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15-10-09 1 Disrupting Safe Spaces 4 Racism October 8, 2015 Damien Lee [email protected]

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DisruptingSafeSpaces4RacismOctober8,2015

[email protected]

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AnishinaabeAki

=OjibweHomeland

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! Safetyforwhom?! CansafetyforIndigenouspeoplesandpeopleofcolourexistinasocietyalways-alreadystructuredbywhitesupremacy?

ZeusLeonardoandRonaldPorter:PedagogyofFear:TowardaFanonianTheoryof“Safety”inRaceDialogueRace,EthnicityandEducation13no.2(2010).http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/faculty/ZLeonardo/PedagogyofFear.pdf

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DehumanizingViolence!  Disfigure,subdueandcontrol.HumanizingViolence!  Challengesoppression,questionspositionsofpower.

!  Ultimately:Restorespeopletotheirrightfulplaces.

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Notjustmenandwomeninwhitehats,butalsoincludes:! Missing,MurderedandTradedIndigenousWomenandGirls.

!  Indigenouspeoplesover-representedinprisons.

TamaraJohnson’selectionplatform(fullpagead),ChronicleJournal,June10,2014.

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!  Goal#2.5:“Encouragerespectandmakeracismanddiscriminationunacceptable.”[1]

! Whynotnamewhitesupremacyandmakeitunacceptableinstead?

[1]CityofThunderBay,BecomingOurBest:2015-2018CorporateStrategicPlan,June22,2015,http://www.thunderbay.ca/Assets/City+Government/News+$!26+Strategic+Initiatives/docs/2015-2015+Strategic+Plan+-+Final.pdf

1.  Undotheviolencethatisinherenttosafe-spacedialogue.

2.  Enactaformofliberatoryviolencewithinracediscussionstoallowforacreativitythatshiftsthestandardsofhumanity.

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1.  Iswhitecomfortbeingprotected?2.  Whoseinterestsarebeingcentered?3.  Resensitivitytraining:Iswhitesupremacy

includedaspartofincreasingsensitivity?4.  Doestheproposedchange/projecttake

appropriaterisks?a)  Doesitactuallynamewhitesupremacy?b)  Doesitaccountforsettlercolonialism?

[email protected]:@damienlee