#audra simpson

[soapster13]

I need help finding Cabaret West End audios/videos

Looking for:

*Cabaret with Aimee Lou Wood and John McCrea

*Cabaret with Callum Scott Howells and Madeline Brewer

Cabaret with Fra Fee and Amy Florence Lennox

Cabaret with Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho

* = most wanted

I have to trade: (all are audios)

Wicked (West End): November 2023, Alexia Khadime as Elphaba, Lisa-Anne Wood u/s Glinda

Six (West End): May 2024, featuring 3 alternates: Hannah Lowther as Howard, Naomi Alade as Boleyn, Gabriella Stylianou as Seymour. Main cast: Nikki Bentley as Aragon, Reca Oakley as Cleves, Janiq Charles as Parr

Romeo & Juliet (West End): May 2024, Tom Holland as Romeo and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet

Rogers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert: My Favorite Things: December 2023, featuring: Aaron Tveit, Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, Daniel Dae Kim, Audra McDonald, Julien Ovenden, Lucy St. James, Marisha Wallace, Patrick Wilson. Special Guests: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rita Moreno

Les Misérables (West End): April 2024, Milan van Waardenburg as Jean Valjean, Stewart Clark as Javert

Cabaret (West End): February 2024, Cara Delevingne as Sally Bowles and Luke Treadaway as the Emcee

Cabaret (Broadway): Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee, Gayle Rankin as Sally Bowles, Bebe Neuwirth as Fraulein Schneider

Hadestown (West End): May 2024, Dónal Finn as Orpheus, Grace Hodgett Young as Eurydice and Melanie La Barrie as Hermes

Hadestown (Broadway): July 2024, Jordan Fisher as Orpheus and Maia Reficco as Eurydice

A multitude of Moulin Rouge Audios

Moulin Rouge (West End): Jamie Muscato’s Last show (Oct 14, 2023)

Jamie Muscato in Moulin Rouge September 2024 (good quality audio)

U/S Christian Davide Fienauri May 2024

Dom Simpson as Christian November 2023

Broadway Moulin rouge

Aaron Tveit, Natalie Mendoza May 2022

Derek Klena and Tasia Jungbauer as Satine May 2023

Misc Moulin Rouge

Boston 2019 with Aaron Tveit as Christian and Karen Olivo as Satine

Tour: Connor Ryan as Christian

Please please let me know if you have any Cabaret west end audios/videos!! 🫶🫶

[arwainian]

Reading This Week 2024 #9-19: catching up on the past few months

Hm. Well. I'm not judging myself because I fell behind on tracking my reading for a reason. School got intense! And I'm back to trying to track my reading now because I turned in my last project of the semester, and I should get this out of the way before I start up a summer job. Because this is going to be a long one I'm going to break my own formatting a bit and start with my ongoing/current reads and my thoughts on them. Then I'm going to put the as-exhaustive-as-I-can-tolerate list of completed reading under a readmore so I don't completely kill your dash

Current/Ongoing Reads:

True Biz by Sara Nović I'm over halfway through this and I'm having trouble not blazing through it at lightspeed because the chapters are short and readable. It's basically about three people at a school for the Deaf in Ohio, two students, one new, one very entrenched, and then also the headmistress. I'm endeared by the characters. I find the interludes between narrative chapters that are essentially fun fact sheets on ASL and Deaf culture interesting, especially in a book where a lot of the dialogue is translated and transliterated ASL, but honestly it feels jarring! It makes it feel like its trying really hard to be a Good and Informative book about Deaf people for a hearing reader, instead of letting itself exist as a good and relatable book for and about Deaf people, as written by a Deaf author. I am reading this for the Queer Lit book club that I attend.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, audiobook narrated by Rachel Dulude Very early on in the audiobook for this. Reading for my SFF bookclub. One of the people there apparently really dislikes this book which will make for an interesting discussion. Off the top of my head thoughts it has that tone that's really endemic to current SFF that I don't really like, so we'll see if this book gets past that for me once plot and character arcs start kicking in

