day goes by when I don't agonize about the world my children will grow up in, and I'm not just talking about politics. I mean the extinctions, the loss of beauty, the spread of toxins, cancer, and pathogens, and the geopolitical insecurity (and fear and nationalism it spawns) that climate change is already putting into motion. Forget polar bears, I cry regularly for the world their generation will inherit.<br />
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As couples of all sexualities and gender identities enter that time of life when they're trying to figure out whether they want to do that old-fashioned thing of "settling down and having kids", many of them are saying "hell no" in order avoid the guilt and grief of voluntarily foisting the next hideous 50 years of Anthropocene hell on their offspring.<br />
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But, I dare say, their abstention isn't just about the environment or love of their children. It's also a middle finger to the heteronormative, nuclear family fantasy. For many hetero women, the stakes are are high. In general, these women still do the vast majority of domestic labor, which goes up exponentially when you add kids. In general, these women are still paid 75 cents to a man's dollar, and even less for women of color. As a professor, I'm sure my students are watching me juggle home life and a career-- a great privilege, I concede!-- and thinking, "hell no. Not for me."<br />
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And frankly, I support them, especially my female-identified students. I'm sure that I shock them when I brazenly provoke them to imagine not having children, or at least doing so with eyes wide open about the costs. As someone who may appear to be a model for "having it all," and as someone who is fairly high-functioning, I may be hard to believe when I say I find my "life-balance" borderline impossible, and share the real stories of how my mental, physical, and marital health have taken some bad hits. Why would I wish this on anybody? I want to send alerts to future me-types from this side of the line, saying "don't come this way, too many booby traps!"<br />
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I'm not trying to be ungrateful. I just wish someone had sent me the memo when I was young that I could fulfill my maternal destiny by birthing many loves*-- books, intellectual work in the world, mentoring students, friendships, supporting my parents and other family members, the list goes on and on-- and not just actual babies.<br />
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Today, my partner asked me, "how will we tell our girls that they don't need to have kids?"<br />
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I've been rehearsing that answer in candid conversations with my students for years. Here's what I said to my partner, without even thinking about it.<br />
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Let's tell them at an early age that their self-worth is not dependent upon others' views of them.<br />
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Let's tell them that their futures can include any number of fates that don't entail parenting (I never start any sentence with "when you grow up and have your own kids, you'll..."). <br />
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Let's tell them that their power in the world is not derived from who they're related to ("someone's mother, daughter, sister") but from her own solo self.<br />
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Let's tell them that pleasing other people --be they potential partners, children, or their own parents--is not the only thing that will define their social value. <br />
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Sure, you can tell your daughters about the coral reefs and the rising sea levels, and fear-monger about climate refugees and the coming anarchy. Heck, try giving them a copy of <i>The Population Bomb! </i>for their 13th birthday. But personally, as a feminist, I like to think that their empowerment as women is tied to the liberation of others, including other species, and that it doesn't require the suppression of their or anybody else's reproductive rights.<br />
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I may have made a different choice by marrying a cis-man and having kids, and it may seem I'm being hypocritical by saying these things. I know I'm walking on eggshells here, because I don't want to speak for all women, nor all hetero/nuclear family moms. And I know that my issues reflect my relative socioeconomic and racial privilege. I know these are not every woman's issues, for sure. I am also extremely grateful for my life and have no regrets. And obviously, as if it needs to be said, I love my kids. I wouldn't want to impose my choice to have kids on anyone else, just as I can understand why some people would disagree with me that having kids is still really oppressive for many American women. It's both/and. Having kids <i>can be</i> awesome, and also <i>can be</i> a personal journey through patriarchy. Furthermore, people who have kids <i>sometimes</i> care more about the future of the environment than they did before (this was certainly the case for me, but then of course having kids increased my footprint by ridiculous levels), but that doesn't mean that people without kids are likely to care less, and all of this is totally shaped by cultural upbringing, class, etc. etc. I concede all these eggshells I know I'm walking on. My arguments here admittedly are shaped by my perspective of being a white, hetero, cis, PhD-wielding, American woman.<br />
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All that said, when I was young, I did not get the message that I could be a whole and loved person, without children. It's taken having kids and navigating the brutal demands of work and domestic life in a heteronormative context for me to realize that "having it all" (kids+ career) isn't the only way for women to fulfill their purposes in the world. Only as I mature into mid-life do I realize that I have value as a human being outside of my ability to reproduce, parent, support a partner, and fulfill this dream of normalcy.<br />
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To me, the news that young people are thinking about not having kids is both tragic and fabulous. I am happy for them that they'll never go through watching their kids realize how bad things are, that they'll never feel that guilt and heartbreak. I also imagine all these women liberated to pursue their myriad loves-- first and foremost, themselves. I see all this patriarchy loosen its grip, because having children still so seriously constrains women's voices, choices, and ability to chart their own course.<br />
But of course, I see the tragedy too: I wouldn't want my reproductive choices to be influenced by how much carbon will be in the air by the time my kids are adults. So I am sad for them, even as I'm giddy about what it will mean for rearranging sexual power relations. What will happen to all these things when fewer women are involved in "traditional" marital relations, having fewer children, and start to see their sexual and political identities in all these new ways? Oh my!<br />
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Whenever I think about young women making decisions about having kids, I don't just think about the planet, or their kids' potential future eco-grief. I think about young women's self-worth being measured by other things, things of their own determination, things outside the conventional nuclear arrangement--an arrangement that is frankly neither pro-environment nor pro-woman. I think of my girls living different childhoods than I lived, where their sense of self-worth eclipses what men think of them, and where their choice to potentially not have children won't feel like the same loss for them as it would have for me.<br />
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Like many of you, I am despairing about what I'm watching these past few days about Brett Kavanaugh's bid for the Supreme Court. As an environmental studies professor, as a feminist, and as a mother, I can't separate my desire to see ecological doom averted from my desire to see the next generation of women redefine the contracts of partnerhood, domestic life, and sexual power. Gender relations are undergoing tectonic shifts right now. My hope is that both the planet and women will gain much from all these changes.<br />
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*Yeah, I am referring to Rebecca Solnit again. Her book, <i>The Mother of All Questions, </i>is inspiring to me, but I can't wait for the book that tells me how to do what she's doing, and also have kids. I guess that's the point-- it's still really hard to do both.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-17906802136235613392018-07-07T16:49:00.002-07:002018-07-07T20:40:46.528-07:00Love Letter to the ResistanceDear Resistance Movement,<br />
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I love you. The thought of you sometimes makes me choke up with pride. You are like a big down comforter. Just knowing you're there makes me feel warm. Before I met you, I thought I was alone. I didn't think the word "community" applied to anything in my life. Now, I feel like one small but important node in a vast spiderweb, an invisible force holding the world together, together. Thank you for manifesting yourself. You, the blessed unrest, my tribe, are the silver lining.<br />
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All loves also entail friction. I want you to be your best self. And, I can't be with you all the time.<br />
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45 isn't the hurricane you think he is; he's just the weathervane. Melania's jacket is abhorrent, but it's not that she doesn't care. She's mad at him too. In what universe is that jacket a feminist statement? Try to get your head there. Female anger emerges as a whack-a-mole.<br />
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If the evidence results in revealing that the emperor has no clothes, what then? Will we be satisfied? Will our triumphant moment of justice make everything OK?<br />
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No. America has been ripped open, and with the pump of each day's news, it bleeds life out. Focusing on those with political power is like wrangling with telltales. Holding the flimsy strands of fabric in the place you want them won't change the direction of the wind. <br />
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And we will tire of the battle. Arms aching, teeth gritted, we'll burn a fuse with all that anger directed at flaccid nothingness.<br />
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The real work is tending to the culture wars. Tribalism is everywhere, dividing, dividing, dividing. Disguised as solidarity, we build ourselves up by what we're against, leeching our life-force out, day by day.<br />
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Before 2016, I thought that having more arguments, evidence, and facts in my back pocket was the way to move the dial of our culture in the directions I wanted. Likewise, as a teacher, I had thought my role was to fill students with knowledge to support positions and claims, arm them with reason and teach them how to win debates.<br />
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Has this worked in my most intimate relationships? No. Fifteen years into my marriage, I am finally learning that winning arguments and locating blame may feel temporarily good, but acts like herbicide in a garden. Only one thing can grow under the reign of repeated exposure--resentful victimhood. Our own relationships reveal this truth to us. <br />
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Beware the us-them mindset; the other side entrenches further too. Utopia isn't around the corner of a few changed offices. Silencing the other side by winning arguments and races can not remain the holy grail of your political energies. When my lover argues me into a speechless corner, my resentment finds other outlets. My heart and mind are not changed. Victimhood becomes fuel for other fights.<br />
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I would like the weathervanes and telltales to indicate a different wind, for sure. I love you, tribe, for figuring out multi-issue politics, intersectionality, and strategic coalition-building. I love you for all you do. I worry for your longevity, and I worry about what happens to the country when you win.<br />
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If you don't see me at the next march, it's not because I don't love you. I'm wrestling the wind, not the weathervane.<br />
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Love,<br />
Sarah<br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-42908095155369410182018-07-06T15:19:00.000-07:002018-07-06T15:19:52.881-07:00Teaching, Climate Change, and Eco-Grief: Recent TalksI have been excited, nervous, and honored to give a few talks this past year on eco-grief, climate change, and teaching undergrads in the Anthropocene. I thought I'd collect links to them in one place.<br />
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<li><b>December 2017 University of Washington.</b> Thanks to the Interdisciplinary Anthropocene Cluster for inviting me. The talk is available on You Tube, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztBoowJEjo&t=2067s">here</a>.</li>
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<li><b>February, 2018. "My Favorite Lecture" series, Plaza Grill, Arcata, CA. </b>Thanks so much to Mike Dronkers for the incredible editing and organizing work to make this sound so good. Available as podcast <a href="http://khsu.org/post/my-favorite-lecture-coming-age-end-world">here</a>.</li>
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<li><b>March 2018, Swarthmore College</b> (my alma mater). Thanks to one of my idols, Giovanna Di Chiro, who I'm so grateful to for inviting me there. It was lovely to catch up with my religious studies professors from my time as an undergrad, Mark Wallace and Steve Hopkins. The audio and transcription are available <a href="https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/listen-sarah-jaquette-ray-98-coming-age-end-world">here</a>.</li>
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<li><b>June, 2018, University of California Santa Barbara</b>. Thanks to John Foran for inviting me to join the Environmental Justice/Climate Justice working group for inviting me. </li>
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A new book coming out Fall 2018, <i><a href="http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9781496207562/">Affective Ecocriticism</a></i>, edited by Jennifer Ladino and Kyle Bladow, features the only published article-length version of this work, but I'm currently developing these ideas into a book project. </div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-43356369928023002462018-07-01T07:47:00.001-07:002018-07-01T07:47:35.564-07:00My Meditation Class Got Hijacked by Politics<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
I have been attending a “mindfulness meditation” class on Mondays recently. Last Monday, the teacher brought up the horror weighing heavily on our minds, of the separation of families along the southern border. Our teacher raised the question, what does the practice of meditation have to do with injustice in the world? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Although I feel like I've been thinking about this question forever, in my midlife, I find my thoughts about this are changing. I used to agree with the conclusions of my teacher--that the whole point of spirituality is to open us to non-harming loving kindness, which leads us to action in the world. She quoted Gandhi a few times, who said, in essence, "those who think spirituality has nothing to do with politics don't know shit about spirituality." </div>
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I remember my Religious Studies major in college, for which I took classes like "Religious Belief and Moral Action," and "The Problem of Religion." These classes were nearly entirely all about how different religions have theorized the relationship between political action and spirituality. I used to think that any spiritual life one could lead would be narcissistic if not connected to politics. Chalk this all up to my own Quaker background; the Quakers are nuts for using religion to rationalize progressive social justice agendas.</div>
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But over time, my thoughts have changed on this. For one, I've become much more cynical about using religion or "morals" or "spirituality" to justify any political agenda--on the political right <i>and</i> the political left.</div>
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But what I really want to write about here is something else that bugged me about meditation class last week. </div>
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One of the reasons I stopped attending Quaker meeting is because I don't want my spiritual spaces coopted by political proselytizing. Which isn't to say that spirituality has nothing to do with politics. It just rubs me as fundamentally devious to sneak in political agendas while people are contemplating the meaning of life. It's manipulative. </div>
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Also, are Buddhism and Quakerism only available to liberals? That can't be right.</div>
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The small-mindedness of thinking that these spiritual approaches must inherently lead to a certain political bent is troubling to me. It can't be that if you're X religion, then your politics must therefore be Y. Doesn't this just add to the problem of tribalism we're all being crushed by right now? Isn't this at the very core of what led to what's happening on the border?</div>
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In addition to not liking to have my spiritual life hijacked in favor of anybody else's politics, even if they're in line with my own, I bristled at being told, once again, that if I really believed in loving kindness, or God, or whatever, I would <i>do more things. </i></div>
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My teacher's lecture seemed to assume that everybody in the room was so privileged that they must not actually do political or social justice work in their lives. If they were in that room, then they must not be already engaged enough. This assumption just reinforced my own anti-meditation bias. I am sure I have avoided pursuing a spiritual life not just because I have no time, but because I have thought of it as privileged, as a luxury only people who are not paying enough attention to the apocalypse we're experiencing would care to seek. </div>
