jasmine @jasminee@scholar.social

Decolonization is an ongoing struggle

Who's that in your AVI, Jasmine?

That's a screenshot from the film Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas) with Maggie Cheung.

Besides being a fantastic and dizzying/disorienting film, I have a soft spot for it bc I first watched it in a class with Prof. Yiman Wang, who would advise my undergraduate thesis! Here's the essay that she wrote on Maggie Cheung and the film Irma Vep: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/492536

Re- #introduction

Hi all! I’m starting my PhD in American Culture/Digital Studies at UM Ann Arbor in... oh man, less than a week!

Research interests include:
- Asian American and Comparative Ethnic Studies
- digital visual cultures
- social media mapping/ethnography/networking
- digital strategies of resistance (asterisks by all of that)

Personal interests:
- prison/police abolition
- post-left theory
- the smell of jasmine after a light rain

Cutcha Risling Baldy, “The New Native Intellectualism: #ElizabethCook-Lynn, Social Media Movements, and the Millennial Native American Studies Scholar,” Wicazo Sa Review 31, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 90–110.

Philip J. Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004).

Trying to get a complete PDF of the following book:

Fujiwara, Lynn, and Shireen Roshanravan. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics. Decolonizing Feminisms. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.

For some reason I don't have EBSCO access to the PDF even through institutional access

pls help? thank u! #ICanHazPDF

Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes (2019)

Money Good - Megan Thee Stallion

also this mini book was published a whole ass year after Jasbir Puar’s “Terrorist Assemblages” therefore these two professors (whole ass professors!!!!) have no excuse for being so sloppy re: race

Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics by José Esteban Muñoz

Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data

https://peoplelikeyou.ac.uk/activities/figurations/

"The aim of this conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to explore how the person—or persons, plural—are figured in/out of data... Our proposition is that the conceptual language of ‘the figure’ and its variations—figuration, figuring, to figure, and so on—can help us to apprehend what the person is and how it is processed in the present."

This is So Good

Melding Machines: Jenn Nkiru’s ‘BLACK TO TECHNO,’ Factories, and Detroit
by Taylor Renee Aldridge

http://www.artnews.com/2019/05/24/melding-machines-jenn-nkirus-black-to-techno-factories-and-detroit/

“BLACK TO TECHNO declares that the machine has enabled and unearthed a sonic expression that could not be discovered otherwise. The machine, according to this film, allows for humans to extend themselves, and thus their expressivity, in ways they have not been able to do in the past... [but] the melding of human and machine isn’t voluntary in the auto factory.”

k they used “ghettoization” and South African apartheid as metaphors

Without talking about race

Coooooooooooool 😤🙄

I don’t think that any analysis of state surveillance and societies of control can escape talking about race and if they do I don’t really trust it!

I like the premise of this book a lot (analyzing the suppression of political dissent via faith-based politics and fear)

BUT there’s zero mention of race, and “terrorism”/the figure of the terrorist is going completely unproblematized/unanalyzed, and is taken for granted 😒 come on

Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel

the answer to virulent ethnonationalism should not be liberal constitutionalist multiculturalism

The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy

Does anyone else have problems with copy/pasting both citations and bibliographies from Zotero into their word documents? I'm losing my mind over here

The pedagogical goal of free prison abolitionists is to teach everyone that carceral logics inform every aspect of all of our lives

That prison, which physically and geographically remove our loved ones from our lives, is still all around us (not only in a Foucauldian sense but actually, literally)

So I don’t like that scholars who do vaguely social justice-y things but not prison *invoke prison* in their work as a fucking metaphor, signaling that they too are hip to Current Conversations

noticing the ways that scholars who have not previously studied carcerality and prisons dropping prison into their work

Like mass incarceration in the US is a metaphor, almost?

On the one hand, visibility is important. I wonder when “abolition is not a metaphor” or “incarceration is not a metaphor” will appear (it’s here, simmering under the surface)

bringing a whole carton of blueberries just for me into Day 2 of this conference