Today we will discuss the introduction to Saidiya Hartman's book Scenes of Subjection. Hartman creates this text to dive into her embodied generational trauma as a black woman. She examines the perpetual display of violence towards black bodies and the impact those images have on white people's empathy and black people's identity formation.

In this episode we will think about indigenous studies and the term "decolonization". We will discuss how decolonization is layered, complex, and unsettling for people to talk about.

We discuss a workshop we did with the faculty where we explore trauma, how to create a classroom that can support trauma informed pedagogy, and how to hone our students' creative power in the face of structural inequities.

Today we will continue discussing Lisa Lowe's amazing text Intimacies of Four Continents. This episode is part two in a two-part series on Lowe. In this episode we will think about the role education plays in the British imperialist strategy.

We are so excited to be joined on the podcast by our friend and coworker Ashley who is going to walk us through a lesson she did with some other faculty members for our 8th grade humanities class. In her workshop, Ashley uses To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Norman Rockwell paintings, and contemplative discussion to address the lenses of race, gender, and class within a classroom.

Today we will be discussing Lisa Lowe's amazing text Intimacies of Four Continents. This episode is part one in a two-part series on Lowe. In this episode we will think about how Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas are all connected through imperialism, "free" trade, and material objects.

We are so excited to be joined on the podcast by our friend and coworker AJ who is going to walk us through his workshop on white fragility.

We share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff on the topic of embodied epistemology and lived experience. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues.

We share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff on the topic of identity and identification. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues.

We discuss ideas from chapter one, "Empire of the Home", from Anne McClintock's text Imperial Leather. We focus on the unstable categories of time, race, and gender.