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[maddalenafragnito]

Parenting and Pedagogy with Jo Bardsely and Maddalena Fragnito

In this episode we talk to Maddalena Fragnito, an artist involved in many collective projects and self organised spaces including Soprasotto a self organised preschool which she describes as a liberatory school based in Milan, and Jo Bardsley working both as a secondary school teacher and a union representative within the National Education Union in the UK.

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The Global Staffroom

The Global Staffroom is a live podcast hosted by Manual Labours (Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope) involving conversations and interviews with people about what it feels like to care, be cared for, not be able to care at work. What does ‘staff room’ mean to you? We are hoping the Global Staff Room will, over time, be a space to connect people from different workforces and geographies and that members can air their experiences and concerns with each other. We want to explore issues such as the architecture of home-work, racialised experiences of lockdown, emotional labour of care and health workers, social reproduction and remote working.

The Global Staffroom builds on Manual Labours Manual Building as Body in which the social reproduction of the institution was the site of most concern and struggle in which care and maintenance of the worker and between workers was overlooked and unsupported. Conversations around social reproduction at work were expanded upon within a series of workshops with workers without a staffroom or workplace. Questions of our extended reproductive systems led us to think about how can we connect up with a Global Staffroom of workers upon which our work depends on.

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[possession1981-moving]

my sister goes to one lecture about pedgogy for autistic children and suddenly SHE is lecturing ME about autism

[wrd2thewiise-blog]

Sexuality in Global Hip Hop

Sexuality in Hip Hop can be considered taboo if it’s not about a woman’s body. I say this because sexual orientation is not really spoken about within the hip hop community. A female who identify themselves as a lesbian or bisexual is welcomed and embraced in a normal manner. Heterosexual is the sexual orientation tagged to anyone else who doesn’t openly express being attracted to the same gender. A male who’s openly gay within the mainstream hip hop industry is rarely heard of because the possibly backlash they believe they may receive. Being gay is now starting to be accepted as a norm in recent years. A hip hop artist named Lil Nas X came out as being gay when his song ��Old Town Road” became a successful hit on the charts. He felt it was his duty to speak out on his sexuality once he had a big enough platform to inspire others and his fans (along with myself) supported and uplifted his decision to speak his truth along with the hip hop community. The transgender community is slowly being included. For example, a transgender named Sidney Star is an upcoming hip hop artist who joined the cast of Love & Hip Hop is actively pursing her career within the industry.

When you hear the word ‘sexuality’ what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Well, I think about sexual orientation and the female’s body. This is what got programmed in my head due to numerous conversations that arise when the word comes up. In the hip hop industry (well, the music industry in general but I’m narrowing down my focus) a female’s body has been determined by males. Trust me, it sounds weird to me too. Before female artists started to dominate the hip hop scene women were seen as sexual beings for the male pleasure. They were often depicted wearing little to none tight clothes, always in pursuit of the male while using their sexual prowess or showing off their body features (Petsche). Once female artists began flourishing the industry with their own poetic justice the standard for sexuality began evening out. Women started using males in the same way men used females for years. Female artists started to wear baggy clothing, appear fully covered and spit lyrics speaking on their stance against females just being sex objects. Since then women have been owning their sexuality in various ways some appearing fully clothed while others wear close to nothing on the screen. An artist that I will be focusing on for my hip hop pedgogy is Awkwafina. She defies the racial and gender boundaries by being an Asian female in the hip hop industry. She uses satire and humor to speak on the bias of sexuality while also embracing her own.

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[mac-mcdonald]

(1/2) oh god I hope you don't mind me venting, I just need to let this out.... so I have this white christian pedgogy teacher who has written books about the holocaust and she ALWAYS promotes her books when talking about jews and nazism and I thought that I could handle it because it's like she's giving us history lessons but today she crossed the fucking line :S she started talking about palestine and saying horrible things about arabs and how they're evil and celebrate when israelis die and

(2/2) I'm not very educated on this topic but like.. isn't it kinda the other way around?? idk she just talks about how anti-antisemitism is bad (and ofc I agree) but literally in the next minute she says racist/xenophobic shit?!? oh and it doesn't stop there, I'm pretty sure she sees homosexuality as a disease and she never mentions gay people when talking about the holocaust, and I just... I hate her so much but idk if I should say something and endanger my grade or just keep quiet :S

just hearing this story makes me anxious bc ive dealt with this exact same issue before ((actually twice before)) and it made me: drop out of my school once in 8th grade and then in 12th grade i had ridiculous amounts of anxiety every time my teacher talked about current events in the morning because he would skew all the news and spew his Ultra Conservative Agenda lmao good times

to give u a brief understanding of whats happening w arabs and israelis: at this very moment palestinians are being driven from their homeland with nowhere else to go and not a lot of countries in the middle east are helping out bc israel ((the state that’s driving palestinians out)) is backed and supported by countries like america for example so..... there’s really no way to stop them effectively atm even when theyre literally bombing and droning palestinians 

being anti-israeli (being against the imperialist nation of israel, y’know.... the people that are killing innocent palestinians) is not the same as being anti-semitic. there are jewish people who aren’t pro-israel obviously so being jewish is in no way being pro-israel that’s just... Not how it works lmao. i’m very much anti-israel and anti-zionist but that doesnt make me anti-semitic you get me??

