What it takes to change the world...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5SNpCtiWk
I have been thinking lately about my own identity. Each moment we are encouraged to let pieces of ourselves go. What does it take to learn who we are again?
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Documentary: Beyond the Shadows
Beyond the Shadows. n.p.: Gryphon Productions, 1992. - Available at kanopystreaming.com
This is a twenty-eight-minute documentary packed with heartfelt testimony by First Nation peoples in Canada who suffered "multi-generational rape" in boarding schools. The quote from the documentary is literal and figurative: children were often abused culturally, physically, emotionally, and sexually over decades. Multi-generational trauma continues to reverberate through First Nation communities.
In addition to testimony, the documentary demonstrates First Nation peoples healing themselves through workshops with trained professionals. The healing shown is in small and larger groups--affirming one another, telling their stories, and developing creative ways of expressing the pain through theater.
This documentary is a reminder that the legacy of abuses against First Nation peoples has a long way to go before being acknowledged and addressed, and much longer before being redressed.
This is a twenty-eight-minute documentary packed with heartfelt testimony by First Nation peoples in Canada who suffered "multi-generational rape" in boarding schools. The quote from the documentary is literal and figurative: children were often abused culturally, physically, emotionally, and sexually over decades. Multi-generational trauma continues to reverberate through First Nation communities.
In addition to testimony, the documentary demonstrates First Nation peoples healing themselves through workshops with trained professionals. The healing shown is in small and larger groups--affirming one another, telling their stories, and developing creative ways of expressing the pain through theater.
This documentary is a reminder that the legacy of abuses against First Nation peoples has a long way to go before being acknowledged and addressed, and much longer before being redressed.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Looking up old Spanish Words
In case you need to know what the difference between "comensal" and "convidado" was in 1841, this is a great site:
http://buscon.rae.es/ntlle/SrvltGUISalirNtlle
In case that doesn't work, Google NTTLE.
In case you are interested in my interpretation, comensal is like a table companion, where convidado is a guest. And in today's Spanish, I believe convidado would sound formal (however, it is common in Portuguese), whereas invitado or visita would be more common. Your commentary is welcome in case you have thoughts on the matter.
http://buscon.rae.es/ntlle/SrvltGUISalirNtlle
In case that doesn't work, Google NTTLE.
In case you are interested in my interpretation, comensal is like a table companion, where convidado is a guest. And in today's Spanish, I believe convidado would sound formal (however, it is common in Portuguese), whereas invitado or visita would be more common. Your commentary is welcome in case you have thoughts on the matter.
Friday, February 17, 2017
Nationalism
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso, 1991, 5.
"Tom Nairn can nonetheless write that: '"Nationalism" is the pathology of modern developmental history, as inescapable as "neurosis" in the individual, with much the same essential ambiguity attaching to it, a similar built-in capacity for descent into dementia, rooted in the dilemmas of helplessness thrust upon most of the world (the equivalent of infantilism for societies) and largely incurable."" (Quoted from The Break-up of Britain, p. 359)
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