Intergenerational Dynamics

You may have followed the leadership of the IIYC at Standing Rock, in regards to #NODAPL.

Over in Chi-town, we have Malcom London (Black Power Ranger). He is only one of the youth, women, and queerfolk leading the Black Lives Matter movement.

Recently the LARB featured a piece on London's poetry of resistance. Check out the link for a beautiful piece about the strength and beauty of Black women.

Finally, in the spirit of winter and Coyote stories, let me introduce you to a funkdafied group of youth from up north, Toronto. The Native Youth Sexual Health Network are taking their bodies into their own hands and organizing with youth across all First Nations.

They have also produced two wonderful videos about our relationships with elders:

Jhumpa Lahiri

Anna/Everyday

She Blinded Me With Science from her website: Anna/Everyday I am Anna Lauren Hoffmann, a scholar and writer working at the intersections of data, technology, culture, and ethics. I am currently an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington. Before that, I worked as a postdoctoral scholar with the UC Berkeley School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. My work centers on issues in information, data, and ethics, with particular attention to the ways in which discourses, design, and uses of information technology can promote or hinder the pursuit of important human values like respect and justice. In particular, I am interested in how the standards and categories imposed on the world through data, information, and technological systems (or the ways we talk about them) can discriminate by supporting the development of self-respect for some and hindering its development for othe...

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