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However, the whole reason I ended up in that mindfulness meditation class is because I am suffering from burnout of doing too many things, and I've come around to thinking that a spiritual life may in fact not just be necessary for recovering, but also for keeping myself resourced for a lifetime of this work. </div>
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After the 2016 election, I turned up the volume of <i>doing more things</i> even more, thinking I wasn't already doing enough. I have turned to mindfulness and meditation precisely to recover, to find rest, to re-source myself so that I can figure out how to keep working for social justice without depleting myself. </div>
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My teacher's conclusion that we should all support organizations more, call our congresspeople more, reach out to our neighbors more, is all fine and well, but what I want to hear about is the value of meditation to keeping up one's reserves for the long haul of this work. </div>
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I agree with her that spirituality should not be an escape from politics. Meditation is not only a navel-gazing exercise. But I crave a much more sophisticated, complex lecture on how one's own spiritual vitality is necessary for sustained engagement in the world--no matter what that engagement looks like. It may be calling politicians, but it may be what we do every day for our jobs, then come home and do with our families. </div>
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Adding more for us to do on top of our first and second shifts is precisely what is <i>not</i> needed. And fueling the divisions between "us and them"-- what Tara Brach in her most recent <a href="https://www.tarabrach.com/evolving-beyond-unreal-othering/">podcast</a> calls "unreal othering"--is not what I want from my spiritual life or teachers. </div>
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It's not that I want an escape from politics; I want an alternative path of action not driven by anger, fear, and negativity about people and actions I feel powerless to do anything about, and a practice of right action and right intention that helps me focus on the realms I <i>do</i> have control over. </div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-13001598161627735682018-05-18T12:26:00.001-07:002018-05-18T13:25:12.027-07:00The Myth of the Selfish WomanI've been thinking a lot lately about the paradoxical feelings of motherhood, like selfish vs. sacrificing, and love for others vs. loss of self. We are all supposed to have stable, monolithic feelings about mothering, and if we dare veer from that one acceptable feeling-- unconditional, self-sacrificing love-- then the world seems to fall apart.<br />
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Forget adultery. In this age, it seems the worst thing a woman can do is be Selfish, branded with the scarlet letter S in a world that relies on women seeing their only value in terms of the love they give others. Indeed, the root of "martyr" is of course, mother.<br />
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So many women I know feel ashamed to share that they feel anything negative about mothering, as if those negative feelings would somehow counteract or negate the positive they also feel. They are to feel complete and fulfilled by manifesting their destiny as mothers, and when they express doubt or resistance to this notion of motherhood, they're damned.<br />
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Can't we feel opposing things equally and simultaneously? Doubt and certainty? Fear and adoration? Anguish and intimacy? Can we not desire intimacy with our own selves as much as we desire intimacy with those around us? Why is it so abhorrent to think of mothers as as much <i>internal</i> as they are <i>external</i> in their attentions?<br />
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The problem with this approach to mothers is that it actually hurts all women, not to mention the kids and the partners and everybody else around them. This expectation that women should feel ultimate fulfillment and love by mothering is destructive for mothers and non-mothers alike. It creates a situation where women who choose to mother are shocked to find they miss themselves and struggle for years to figure out how to find themselves again--all in isolation because of the shame they feel for daring to have any other feelings besides love. It makes women who do not mother-- for whatever reasons, intentional or not-- subject to suspicion. Rebecca Solnit writes about this in her <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2015/10/the-mother-of-all-questions/">book</a>, <i>The Mother of All Questions</i> (which of course is, "why did you choose not to have kids?"), for example. It marks women who want but can't have, or who lost, children as walking embodiments of Tragedy.<br />
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The lack of open discussion about the complexity of women's feelings about themselves and about their desires or lack thereof to procreate, and stigmatizing all feelings non-loving around motherhood, eats away at us.<br />
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I see so many of my mother friends suffer from this. Many of our partners add to the shame. And it's easy to see why. The notion that a mother would have complex feelings about motherhood is quite a threat. If mothering isn't totally fulfilling to my partner, will she leave us? Have an affair? Damage the children for life? I have yet to meet a mother who feels her partner can allow the space for negative feelings about mothering. That pressure, too, especially from one's most intimate partner and supporter, amplifies the sense of isolation and shame tenfold.<br />
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I feel both fully fulfilled in some profound existential way by the experience of having and raising kids. And I am also feel profoundly claustrophobic because of the inescapability of the daily demands on me, and anxious about the alternative paths I'd also like to be exploring. <br />
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It's truly a practice in surrender, and even if there is something appealing about this assault on my desiring ego in a kind of Buddhist way, I don't like it. I feel both daily explosions of love for my kids and family life, and also daily pangs of resentment about the obligations they put on me. I feel both intense desire to spend more time with my kids and also an intense desire to do a million other things--<i>alone</i>-- that I feel I was put on the planet to do.<br />
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It's no surprise to me at all, given the current arrangement of American family life, where there is no village to help me raise my kids, that many women would choose not to have children. Structurally, it's hard to imagine mothering and also pursuing any other thing fully, except perhaps in sequence (phase two of life = raising kids, phase three = becoming a monk, running for president, starting your own commune, what have you). <br />
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These "other loves" as Solnit writes about them, are not compatible with having children. Her book is all about either/or: women who don't have children devote their loves elsewhere (which is awesome), while women who have children devote their love to their children. So much for "having it all," right? I certainly think of myself as devoting myself in many directions, but have been called on multiple occasions, "selfish", implicitly or explicitly, for doing so.<br />
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The ways that married and parenting life curtails self-actualization are a constant source of angst for me. And yes, perhaps some really brilliant women can self-actualize while mothering. Every moment with my kids is heavy, full of life, vitality, and profound sense of immediacy and intention. I also love that, even as I want to focus that way on other things too. These bonds are both oppressive and fulfilling. Isn't this the paradox of relation?<br />
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Perhaps when we accept all the feelings, normalize all the feelings so mothers and non-mothers alike feel no shame or isolation in their myriad devotions, then maybe mothers can find the sacred in the daily grind of life with kids, and see their pursuit of fulfillment as tied to that of non-mothers.<br />
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There are so many people and places to devote one's self to, it needn't always be one's children. We can make kin in so many ways, as feminist writer Donna Haraway would have it. We should also be able to retract into our own selves, turn that love inward, and replenish our reserves on occasion, without thinking we're being selfish by doing so.<br />
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When we start to see that all of our pursuits are admirable, not selfish, we know we're getting close. Because it's so easy as a woman to internalize the message that our purpose is to please others-- this message is everywhere. And I don't want my daughters to receive this message, not the least of all from the life I model for them as their mother and as a woman with many other loves. Any woman who can transcend that message deserves a medal, not the scarlet letter S.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given my recent dive into grief (see previous post, "The Vacuum"), I have continued to think about Berry's poem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What bothers me about it is his use of nature as a crutch. Someone I know and love often tells me that ultimately, the reason they can't dig religion is because of using God as a "crutch." But isn't Berry using nature as a crutch in this poem, in the same way? Manufacturing some idea of it, such that its sole purpose is to comfort a very human feeling of grief? Honestly, I don't see the difference between God and Nature in so many claims. Nature has taken over for God in a secular time, among my scientist and nature-loving friends and colleagues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not going to spend any more time right now on that issue, but would like to propose that Berry's poem doesn't work for someone like me, whose justice and feminist-oriented views of nature, much less grief, don't quite work the same way. I've been thinking about it a lot recently, and would like to offer this revision of Berry's poem, to suggest a feminist, perhaps overly domestic version that doesn't rely on an idea of nature as a thing "out there".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather, I hope this rings a Buddhist bell for you, regardless of the focus on motherhood, in terms of how grief has affected my sense of "the now" and my love of the things I've already spent so much effort cultivating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I go and lie down next to them<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Rest in the beauty of their breathing, while the great heron feeds.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I come into the peace of daily things<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to challenge Berry's notion of nature as liberating us from the human. I wanted to challenge his notion of nature as a solace from the pain of daily life. I wanted to challenge his notion of the detachedness of nature from the human, and the notion of nature as peaceful, "still" like water, or feeding beautifully, as a heron would. These projections of nature are inconsistent with my grief, and they are certainly inconsistent with the solace I find in my own ideas of nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This exercise of rewriting in the mode of another author reminds me of an exercise I'll never forget from seventh grade-- it was called "Imitation." We would be given pieces of literature and asked to fill in the blanks to create similar structures but with our own images and ideas. Rewriting Berry allowed me to take HIM out of the poem, and leverage this sentiment and power of his poem for my own purposes. </span></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-82058792445159660512018-04-23T12:10:00.002-07:002018-04-25T16:04:14.866-07:00The VacuumI'm trying to get my head around the fact that on April 11, 2018, my gorgeous, capable, creative, and pregnant step-niece, mother of three young children, hanged herself. <br />
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My head is cracking open at the mental exercise of trying to grasp this information. My rudimentary understanding of mental health-as-<i>illness</i>, as opposed to a matter of <i>will power </i>or <i>choice</i>, is barely a consolation. My brain hurts, my heart hurts, my throat hurts, my womb hurts.<br />
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Her suicide feels like an asteroid has ripped a hole in the atmosphere, leaving everybody who knew her gaping open in agony. It's like what happens in airplanes when their windows rip out and everything inside gets torn to shreds in the nothingness that roars through. With great sorrow, I imagine her children and husband like passengers in the airplane, ripped out the windows of the sweet, beautiful life she painstakingly created for them. All of a sudden, even oxygen feels like a luxury. The hole left behind is heavy, irrefutable, dark, and empty.<br />
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Despite a challenging childhood, thin on many forms of crucial support, she built a dream life for herself, of which I was frequently envious. She mindfully manifested the world we could only dream of for her. She was extraordinarily crafty, making aesthetic DIY projects out of free items on Craigslist, creating a labyrinth of raised garden beds producing vegetables, flowers, and blueberries, and making fairy houses through the woods with her kids. She adopted animals and friends into her life, generously giving of her energy to lots of living things that needed nurturance.<br />
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I know all mothers love their children, but she made mothering a mission. She planted so many seeds in the world, despite having been deprived of essential nutrients in her own childhood. Did she keep filling up the world with love and beauty in order to fill a hole inside herself? How could all that love and creativity be only directed outward, and not toward filling her own emptiness?<br />
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She and I weren't very close. But she was one of the most important people to somebody with whom I am very close-- my stepmother. Their relationship had its ups and downs, to be sure, but nobody held a firmer place in my stepmother's heart than this young woman. My stepmother did her best to be a loving, stable force for her, and to perhaps fill her own holes through that relationship. They had many reasons to hold tightly to each other.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I'm thinking a lot recently of Andrew Wyeth's hauntingly beautiful Maine images. As I look at "Her Room", I imagine my step-niece there. I gather she saw Maine as her escape from suffering. I imagine her in a room like this right now, at peace.</i></td></tr>
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At the memorial service last week, at least 150 friends and family descended on my step-niece's idyllic northern California home. Her little children and her husband, having slept elsewhere for the previous week, came back to the garden she had spent the past several years building, came back to the critters and tiny-house dwellers on their property--friends from high school and from the ever-spiraling-out rhizome of a community my step-niece cultivated--and to the blueberries just ripening on the spring bushes. <br />
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In a poignant gesture of normalcy, the little girls squealed with delight at the sight of the first green, tiny blueberry of the season, which had come into being during their week of absence, during the week since their mother had been found. I can't decide if the marching on of nature is an insult or a comfort. How can they keep growing without her?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Anybody who knows my step-niece knows that her love of blueberries started in Maine. These are blueberry fields in autumn, a view from Caterpillar Hill looking at the bridge to Little Deer Isle, where she spent a month each summer with my dad and stepmom. Despite her seemingly idyllic California life, she had bought a house in Stonington and was planning to move there soon.</i></td></tr>
