Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur

Agreed.

True. We’re racist because we’re raised in a racist society.

Antiracism is a practice, not a boundary that you get to choose a side & be finished with the work.

Try to improve, do your homework, be gentle, stay curious, & listen. Make new friends!

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
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*we’re self-inflicting. Ugh autocorrect makes me crazy.

When the numbers of people caught in that frosty grip of authoritarianism crop up I am reminded again of how many souls are lost-traumatized-removed in terms of how many 9/11s or Pearl Harbors were self-inflicting. To respond with resistance is logical.

Where, I wonder, is our collective grief?

Of course, the wonderful magical thing about Odo, Chief of Security, was that once he knew himself more completely he could shapeshift into absolutely anything he dreamed up. “Be a chair, Odo” started as oppression until the freedom of his true being could transform into his superpower. Lucky Kira!

YouTube video by Eddie Izzard Eddie Izzard "Cake or Death" Sketch From Dress to Kill

Cunning use of flags.

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YouTube video by Asle Knudsen Trainspotting - Choose Life - Opening scene - HD WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Choose life over whatever the distraction might be for you.
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Native Peoples at Chicago’s World’s Fairs Chicago hosted two World’s Fairs, the 1893 “World’s Columbian Exposition” and the 1933 “Century of Progress International Exposition.” These fairs had a lasting

“They’ll put you in a zoo!”
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YouTube video by Jack Odo & Dr. Mora - They'll Put You in a Zoo (DS9)

"The link– was paradise. But it appears I'm not ready for paradise."
DS9’s Odo had to learn to love the alien in himself before he could live among the humanoids.
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October 31, 1938 MS Orson Welles press conference regarding War of... October 31, 1938 MS Orson Welles press conference regarding War of the Worlds controversy / New York City, New York, United States

Commuting to & from Princeton, I was endlessly delighted to pass Grover’s Mill every day. www.gettyimages.com/detail/video...

YouTube video by David Bowie David Bowie - Loving The Alien (Official Video)

“‘Alien’ came about because of the feeling that so much history is wrong – as is being rediscovered all the time – and that we base so much on the wrong knowledge that we’ve gleaned.” Bowie quoted in Rolling Stone, 1984
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Cognitive dissonance is so exhausting. The urgency of institutional critique only becomes more necessary.

Strive for alignment with the good you know innately to be true. Laugh at the ridiculous. Get in good trouble. Polite society is violent, do not be complicit. Be lighthearted. Choose life.

Remember: Apocalypse is a moment, an instant, an event, a time; Armageddon is a place.

Epistemic Violence and the Struggle for Moskitian Historical Memory Published in NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2025)

Full article: Epistemic Violence and the Struggle for Moskitian Historical Memory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

arte en las calles de Oaxaca

What an image this conjures! From Blix and Glimmer 2025, 5.

Spent a good portion of the day listening to David Greenberg’s biography of John Lewis, so also thinking hard about loving the oppressor. Being willing to suffer for justice but not for prejudice.

Now we have another project! Clearly I am not the first to go down this wormhole. What citations can y’all recommend?

Finally, another few searches in, I find the following:

Etymology
"Miskito" derives from the term Miskut uplikanan ("people of Miskut"). Miskut was a legendary Miskito patriarch or great leader. [citation needed]

Wikipedia confirms, the term mosquito derives from the Mosquito Coast, named for the [language named for the] Miskitu, which is rendered as Mosquito in Spanish. Indeed, several pages later, the term Miskito (in English) or Miskitu (in Miskitu) is the name of the language. Ok.

Curious, I search for the etymology of the word- to English from Spanish, I assume- but I don’t know if the term is a hispanization of Miskitu (the people) or if the term for the people is an exonym.

They provide such a neat and complete package, a mini ritual specialist flying around in misty places. 🦟

Lately, I have started to accept that mosquitoes serve today as the conveyance by which the tlaloqueh get fed their blood-sacrifice rather than expecting gringas like me to know how to open my tongue in order to soak paper streamers with blood to be burnt for the smoke to carry it up into the air.

Rather than falling asleep, instead I began to reminisce about all the wonderful places I’ve had the good fortune to spend time that sounded like this. Perhaps inevitably I began musing, of course, on the unseen ankle biters that send me scurrying away home again.

Tonight, struggling to fall asleep In anticipation of a long Monday reviewing assignments, I resorted to an ambient audio recording of rainfall at night in a tropical place singing with insects.

Such a snapshot of the field, all those voices no longer with us and so many baby faced pillars of my education. Still, the savior complex is so strong in the narrative that I chafe at our collective hubris. For clarification.

Inspired rewatching Breaking the Maya Code this afternoon. Frustrating as the whiteness is, the emphasis on collaboration and valuing unexpected types of expertise is so valuable. nightfirefilms.org/breaking-the...

Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5

Looking forward to getting into this new collection of essays by Alice Beck Kehoe.