so now that u know that, you can realistically do one of two things: ignore her remarks (i had to do this when my 12th grade teacher was being an actual zionist bc i only had a few months left of schoolwork to do and i didnt wanna cause any problems), or you can talk to your principal because what this teacher is doing is fucking racist and against the law (if u live in a place like america where teachers arent allowed to give their full fledged opinion on things like politics, religion, etc) like if u recorded her saying any of this shit you could potentially get her fired 

so idk it’s up to you to do whatever you deem necessary but if i were u i wouldn’t let this slide like idk if it’s just me bc i’m arab and this shit fucking stings when it’s being said by a professional who is supposed to be educating your peers but like....... that shit cant fly fuck ur teacher get her fired for me please

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

from Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

[fucktheory]

Speaking In Tongues

English isn't my first language.  It also wasn't my last. Is it yours?

When I get questions that are vague, and I ask for clarification, people often think I'm mocking them.  It's understood as a gesture of mastery, of an appeal to authority.  What people think I'm saying is this:  "I know what this word means, but I want to see if you know so I can catch you out."  This is what Sedgwick (and I) call "paranoid reading."

Here's what I'm actually saying to you:  "English isn't my first language, and I don't know if it's yours, and I don't know what books you read and what language you read them in, so let's make sure we're saying the same thing before we both waste our time and energy arguing about it."  Doesn't that make sense? 

Let me be perfectly honest - the single greatest weakness of the American educational system isn't economic, political, racial, or geographic:  it's linguistic.  Americans only speak one language:  money.  Let me explain.

If you're even remotely slightly vaguely Marxist, you understand that "language," like "culture," is an ideological expression of the economic superstructure.  What that means - durr - is that any such elaboration, including language, is marked by the economic conditions of that language.  So if all you speak is American English all you speak is one language - the language offered you by a hyperpluralist, hyperdeterritorialized, neuroticized, capitalist culture.  So if you're even remotely slightly vaguely Marxist and you don't understand that language education is the first step of revolution, then, you know.  Kill yourself. 

Because here's the thing.  My post about the "trans* debate" recently illustrates the same problem.  If language is imbricated in ideology, and ideology limits language, aren't you running around in circles trying to defeat ANY given logic on its own terms?  Derrida calls that attempt "deconstruction."  I call it "bullshit."  You're wasting my time, you're wasting your time.  You're wasting everybody's time.  Find another way.  Find another logic.  Find another language.  Build your own conceptual plane of immanence.  That's why language training is important - because limiting your access to other cultures is the single greatest crime your government has committed against you.  Just ask the Native Americans, if you can find any.

What Americans don't seem to understand is that this inability to communicate across languages limits their intellectual activity no less than it renders them the pathetic butt of every tourist joke in every country on the planet (just FYI).  It also limits their ability to converse across disciplines, across races, and across political boundaries.  Because as I noted in my recent post, it doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong if nobody even fucking understands each other to begin with.  "Words" are words, and you can't argue with someone using unfamiliar jargon anymore than you can argue with someone using an unfamiliar language.  So if you want to be understood, learn to explain yourself, to define your concepts, and to make your ideas accessible.  Build a conceptual plane of immanence.  Otherwise, STFU.  And if you want to understand, learn to explain your questions, learn to locate concepts when they're offered to you, and learn to hear what someone is saying before you fucking respond.  Jesus. Learn to see the other person's conceptual plane of immanence. 

Let there be absolutely no mistake.  EVERY major development in the history of human thought has been accompanied by one of two historical conditions:  either a massive project of cross-cultural, cross-linguistic translation, or an economic condition in which different ethnic and cultural intellectual traditions interacted thanks to the availability of an intellectual lingua franca.  Examples of the latter include Rome in the late Republic, Latin in Christian Europe, and French and German during the 19th centuries.  Examples of the former include late Hellenic Alexandria, early medieval Baghdad, later medieval Toledo, and Italy during the Renaissance. 

The first and most important requirement in my new school will be that every participant in our experiment must either speak at least 2 languages or begin studying a second one immediately on entering the school.  Because that's how they separate us, that's how they keep us from understanding each other, and that's how we can access new modes of thought an action.  And that's why I'm learning Arabic right now.  Because until I can read Arabic, I'm not going to weigh in on crap like "Islamophobia."  See how that works?  First learn.  Then talk.  Preferably in a new language, using words you can explain, on your own conceptual plane of immanence.