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Then I try to think of all the things she put into the world-- babies, blueberries, beauty-- and take some small comfort in knowing that although the vacuum is still tearing through the lives of those she left behind, so much of the love she created will come into being for years to come.<br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-58811357316499319222018-03-27T20:23:00.000-07:002018-03-28T09:05:49.586-07:00Do You Suffer from Eco-Despair? Seek Critical Thinking Treatment Right Away<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Are you afraid of the end of the world? Do you mourn the loss of coral reefs, polar bears, krill, oxygen, seasons, and other miracles of nature? Is the permafrost under your house melting? Have you given up the hopes of having children, because, hey, what's the point? Are you thinking of taking the eco-mantra "leave no trace" to nihilistic levels of self-erasure? Do you feel helpless in the face of a faceless enemy? Are you feeling guilty because you, as an American, are the most likely to have created all these problems? Do you feel impotent and powerless because practical solutions are, let's just admit it, never gonna happen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">If this sounds like you, you may be suffering from eco-despair. Without proper treatment, eco-despair can quickly lapse into apocalypse fatigue. Once apocalypse fatigue sets in, you're not likely to give a shit anymore. Do something before it's too late. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Nothing works better to build your immunity against eco-despair than Zoloft. Just kidding. Neoliberalism almost bought me out. What I meant to say was that nothing works better to build your immunity against eco-despair than critical thinking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Try the following forms of critical thinking, and see how you feel upon a regular dose of using your noodle:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. Understanding the architecture of stories about climate change. A cultural analysis of narratives shows that 80% of news and mainstream media frame the problem of climate change using apocalyptic tropes. There's this whole field called "negative news bias". Look it up. The media we consume wants us to feel awful. Psychological research shows that doom-and-gloom narratives inspire emotions of guilt and fear in audiences-- emotions that have been shown to be passive. So it's no wonder that, on a diet of such news, people disconnect or even deny climate change. Psychology + media analysis proves that we need to get meta about our media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. Understanding that the neoliberal structure of American history wants us to feel we are individuals, wonderful unique creatures, that are disconnected from history, each other, the oppressive structures of family, culture, and tradition, etc. While there is so much to love about this impulse (I'm from California so I love pretending that nobody existed before me, and that I'm the most important person on earth), the myth of individualism also keeps us down. Nothing awesome that we love ever happened by the efforts of any single person alone. No historical triumph of progress over depravity ever occurred because of any one human. If we're going to get out of the apocalypse, it'll be because we are part of a collective, what Paul Hawken calls the "blessed unrest." Tune in to each other. Cultivate collectivity and relation. It's all that matters. I'm serious! Imagine the world does blow up. Don't you want to be with your peeps? And if it doesn't blow up, your peeps are the only thing that will get you through. Cultivate community. DO IT. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. I'll let you in on a crazy secret: there are cultures and traditions in the world that have suffered a lot, and they have mastered the fine art of facing crisis. Look up "pleasure activism" and "misery resistance," for example. Read Adrienne Maree Brown's book, <i>Emergent Strategy.</i> It will change your whole worldview, if you're not already on board with her schtick. Think you're the first generation to suffer and freak out about the state of the world? Read the biographies of those who came before you. Your elders. They've seen it all. You live in a world of general bliss, in the relative history of shitty societies. If anybody knows how to face the apocalypse, it's our elders. Look to them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">4. Tell better stories. Stories make worlds. Literally. Don't just become a meta-reader of stories, deftly deflecting declension narratives in your sleep, or thousand-hand-slapping every jeremiad that comes your way, fiercely declaring "get back you devil!" No, you're not just a consumer, deconstructer, analyst. You also wield the super-powers of producing, creating, constructing. What will you do with this miracle of storytelling, which is available to all? Actively reject doom-and-gloom narratives in your own work, organizing, and telling of the story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Other frames are shown to be more effective at engaging people over the long-term. Tons of research shows that the issue of human health makes your audience care a lot more about climate change than polar bears, much less krill. God, I love krill. Don't get me started. The way they provide the foundation of all ocean life. The way they are the unsung hero of all charismatic ocean critters. How they're the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">bellwether</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> of ocean health, how Brad Pitt played a krill in Happy Feet. Breathtaking performance, don't you think? So. Freaking. Hot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Oh, right, health. So, studies show that framing climate change not as an issue that affects Brad Pitt, I mean, krill, but rather as an issue that affects our communities, families, and loved ones, is more effective at getting more people to acknowledge it as a problem, and to overcome the barrier that climate change feels distant, in both time and space. How can we make climate change immediate, in both geography and temporality? If temporal and geographical distance is one of the reasons people have a hard time caring about it, apocalypse won't work. Know anybody experiencing the effects of climate change? Exactly. I thought so. Forget Brad Pitt. Think of your daughter, neighbor, classmate, yourself. It isn't six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Tell better stories about climate change that show the reality of how it's affecting YOU. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">5. Never belittle the power of imagination. Everywhere you go, ask this question (from Brown), "what would it take to thrive in a climate changed future?" What does a smarter, healthy, thriving, just climate-changed future look like, exactly? Imagine it. Just take a few minutes and imagine it. If you find you cannot imagine it, ask yourself if you are a coward and have accepted the neoliberal doctrine that you are acting alone (see above). Or, ask yourself if you've bought the doctrine that you have no power. Get meta. Make new narratives. See research on "nudge" and, for starters, finish this blog post. <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/rebecca-solnit-falling-together-dec2017" style="color: #954f72;">Rebecca Solnit </a>will teach you that the myth of powerlessness is a curse put on you by those in power to keep you consenting to being controlled. Get over it, for the love of the Goddess! That's just a cop-out, and yes I'm calling you out, in a gentle, loving, maternal way. See all above posts, read Brown and Solnit, and even Jensen, <a href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/beyond-hope/" style="color: #954f72;">here</a>. GET OVER IT and GET TO WORK. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Turns out, the radical imagination is like gold to the movement, in this day and age when the imagination has been "privatized," as Solnit puts it, by capitalism. Check out, as just one example, how <a href="http://www.anarresproject.org/opening-space/" style="color: #954f72;">others are cultivating the imagination.</a> It's meta. It's so fucking meta. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">6. development of utter immunity to and/or transcendence of negativity. Or at least, getting more meta about it. Ugly feelings? Yeah, it's a thing. Whatever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">7. increased stamina to stay in the movement for the long haul, not just burn out into nihilistic state of apathy and despair. Because you actively pursue research to </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">inoculate</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> yourself, you've already found </span></span><a href="https://www.empathyworksfilms.net/future-projects" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">this</a><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> amazing movie, and </span></span><a href="http://www.howtoletgomovie.com/" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">this</a><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> one too, oh, and </span></span><a href="http://occupylove.org/" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">this</a><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> one. Movies. Why do they matter? They tell stories. CONSUME GOOD ONES. META.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And a whole host of other boring things that don't really matter, but which have been substantiated by research: </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">improved sleep quality</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">increased nonviolent communication skills</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">fewer self-destructive behaviors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">improved general well-being</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Those are things that you should put on your resume, write home about, and, seriously, put on your Tinder profile. Nothing's hotter than a krill-loving climate justice warrior who has the patience to sit in a chair and think through all these things before raging against the machine. Also, that's what the planet needs. </span></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-79253108446722037212018-01-08T12:20:00.001-08:002018-01-08T12:35:44.649-08:00The Glaring Whiteness of HopeStop asking for hope.<br />
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This morning I listened to Krista Tippett interview Ta-Nahesi Coates for her podcast, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/ta-nehisi-coates-imagining-a-new-america-nov2017/">On Being</a>. I normally do love this podcast as an uplifting alternative to my other favorite podcast with a strikingly similar, preposition-centric name, On Point. Ironically, I listen to On Being to get out of the despair cycle that listening to news prompts for me.<br />
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Krista, I love you, but you white-centered the hell out of that interview, and could not resist asking Coates, who claimed over and over that he wasn't there to give white people directions, much less hope, for directions for white people, and hope for white people. I was scratching my ears out.<br />
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In this historical moment, a lot of white people like me are freaking out, because of Trump, because of climate change, because of various and sundry forms of oppression that some of us are just waking up to, and we're looking to those who have been living in that oppression for "hope." I confess, I have been one of those white people. But I have quickly learned that this demand is cruel, obnoxious, and ignorant.<br />
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Why do we keep asking oppressed peoples for signs of "hope"? Because it assures us that the status quo isn't that bad, that the suffering isn't so awful as to be hopeless, and that we can just keep on keeping on. If someone who has suffered so much can still feel hope, then we don't have to worry about our complicity in further suffering. <br />
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It's a dangerous argument to make, I know. I'm not saying that people who have suffered a lot shouldn't feel hope, or that their hope further justifies their oppressor. I am not suggesting this at all. But I would like people like myself, and perhaps Krista Tippett, to look inside our white selves a bit more to figure out what others' hope is really doing for us. Why do we feel we need evidence of it so badly? Hope is not inherently a bad or a white thing. I have lots of time for hope in other contexts. I'm just focusing here on this particular thing that I've observed since Trump's ascendance, when a lot of people like me had the wool removed from their eyes, and all of a sudden really, really, really needed a hit of hope.<br />
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At the end of the interview, Krista shared some questions from the audience. One question was from a set of school teachers who wanted to know something like "How can we maintain hope with our students when we're all suffering so much?" It's a question that seems to get asked more and more of all kinds of speakers, teachers, pundits, politicians, activists... No matter what the content of the presentation, no matter the expertise of the speaker, "wherefore hope?" seems the audience's main concern. <br />
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It's what I'm asked, too, and if you've read any of this blog, you know that the question of "hope" is of great interest to me. But I'm profoundly ambivalent about it. "On the one hand, on the other," is usually how I answer this question when I speak about the role of "hope" in teaching college students about the future of environmental justice. <br />
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Two reasons I am particularly balking at hope after listening to Krista talk with Ta-Nahesi:<br />
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1. Why should the people who've been most oppressed also be burdened with the work of giving white people hope? Coates responded to that question with this: "I reject the premise of the question." Right on. Amen. Fuck that question. <br />
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This new desire for "hope" smacks of the privilege of never having to find it before, the privilege of breathing, eating, and sleeping hope all your life, like I have. <br />
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Also, if audiences can't find hope in the content that the presenter is offering, the expertise of the presenter, the thoughts the presenter shares and the model they offer, then woe on them. The presenter is <i>showing</i> hope by what they do, what they're saying, the work they do. If we can't put two and two together, if we can't develop our own capacity for figuring out where to find hope, if we're looking to other people to tell us where to find it, we're ill-equipped to be hopeful. We're doomed to our own passiveness, our own lack of imagination, our own consumer-mentality that we can just order it online and just, poof!, have hope. <br />
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Hope isn't in a mantra or a beautiful turn of phrase. It isn't in a person or set of people. Hope is a hard practice. It's not even the end-game.<br />
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2. Which brings me to the second irksome thing about the way hope was discussed in that podcast-- as if hope were the holy grail of inspiration from Coates or anybody else for that matter. Coates has so much brilliance to offer-- about beauty, about sadness, about the craft of writing, about negotiating white-centering interviewers and audiences-- but Krista couldn't help but end on hope and how white audiences have received Coates. Hope isn't the end game, Coates insisted on multiple occasions. <br />
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That it kept becoming the end-game was exemplary of the white-centering interviewer techniques that Coates discussed earlier in the podcast, when he said it wasn't his job to help white people "catch up" to his content. Sadly, the audiences of this podcast missed a lot of his content because the interviewer centered hope in a particularly white way. Which isn't to say that hope is white; I'm just saying that there is a newfound market in hope coming from white people looking to people who've suffered for their solace.<br />
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White people who have enjoyed hopeful lives for the most part (like me) need to learn better how to dwell in negative emotions, rather than seek relief so quickly and superficially. Coates called it the "haunting" feelings that he wants to evoke in his craft. Take this beautiful moment when he <i>showed</i>, not just <i>told</i>, Krista that he wasn't going to let her extract hope from him: she asked Coates about <i>joy</i>, and he refused her desire for saccharin, and answered by describing how to evoke <i>sadness</i> in the written word. I wondered if she would push him on joy--"but you didn't answer my question"--but she let his answer be, to her credit, since, after all, it <i>was</i> his answer to her question about joy. I think she took his point. <br />
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Coates' answer to the teachers' question about hope was that he was never expecting his own teachers to give him hope. He wanted "enlightenment", "understanding," and "exposure" to help him understand what he was observing and experiencing in his own life. He described acquiring these tools as "freedom"; surely, freedom is the end-game, not hope. Hope is a kind of trap, as many people much smarter than I am have described, and which I write about elsewhere.<br />
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Since when do we demand <i>hope</i> from our teachers, our mentors, our parents, from anybody for that matter? <br />
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What does it say about our own privilege when we myopically focus on "hope" everywhere we go, with everyone we speak to? <br />
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What do we miss when our fetish for hope blocks out all the other rich, beautiful, sad, poignant, complex reality in front of us? That's where the real lessons are. Is our desire for hope blinding us from the work, from the feelings, from the relations, that will actually get us through this time? <br />
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I want to dwell in some negative affects, but just not those offered by listening to idiots in the news, so I'm going to keep listening to On Being, despite these critiques, which of course I'm bigging up to make my point.<br />
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To end on an up-note, for my dear reader's sake, I'll say I'm grateful for the new insights this particular show gave me about the gagging reflex I've been getting when I'm asked about hope. <br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-76549983229836791172018-01-05T11:09:00.000-08:002018-01-05T11:13:21.587-08:00"The Beautiful Environmentalist: On the Real Food Movement and the Disciplined Body," by Madi Whaley<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i>The following essay is a guest post by a brilliant student of mine, who I keep pestering to publish. She agreed to let me post this essay as a start. Enjoy!</i><br />
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The rhetoric of the “real food
movement,” or “alternative food movement,” as termed by Julie Guthman, touts
consumer food choices as beautiful, meaningful acts of food systems change,
linking environmental ethics and healthy eating (Guthman, 2011). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through this rhetoric, the mainstream real
food movement creates a feminine-bodied archetypical beautiful environmentalist
defined by lifestyle and image: environmentally conscious, healthy, and
conventionally attractive. This archetype ultimately reinforces the
white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy, as termed by bell hooks (hooks, 1981).