Reading plans:

as the above indicates I'm trying to keep up with my local monthly SFF and Queer Lit bookclubs! I'm also going to be trying to read along with Shelved by Genre's Junji Ito unit like I did for their readthrough of Earthsea, gonna dip my toes into some horror. I'm going to try finishing Living Alone by Stella Benson which I was supposed to read for a class earlier this year but I read half of and then abandoned. A friend has recommended I check out The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu so I've gotten that out from the library, and I have a whole bunch of books on my book shelf that I actually own and need to start getting through now that I'm not in classes everyday

The last 2 and a half months of reading I did:

Read: "Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body" by Siobhan Somerville The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin, audiobook narrated by Rob Inglis The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, audiobook narrated by Rob Inglis Ch. 1, 13-14 of Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis, audiobook narrated by Derek Jacobi excerpt from Bored of the Rings "The Hero is a Hobbit" by W.H. Auden On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Way of the House Husband, Vol. 10 by Kousuke Oono Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler "Sovereignty" by Joanne Barker "The Sovereignty of Critique" by Audra Simpson "The Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power" by Audre Lorde "Stolen from Our Bodies: First Nations Two-Spirits/Queers and the Journey to a Sovereign Erotic" by Qwo-Li Driskill "Why I couldn't resist buying Monkman's notorious 'Hanky Panky'" by Howard A. Levitt "The Provocations of Kent Monkman" by Nick Martin "'Indians on Top': Kent Monkman's Sovereign Erotics" by June Scuduler "'A Particular Kind of Romantic Entanglement': Kent Monkman's Nation to Nation (2020) and the Limits of Canadian Political Pornography" by Eric Weichel "Our Coming In Stories: Cree Identity, Body Sovereignty, and Gender Self Determination" by Alex Wilson Intimacies by Katie Kitamura "Naturalism, Humanitarianism, and the Fiction of War" by Eleni Coundouriotis several essays by Barbara Godard on translation "Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide" by Andrea Smith Introduction, Chapters 1 & 4 and Conclusion of View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation by Nguyen Tan Hoang A Kiss that Stains the Innocence by Emu Soutome Dark Princess by W.E.B. Du Bois Justin Chin: Selected Works edited by Jennifer Joseph I Think Our Son Is Gay, Vol. 5 by Okura "Games, Storytelling, and Breaking the String" by Greg Costiyan sections of "Of Dice and Men" by David Ewalt sections of "Dungeons and Desktops" The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, audiobook narrated by Robin Miles "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin "The Ones Who Stay and FIght" by N.K. Jemisin "'The Ones who Stay and Fight': NK Jemisin's Afrofuturist Variation on a Theme by Ursula K. Le Guin" by Mark A. Tabone Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi "Naturally Queer" by Myra J. Hird "Animal Trans" by Myra J. Hird "Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire" by Dianne Chisholm "Non-white Reproduction and Same-sex Eroticism: Queer Acts against Nature" by Andil Gosine "Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and EcoNormativity" by Giovanna Di Chiro Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin "Decolonization" by Hokulani K. Aikau "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang Luke & Billy Finally Get a Clue by Cat Sebastian Severance by Ling Ma "The Scale of Realism in the Global novel" by Debjani Ganguly "Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo" by June L. Reich "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A theory and Politics of Rape Prevention" by Sharon Marcus Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film by Tanya Horeck sections of Fantasy and Mimesis by Kathryn Hume The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter The Daughter of Odren by Ursula K. Le Guin

