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Detailed program for #ScholarStrikeCanada here: Let's listen, let's (un)learn, let's do the work! https://scholarstrikecanada.ca/schedule/
Kickass intro by @Pam_Palmater: "Now's the time to take back that power...because we know that no matter who you elect...nothing is changing. Everything is being firmly cemented in the status quo, and for many Indigenous people, things are getting worst." #ScholarStrikeCanada
YES, @Pam_Palmater! "If we can't get angry over continuous policy brutality against and the killing of our indigenous and black brothers and sisters, who will? If we cannot offer them a safe place, who will?...so no, we're not gonna calm down" #ScholarStrikeCanada
This opening speech to Day 2 of #ScholarStrikeCanada is absolute 
: "I have bad news: Everything you've learned about Canada is wrong." Truth before reconciliation. THANK YOU, @Pam_Palmater!
: "I have bad news: Everything you've learned about Canada is wrong." Truth before reconciliation. THANK YOU, @Pam_Palmater!
The RCMP=genocide enforcers. Think it's harsh? Read the Report of the National Inquiry into Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls."You might say: that's history". Well that's part of history that's not taught. @Pam_Palmater #ScholarStrikeCanada https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
Just a reminder to everyone who's joining the #ScholarStrikeCanada today that land theft is ongoing right now in Canada, including next to Toronto. Consider donating to @1492LBL see link 
re yesterday's panel on the matter + where to donate https://twitter.com/isisnaucratis/status/1303741254010798082
re yesterday's panel on the matter + where to donate https://twitter.com/isisnaucratis/status/1303741254010798082
"The real power is in the people. To protect one another, to protect the planet. This is not just about what affects us as individuals. This is why you see Indigenous peoples stand up for Black Lives Matter...it's about our common humanity" 
@Pam_Palmater
@Pam_Palmater
How to be an ally? @Pam_Palmater:
1. Self-educate:"No more convenient blindness. You have a responsibility to self-educate on these matters"
2. Find area where you can help. "Don't approach organizations and ask 'what can I do'. You need to figure out 1st what you have to offer"
1. Self-educate:"No more convenient blindness. You have a responsibility to self-educate on these matters"
2. Find area where you can help. "Don't approach organizations and ask 'what can I do'. You need to figure out 1st what you have to offer"
"There can be no justice on stolen native land. We need to be careful that improving conditions for one group doesn't harm the other." @Pam_Palmater #decolonize
Why are Canadians so reluctant to see Canada as a settler State? @Pam_Palmater: The human tendency to see oneself as an exception."That's not me" is a reactionary response. Yet EVERYONE who's not Indigenous or Black benefits from this system we're all trapped in #ScholarStrike
"Starve hatred and feed hope": Let's make sure Indigenous and Black voices are front and center, and let's not waste our energy and time engaging with racist peeps on twitter. Use that time i.e. to write a critical piece and have constructive discussions instead @Pam_Palmater
@Pam_Palmater
Just joining the 2nd #ScholarStrikeCanada teach-in with Bonita Lawrence from @YorkULAPS on Indigenous Black relationships: Black immigration to Canada in the 60s and 70s opened up a space for Indigenous people within the white supremacist (urban) space
Bonita Lawrence: "Black theorists often forget how few of us can do theoretical work, and how new it is for us to write theory". Black theoretical work has provided Native scholars with a wealth of inspiring and sophisticated lenses. #ScholarStrikeCanada
"What does it mean to apply treaties without thinking about who we are leaving behind in the Canadian canoe?" says Bonita Lawrence "without meaning disrespect" re Indigenous-Black relationships.
I wasn't able to livetweet all of Bonita Lawrence's important talk, but I'll say this: Make sure to watch the recording. Such wisdom, such knowledge, such generosity. Merci #ScholarStrikeCanada
#ScholarStrikeCanada
Watching @Adavis777A's & Michele Antoinette Johnson's teach-in on the invisible labour of Black women in the academy, and I'm in absolute awe of their eloquence and wisdom, including their advices and tribute to Black female grad students. The q&a is https://twitter.com/YorkULAPS/status/1303725211435634697
https://twitter.com/YorkULAPS/status/1303725211435634697
Michele Antoinette Johnson to uni admins, including deans and provosts: Do the work! Stop expecting Black faculty to solve these problems. These are your problems too. #ScholarStrikeCanada
"The theories that frame Black women's lives are theories we have to write and create because they don't exist yet...so I say that when the theory doesn't exist, it means you need to write in that space" @Adavis777A #ScholarStrikeCanada
Michele Antoinette Johnson's powerful testimony on the pains & sorrow that comes w her archival work. Re docu on a Black female slave: "There are times when I need to step out and weep. But I have to do the work, because her voice has to be heard, and her story has to be told".