This research contextualizes the archetype within a larger socio-political
framework of environmentalism and analyzes the dominant narrative of the real
food movement. In turn, it explores the archetype’s dangerous ramifications for
the individual’s perceptions of, and actions toward, their bodies, as well as
ramifications for cultural perceptions of people whose bodies are not included
in this archetype. Furthermore, I offer my subjective experience with this
phenomenon to actualize the potential danger in this narrative. Michel
Foucault’s concepts of biopower and governmentality, and the adapted concept of
ecogovernmentality, serve as a framework to explain the relationship between
the discursive tactics of the real food movement and the creation of
self-disciplined environmental subjects (Foucault, 1978). Finally, I will
discuss strategies for resistance to the patriarchal body ideals espoused by
the beautiful environmentalist archetype, ultimately advocating for
transformative food systems change with roots in community rather than in
consumerism.</div>
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To understand how
the real food movement creates this beautiful environmentalist archetype, we
must first understand the dominant narratives, rhetoric, and cultural images
produced by the real food movement. The real food movement is characterized by
a focus on eating locally produced organic “wholefoods,” or unprocessed foods.
The real food movement emphasizes the individual consumer’s choice, all the
while directing individuals toward a specific realm of purchasing food that
fits the healthy, organic, wholefoods criteria. Various aspects of culture shape
the narrative of the real food movement. Michael Pollan has been instrumental
in shaping this narrative and the beautiful environmentalist archetype. His
well-read book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Omnivore’s Dilemma, </i>contains
language emblematic of the real food movement: <o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Eating is an
agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological
act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple
fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the
world - and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all
that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life
can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating
industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people
today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain,
without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here, Pollan suggests that the
individual’s consumption choice is more than a personal matter: it is a vehicle
for radical social change. The body becomes a political agent. Those who
“choose” to eat local, organic, wholefoods “eat with a fuller consciousness.”
They are the enlightened, ethical environmentalists, and we should all aspire
to be so good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This contrasts with those
who “choose” to eat food produced industrially, who are “eating in ignorance.”
These people, Pollan implicates, are the unprincipled, the ignorant. Certainly,
such traits are not ones well-respected in society. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pollan’s
insistence on consumer behavior as an indicator of consciousness and
enlightenment reinforces two related aspects of the dominant narrative. One of
these is the fallacy of consumer activism: the idea that individual consumption
habits are responsible for whether or not we transform industrial agriculture.
The other is the moral high ground established for those who purchase real
food. In her book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Weighing In</i>, Julie
Guthman criticizes elitism in the real food movement. For example, she writes: <o:p></o:p></div>
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By exalting a set
of food choices, the alternative-food movement tends to give rise to a
missionary impulse, so those who are attracted to this food and movement want
to spread the gospel. Seeing their food choices as signs of heightened
ethicality, they see social change as making people become like them. This
gives far too much power to those who happen to be privileged (and thin) to
define the parameters of food system change. (2011).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Indeed, as Guthman
explains throughout the book, people of color and lower-income are far less
likely to have access to organic produce, to have the time to prepare their
meals from scratch. Furthermore, as Sarah Wald explains in <u>Visible Farmers,
Invisible Workers</u>, this perpetuates a neoliberal cycle of food production,
wherein those consuming the food are made to feel morally righteous, healthy,
and beautiful in their consumption meanwhile those producing “real” food (at
least as far as large-scale organic food production is concerned) face low wages,
unsavory working conditions, and are largely denied access to the food. Together,
these pieces of the dominant narrative contribute to a culture of guilt and
shame around food purchasing for those who may not have the access, the
finances, or the “self-discipline” to purchase real foods, and inhibit our
ability to put the power of food production in the hands of workers and
communities. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">At
the same time, the real food movement packages this sense of morality with
patriarchal beauty ideals, which are enhanced by social media and food blogging
sites. For example, a popular plant-based food blog, “Oh She Glows,” features
recipes to help you “glow from the inside out.” Radiance, vibrancy, light:
these are components of the real food movement’s lifestyle. They work in tandem
with the ethical notions of purity, wholesomeness, and the natural. In her
book, </span><u style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The Beauty Myth</u><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, Naomi Wulf explains that light has a strong
historical association with divinity, radiance, and beauty. Conceptions of
divinity, or purity, and radiance, or beauty, reinforce one another. Here, I
argue that the beauty myth is getting packaged in a new form: going “green,”
consuming “real” food makes one beautiful both in mind and body.</span></div>
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I argue that, albeit
unwittingly, these discursive tactics reinforce the white supremacist
patriarchy. Since, as scholars such as Guthman, Wald, and Van Jones note,
“real” food is less accessible to people of color and low-income, one must ask
whether this archetype allows for people of color and low-income to be considered
beautiful. The archetype is certainly white-bodied, even though most
“alternative food” is grown by migrant farmworkers. Furthermore, the real food
movement’s conflation of authenticity, naturalness, purity, and beauty
perpetuates patriarchy in a broad sense, through creating a new standard of
female beauty and reinforcing the problematic conflation of femininity and
naturalness. It perpetuates the cultural treatment of fat people as “ecological
others,” as Sarah Ray would say. For environmentalists of varying
positionalities, purchasing only “real” food may seem obligatory, especially
with threats of climate change looming. The real food movement’s promise of
agency and beauty add to this pressure. This is a cognitive and emotional
pressure for those who experience it, but it manifests physically. We literally
embody the narrative of the real food movement; the very compositions of our
bodies are altered based on the “real” food we feel compelled to consume. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As such, real food
movement discourse can be seen as an eerily literal form of biopower, a concept
explored by French philosopher Michel Foucault. Biopower is characterized by
“numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugation of bodies and
the control of populations,” largely through discursive tactics that lead to
self-discipline in the interest of the State (Foucault, 1976). Political
ecologists and environmental humanities scholars have adapted Foucauldian
concepts of biopower and governmentality to explain the ways in which the State
and its auxiliaries exercise social control and control over the body to create
“good ecological subjects.” Rather than offer structural or collective
solutions such as small-scale worker-owned cooperative farms, the onus is
placed on the individual consumer, who is expected to behave with moral
discipline. In <u>Discipline & Punishment,</u> Foucault explains that such
discipline creates “docile bodies,” easily transformed, yielding themselves to
such mechanisms of power. Via the rhetoric of the real food movement, we are
told that the good ecological subjects – those that are morally pure – improve
their bodies, as they consume only the purest of foods: local, organic,
wholefoods. Selectively disseminating knowledge, providing a set of principles
by which the beautiful environmentalist archetype would eat, the real food
movement creates an illusion of truth, autonomy, and freedom of choice for
environmentalists with access to “real” food (Agarwal, 2005). <o:p></o:p></div>
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For example,
ecogovernmentality is rampant at mainstream environmentalists’ grocer of
choice, Whole Foods Market, which upholds the real food movement’s mantra of
the conscious and beautiful consumer choice. The Whole Foods website hosts a
page titled, “Healthy Eating: How to Eat Healthy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Your</i> Way.” This is followed with guides titled: “How to Eat Healthy
on a Budget,” “What to Eat,” “How-to’s,” “Cooking and Shopping Tips,” “Family
and Special Diets.” Whole Foods, ever so gracious, provides us with the
necessary guides to healthy eating. They’re the experts, and they’re here to
help us. We can take the information they provide and fine-tune it to meet our
needs. Whole Foods’ rhetorical contribution to the real food movement
perpetuates the beautiful environmentalist archetype, and provides consumers
with the food they need to reach this ideal. Indeed, Whole Foods’ profits are
hinged upon consumer anxieties and desires to feel healthy, beautiful, and
morally righteous. Meanwhile, our individual consumption choices, and the
increased pressure we feel regarding food choices do not result in the
transformative food systems change that we need.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Foucauldian
framework also allows me to understand my own internalization of the real food
movement narratives in a socio-political context. My experience also serves to
illustrate the great potential for harm from this narrative. Having struggled
with an eating disorder in high school, I sought recovery by ensuring that the
food I ate was as “real” as possible, believing that it would improve my
relationship with food, as an avenue for activism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When grocery
shopping or preparing meals, thoughts fired off so quickly in my mind that I
sometimes thought it would overheat. Overwhelmed with the inescapable reality
that almost every product I looked at somehow contributed to ecological,
social, and personal health problems, my mind would fall into a swirl of panic
over the choices at hand. Sometimes I would leave without food altogether,
deciding that it was better to go hungry altogether than to make the wrong
decision. And despite my great hunger and anxiety, this seemed perfectly
justified based on the narrative I had been fed. To disappear, to become
smaller, was to be beautiful. For I had consumed less resources, I had
disciplined myself, given myself to some bigger issues. This was my reality: I
wanted to save the world, and I wanted to be beautiful. I wanted to be that
good, wholesome, beautiful environmentalist whose image was burned into my head
by the rhetoric of the real food movement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
how do I make this real for you, my reader? This struggle seems so silly, so
trivial, I’m sure. It may be incomprehensible, may seem preposterous that
someone could internalize the rhetoric of the real food movement to such an
extreme degree. And perhaps it seems quite a privileged kind of worry. Indeed,
perhaps it is a luxury to fret over which produce I should buy rather than
whether or not I can buy food at all. But the anxiety is real and it is
horrible, I swear to you. It has consumed my mind and physically altered my
body. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, various studies document the
historical congruence between asceticism, with its goals of purity and freedom,
and anorectic behavior, as well as the tendency among people with eating
disorders to turn toward veganism or vegetarianism as a way to feel strong and
righteous, while continuing rigid eating habits (Herzog, 2011) (Crisp, et al.