Skimmed: excerpts from History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault "Sex, Power, and the Politics of Identity" by Michel Foucault "Right of Death" by Michel Foucault "Ooo, Those Awful Orcs" by Edmund Wilson "Epic Pooh" by Michael Moorcook "The Hobbit" and "Tolkien's Lord of the Rings"from On Stories by C.S. Lewis "Child and the Shadow" by Ursula K. Le Guin "Tolkien and Modernity" by Anna Vaninskaya Prismatic Reader by Nayoung Kim Introduction to Reclaiming Power and Place: the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigneous Women and Girls excerpts of MMIWG2SLGBTTQIA+ National Action: Final Report by Lezard et al. Introduction and Ch. 1 of Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Sedgwick "The Future is Kid Stuff" from No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman "Low Theory (Introduction)" from The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam "Introduction: Beginning with Stigma" from Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory by Heather Love Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade "Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization" by M. Jacqui Alexander "The Erotics of Sovereignty" by Mark Rifkin "Race, Caste, and Nation" by Nico Slate excerpt of Ready Player One by E. Cline excerpt of Quag Keep by Andre Norton "I'm in love with someone that doesn't exist" by Annika Waern "What If: Planet Earth as an Actor" by Mathias Thaler "Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature" by Stacey Alaimo Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles "Reclaiming Indigenous Sexual Being: Sovereignty and Decolonization Through Sexuality" by Madeline Burns Introduction and "Aloha in Drag" from Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance by Stephanie Nohelani Teves Introduction to Indigenous Performances: Upsetting the Terrains of Settler Colonialism by Mishuana Goeman "Xoq'it-ch'iswa:l On her - They Beat Time, a Flower Dance Is Held for Her: Revitalization of the Hupa Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremony" from We are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies by Cutcha Risling Baldy "The Soveriegnty of Indigenous Peoples' Bodies" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson "The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Non Western Feminist" by Uma Narayan "Black Feminist Epistemology" by Patricia Hill Collins "From Truth/Reality to Knowledge/Power: Taking a Feminist Standpoint" by Caroline Ramazanoglu "Escape from Epistemology?: The Impact of Postmodern Thought on Feminist Methodology" by Caroline Ramazanoglu "Re-imagining Feminist Theory: Transgender Identity, Feminism, and the Law" by Graham Mayeda "A Black Feminist Statement" from the Combahee River Collective "Critical What What? A theoretical systematic review of 15 years of Critical Race Theory Research in Social Studies Education" by Christopher L. Busey, Kristen E Duncan, and Tianna Dowie-Chin "The Marginalization of Harriet's Daughters: Perpetual Crisis, Misdirected Blame, and the Enduring Urgency of INtersectionality" by Kimberle Crenshaw "Colorblind Intersectionality" by Devon Barbado "Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis" by Sumi Cho, Kimberle Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall "Sick Woman Theory" by Johanna Hedva "The Project of Ableism" by Fiona Kuman Campbell "Disability and the Normal Body of the (Native) Citizen" by Suan Schweik "Freaks and Queers" by Eli Clare "The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A conversation" by Angela Y. davis and Dylan Rodrguez "Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms" by Elizabeth Whalley & Colleen Hackett "The Deadly Fight over Feelings" by Rebecca Wanzo "Disband, Disempower, and Disarm: Amplifying the theory and practice of Police Abolition" by Meghan G. McDowell and Luis A Fernandez Introduction to Rape and Representation edited by Lynn A Higgins & Brenda R. Silver "The Word of Unbinding" by Ursula K. Le Guin "The Rule of Names" by Ursula K. Le Guin

if you made it through all that you deserve a cookie

[anniekoh]

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Fatal Naming Rituals by Billy-Ray Belcourt

In narratives that hinge on proving our humanness, Indigenous people sit stilled in the role of the described. As the described, our words are pit against us.

We might conceptualize colonialism as in part a system of clarity in the visual sense, as a structural and structuring articulation of Indigenous life so as to refuse it the promise of freedom, to refuse us a world-making kinship that was in opposition to the world-engulfing effects of racial capitalism. We were and still are made to exist in a visual field in which we are barred from democratizing the felt knowledge of our dignity.22“Felt knowledge” is a concept that Dian Million uses to signal ways of thinking that emerge from the context of emotional experience. See Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights. In Mohawk Interruptus: Indigenous Life Across the Borders of Settler States, Audra Simpson traces the discursive and political beginnings of "the savage” to the earliest moments of contact at which settlers did the terrible and terror-making work of classification so as to acclimatize the Indigenous to an atmosphere of ideas they had transported with them from Europe. Today, we hear the resonances of this fatal naming ritual repeated and made anew.

Billy-Ray Belcourt https://billy-raybelcourt.com/public-scholarship

What do we mean by #QueerIndigenousEthics?

Settler Structures of Bad Feeling

[radio-rebel-477]

Trigger Warning: Mention of S*xual Assault and R*pe

This article details cases of horrific s*xual assault and r*pe on Israeli women in which Hamas militants are deemed to be the initial perpetrators and lists the UN as a secondary accomplice for its failure to acknowledge gender-based violence. Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a legal scholar and international women’s rights activist who had previously been a member of the UN Convention on Discrimination Against Women, suggests that Hamas planned to use mass s*xual violence against Israeli women as a weapon of war. After an examination of graphic footage and witness accounts of assault survivors and first responders, which display a similar pattern of mutilation, she concludes that “the concentration of cases in less than a day, in numerous locations, could not have been unless there had not been a plan to use s*xual violence as a weapon of war.” It is important to mention that although there is an emphasis on violence towards women, Israeli people of all ages, including men, have also been exposed to similar attacks.

