33 Comics Tagged "JESSMM" (page 1 of 2)

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“Embracing Unrest” by Dr. Sandra Parker

Book link. I have based my understanding of the importance of  welcoming and being “unsettled” on Dr. Sandra Parker’s theory an practice around embracing unrest. I encourage you…

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Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada

Book link. Canada has never had an “Indian problem” but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to be Settler? And why does it…

totem pole on plain brown background with red stripe

Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

Book link. Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling…

BIPOC folks sitting for a photo with white cutouts where there heads would be

Listening to Images

by Tina M Campt Book link. In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed…

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Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

by Legacy Russell (2020) Book link. A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology The divide between the digital and the…

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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

by Tyson Yunkaporta Book link. A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money,…

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Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

by Julietta Singh Book link. Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers…

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Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations

by Corey Snelgrove, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, and Jeff Corntassel Article PDF attached Abstract Our goal in this article is to intervene and disrupt current contentious debates regarding the…

evocative Indigenous line drawings on batik purple background

Research and Reconciliation

by Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen, and Lindsay DuPré Book link. “It is the spirit of story that moves through the world of being and the world of…

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This Place: 150 Years Retold

by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Author), Sonny Assu (Author), Brandon Mitchell (Author), Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley (Author), Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley (Author), David A. Robertson (Author), Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Author), Jen Storm (Author), Richard…

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Bargaining for Indigenization of the Academy

“Indigenous knowledge is rarely acquired through written documents, but is, rather, a worldview adopted through living, listening and learning in the ancestral languages and within the contexts of…

Abstract profile of woman facing night sky with planets. Dark blues, reds and black swirls.

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

by Resmaa Menakem (2017) In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The…

Haida art - Hummingbird

4/4 The Flight of the Hummingbird

The fourth quarter of the story … ………………………………………….. The other animals watched Dukdukdiya’s tiny body fly against the enormous fire, and they were frightened. They called out to…

Haida art - Hummingbird

3/4 The Flight of the Hummingbird

Third quarter of the story … ………………………………………….. The other animals watch Dukdukdiya’s tiny body fly against the enormous fire, and they were frightened. They called out to the…

Haida art - Hummingbird

2/4 The Flight of the Hummingbird

Second quarter of the story … ………………………………………….. Only Dukdukdiya, the little hummingbird, would not abandon the forest. Dukdukdiya flew quickly to the stream. She picked up a single…

Haida art - hummingbird

1/4 Flight of the Hummingbird

First quarter of the story … …………………………………………… Here is the story of the great forest that caught on fire. The terrible fire raged and burned. All of the…

Session #1 – What’s in our garden today?

In our first session, we will do warmup comic “statio”. Then do a round of introductions. I will give a brief introduction to the UN-settling LAb. Then we…

Cartoon flowers with words planted underneath. Cloud and sun over green grass.

Session #2 – What’s in our garden today?

Today we will warmup by listening to the first quarter of the Hummingbird story and showing a scene from our personal lives that connects with the story. unsettled:…

Session #3 – What’s in our garden today?

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Cartoon flowers with words planted underneath. Cloud and sun over green grass.

Session #4 – What is in our garden today?

We explored the concept of what it means to “do UNSETTLING” (in the colonial meaning of the word). After discussion, we arrived at the practice of taking time…