1986). For example, anthrozoologist Hal Herzog recalls a conversation with a
young girl recovering from an eating disorder, who was attracted to veganism
because of its “righteousness.” The phenomena they describe are consistent with
my own experience regarding consuming “real” foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ecogovernmentality,” “self-discipline,”
“rigidity,” and “orthorexia,” – these are the terms that describe the times
when I go to the grocery store and feel my body start to shake, to feel a lump
swell up in my throat, rendered unable to act. They describe my compulsion
toward growing smaller, toward being pure and wholesome. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I do not mean to
suggest that the rhetoric of the real food movement is wholly responsible for
an epidemic of eating disorders. A variety of other cultural narratives, social
situations, and interpersonal relationships influence our relationships with
our perceptions of our own morality, our bodies, and our health. However, my
experience exemplifies the severe reactions that a multitude of people can have
to disempowering narratives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To be clear: I
firmly believe that we need to radically change our food systems. I want all
people have access to healthy food. I want us to produce food in ecologically
resilient manners. I want us as communities, as democratic social bodies, to
have control over that production, to decide what we eat. I do not, however,
believe that we can reach such change using the patriarchal and capitalist
consumption-based narrative of the mainstream real food movement, where
corporate control still reigns and farmworkers are still exploited, where
farming practices are still unsound, and where women are shamed. We must focus
our energy toward transformative food systems change, building networks of
sustainable, community-centered food production. The beautiful environmentalist
archetype has no purpose here. Indeed, as philosopher Slavoj Zizek explains, we
cannot even create an ecologically sound world if our movement is focused on
valuing that which is “natural” and “beautiful,” as if the two are mutually
constitutive. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Many people can –
and are – resisting this problematic rhetoric and constructing a more radically
transformative food movement. Grassroots food systems change work is popping up
all over the country, and the world. In fact, our abilities to mobilize on this
front may be greater than ever before. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe that
dismantling the oppressive structures in our own minds is a form of resistance.
We must unlearn the problematic narratives we are subjected to, and create new
stories for ourselves as individuals and as a society: stories that allow for
us to be undisciplined, messy, dirty, impure; but full, happy, and healthy by
our own standards. In my larger project, I discuss psychologist Michael White’s
“deconstruction as therapy” to provide a framework for this change in thought.
Perhaps we can see body positivity movements in ecological terms. We need to
create our own narratives and our own cultures that are respectful of
individual minds, bodies, and differences, as well as communities’ agency to
produce their own sustenance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ultimately, the
“real food” movement’s rhetoric certainly creates an archetypical beautiful
environmentalist. The dominant narrative of the real food movement reinforces
systems of power and privilege in society by tying morality to privileged
consumption choices. It denies the transformative change required for our food
systems, and by virtue of access and representation, excludes many people from
the scope of beauty and environmentalism. Furthermore, it upholds patriarchal
beauty ideals that are harmful to women at-large. Transformative food systems
change truly addresses the issues that real food movement rhetoric caters to,
without any need for shame regarding food consumption, without the need for
white supremacist patriarchal beauty ideals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The fate of the
world is not resting in your stomach, and beauty is not predicated on
likeness to the image, or essence, of the beautiful environmentalist. I have
learned that you can eat the cookies if you want them, break bread with your
community, and use the energy from all that good food to build
community-oriented, ecologically resilient food systems.</div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-62740183849688321552017-12-21T22:11:00.003-08:002017-12-21T22:39:23.432-08:00Can R-1s Do Better to Prepare PhDs for Teaching Jobs?I'm in the process of hiring a tenure-line faculty for the program I lead at a teaching institution.<br />
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When I was getting a PhD at an Research-1 institution (R1), I was trained to think of my research profile as the most important quality I could offer an employer, and was even discouraged from getting accolades as a good teacher, as it might detract from my profile as a serious researcher. <br />
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I think my institution thought they would lose some face if they produced anything but the "best" scholars, scholars who would ideally obtain positions at other R1s. And I think they thought there would be no harm in us having a dossier that was "good enough" for an R1, because teaching schools would gratefully pick up the dregs of us that didn't hit the mark of the R1 holy grail job. <br />
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I have obtained two tenure-track positions at teaching institutions since I graduated in 2009, and find I am profoundly disappointed by the way I was conditioned to think about the value of an R1, the value of the scholar, and the value of teaching undergraduates. But it's not just about undergrads and the glory of teaching; it's about the current state of American cultural politics, anti-intellectualism, and the value of higher ed to a functioning democracy. <br />
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Since I've been at teaching institutions, I have thought a lot about what my PhD institution failed to train me for, though, in full disclosure, I loved my time at grad school and I loved my advisors.<br />
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As I review dozens of applications for a teaching job, many from R1s (because PhDs are mostly at R1s), I am struck by a prevailing inability of these scholars to articulate, much less imagine, how their very refined, specialized area of study might ignite student interest and success. <br />
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If, for example, you study some obscure event that happened in 1982 in a galaxy far far away, on a speck of dirt on some planet, it's not inherently exciting in itself, even though you have convinced yourself that it is.<br />
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An R1 says "hey, that's really, really unique, and its uniqueness is enough for us. You're contributing something really new, and we know it's really new because we know everything about this field."<br />
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A teaching institution says "how will this translate in the classroom?" If an application for a tenure-line job at a teaching institution fails to SHOW the answer to this question really clearly, then the candidate has been poorly trained for the job market.<br />
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And in case it needs saying, most jobs these days are at teaching institutions, not R1s.<br />
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I confess that I was fortunate; my heavy-duty R1 degree was enough to land me a tenure-track job. For the second round, four years later, I really have no idea how I landed yet another tenure-line job, other than the publication of my dissertation as a book made me look serious. Nowadays, this wouldn't be enough for a teaching job. A narrowly-focused book that makes a unique contribution to a narrow field is just not very valuable to a teaching institution. And why would it be?<br />
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Nowadays, an application that makes a person's obscure research or creative life come alive in the classroom will blow the competition out of the water. <br />
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If a person's research or creative life is inherently accessible to students --such as having to do with stuff college students are already thinking about, even just a little-- even better. Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying you need to tailor your research agenda to the whims of iGen. Quite the contrary; that's horrific. Don't do that. <br />
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I'm saying that R1s could do a better job training their graduates to frame their work in ways that is accessible, not just to hiring committees across the land, but to undergrads (who will be their main audience henceforth, much to the chagrin of the R1s), and also to (gasp!) the public. <br />
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The assumption that audiences will do the hard work we need to do to understand and value our research is just arrogant. Academia has been doing this successfully for a long time. At a public institution like where I teach, the sham is up. <br />
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What counts as valuable research here-- the kind of research that gets you tenure-- is not what you think it is. It's collaborative (with students, with community members, with others outside academia), it's radical (challenges dominant knowledge claims), it's about new forms of knowledge production (like, students bring knowledge and aren't just there to receive it), etc.... If you publish articles along these lines, we love you! Being a superstar, solo scholar in some obscure area just doesn't work always. But if this DOES describe you, how fun would it be if you could figure out a way to make students think your work is awesome, and make them want to do similar work? Evidence that you can bridge research and teaching in these ways really blows our minds.<br />
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Which brings me to the subtle point I was making earlier about the current state of this democracy and anti-intellectualism. Could R1s make their candidates' more attractive to teaching institutions? YES, and let me count the ways.* Could they also make the research they produce more meaningful to the public? YES.<br />
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And by doing so, could they engage in a much broader mutual, reciprocal form of knowledge co-production with people <i>outside</i> the academy? <br />
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We can only hope.<br />
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PhD students, ask more from your advisors and programs. <br />
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This historical moment demands more from us than to reproduce ourselves and narrow our audiences.<br />
We would really like you to make your work exciting and accessible to us, to undergrads, and to non-specialists. This might be a good thing for, oh, democracy, and, oh, America.<br />
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If your current advisors aren't telling you this, ask them to. Get a group of grad students together to think more about this. Resist the temptation to deem yourself too awesome for a teaching job. <br />
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Consider the challenge I lay out here as a call for you to make your work meaningful in the world, useful in breaking down the shitty divisions in society, and dispelling the notion that the life of the mind is frivolous.<br />
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Just because we teach a lot here doesn't mean we don't value the life of the mind. We're just way, way more accountable to showing others that the life of the mind is valuable.<br />
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<i>*ways you can make your application more fitting for a teaching institution:</i><br />
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<li><i>In your teaching statement, avoid the "deficit model" approach to diversity.</i></li>
<li><i>In your cover letter, SHOW, don't just tell, how much you love teaching.</i></li>
<li><i>Wherever you discuss teaching, don't just cite theorists about how important student-centered teaching is; tell us how you make your research interesting to students.</i></li>
<li><i>Don't just wax on about how much you love teaching. Loving teaching can kill you, and we want somebody who can survive a lifetime of teaching. Saying that you have an "open-door" policy, for example, smacks of privilege. Cultural taxation for faculty of color (and women faculty) is a major issue; how do you protect yourself? How do you leverage your teaching to support your other loves? Give us something more than just "teaching will save the world."</i></li>
<li><i>Don't tell us that your way of doing student-centered teaching is to use the Socratic method and conduct discussion. And for the love of the goddess, don't say that you mostly use lecture, and that you bring a variety of media into the classroom, such as videos and Power Point slides. That doesn't say "student-centered"; that says "lazy."</i></li>
<li><i>You're better off including challenges or critiques of your teaching that you've tried to overcome than quotes from students who love you.</i></li>
<li><i>If you really want to be at an R1, but you're just desperate for a job, don't apply for this job.</i></li>
<li><i>If #7 applies to you, and you manage to get to a campus interview, don't whine about whether we'll give you enough resources to do your ever-so-important research. This will chafe on us like nobody's business. Try to imagine that we all feel the same way about our research, and that just because we're at a teaching institution doesn't mean our research is worthless.</i></li>
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<i>In sum, SHOW, don't tell why you belong here. And make your research applicable to college students in <b>some</b> way.</i><br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-80334561451836048412017-11-30T21:41:00.001-08:002017-12-01T05:53:56.502-08:00Burnout, Part 1So much of the teaching part of my job turns out to be about getting students into a positive psychological headspace. Just attending class is often a struggle. And I'm not even talking about their hunger, homelessness, or various other forms of vulnerability. It's real, folks, for them. So don't get me wrong; I'm not annoyed by THEM; a bunch of things are failing them, and here's what it looks like. On my cynical days, I confess, I wish I could just plug-n-play the most relevant mantra for their issue, and assure them that I've heard it all before, and to just get on with it as best they can. No need to conjure up the whole song-and-dance about it; I, too, have to move on to other duties.<br />
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The problem isn't them. It's that I'm burning out. Mustering up the energy to lovingly guide students from their excuses and the crazy myths they have about college has made me decide it'd be cathartic to write a "shit students say" list. I am fully aware that there are just as many idiotic excuses that I make as a professor and academic, so I list these in full acknowledgment that a) it's not always their fault, for sure, and b) the stuff coming out of my own mouth is often just as ridiculous. <br />
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Apologies for the cynical undertones in what follows. Rest assured that I truly believe that the kids are awesome. They give me hope in the future, and I do cry almost every time I think about how honored I feel to have this job. My students' beautiful souls make all the other crap worth it. <br />
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But again, I'm burning out. It's not them, it's me. Or rather, it's the systems that leverage too much love out of faculty and too much debt and doubt out of students. Fuck those systems!<br />
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If you're a student of mine and you ever said any of these things to me, I promise I love you. I said many of these things too, when I was a student. Once, on the last day of my Chinese Literature and Thought class, I played frisbee on the grass--outside the very classroom I was supposed to be in!-- because it was sunny, and I figured it was within the philosophy of Taoism to follow one's bliss rather than do work. I told the professor I was "following the 'way'."<br />