In response to the accusation, Hamas has “rejected and strongly denounced” the report of abuse and has stated that such claims are “lies'' facilitated by Israel in order to distort the “humane” treatment Hamas has extended to the hostages. In the eight weeks since the attack, the UN has been pressed by the protests of many Israeli women’s rights and legal activists, leading the organization to issue a statement tracing along the idea of the atrocities. However, Israel has refused to cooperate with an ongoing UN commission of inquiry in the area, which included s*xual violence on its docket, due to concerns about bias. This has led to tensions between Israel and UN officials, where the chair of the inquiry, Navi Pillay, summarizes that in order to give survivors a hearing and due justice, “All they [Israel] have to do is let us in."

I will be honest when I say that reading this article was quite upsetting to me because, although, in the back of my head, I knew such terrible things existed, seeing them on paper cemented everything into reality. We often acknowledge the general plight of the people during conflict; however, the abuses of people are not monolithic, and some groups are targeted more viciously than others. I must also admit that I never really understood why women are more likely to experience bodily violence during conflicts until I read Audra Simpson’s “The State Is a Man” (HIST-358) in which she details modern structural violence towards Native women as a vehicle for continued colonization. Although the Israel-Hamas situation is nowhere near the same as European colonization of North America and current issues, Simpson’s argument regarding women’s bodies as a platform for politics still stands to be relevant.

In short, and in the context of Native women, Simpson suggests that [Native] women’s bodies are synonymous with land and its resources, and they are targeted due to their ability to reproduce and further a people. The modern politics of the “other” allow its people to coalesce, and to the abusing party, it serves as a bitter reminder of their failure to decimate and eradicate the “other.” Therefore, if politics comes from the people and the people come from women, the women must be taken out first, and subsequent politics will fall apart in its wake. Yes, the situation here is not the same, and the argument can be applied to both Israel and Hamas. However, in both cases, the victims are still women, which is what I would like to emphasize: Brutality towards women is inherently political and horrifically essential in order to break down a people.

*Note: This is not an argument for anyone’s indigeneity; it is a concept that I think can be transferred to understand why gendered violence happens the way it does.

[love-my-self23333]

- A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt (essays/memoir) *fantastic read!*

- No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred by Klee Benally (Diné) *currently unavailable to order but will be re-printed as soon as possible (website linked below)*

- Talking to the Ground by Douglas Preston (obligatory not a native author if I’m remembering correctly, focuses on the Diné people)

- Send a Runner by Edison Eskeets and Jim Kristofic (commemorates The Long Walk)

- Code Talker by Chester Nez (WWII)

- The Scalpel and the Silver Bear by Lori Arviso Alvord (about the first Diné woman surgeon)

- Earthdivers, Vol 1: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones (graphic novel; fiction) *all of his fiction is great tbh; I adored My Heart is a Chainsaw*

- There, There by Tommy Orange (fiction)

- Dog Flowers by Daniel Geller (memoir)

- Mohawk Interrupts by Audra Simpson (a powerful philosophical critique of colonialism from an indigenous perspective)

- Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo (memoirs)

- The Fast Red Road by Stephen Graham Jones (like Blood Meridian meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!)

If anyone has any other books from Native authors they'd like to recommend, particularly nonfiction books, I'd love to hear them.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

JULY Celebrity Birthdays & Events

All Month Long: Disability Pride Month: Disabled Characters Masterlist | National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

