Boricua on Sabbatical

¿What happens away from the daily workings of teaching?(regrese al salón de clase pero sigo aqui con l@s bloguer@s) Vamos a ver que pasa compañer@s

Monday, October 12, 2009

Reconsider Columbus Day

Posted by Vic Muñoz at Monday, October 12, 2009

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Columbus Day

Let's remember what really happened.

Followers

Just Sayin'

English is my jet lag

One word

Per time zone.

Spanish is peanut butter

Stuck to the top of my mouth.

Spanglish criollo mix

¿Que, que? No way.

¿Vihte? I told you so.

OMG. Ay, dio' mio.

This is my language.

A language that is not

my mother’s tongue

Or my grandmother’s

It's the craaaazy mix of dis place ment.

Ven pa' ca' que tengo platano y una hamaca

Vamo pa' la barbacoa, you know, the bar-b-q

Bring something sweet.

No te preocupes. Just bring yourself.

Talk some of that mezcla. It's easy.

¿You going back?

¿Cuando vienes?

Las cosas estan bien malas.

And when I talk in English

And when I talk in Spanish

¡Ja! I’m flying through the time zones

I’m chewing down the ground up nuts

I’m choking it out como agua sala’

Gone down the wrong way.

Talk with me in this third tongue

Mix it up with me

Llora. Cry. Mira como todo cambia.

Oh, well. Bendito. Nevermind

Porque de tripas corazones

And sure I’ll do that.

Mañana.

Just as soon as I get home.

Un dia de estos. Okay.

Arts and Crafts Show at Onondaga Nation School

Saturday April 30, 10:00am - 5:00pm

Wonderful evening at Onondaga Nation School

A Collaborative Educational Series: February - December 2010

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I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

Coretta Scott King, 2000

As educators we need to dedicate ourselves to new models of education—ones based on the ancient and enduring wisdom of America’s Indigenous Peoples.

Philip P. Arnold, 2010
Associate Professor of Indigenous religions
Syracuse University

A Unified Taino Nation

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

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Guerrilla Griots

A grassroots collective. Ithaca, New York

Lolita Lebrón

19 noviembre 1920 - 1 agosto 2010

University of Puerto Rico Strike Continues

“You may cut all the flowers, but will never eradicate spring.”

Most of the University of Puerto Rico system has been shut down by students seeking greater transparency.

Click for full article.

Juliana James Native American Visiting Scholar Fund

Juliana and William James. This fund was established in Juliana's honor to continue relationships between Wells College and the Indigenous people on whose land Wells is a guest.

Cook -- It'll Make You Feel Better

Amalia y Gabriela, my niece and sister, get ready to cook!

El Pilón

My sister, Natalia with her perfect pilon. No good cooking without this!

What U Do For UR Friends

It’s just a dart
In your heart
Pull it out
Lay it down
Turn around.

Al mal tiempo
Buena cara.

Nuestras Abuelas: Su esperanza, nuestra fortaleza

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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. - Maya Angelou

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Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

Mercedes Sosa (1935 - 2009)

Gracias a ti, por la vida que compartistes con nosotr@s.

The William Nicholas Liberi ’05 Prize for TLGBQ Activism and Scholarship

Asa Bartholomew '09 earned the award this year! Click on Will's photo (by Bear Bergman) to read details.

Jamie Favaro '02 to talk at Wells About The Washington Heights Corner Project

You're invited: AER, Oct 23, 2008 at Noon.

News from Home: New Job!

Ellen at Central Washington University

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The William Nicholas Liberi Memorial Prize
SU Campus Mourns Will: The Daily Orange
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Books in Memory of William Nicolas Liberi

"White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack"

"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group... I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks... In proportion as my racial group was being made confident, comfortable, and oblivious, other groups were likely being made inconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated. Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit in turn upon people of color."
Peggy McIntosh

What's in your knapsack? Unpack it!

Here's Peggy MacIntosh's Knapsack

Aubrey & Annie

Wells '03 stopped by to visit.

Hay Esperanza/There is Hope

Nadirah, Hope, Lisa, Vic, Brittainy. Nadirah's graduation party, May 24, 2008.

Pan, Tierra, Libertad

What is going on in Puerto Rico? Some are saying it is a golpe de estado.

Nata & Inge

Don't mess with these Boricuas porque son del sur.

LinkLatinos.com

Five Easy Questions for The Green Candidate

I heart the Coconut Caucus bloggers

"AND insider sources say that voting in NY is like playing the slot machines at Vegas. Except more bootleg and minus the showgirls unless Jamaican and Polish ladies that explain to young voters what they’re doing count as showgirls."

Now, I've never been to Vegas... I hope the results aren't as random... Hmmmm.

"It is payback for the party that demonized their parents"

Nuevo Mundo: Getting Visible - We all should value our voting privileges like this Mexican immigrant family, Natalia Muñoz, Journalist

Mira Esto, Truth Is

Washington Heights Corner Project, Jamie Favaro (Wells '02), LMSW, Executive Director
Transgender Civil Rights Activist History by Susan Stryker
R.U.1.2? Community Center celebrates, educates and advocates with and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) Vermonters.

On the Market: Latin@s

PBS new documentary, "Brown is the New Green"

from Audre Lorde

"If you come as softly
as wind within the trees
you may hear what I hear
see what sorrow sees.
...
If you come I will be silent
nor speak harsh words to you-
I will not ask you why, now,
nor how, nor what you knew.

But we shall sit here softly
beneath two different years
and the rich earth between us
shall drink our tears."

by Magdalena Gómez

I am La Jibara
you accuse
of maligning
the race
the reason
why we are
not appreciated
in upscale
neighborhoods
I am too Puerto Rican
too loud
don’t sit right
and drink beer
out of the can;
I am the one
who calls a hole
in my pants:
air conditioning.
- Excerpt from
A River of Recuerdos
by Magdalena Gómez

Do you think the "Upstate Citizens for Equality" signs should be removed from Route 90?

Do you know who Sylvia Rivera was?

Do you know that July 25 is the anniversary of the 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico?

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Blog: American Boricua - Puerto Rican Life in the United States
Blog: Angry Brown Butch: Politics, Media, Culture, and Life from a Queer Boricua in Brooklyn
Blog: Ask A Chola
Blog: Boricua in Texas
Blog: Josh Wolf - The Revolution Will Be Televised
Blog: The Unapologetic Mexican - Where Manifest Destiny Goes to Die
Blog: The Voice of the Taino People Online
Blog: ¡Ya basta! Exposing Anti-Latino Bigotry in America
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Vic's interview on GenderTalk

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Learning

My time of learning is rarely in the present. It takes me a while.

Henry James

"Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost."

But, really, enough about me

Vic Muñoz: Aurora, New York, United States; I am a Boricua/Puerto Rican Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Wells College, Aurora, New York living the Puerto Rican diaspora trying to correct the anthropological master narrative of Taino "extinction." As a colonized student/subject/teacher it took me many years to realize that we could change what counts as “knowledge.” This process of critical consciousness (Freire) was transformational. Today, I try to bring students and myself to see that there are competing knowledge systems: That not all that is taught as western science is the only “truth.” My teaching focuses on centering Indigenous knowledges, supporting critical reflection, social justice activism, and cultural competence. I earned my Ed.D. from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology.

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