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
pronouns: they/them

I'm a PhD student in American Culture/Digital Studies at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Research interests include:
- digital visual cultures
- contemporary theories of resistance and radical politics
- prison abolition
- fascism and white supremacy
- infrastructure studies

Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution by Ramon Lobato

Wendy Chun, "Race and/as Technology"

Benjamin, Ruha. Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

"Turkey’s invasion of #Rojava sets a new precedent for military aggression, ethnic cleansing, and the destruction of egalitarian and feminist experiments like the one in Rojava. It sets the stage for more bloodshed and oppression everywhere around the world, paving the way for ethno-nationalist autocrats like Trump, Erdoğan, Bashar al-Assad, Jair Bolsonaro, and Vladimir Putin to dominate world politics for generations to come."

https://crimethinc.com/2019/10/09/call-to-action-solidarity-with-rojava-against-the-turkish-invasion-an-urgent-call-from-a-network-of-organizations

"On October 6, the Trump administration announced it was pulling US troops out of northern Syria, essentially giving Turkish President Erdoğan a green light to invade Rojava, carry out ethnic cleansing, and forcibly resettle the area. We are calling for people around the world to engage in protest and/or disruption at Turkish consulates, US government offices, arms manufacturers, and businesses connected with the Turkish government, such as Turkish Airlines."

https://crimethinc.com/2019/10/09/call-to-action-solidarity-with-rojava-against-the-turkish-invasion-an-urgent-call-from-a-network-of-organizations

Punathambekar, Aswin, and Sriram Mohan, eds. Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia. University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Update: I have it now! Thank you so much for pulling through, scholar.social

y'all are amazing

related: does someone have aaarg access and they can invite me? been trying to get one and I would rly like it pls pls pls

#ICanHazPDF

Does anyone have access to a PDF copy of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class by Robin Kelley?

I found the introduction and Chapter 8 so far but I would like the whole PDF if possible.

Thanks!

Berardi, Franco. The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance. Intervention 14. Los Angeles: semiotext(e), 2012.

Omatsu, Glenn. “Freedom Schooling: Reconceptualizing Asian American Studies for Our Communities.” In Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader, 496–514. Rutgers University Press, 2010.

(this was fucking great)

"What does freedom mean in an academic economy structured to reward obedience? No thinking person buys the myth of merit. Academe is filled with mediocrities who achieved stardom by flattering the ruling class. Already, then, freedom is tenuous because livelihood is contingent on respectability, itself contingent on pleasing the ruling elite. Cultures of online exchange promise a kind of freedom, but more than anything they illuminate the preponderance of coercion."

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/08282019-salaita-academic-freedom?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg3XW4DWnx13YD3xqIgznrCP3EXYGV1IC1lZeoAl5jFPXLVp4b1Ixa2xFZHlrb2xMNDJBMUZQdUh1TndMUE9PRHdOZ2dVMWNJTzZVWQ

Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, eds., Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Expanded Second Edition (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2011).

Hull, Gloria T., Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith, eds. But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies. Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1982.

Cars, Guns, Autonomy: A Discussion on Anti-Police Struggles in the Bay Area and Ferguson

https://mtlcounterinfo.org/cars-guns-autonomy-a-discussion-on-anti-police-struggles-in-the-bay-area-and-ferguson/

"It was a repeated thing, night after night, that people would be fighting in west Florissant until the overwhelming police presence (including teargas and rubber bullets) forced them off the main street. They’d then either fight to keep the police out of the neighborhoods or they’d wait until the gas cleared to go fight on the street again."

Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects : Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press, 2004.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/14650045.2019.1642876

This is important work -- but the quality of the study is not contingent on whether or not you interview these fuckheads

"academics studying the alt-right and ethnonationalism stop interviewing these people" challenge

Oh, and, like, this is also a resource for other people venturing into a field that has a TON of literature but is also very new and updating (lol) all the time