July Birthdays

Cancer Stars (June 21-July22) 1: Storm Reid 2: Vanessa Lee Chester 3: Audra McDonald 5: Alyah Chanelle Scott 4: Edmonia Lewis, Laci Mosley 5: Ellen Bendu 6: Della Reese, Little Miss Flint, Tia Mowry 7: Cree Summer, Akira Golz 8: Riele Downs, Taja V. Simpson 9: Shanice Williams, Lolo Spencer 10: Angel Haze, Kelly McCreary, Skye P. Marshall 11: Lil’ Kim, Aida Osman, Annarah Cymone, Aerial Hull (Big Swole) 12: Lisa Nicole Carson 14: Alisha Wainwright, Angela Lewis, Geretta Geretta, Kelly Jo Minter 15: Shari Headley, Kelcey Mawema 16: Sydelle Noel, Robinne Lee, Tenika Davis 17: Amanda Warren, Asjha Cooper, Diahann Carroll 18: Anne-Marie Johnson, Taylor Russell 20: Paige Hurd 22: Lonette McKee, Parisa Fitz-Henley

Leo Stars (July 23-Aug 22) 23: Pippa Bennett Warner, Rochenda Sandall 24: Brenda Crichlow, Herizen Guardiola 25: Iman, Jajube Mandiela 26: Grace Byers, Tembi Locke 27: Gabrielle Graham, Jordan Alexander, Tahirah Sharif, Savannah Smith 29: Sweet LD, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Sasha Frost 30: Vivica A. Fox, Zolee Griggs 31: Wunmi Mosaku, Bukamina Cebekhulu

July Events:

10: TEDDY. BEAR. PICNIC. DAY. | 13: Embrace Your Geekness Day | International Nonbinary People’s Day | 15: JACKIE WASHINGTON DAY | 16-27: African Women’s Liberation Week | 17: World Emoji Day | National Lipstick Day

[islanderscaper]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 📖 Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson (Duke University Press).

[jacobwren]

Note the language of “shall” and become”: these formulations are both normative and future oriented and are premised upon the belief that the past shall be made dynamic by the demands of the present and the hopes of the future.

Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

[irwonder]

Despite its racial undertones, [the] 'angry Indians' stereotype is useful for understanding what [American Indian Movement] was trying to accomplish and how they became criminalized for it. AIM consisted primarily of Natives 'off the reservation.' 'Off the reservation' is an American English idiom that took on murderous meaning with the creation of Indian reservations. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the phrase as meaning 'to deviate from what is expected or customary.' The expression is also current in military and political spheres to describe someone who defies orders, who is unpredictable and therefore ungovernable. Those who 'go off the reservation' are rogues or mavericks in military jargon—the ones who 'cross the wire' of military bases (called 'reservations') or enter hostile territory (called 'Indian Country'). For Natives, to 'go off the reservation' refers to those who historically refused reservation life or refused to respect its borders, where they could be contained and managed. Those willfully crossing borders were considered renegades, outlaws, or hostiles and were usually hunted down and summarily shot, hanged, or imprisoned. It is no coincidence the phrase arose from the language of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars and the murderous consequences inflicted upon those who refused reservation life. In this way, to go 'off the reservation' is to question territory and sovereignty, and a political practice. To evoke Kahnawà:ke Mohawk scholar Audra Simpson, Native trespass into the domain of what is considered 'settled' territory calls into question the legitimacy of settlement—asserting that indeed it is anything but settled. In other words, Natives off the reservation are the unfinished business of settler colonialism—the ones who refused to disappear, refused to sell their land, and refused to quit being Indians.

Nick Estes, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

[wocinsolidarity]

“I think it’s in all of our best interests to take on gender violence as a core resurgence project, a core decolonization project, a core of any Indigenous mobilization…This begins for me by looking at how gender is conceptualized and actualized within Indigenous thought because it is colonialism that has imposed an artificial gender binary in my nation.” —Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Despite our profound contributions to our own communities and the nation as a whole, Native American stories and voices have been long ignored by mainstream social culture. Native Americans—and Native American women, trans, and nonbinary folks in particular—face a unique set of oppressions, including the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism. Settler colonialism works to erase Indigenous people, both literally and culturally: from physical war and violence, to removal from lands, to forced assimilation. These histories continue to render Native Americans and Native issues nearly invisible to the national eye. Even within intersectional feminist discussions and organizing, I find myself thinking, where are the radical Indigenous feminists? Why are our stories not valued and our voices not more amplified?

This erasure may lull us into believing that there simply aren’t Indigenous feminists who are as prolific as Audre Lorde or Gloria Anzaldúa. But this is far from the truth. From Sydney Freeland, a Navajo filmmaker who focuses on stories about trans communities, to Sarah Deer, a Muscogee (Creek) lawyer fighting violence against Native women, these activists, writers, creators, and scholars fight for justice for Indigenous people and for the voices of their communities.