Now on #ScholarsStrikeCanada : "Co-Conspiring Against Carceral Systems". @Megan_Scribe: "As scholars we have a lot to learn from Indigenous feminists". She then discusses "Birdie" by @TraceyLindberg
Now @BillyRayB: "Indigenous theory without Black theory is an epistemological failure". #ScholarStrikeCanada
How can we nuance our understanding of colonization in Indigenous Studies? How can we go beyond the Land and Law paradigm? What about Air/Atmosphere? @BillyRayB in #ScholarStrikeCanada
Plugging here @BillyRayB's recent work "A History of My Brief Body", which I'm gonna order to-day! #ScholarStrikeCanada https://twitter.com/BillyRayB/status/1255872457581268992
How to be co-conspirators: @megan_scribe just read a passage from "Breathing together". Full text https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/06/02/to-breathe-together/ Thanks to both panelists and to @tuckeve for this other powerful teach-in #ScholarStrikeCanada
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/06/02/to-breathe-together/ Thanks to both panelists and to @tuckeve for this other powerful teach-in #ScholarStrikeCanada
YES, @BillyRayB: This time of the pandemic makes it clear that "we need each other in ways that do not necessary mean immediate proximity"
"Being together&breathing together starts w the recognition of someone's full pershonhood...In imagining decolonial worlds beyond this one I became disinvested in the idea of who I was & more invested in who I want to become ? I what to let go of" @Megan_Scribe #scholarstrike2020
And now @blacklikewho and Llana James on the neoliberal organization of academic labour, and the systemic reproduction of whiteness within universities
Blessed be @blacklikewho for saying it as it should: CRC chairs were created as a way to stop Canadian braindrain to the US just as Canadian unis were Americanizing, thus perpetuating academic whiteness. So "it's only now that we start talking about Black Studies programs".
THIS: With the creation of CRC, particular, anti-Black rooted US-uni models became the goal throughout Canadian academia. War on Iraq allowed uni to reengage culture war from perspective of claiming to make sense of Islam and MENA. @blacklikewho #ScholarStrikeCanada
Then came the distinction junior/senior. One of the ways in which UofT dealt w CRC equity was for female and bipoc scholars to self-nominate. Meanwhile the program has been having deep impact in orienting scholars' research directions @blacklikewho #ScholarStrikeCanada
2008 crash opened up fetish around endowment in N American unis. Again in 2020, we see the endowment fetish + hedgefund logic at the uni level. We as scholars matter only inasmuch as we allow our uni to continue striving in a neoliberal order.
Let's be real: Equity/diversity/inclusion offices + initiatives are ultimately meant for the university to manage us and curtail our wildest dreams of what the university should and could be, says Rinaldo Walcott. #ScholarStrikeCanada
Unions too have a responsibility=replicate the whiteness + Americanization of the university, says @blacklikewho. Same with the culture of so-called 'confidentiality' re hires/committees, which replicates violence = allows special types of selection that replicate whiteness.
I am SO grateful for @blacklikewho to talk about the Americanization of the Canadian University. This is a broad issue, from the uni model to the colonization of dpts by US-(trained) faculty. We need to talk more about the significance and consequences of this trend.
Makes me think of @girishdaswani's recent #EOtalks on the whiteness of academia, which notably discusses the Americanization of Canadian unis. #ScholarStrikeCanada https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/everyday-orientalism-talks-the-portraits-on-the-wall-on-the-whiteness-of-academia-by-girish-daswani/
What price are you ready to pay? Let's face it, if you do some type of work, you need to be ready NOT to get a CRC, NOT to get grants. We need to constantly undermine the methods and practices that pull us to replicate the neoliberal uni, and this comes w risks - @blacklikewho
What does it mean to produce thought in the geographical context one resides in? asks Rinaldo Walcott. I wonder, #ClassicsTwitter, in Canada + the USA: What does it mean for you to be a Classics scholar on the land you are in, in a settler, anti-Indigenous + Black, State?
"We have now found ourselves in the belly of the surveillance beast because we were not able to have a convo in March about the nature of the academic labour" that would be asked of us through the pandemic - @blacklikewho (see piece) #scholarstrike https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/during-the-coronavirus-academics-have-found-themselves-in-a-crisis-of-their-work/
) #scholarstrike https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/during-the-coronavirus-academics-have-found-themselves-in-a-crisis-of-their-work/
To the #ClassicsTwitter colleagues who can: Ban the 'proctor' policing software from your online exams. Refuse surveillance in your classroom. Focus on your students' + your wellbeing during this pandemic year, NOT on "productivity" + web pedagogy "excellence" top-down pressures
The neoliberal university has disciplined us in a way that has led even Black & Indigenous scholars to be disciples and proselytizers of this neoliberal order, says @blacklikewho. This speaks to this am's Oxford panel w @NayanikaM @patnoxolo
@Awkid et al https://twitter.com/isisnaucratis/status/1304037172362850304
@Awkid et al https://twitter.com/isisnaucratis/status/1304037172362850304
Walcott: We need to collectively figure out how we stop obeying/reproducing the violence-inducing orders and policies from above. We need to commit to NOT do harm, esp. to junior, bipoc, and traditionally marginalized colleagues. Llana James: 'we' must include uni's Black élite.
Next teach-in: "Race to Incarcerate in the University" with @idilatweets, @BeverlyBain13 & Rosalind Hampton from @OISEUofT. Time to pick up my son from 1st day of school, but I can't wait to watch you all later tonight! 
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