From Where and When I Work
Much of this work draws from the specific contexts of teaching at a large public research institution based in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva peoples. These classes took place during the academic year of 2023 to 2024, a period of time that was defined by intense and ongoing violence against civilians in Palestine and a movement of solidarity encampments taking place on university campuses around the world.
My teaching and work is situated and in conversation with…
Disability Justice, Redefining Labor, Precarity & Time
“Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto”, Mel Y. Chen, Mimi Khúc, Jima B. Kim, Disability Studies Quarterly Vol. 43 No. 1 (2023): Fall 2023
“Awe of What a Body Can Be: Disability Justice, the Syllabus, and Academic Labour” (Jess Dorrance, Julia Havard, Caleb Luna, and Olivia K. Young, specifically Olivia K. Young’s syllabus “Black Contemporary Art”
Tricia Hersey, Nap Ministry, Rest is Resistance, Racial Justice, Listen to “Rest Life” from full album Rest Meditations
Cindy Nguyen My Labor is Not Free (written in grad school) and On Slowness (written most recently)
overlapping topics: the impossible miracle worker, impossible service position, vocational awe, labor, care
Indigenous Scholars & Decolonizing Work in Education, GLAM
Dr. Cynthia Vazquez, Decolonizing Education 2021 Syllabus
Whose Knowledge? A global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet. Our Stories, Our Knowledges Collection (Part 1, 2, 4) https://whoseknowledge.org/
Technologies Summer Institute July 9-August 15
BCNM’s Indigenous Technologies Workshop this summer, six-week only course offering exploration of contemporary Indigenous issues intertwined with new media and technology. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from prominent Indigenous scholars, artists, and practitioners. Guiding the course discussions will be Sierra Edd (Diné), the current graduate coordinator for Indigenous Technologies. https://www.newmedia.academy/courses
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures https://decolonialfutures.net/
Critical DH
Ashley Caranto Morford, Arun Jacob, and Kush Patel “Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Critiques & Praxis,” DHSI Course, 2023 Syllabus
Dorothy Kim and Ángel David Nieves “Race, Social Justice and DH: Applied Theories and Methods,” DHSI Course, Earlier Syllabus
Critical Pedagogy
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (lit review by Hilda Franco) – Thinking about literacy, power in reading and literacy, reading the world (reading and context, reading as a political act)
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2021. Decolonizing Methodologies : Research and Indigenous Peoples / Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Third edition. London [England: Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350225282.
SCRAM Situated Critical Race and Media social justice network of feminist organizers, educators, artists, activists and scholars working on technology, justice, transformation, digital praxis and theory: https://www.mediamaplab.com/
How to Ungrade (Jesse Stommel)
Digital Pedagogy Lab, specifically Syllabus of Care (Toni Wall Jaudon)
Digital Humanities research and teaching community for ethnic studies fields https://digitalethnicfutures.org/
DH Resources (A shortlist)
Miriam Posner’s extensive list of UCLA resources and beyond
Upcoming: Global DH Symposium Virtual March 18-20, 2024 and In person March 22-23, 2024 (free)
Some favorites:
The DHLG introduces digital humanities to newcomers. Read more about the DHLG, its authors, and how to contribute here. Cite the DHLG as: Weingart, Scott B., Susan Grunewald, Matthew Lincoln et al. (eds.). The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook. Carnegie Mellon University, Updated November 11, 2022. https://cmu-lib.github.io/dhlg/.
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria, B.C.)
Citations & Creative Commons
The DH community and online communities thrive often through a code of generosity, collaboration, and sharing. That being said, attribution (and also where you draw your ideas) can be a radical form of collective activism. Citation moves us away from the myth of a solo genius towards recognition of intellectual production and networks of knowledge making. Who and where are you drawing your sources? Whose work do you build on, where do you want your work to contribute to? Always consider who you cite and why. For more resources and practice based interventions in knowledge production, see the Cite Black Women Collective.
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