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For another class on Buddhism, I wrote a 2-page final paper about how I couldn't write the required 7-10 pages about the topic because it would be against Buddhist teachings to try to understand it through reasoned writing. <br />
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I've done it all too, so I'm not on my high horse here. But as a result of hearing all these excuses so many times, I have come up with some mantra I find myself saying multiple times a day in response to these things students say to me, which I also list, below. <br />
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First, however, I hope you enjoy some of these doozies, which, again, I list here as a form of catharsis for myself, not as a criticism of my students:<br />
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<b><u>Shit Students Say, Bless Their Beautiful Souls</u></b><br />
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1. "Professor, do you have a stapler? Is it OK if I just fold over the corners?"<br />
<i>Read: I need permission every time I forget to keep my pieces of paper from separating from each other, and want your reassurance that it's not annoying to have to keep them all together as you grade my work.</i><br />
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2. "Can we talk? Can I close the door?" <br />
<i>Read: I'm about to unload some heavy shit. This will take at least an hour.</i><br />
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3. "Wait, so, everything I learned in high school was wrong?" <br />
<i>Read: I had no idea that K-12 education was a hoax. Is all education a hoax? What am I doing here?</i><br />
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4. "Why doesn't your syllabus state that, by the end of the course, the planet will be saved, the 2016 election reversed, and that you're available for one-on-one hour-long sessions of existential crisis therapy?"<br />
<i>Read: I can't figure out how to take the gift of critical tools where I find them.</i><br />
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5. "Professor, you work too hard. You should relax more." <br />
<i>Read: give more time to one-on-one hour-long therapy sessions, but do less of the other ridiculous stuff your job requires. Also, being a professor must really suck.</i><br />
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6. "I didn't want to submit an assignment that doesn't reflect my best work, so can I have an extension?"<br />
<i>Read: I didn't prioritize doing the work, but I want you to think it's because I care TOO much.</i><br />
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7. "Why can't you teach me how to overturn capitalism in 15 weeks?"<br />
<i>Read: What good is this class in the world?</i><br />
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8. "Why don't your classes solve more problems directly, with like, direct action and real-world, immediate change?" <br />
<i>Read: I have swallowed the anti-intellectual pill and don't think that learning how to think is valuable to real change.</i><br />
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9. "Can I leave class early? I have a thing I have to do." <br />
<i>Read: I'm special. All the other students who stay in class the whole time aren't as important as I am, and the things you have planned for my time here are not important to me.</i><br />
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10. "This material is really depressing. I can't come to class because the material you're teaching me is causing me anxiety." <br />
<i>Read: I thought I was supposed to only do things that make me happy. Why are you asking me to be unhappy?</i><br />
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11. "You mean, the world didn't begin the day I was born?" <br />
<i>Read: As an Anglo-American, I have no history. I'm told to believe that I'm the center of the universe, rather than a moment within a long arc of time. I don't believe there's anything worthwhile to learn from anybody who's lived longer than I have, or who came before me.</i><br />
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12. "You look tired."<br />
<i>Read: If I make you feel insecure, you'll go easy on me. OR, depending on the context: I really care about you as a human being.</i><br />
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13. "I can't write this paper because I don't know what I think." <br />
<i>Read: Tell me what to think. And then write the paper for me.</i><br />
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14. "I am lost. I can't do that thing you're asking of me. Pump my ego up by telling me that I'm great, and tell me what I think and what I should do." <br />
<i>Read: Imposter syndrome.</i><br />
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15. "Nothing any scholar has ever said has any relevance to me. Scholarship is created by academia, which is bought out by capitalism, so the only worthwhile thoughts in the world are the ones in my head right now, and maybe the thoughts in my favorite singer's head." <br />
<i>Read: I've swallowed the anti-intellectual pill and don't want to spend the time it would take to read all those articles and books.</i><br />
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16. "Sorry I was absent. What did I miss?"<br />
<i>Read: I want you to think I care about what I've missed.</i><br />
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17. "I don't have the rough draft done, so I won't be in class for the peer review."<br />
<i>Read: I procrastinated and am embarrassed that I don't have much to show.</i><br />
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18. "Could we meet sometime to talk about this amazing idea I have?" <br />
<i>Read: I think the job of a professor is to wait for each individual student to have an amazing idea and to carry it through to its conclusion with them.</i><br />
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19. "Needing to write a clear sentence is a form of oppression, so no, I will not fix all these fragments and run-ons, or choose precise words that say what I really mean, or get rid of all the "really"s and "very"s and "totally"s."<i> </i><br />
<i>Read: I'm too lazy to care about it</i>.<br />
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20. "I need to drop out of college because I need to do something more radical."<br />
<i>Read: You have nothing to teach me. Hanging out here is a waste of my time.</i><br />
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<b><u>My Mantras/Responses:</u></b><br />
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Get that Shit Done.<br />
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Just Write.<br />
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It's in the Syllabus.<br />
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Sure, whatever you need to do.<br />
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Fake It 'Til You Make It.<br />
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Get that Shit Done.<br />
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You Got This.<br />
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Just showing up is 90% of the battle.<br />
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Get that Shit Done.<br />
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Did I mention, JUST GET THAT SHIT DONE.<br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-60935075429064344512017-10-24T11:28:00.000-07:002017-10-24T11:42:00.307-07:00Where is Decolonization in Environmental Justice?: Jaskiran Dhillon's Critique<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I learned about the work of brilliant activist-scholar,
</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jaskiran-dhillon" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jaskiran Dhillon, </a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">at the Human Rights symposium in St. Louis October 11-12,
2017, the subject of my last blog post.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dhillon is an assistant professor
of Global Studies and Anthropology at the New School, and is from a tiny town
in Treaty Six Cree Territory, Saskatchewan.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Raised by politicized parents, she quickly
became involved in decolonial activism, and does this work across the globe, particularly
in Canada and Burma and, recently, in solidarity with Standing Rock.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Author of <i>Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention</i>, Dhillon gave a plenary talk at the Human Rights
symposium that developed an anti-colonial critique of environmental
justice.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Voicing a position I have a hard time conveying
to my environmentalist students, Dhillon is suspicious of the new craze to
integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) into Climate Change science
and policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reminded me that TEK is
not a knowledge “resource,” as the language in the documents of federal
agencies describes it, but rather an action word—it’s something that people <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do</i>, not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The language of TEK as
“resource” sets up TEK to be yet another thing to colonize for the purposes of
settler-culture’s desire to adapt and survive climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “discovery” of the value of TEK on the
heels of centuries of assimilation and oppression attests to the fact that settler
culture only cares about indigenous ways when it suits their own agendas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The potential for abuses of TEK and the
communities that embody it—in the name of dominant white cultures battling or
surviving climate change, while indigenous communities continue to bear the
brunt of extraction politics—are high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dhillon asks, “whose interests are served when TEK is extracted in
service of climate recovery?”, and says the problem is that the appropriation
of TEK to protect “all of us” is not linked to the broader goals of indigenous
sovereignty or dismantling settler colonialism.</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Environmental justice (EJ) isn’t a useful term
for indigenous movements, in part because it identifies the first race-based
environmental abuses in the 1970s, with Love Canal and as documented by Robert
Bullard’s Dumping in Dixie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The origin
story of EJ in the US ties it to the Civil Rights movement, whereas indigenous
communities have been experiencing race-based environmental exploitation “since
1492.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, for indigenous communities,
colonization is above all an act of environmental violence. If we historicize
the 1970s as the birth of EJ, we yet again erase indigenous history in the U.S.
Alternatively, maybe EJ is just something else—not just a way to describe links
between racial injustice and environmental degradation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Dhillon might argue that settler
colonialism’s own forms of environmental degradation ought to be described as
its own thing. But it’s still really helpful for her to have pointed out the
need for a more specific, precise definition of EJ so that colonialism isn’t
ignored, yet again, and so that we can understand the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nuances</i> between different forms of racial injustice and their often
quite different relationships to environmental degradation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another way of approaching it, she says, is
to consider decolonization as a foundation to EJ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dhillon also made the brilliant point that
climate change and settler colonialism are linked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This may feel like a “no-duh” insight to
those who study or live TEK, but this insight is really important as a
follow-up to the above point: dominant environmental discourse often posits
that industrialization (e.g. Leo Marx, Al Gore) or capitalism (e.g. Naomi
Klein) are the root causes of climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An anti-colonial critique of this narrative points out that colonialism
paved the way for these later developments, and that ongoing colonial
relationships enable these other phenomena to thrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overthrowing capitalism or getting
post-fossil-fuel won’t address the root problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dhillon says that blaming capitalism is “a
red herring.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As such, a person can be
fighting for fixing climate change and also be very much against indigenous
sovereignty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To take it further, I would
add that this is precisely the kind of internal contradiction within the
mainstream environmental movement that often assumes its “saving” of the planet
will lead to social justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dhillon also writes about, but did not develop
so much in the talk due to time limits, the links between NODAPL and police
state violence, indigenous education policies, “man camps”, sex trafficking, and
myriad other forms of cultural, physical, and sexual violence. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she says, “NODAPL isn’t about a pipeline;
it’s a fight for the co-existence of life.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the Q&A, Dhillon received a
final question from an older white woman, who asked, voice quivering and nearly
on the edge of tears: “I love my house.” Long pause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What are we supposed to do?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I just about combusted in my seat, and wondered
how Jaskiran would handle this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
a master class in difficult dialogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wish I could relay precisely what she said, but basically, she firmly but calmly
said, “that’s not my problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find
resources about how to work through your white guilt, find friends going
through the same thing, and figure it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Start to see all the privileges you inherited so that you could have
your house; this work is hard.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
firm about not coddling the white woman’s newfound epiphany of her complicity
in colonialism, but did not punish her for asking the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked Jaskiran what she thought of that
exchange, and I was really impressed that she welcomed the question and commended
the woman for saying what so many people think, but fear saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m still mulling over all that
happened at that conference, but certainly Dhillon’s talk and her Q&A
taught me so much about the messiness of the relationships between the climate
movement and decolonization, and between EJ and indigenous rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-40247219900896749932017-10-18T06:40:00.000-07:002017-10-18T06:57:40.175-07:00Is There Room for Environmental Justice in the Human Rights Framework?: A Plenary at the Human Rights Symposium<br />
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Last week, I had the honor of being a plenary speaker at a superb <a href="http://www.webster.edu/arts-and-sciences/affiliates-events/yihr.html">symposium</a> hosted annually by the Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Webster University in St. Louis. The theme of the conference for this International Year of Human Rights was Environmental Justice. The organization of the symposium was a 2-day series of speakers ranging from NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice staff and local nuclear waste dumping filmmaker-activists to academics working on environmental justice. We had opportunities to each speak and answer questions, to meet with each other and members of the audience, and then speak together in a roundtable. <br />
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It was both an alarming and an uplifting experience, for the range of folks there from different points of access around issues of environmental justice, and for the engagement with the local issues of St. Louis. I learned so much about St. Louis, in terms of its history of segregation, the related protests occurring there now due to the lack of justice for Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man killed by a police officer who was recently acquitted, and nuclear waste dumping (St. Louis is the city nobody talks about regarding America's nuclear era).<br />