[piscesmoonproblems]

“Theresa Spence’s appearance, her fleshy appearance, was itself a site of ire by commentators on-line, in twitter flame wars, and in print journalism. She was too fat! We heard in different ways, over and over again, to be sincere, to be  what she was supposed to be, which was a person in starvation. Yet her  “excess” flesh, flesh that exceeds the western, normative Body Mass Index  (BMI) of under 25, itself  defies  a logic of genocide and in this, settler domination. Why this link between fat, her fat in particular, and a resistance or refusal of domination? Because what she is required to do, with or without the starvation, is die. In fact, the lives of all Indian women in Canada is an anomaly because since the 1870s they have been legally mandated to disappear, in various forms – either through the Indian Act’s previous instantiation of Victorian marriage rules whereby an Indian woman who married a non-Indian man lost her Indian status (her legal rights based identity) and as such her right to reside on her reserve. With this legal casting out was the casting out as well of the possibility of transmitting that status to her children, a loss as well of governmental power with Indigenous governance itself, the political form that her body and mind signified.”

[ashtonderoy]

Ashton Deroy's review Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson

Ashton Deroy’s review Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson

Like Ashton Deroy’s page on Facebook.

I am sorry but if it wasn’t for my complete ignorance in perception to Mohawk Political culture I wouldn’t of picked up this Political theory book. Admittedly had I known the contents of this book I would not have bought it. This is going to be less of a quantifiable reviewand more of an emotional review. Sometimes we flip the script and just get real on…

[itsaaudraw]

i said you’re gonna watch this tape

[frogsman]

“What then is tradition, and who makes it? Whose tradition matters? What does culture stand in for? Can the sovereignty of people in scenes of rapid, sometimes violent dispossession be rendered ethnologically?” this is good

[notes-slowroots]

Refusal holds on to a truth, structures this truth as stance through time, as its own structure and comingling with the force of presumed and inevitable disappearance and operates as the revenge of consent—the consent to these conditions, to the interpretation that this was fair, and the ongoing sense that this is all over with. When I deploy the term revenge, I am hailing historical consciousness... Revenge does not mean individuated harm inflicted on a perpetrator in a transaction that renders justice. In my usage here, I mean avenging a prior of injustice and pointing to its ongoing life in the present. This refusal to let go, to roll over, to play this game, points to its presumptive falsity of contractual thinking.

Audra Simpson, "Consent's Revenge." Cultural Anthropology 31.3 (2016, 330)

[wahbegan]

I really don’t have the...what’s the word for amount you can be arsed? I don’t have enough of that to keep replying to every dipshit coming at me and also my followers will start getting mad lmfao but i’m just gonna post the quote again maybe keep it pinned for the day in case anyone hate-lurks my blog from that post

Anyway, this is from Dr. Adrienne Keene, referring to J.K. Rowling bringing up Skinwalkers in Fantastic Beasts

So, this is where I’m going to perform what Audra Simpson calls an “ethnographic refusal,” “a calculus ethnography of what you need to know and what I refuse to write in.” In her work with her own community, she asks herself the questions: “what am I revealing here and why? Where will this get us? Who benefits from this and why?”

I had a long phone call with one of my friends/mentors today, who is Navajo, asking her about the concepts Rowling is drawing upon here, and discussing how to best talk about this in a culturally appropriate way that can help you (the reader, and maybe Rowling) understand the depths to the harm this causes, while not crossing boundaries and taboos of culture. What did I decide? That you don’t need to know. It’s not for you to know. I am performing a refusal.

What you do need to know is that the belief of these things (beings?) has a deep and powerful place in Navajo understandings of the world. It is connected to many other concepts and many other ceremonial understandings and lifeways. It is not just a scary story, or something to tell kids to get them to behave, it’s much deeper than that. My own community also has shape-shifters, but I’m not delving into that either.

What happens when Rowling pulls this in, is we as Native people are now opened up to a barrage of questions about these beliefs and traditions (take a look at my twitter mentions if you don’t believe me)–but these are not things that need or should be discussed by outsiders. At all. I’m sorry if that seems “unfair,” but that’s how our cultures survive.