Thimery, Jasmine, and Sunny check-in with each other. Summer is here!

In this episode the Jasmine, Thimery, and Sunny delve into the topic of double standards in sports, gender and race. They discuss the ways in which BIPOC are often held to different standards than their white counterparts, and the challenges they face in breaking through barriers. The hosts also explore the historical context of these double standards, and how they reflect broader societal issues related to sports, gender, and race. This thought-provoking episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in social justice and intersectionality.

Historically the BIPOC community has navigated life void of rest. But at what cost? Rest rejuvenates and empowers people for a FULL life. Self-care is not selfish!

Can you commit to rest this week?

Book Referenced: Rest is Resistance by Tricia Herse

Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/fBedZyY

In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us.

Interview with Professor Oscar Medina, cultural practitioner. Oscar is a Chicano leader from California who became an educator against all odds. Oscar teaches and advises online graduate students in the Social Justice and Community Organizing (SJCO) M.A. program. Before working at Prescott College, Oscar was a high school social studies teacher and environmental literacy coach. He taught courses in government, Ethnic studies, and urban agriculture. His teaching practices are informed by critical pedagogy, Ethnic studies, social justice education, and participatory action research. 

Concluding their Radical Pedagogy as Praxis course leads to a deep reflection of Mexican American Studies aspects. Paris, Thimery, Jasmine, and Sunny discuss integration, power structures, togetherness, and hope for the future through Xipe Totec (transformation).

Nahui Ollin is the Mexican Indigenous epistemology representing the "four movements." within the Aztec calendar and its physical, spatial, scientific, and philosophical meanings. The four principles are Tezcatlipoca, introspection, Quetzalcoatl, beautiful knowledge, Huitzilopochtli, Will, and Xipe Totec, transformation. (Arce 2017).

References: 

Camangian, P. R. (2015). Teach Like Lives Depend on It. Urban Education, 50(4), 424–453. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085913514591

Darder, A. (2002). Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy Of Love. Westview Press.

Hooks, B. (2003). Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. Psychology Press.

Symposium UNESCO-DCMÉT 2021. (2021, April 21). Antonia Darder [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhBVKG6tF4

Tatum, B. D. (2021). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Penguin UK.

In the discussion forum Paris, Thimery, Jasmine, and Sunny discuss Counter-narrative storytelling through liberatory music and teaching. 

References: 

Paris Changes - Tupac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXvBjCO19QY 

Book- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin and all about love by bell hooks 

Sunny: Riot by Duckwrth- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5wHYYc6Q94 

Breonna Taylor by Tobe Nwigwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzxWZVrtDc 

Thimery: This is America by Childish Gambino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY 

Jasmine: Lil Baby- https://youtu.be/5zBVAAy4lkE -  

Vic Mensa- https://youtu.be/KPWXOAYlgOc 

Paris, Thimery, Jasmine, and Sunny delve more into the Nahui Ollin Aztec movement of Huizilopochtli and The Pedagogy of the Oppressed book.

Nahui Ollin is the Mexican Indigenous epistemology representing the "four movements." within the Aztec calendar and its physical, spatial, scientific, and philosophical meanings. The four principles are Tezcatlipoca, introspection, Quetzalcoatl, beautiful knowledge, Huitzilopochtli, Will, and Xipe Totec, transformation. (Arce 2017).

References

Freire, P., & Macedo, D. (2018). Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition. Bloomsbury Academic.

Nahui Ollin. (n.d.). Ebrary. https://ebrary.net/30365/religion/apocalypse_world_nahui_ollin

This week Paris, Thimmery, and Sunny dive into the historical oppressive colonization of education. The hosts challenge the current educational pedagogy and reflect on America's constant oppression of minority cultures. 

References: 

Fernandez, A. F. (2019). Decolonizing Professional Development: A Re humanizing Approach.

Notes from the Ethnic Studies home front: student protests, texting, and subtexts of oppression. (2011). International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

Teaching as a Healing Craft: Decolonizing  the Classroom and Creating Spaces of Hopeful Resistance through Chicano-Indigenous Pedagogical Praxis. (n.d.). Urban Rev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-012-0222-5

White Washing Black Studies. (2023). [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1VUldeuO0A