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As an academic trained in scholarship, I am sad that I'm not around activists and agency people more often, who come to the questions I theorize and historicize from really pragmatic and situated perspectives. I was in heaven having conversations around shared themes and sharing tools from our respective areas of expertise. It was gratifying to feel I had something to offer them, too, since usually it feels like only the other way around. <br />
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Speaking of the value of scholarship and theory to that work, I have made it a goal this year to learn how to give more dynamic talks because I am starting to be invited to give them more, and in a wider array of settings. If I ever cared to make my scholarship meaningful and have an impact on the world, this surely seems my chance, right? I'm so used to dismissing publications and the precious work of intellectual life as irrelevant to what's happening "out there" in the "real world," or perhaps I've just internalized that critique from my students and from society at large, which is so anti-intellectual at this current moment. Also, the neoliberalization of higher education isn't doing us any favors.<br />
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But speaking to the public is one way--definitely not the only way--we academics can scale out our work, while making academia seem more relevant to people "out there" or "in the real world," less highfalutin. So, I'm slowly working to do more choreographed, extemporaneous speaking, focusing on <i>only one</i> guiding insight or gap in the dominant knowledge, and providing provocative examples, stories, or visuals. <br />
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I don't want to be beholden to the podium and its microphone or its Power Point advancing buttons. I want to move around, not just be a big brainy head popping up over a big wooden lectern hiding my body. I want to change the affect in the room to be more receptive to the thoughts that I must think are so fabulous I just had to occupy all the audience's space and time to share.<br />
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My talk was on the relative merits and pitfalls of bringing the tools of environmental justice into considerations of "human rights". I particularly wanted to focus on the differences between environmental and social justice efforts, and why there is a lot of suspicion of environmental groups entering social justice conversations. Here, I drew on my book, <i>The Ecological Other,</i> to explain the history of social oppression in the name of nature. I concluded by drawing on Julie Sze and Lindsey Dillon's work on <a href="https://www.academia.edu/26984955/Police_Powers_and_Particulate_Matters_ELN_2016_Forthcoming.pdf">"Police Power and Particulate Matters" </a>to use the case of Eric Garner's last words, "I Can't Breathe" to illustrate the value of a environmental justice analysis that recognizes a shared root of structural violence causing both police brutality and increased health hazards in black communities, to help connect the context of what's happening in St. Louis to the topic of the symposium.<br />
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Meanwhile, I learned an immense amount from the following plenaries who shared the lineup with me:<br />
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<li>Jaskiran Dhillon, scholar-decolonial activist and author of <i>Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention</i> (2017). </li>
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<li>Carl Zimring, author of <i>Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the U.S.</i></li>
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<li>Carolyn Finney, scholar-activist and author of <i>Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Outdoors</i></li>
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<li>Marnese Jackson and Bruce Morrison, NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice representative and lawyer, respectively.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Marnese Jackson, me, and Bruce Morrison at the symposium</i></td></tr>
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<li>Carl, Allison, and Dawn, creators and subjects in <a href="http://www.cinemastlouis.org/sliff/2015/first-secret-city"><i>The First Secret City</i>,</a> a brand-new documentary seeking to raise attention around the health impacts of aluminum processing and the movement of nuclear waste around the city.</li>
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<li>Sylvester Brown, Jr., who had an illustrious career as a reporter and writer, before launching his answer to the economic problems that give rise to violence against blacks-- <a href="http://sweetpotatoprojectstl.org/">The Sweet Potato Project. </a></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Carl considered Dove's retracted ad campaign from the weekend in his analysis of "racial hygiene" in America</i></td></tr>
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Thanks so much to Lindsey Kingston, Kate Pearsons, Karla Armbruster, for bringing me to Webster for this event, and to my beloved student Madi Whaley for helping me conceive of and build this talk, ground me in the St. Louis protests, and find some resources on how to deliver talks better. Also, a highlight of the trip for me was exchanging ideas with this troop of young activists (below) who made all our work on stage pale in comparison to the work they do "out there", but also, they were so rad because they cared to make the "experts'" lectures relevant to their own efforts- Andrew, Adam, Amber, and the crew, pictured below. Kids these days....<br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-82680890357722186662017-10-04T08:29:00.001-07:002017-10-04T08:29:32.070-07:00Research is My Dirty Little SecretIn a time of sweeping budget cuts and anti-intellectualism, one of the parts of my job that is first on the chopping block is this amorphous thing we academics call "research."<div>
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I don't know about you, but my institution is squeezing more and more out of everybody, the most precarious lecturers most of all. </div>
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"Work creep" is everywhere--for example: we got rid of our college's website manager, and now our personnel manager will be doing all that website work. The part of her personnel work that is getting displaced is the travel stuff. Our departments have to figure out how to internalize that labor. This is happening everywhere. Meanwhile, administrative bloat is a thing: those flow charts of who reports to whom are mind-bogglingly complicated, and seem to change every year. </div>
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For one unit of advising time, I'll be asked to advise not 45 students, but 70, for example, in the next budget cut.</div>
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I'll teach the same amount of classes, but head count will go up 25%.</div>
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Lecturers will lose classes.</div>
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Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. </div>
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In this context, committees are convened to strategize how to survive these budget cuts, creating "urgent" service work. Much more work is spread among fewer people. Though I'm glad to have a secure job that renders me one of those people who stays in work, I fear for the increased precarity of those who do not. And I am sad about what it's doing to academia in a cultural moment when intellectual "elites" are losing status in the public sphere by the minute.</div>
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Because beside lecturers' job security, what gets cut? What is the unnecessary "fat" in our work lives? </div>
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If it's not directly serving students-- and in administrative mumbo-jumbo that means, is it using student unit hours (head-count) as part of instruction? Are you making your teaching/research obligations so efficient that you can literally do one by doing the other? Are you leveraging your research to translate directly to tangible, measurable, immediate forms of student success? Does your research have immediate impact on the classroom? If not, good luck finding the space in this squeezed budget landscape to indulge yourself in the luxury that is thinking, writing, thinking, writing.</div>
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Superfluous to the obligations of student retention and over other imperatives of higher education (oh, for example, producing meaningful knowledge), research can only get done on the side-- it's definitely become my dirty little secret. </div>
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Some of my colleagues are champions of me taking time to pursue my love of research. They "take the hit" for me by stepping up to committees and making their service work count "double" for their programs and mine. They compensate for my bureaucratic negligence, all the while enabling the slow creep of bureaucratic entanglements (assess more, report more, figure out more software interfaces, represent your program here and there and there... you know the drill). I owe those colleagues many, many margaritas. </div>
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But others, less sympathetic about the squeeze that my attention to research might entail for their workload, may find it a sign that I have too much time on my hands-- I'm not serving students enough and not on enough committees-- if I am discovered in the act of carving out time and space to write and think. You're producing research? It's like some kind of infidelity to the care of family I am supposed to be doing. </div>
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How would this culture change? Do we really need a better budget to make people think research is valuable to what we're doing at a liberal arts, teaching institution? I don't think so. I think there's something much worse going on here that we need to reckon with: the value of intellectual work in this historical moment, the neoliberalization of higher education, and the linking of educational outcomes entirely to whether or not students get jobs when they graduate. I would like to have my battles on those grounds-- cultivating really compelling cases for the value of intellectual work in the world-- and not in the hallways of my campus or in the land of nasty work emails. </div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-62466381485649486642017-10-02T13:00:00.001-07:002017-10-02T13:07:54.581-07:00"I Like Big Butts and I Cannot Lie": Or, Why I Should Put My Children in a BubbleThe other day, my nearly 7-year old came home singing "I like big butts and I cannot lie!"<br />
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Titillated by my horror, she started singing it louder, and more, and smiling giddily while doing so.<br />
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Then, my 3 1/2-year old, who had been watching all of what is commonly known as the classic "child/parent nonverbal horror-titillation feedback cycle," joined in. Because obviously.<br />
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Oh. My. God.<br />
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I'm a terrible mother. How did this happen? How did I end with two children delightfully powering out this line from Sir MixaLot's "Baby Got Back" in the bathtub?<br />
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In moments like this, you have two choices, as I see it. One: laugh, embrace the passing on of a classic song of my own generation to my kin, and appreciate my kids' exposure to all the pleasures of popular culture. <br />
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Alternatively, and less likely, I can undo their learning. Good luck. Parental advisory noted, but how was I supposed to see "big butts" coming down the pike? I mean, she's only 7 for goodness sake! I wasn't prepared for this.<br />
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Ok, so, let's go with option 1: laugh and try to make lemonade with these lemons.<br />
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I think of myself as a <i>mediator</i> of the world--not the <i>maker</i> of the world-- for my kids. I love grabbing these teaching moments by the horn, and relinquishing the pretense that I can be a kind of saran wrap around my kids, a prophylactic to cultural effluvia. <br />
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"Baby's Got Back" isn't really effluvia, either. Actually, it was a feminist anthem of my generation. Who can argue with "my anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hon!"? And c'mon, this is funny: "you can do side-bends or sit-ups, but please don't lose that butt!" The song was an irreverent thumb in the eye of the expectations of femininity in American culture, which is and certainly was (in 1992, the year I consider the peak of musical craziness in my life) raced as much as it's gendered. That is, embracing a big butt was both a rejection of <i>patriarchal</i> culture's expectations of thinness and a rejection of <i>white</i> culture's ideals of femininity. <br />
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Sure, the song has problems. Sure, it still sexualizes women and dissects them into body parts, and does so in ways that don't do any kind of woman any favors. The video of the song repeated all the same misogynistic tropes that the genre was famous for, except it did so with women who have large rear ends instead of skinny ones. Not all that radical, you could say. In some ways, sure, the song didn't undo as much patriarchy as it perpetuated.<br />
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Ok, but flash forward to your 7-year old girl coming home singing it in 2017.<br />
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I carry on the campaign to teach kids that women are whole people and that they are not reduced to their looks, regardless of the girth or lack thereof of their backsides. We are more than our backsides. But this song isn't the first chance I've had to have that conversation, PA-LEASE, people.<br />
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From Hillary to Melania to Michelle, ample opportunities exist to explore how women's whole identities matter little compared to their looks in American culture. Sir MixaLot isn't the only one preaching that message.<br />
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The real challenge is to not be horrified by my child's lost innocence, because I can't keep her in a bubble forever. She's going to grow up in this white supremacist patriarchal culture, so I'm going to start from that premise. Instead of pretending that we aren't all breathing in all that toxicity all the time, whether we choose to recognize it or not (aka "white privilege"), or, even more importantly, whether we have no choice in the matter in the first place, I am going to unpack "Baby's Got Back" with my kiddos.<br />
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My near-7-year old loves talking about racial and sexual history and politics; she is profoundly interested in understanding how people operate and interact, and how power has worked in history. So, even though I haven't quite figured out my approach with this particular song, I will. By bringing that song home, she's opening up a wonderful window into the context of her daily life, and thus an opportunity to talk about these difficult conversations. I'll leave the sex stuff out (for now), but the gender and race stuff is being handed over on a silver platter; I want to rise to the occasion and take this chance to talk to her: why was the song was so powerful, what kind of cultural work was it doing when it came out, why might people not like hearing her, much less her younger sister, sing it, etc? <br />
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It'll be fun and important, one day, to deconstruct the cultural shenanigans going on in this <i>Friend's</i> episode, "The One with Ross's Inappropriate Song". Why would this song be "inappropriate" in this show? Why is this storyline "funny", and to whom? What assumptions about race, class, and gender does the joke rely on to work," and who might it hurt?<br />
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At the very least, in any way my young girls can receive drips and drops of the message that big is beautiful, to shore up some strength against the tidal waves of "big is not beautiful", I'll take it. Sir MixaLot did that for me and who knows how many other young women, and, obviously, still is. The song may reinforce some kinds of problems even as it rejects one form of oppression, but I'll take it. <br />
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I'm not putting my kids in a bubble. My parents didn't put me in a bubble, though I do sometimes wish I hadn't seen so many damn Disney movies. Seriously. I'm still traumatized by the realization that life after marriage is not happily ever after, just sayin'. <br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518946923476478911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774225520056294974.post-46745782863819836672017-09-18T20:31:00.001-07:002017-09-24T18:10:55.956-07:00Friends Don't Let Friends Unpause: Curing Your Email AddictionOh Boomerang.... I do love you! It's an app. Get it.<br />
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You fling those emails away from me, like a shield deflecting arrows, poisonous tranquilizing darts.<br />
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You take over my email interface with a big blue "unpause" button, daring me to unplug the dam. You are a dike holding back the flood threatening to inundate my life with non-urgent, vapid, moist emergencies.<br />
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I sit at my computer, trained by the incoming emails, to wait more. Wait for another fire to put out, another flame to quell. It's become a sick habit, a twisted pleasure. I'm on it, I'm busy, I'm responsive. What for? And at the cost of what?<br />
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Now, when the dam unleashes its fury at 6am, 1pm, and 3pm, I see a small litany of unimportant requests. I deal with them in 5 minutes. I don't waste time waiting for them. I don't intrude upon my family, my fuel, my loves, waiting... waiting... waiting... for all the requests that might make me feel important.<br />
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Research shows how much energy it takes to shift attention between one's "deep work" and shallow work. Research shows how damaging email is to the psyche, to our sense of being overwhelmed by external pressures. I have succumbed to those pressures, and have seriously wondered how I could possibly survive in my job without my addiction to email. I respond to emails when I get up at night to pee, I respond to emails in the middle of other meetings, and I respond to emails while my children are trying to get my attention. My stupid smart phone makes this impulse to responsiveness all the more seductive. <br />
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Small fires are so fast to put out. Just give me a second, I have to just write this one quick thing. <br />
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Here's the genius of Boomerang, for someone like me. I'm not required to exert any kind of will power. Turning off my phone's email ability hasn't worked. Scheduling email times hasn't worked. Telling others that I don't check email except at certain times most definitely doesn't work. Self-restraint DOES NOT WORK. The quick-hit of email responsiveness is too addictive. You know what I mean, right? If I'm not doing anything else, at least I'm performing a virtual persona of productivity. <br />
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Suffice to say, Boomerang is your solution if you suffer from something similar. Every time I have that impulse to check email on my phone: too bad! Every time I want to stop grading papers so I can check email (it's so much more interesting, no?), too bad! Every time I want to avoid my children's requests to see if more urgent requests are transmitting online, too bad! Every time I want to avoid taking out the trash, too bad! Every time I want to pretend I'm so important in front of somebody who intimidates me, too bad! <br />
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I just simply must do something else with myself than open up my fucking phone. It's brilliant.<br />
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Boomerang is also so genius because of the language it uses on the button it highjacks your email interface with-- "Pause"/"Unpause." When you're in a "Pause" timeframe, Boomerang takes over your email and lets you know! You can override the pause, and unplug the dam. If you make the fateful decision to click on "Unpause", then God save your soul. A little time clock thing will start, and, like a bomb going off, you'll start to see your inbox fill up. Boomerang makes it hard to open the floodgates, discouraging you to make that decision whimsically. The psychology of this is perfect for me. I can't easily unpause on my phone; I have to be on my computer to do so. The dam is breachable, but it's not easy. Your interface is always reminding you to "Pause" again.<br />
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Let's pause on this idea of pause. I have read several books on the value of the sabbath, the pause built into our rituals. I have read at length about how our current work ethos punishes pausers. Extract labor, extract labor, extract labor-- to think of this in Karl Marx's terms. The interstitial moments, when nothing is happening, where nothing is taking place, have no value in contemporary life. My loved ones send me articles cut out about how we need a pause from technology. I find beautiful articles in Buddhism magazines about the detriments of technological distraction. I "get" why my email addiction is a problem. But I haven't been able to translate that knowledge into action because, frankly, I'm weak when it comes to discipline and will power. Don't even ask about how much wine I drink, or the egregiousness of excuses I can muster to justify getting an iced mocha on any given day. <br />
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For a weak soul like me, Boomerang is some kind of savior. I'm sure I sound like a proselytizing fiend, and I'm not getting paid to write this. I genuinely want to share my story with you, dear reader, of an addiction solved and a soul saved from the torturous drip, drip, drip of the email inbox.<br />
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I'm currently exploring its beauty, and wondering whether I can manufacture the kind of will power required to do what Boomerang does for me. I'm also wondering why Google hasn't already created this functionality.... Anyway, sorry if I misled anybody, and get ready for that beautiful blue "Unpause" button to just go away.<br />
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I think I'll pay, as my friend Janelle says, because it's like you're getting your money's worth in email vacation!<br />
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Might there be some long-term good for progressives amid the horror?<br />
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For the record: I was one of those people who watched the 2016 election unfold into a lonely night of sleepless dystopia. I have acquired a new series of anxiety conditions related to Trump: hives, anxiety, depression, etc. You know the drill. I am a die-hard progressive and am disgusted and horrified and mostly <i>heartbroken</i> by the fraction of America that elected this beast. <br />
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But I'm starting to get it. Even though I don't like it. Or agree with it. I'm starting to get it. We all need to start GETTING IT, even if we don't like it.<br />
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And, of course, as an academic, I am trying to pull myself outside of the vicissitudes of popular political media to ask "how is culture changing right under our noses? What's going on that people aren't talking about?"<br />
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Although I fundamentally disagree with the whole "empathy" bandwagon that liberals have espoused since Trump won, I do now for the first time understand (even though I disagree with) the logic of the so-called Trump base. My politics always end up on the other side of them, but I'm starting to appreciate the "art of the deal," the irreverence to partisan status quo modus operandi, and the flashy political theatrics that constantly contradict his actions. <br />
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I was one of those privileged white people who didn't really recognize the shitstorm that was the race situation in American before Trump (B.T.). I always understood that our wars, our prosperity, our definition of America had to do with the oppression of all kinds of people, and that this continues today. But what is new A.T (After Trump) for this one liberal academic is a sense that I have to take these other viewpoints seriously, even if I don't agree with them. I am now reading <i>Strangers in Their Own Lands</i>, along with <i>Between the World and Me--</i>not because I believe these two perspectives are relativistically all equally "right," (like "violence on all sides"), but because I do think that if we're going to move toward a more liberal society, we're going to need to engage these Trump supporters at their own terms. <br />
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In other words, what would it take to get into the same rooms and conversations with these isolationist, afraid folks who now have been brought even more out into the light? It doesn't help us to get on our high horses, no matter how right they are. So, what does it require from us to listen responsibly? Calling out is all fine and well, but to what end? What are we trying to achieve?<br />
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I don't know about you, but I want to change minds, hearts, and souls. I think we have to figure out where our shared humanity is, instead of preach argumentation on a soapbox about our awesome liberal values.<br />
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Empathy is not the right word for this insight, and I am profoundly annoyed that popular discussion is so fixated on it. Look it up, people, that's not what a national identity or a democratic state is based on. Democracy is all about figuring out how to compromise amid differences. I can scream my views more loudly, but all it will get me is laryngitis.<br />
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The zero-sum-game logic of Trump's base has been around for a long time. He's not the problem. He's just the symptom, it goes without saying. Let's stop beating this dead horse. Let's stop talking about how crazy Trump is. Obviously, he is. But media that focuses on his craziness is missing his actual strategy, his actual actions. Media coverage of Trump needs to change entirely, instead of applying the same metrics for this guy as they have for presidents past. I'm not saying media should be inured to his craziness, but that they need to get much smarter about how they represent his craziness. Just shaking heads over his crazy ain't getting us anywhere. I'm getting tired of it.<br />
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Trump's craziness is not interesting to me, beyond the usual shock factor that has always boosted his ratings. I want to suggest that his swings and oscillations are totally consistent with each other, not signs of his eradic temperament. He is not, as liberals would like to think, and as pundits always tout in op-eds and late night shows, totally hypocritical. Or at least, that's not <i>just</i> it. To dismiss his craziness as such is a grave mistake. <br />
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We are now living in a world where his hypocrisies make sense; we need to catch up. <br />
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For example: tweeting blustery stuff against immigration immediately after hanging out with "Chuck and Nancy" doing some bipartisan deals with democrats is an example of his potential to actually change the political ground we all stand on-- in potentially very liberal ways. He doesn't care about allegiances; he cares most about his narcissism. This may actually work in our favor. <br />
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Not to mention the way he's brought some conversations to the fore, and shaken up even the conservatives. They have had to jump partisan ship to distance themselves from him. Take Lindsay Graham, Lisa Murkowski, or John McCain, just as examples. What will Trump do to the GOP? I'm actually titillated to watch.<br />
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I wish pundits and news reporters would stop describing his inconsistencies as craziness-- it just fuels partisanship and the divisiveness in this country. Trump shaking one hand while yanking the other's leg makes total sense; it is not hypocritical or two-faced. It's precisely what he means by "the art of the deal" and "draining the swamp." Hang out with Nancy one day, and Steve (Miller? Bannon?) the next. Keep us wondering. Is banishing Bannon part of his larger strategy? Probably. <br />
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I am the biggest fan of the liberal news media, but the fact that they keep stomping moral high ground about Trump instead of seeing the genius of his strategy to play all sides is a sign that they may indeed need to improve. There is new evidence out that media focused on "the negative" of Hillary's campaign more than his, and that the media handed him this election. His assaults on the media are a brilliant way to distance himself from that debt, eh?<br />
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Obviously Trump is flipping the finger to the whole system, and regardless of his actual stances, this is why he has a base of people who love him. I can't believe I'm going to say it, but I also sort of love him for it. "Screw you. And you. And you." He hates Paul Ryan as much as he hates CNN. They're <i>all</i> missing the point. Break the rules, throw everything into the air and see where it lands.<br />
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Trump isn't really a die-hard ideologue or Republican. His ego may actually work in liberals' favor sometimes, and that he has no loyalty to Republicans. He wants to piss them off too. How might this all work out well for liberal progressive agendas?<br />
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There are some interesting possibilities, and I'm surprised more pundits aren't talking about them. Yes, he's appalling and makes me want to throw up and cry all the time. What is happening to the American dream? Going to hell, yes.<br />
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I do have an American Studies training, so this is actually important to me. What "we" stand for as a nation-- and all our historical hypocrisies-- is important to me. But I wonder if it's worth getting over my response to his demeanor (wanting to throw up), in order to stand back and watch a bit, and see how these pieces all fall down.<br />
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Republicans like Flake, McCain, and even Graham may turn more liberal than we've ever seen, and just to appease their own fans! What a radical thought!<br />
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Republicans may decide it's better to go with pro-choice, or pro-immigration, or pro-liberal-thing-of-your-choice in order to shore up the reactionary tide against Trump. Politics might actually trump partisanship-- finally! When it becomes acceptable for Republicans to support climate scientists and DACA supporters, you know Trump is reworking politics in fascinating ways that may actually benefit liberal agendas.<br />
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Middle of the road Republicans are going to look downright liberal compared to Trump, but so too will middle of the road politicians be held to a "higher" standard than they were before. If Trump can be the consummate hypocritical narcissistic ever to walk the planet, but still see the benefit in screwing off all his party-liners in order to "make a deal," then perhaps we're not fully in the apocalypse yet.<br />
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Let's pay attention to the deals, not the swill coming out of this man's mouth, pores, and ass. It's hard, I know, because he is truly abhorrent on so many levels. But culture is shifting under our noses and feet as we sit here agape at his boorishness. The chits may fall in interesting places that liberal progressives might take great advantage of, if we're paying attention, and if we're not so horrified by what he does to women's pussies. He may very well drain the swamp, and for the better, moving even right-winged folks more left in an effort to distance themselves from him.<br />
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Don't stop protesting. Don't stop calling your congresspeople, organizing your communities, mustering passion where you never thought it existed before. I'm not trying to downplay the urgency of the times. But I do think, if you're a progressive, you must be squirming in your seat with glee just a little about the ways that he pisses off his base, other GOP folks, the usual suspects, almost as much as he pisses us off. <br />
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